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Yolanda Young Airs Her Grievances in Court

Posted on February 26, 2009
Remember Yolanda Young (whom we've previously written about here and here), the former Covington & Burling staff attorney who exposed what she called the "Jim Crow"-like practices of her former employer in this Huffington Post story? Now, The American Lawyer...

Are Ethics Rules or E-Shaming Deterring Distasteful Lawyer Ads?

Posted on February 26, 2009
New York personal injury attorney Eric Turkewitz has concluded that ethics rules have been effective in "putting the brakes" on shameless online solicitation ads, which crop up as quickly as weeds in the wake of a mass disaster. While Turkewitz's...

Three More Legal Blogs Close Down

Posted on February 25, 2009
It has seemed like a morbid week for followers of legal blogs. First came last week's post about legal bloggers throwing in the virtual towel after blogging left them feeling frustrated and depressed. Then came the news that the Wall...

Bar Group Apologizes for Past Racism

Posted on February 25, 2009
During a ceremony in a Miami courthouse yesterday, lawyers formally apologized for their forbears' racism. At the Dade County Courthouse, the Dade County Bar Association hung a commemorative plaque over a once-segregated water fountain as its way of acknowledging and...

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Lawyers Advance in Bids for Harvard Board

Posted on February 25, 2009
"I'm pleased to announce that I have been nominated as a petition candidate for the 2009 Harvard Board of Overseers election," civil liberties lawyer Harvey A. Silverglate said this week in an e-mail to his supporters. As we discussed here...

Twittering in Court, Twittering at School

Posted on February 25, 2009
It may be a federal court first: A judge in Wichita, Kan., will let a newspaper reporter Twitter the trial of six accused gang members. Ron Sylvester, the Wichita Eagle reporter who we wrote about last May for his Twitter...

Online Divorce, Canadian Style

Posted on February 24, 2009
I've posted previously about budget legal services for divorces, such as Divorce Deli, a restaurant-themed Web site for online divorce, and the 60 Minute Divorce, where lawyers draft and file divorce papers for a low rate while the soon-to-be-exes enjoy...

Are Female Lawyers at Risk in a Recession?

Posted on February 24, 2009
Over at The Glass Hammer, Anna Collins asks whether female lawyers are at risk during a recession. They are -- as much or more than lawyers in general these days. But for some at least, that risk is counter-balanced by...

Does Failure to Advise on Deportation Risks Violate 6th Amendment?

Posted on February 24, 2009
We'd probably all agree that a lawyer who erroneously tells his client that accepting a guilty plea won't subject him to deportation (when it fact it would) is careless -- such counsel is negligent or even unethical when a lawyer...

Signs of These Economic Times: A Roundup

Posted on February 24, 2009
Here's a quick roundup of some of the signs of these economic times for lawyers: -- Homeowners' association dues are drying up as more homes go into foreclosure, according to a survey by Ft. Lauderdale law firm Becker & Poliakoff....

Lawyer's Book Leaves Jurors in Doubt

Posted on February 23, 2009
A book by a former lawyer and occasional blogger has three jurors doubting their 1993 conviction of a man in connection with a 1991 bombing that killed one Boston police officer and maimed another. A report today in The Boston...

Levy's Last Word on BlockShopper Case

Posted on February 23, 2009
We noted here earlier this month the settlement of the Goliath versus David trademark lawsuit in which international law firm Jones Day sued the small, locally focused real estate Web site BlockShopper.com. Earlier, in one of our first posts about...

Blawg Review Writes Its Own Obit

Posted on February 23, 2009
Is it the beginning of the end for the legal blog? First, I wrote here last week about legal bloggers throwing in the virtual towel, their blogging labors having left them frustrated and depressed. Then came the news that the...

Wall Street Journal Cuts Law Blog Writer

Posted on February 23, 2009
A typical day for me goes something like this: Wake up. Check the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog. Brush my teeth. Check the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog. Make coffee. Check the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog. Shower. Check the...

Global Alliance Pursues Madoff

Posted on February 20, 2009
Unique problems demand unique solutions. There's no doubt that Bernie Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme was an unprecedented crime, both in terms of the dollar amount involved and the enormous scope -- the fraud impacted victims all over the world.So...

Hotel Sues Law Firm Over Canceled Retreat

Posted on February 20, 2009
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld wasn't able to give its partners a fancy retreat this year, so it's giving them something else instead: a lesson in first year contract law. As the The Am Law Daily reports, Akin Gump...

Another Social Network for Lawyers: MyLawNetwork.com

Posted on February 20, 2009
Social networking sites for lawyers continue to proliferate. In 2008, we saw the emergence of Legal OnRamp, described as a collaborative site for in-house counsel and law firms. Then there was the recent launch of the American Bar Association's Legally...

Blawger's Blast Heard Around the (Toy) World

Posted on February 19, 2009
No one would ever accuse Walter Olson of mincing words at his blog Overlawyered. But his particularly damning words yesterday for a New York Times editorial about the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act were music to the ears of the...

When Law Schools Ignore Naughty Profs

Posted on February 19, 2009
"Do you know a faculty member who propositions students?" asks Bridget J. Crawford, a Pace Law School professor, at Feminist Law Professors blog. "If you?ve spent any time in academia, my guess is that the answer is 'Yes.' Does that...

Layoff Lessons from One Who's Been There

Posted on February 19, 2009
History has a way of repeating itself. As we suffer our way through the current recession, we forget that we've been through down times before and survived. Perhaps the recession of 1990 and 1991 was less dramatic than the current...

When Blawgers Throw in the Towel

Posted on February 19, 2009
Even blawgers get writer's block. Any lawyer who writes a blog will tell you that there are days when drafting the simplest post seems like an Olympian feat. Some blogs run hot and cold. The author will post consistently, even...

Should Race Matter in Court Appointments?

Posted on February 18, 2009
When a court appoints lawyers to represent indigent defendants, should it take race into account? Ohio solo practitioner Lafe Tolliver says yes, in this provocative column in The Toledo Journal.Tolliver explains that the county spends "millions of public taxpayer dollars"...

Mediation Comes to Prime Time

Posted on February 18, 2009
Increasingly, lawyers are becoming familiar with the benefits of adding online video to a Web site. But now mediators are following suit as well. As Diane Levin points out at Mediation Channel, mediators are now using video to advertise their...

Law Review Subscriptions on the Decline

Posted on February 18, 2009
Not surprisingly, law review subscriptions are on the decline, reports Joe Hodnicki, at The Law Librarian Blog -- another casualty of technology, along with the typewriter, bike messengers and law libraries. As discussed in "Law Review Circulation," a recent paper...

Facebook Changes Terms of Service, Then Changes Back

Posted on February 18, 2009
Today's decision by Facebook to rescind changes to its terms of service, which would have permitted Facebook to use and retain user content for its own purposes even after users left the site, proves that even widely popular and successful...

Shorty Awards Honor Lawyers on Twitter

Posted on February 17, 2009
It was not exactly a landslide, but lawyer, blogger and Twitter-er Nicole Black earned first place in the law category of the Shorty Awards, which honor the best producers of content on the microblogging site Twitter. Quite an achievement, when...

ABA Delegates' Meeting Goes Digital

Posted on February 17, 2009
As the American Bar Association wrapped up its midyear meeting, its House of Delegates, its policy-making body, met into the late afternoon yesterday debating a host of critical legal issues. Even though the meeting was in my home base of...

Marry a Lawyer? Are You Crazy?

Posted on February 17, 2009
Valentine's Day has come and gone, but the question psychologist Fiona Travis raises is a perpetual one: Would someone have to be crazy to marry a lawyer? "It's not that lawyers lack relationship-building skills," she writes in a post at...

A Blawg Review of Superlatives

Posted on February 17, 2009
Is Blawg Review #199 the best Blawg Review ever? Well, the editor of Blawg Review says it is the best crime Blawg Review ever. He also says it is a perfect example of how to write a Blawg Review. "The...

Friday the 13th Comes a Day Early for Law Firms

Posted on February 13, 2009
Don't call Bruce MacEwen, of the Adam Smith, Esq. blog, a triskaidekaphobic. As MacEwen argues, yesterday's spate of law firm layoffs (nearly 800 associates and staff nationwide, according to The Recorder) has nothing to do with bad luck, it's just...

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