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Advice From Lawyer Lincoln

Posted on February 13, 2009
A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade, said one of our nation's most famous lawyers, Abraham Lincoln. But in honor of President's Day, you can have the privilege of some of Lincoln's advice at no charge, courtesy...

Valentine's Day Roundup

Posted on February 13, 2009
Everyone loves a love story, even lawyers. From around the blogosphere, here's a roundup of Valentine's Day-related stories:Partners in law and life: The idea of husband and wife attorneys working at the same firm is no longer unusual these days,...

Legal Podcast Roundup

Posted on February 12, 2009
Legal Podcast Roundup Lawyer Denise Howell has a new installment out of her podcast, This Week in Law. Howell and her roundtable of legal commentators -- Ben Franske, Colette Vogele, Ernie Svenson, and Evan Brown -- discuss a range of...

Hard Times Ahead for Lawyers, Survey Says

Posted on February 12, 2009
More than three-quarters of lawyers in Massachusetts believe they will be hard hit by the recession and that the legal field will remain rocky for some time to come. That is the conclusion of a survey published this week by...

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Blawgers

Posted on February 12, 2009
Legal bloggers are a sinful lot, judging by Blawg Review #198. This week's Blawg Review host, Jeremy J. Richey, author of The East Central Illinois Criminal law & DUI Weblog, looks out over the week's multitude of posts by legal...

Jones Day Settles With BlockShopper

Posted on February 12, 2009
The Goliath versus David lawsuit in which international law firm Jones Day sued the small, locally focused real estate Web site BlockShopper.com, appears to have settled. BlockShopper co-founder Brian Timpone told Alison Grant, a reporter at The Plain Dealer, that...

Muzzled Lawyer Gets the Boot, Threatens Suit

Posted on February 11, 2009
Deidre Dare, the provocatively named, Moscow-based U.S. lawyer who was muzzled for her writing about a fictional Moscow-based U.S. lawyer's adventures in the sack, has now herself been sacked. And she's not taking it lying down. Allen & Overy, the...

Attention Geeks: You Are Not Lawyers

Posted on February 11, 2009
Apparently, there are enough geeks out there with misguided notions about the law that Paul Ohm thinks he ought to do something about it. Ohm, an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School, is launching a...

I Need Time to Find Myself (A New Moot Court Partner)

Posted on February 11, 2009
Here it is just a few days before Valentine's Day, and all Boston College Law School 2L Meghan Meade is thinking about is how to dump a partner -- a moot court partner. But at least she wants the dumping...

Is 2011 the End of Law Firm Leverage?

Posted on February 10, 2009
Over at The Am Law Daily, Paul Lippe of Legal OnRamp shares some interesting observations on the future of law practice, circa 2011. Although most experts predict that the recession will end by 2011, Lippe doesn't believe that law firms...

Japan to Crack Down on Foreign Lawyers

Posted on February 10, 2009
As I posted a few months back, legal markets overseas are providing a refuge for associates to ride out the economic downturn in the United States. But for associates hoping to work in a law firm branch office in Japan,...

Oops: Law Firm Newsletter Discloses Details of Confidential Settlement

Posted on February 10, 2009
Seems that people do read law firm newsletters after all, even the advertisements. According to the San Francisco legal newspaper The Recorder, Los Angeles-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges ran an ad in one of its business litigation newsletters...

Obama's Lawyer Picks Take Pay Cuts, Temporarily

Posted on February 10, 2009
Many of the high-powered lawyers joining the Obama administration will be taking substantial pay cuts for the privilege of public service, reports the Washington Post. (See The American Lawyer's previous coverage here). But with expected salaries between $150,000 and $196,000,...

Brill's Plan to Save Journalism

Posted on February 09, 2009
If not for Steve Brill, you might not be reading this post. Brill is the lawyer, journalist and entrepreneur who, in 1987, founded The American Lawyer magazine. That magazine and the company he built around it are now owned by...

Computer Worm Shuts Down Courts

Posted on February 09, 2009
Municipal courts in Houston shut down operations Friday after the court's network systems were disabled by a suspected attack of the notorious Conficker worm. Court hearings were canceled and arrests for minor offenses were suspended as court and city officials...

Judges to Plead Guilty in $2.6 Million Scheme

Posted on February 09, 2009
Two former presiding judges of the Luzerne County, Penn., Court of Common Pleas are scheduled to appear in federal court in Scranton this week to enter guilty pleas on charges that they took more than $2.6 million in kickbacks related...

Bards of Law II: Poetry in Theory

Posted on February 09, 2009
Yehuda Berlinger has a singular obsession. He rewrites intellectual property law as verse. Berlinger is no stranger to readers of this blog. We told you about him way back in July 2006 when he first published the U.S. copyright code...

Bards of Law I: Poetry in Practice

Posted on February 09, 2009
What is it about law that makes people ask, "What could be verse?" Lawyers, judges, litigants and legal scholars all are tempted at times to turn their legal prose into legal poetry. This week brings two examples. This post tells...

Law Firm Layoffs Are the New Attrition

Posted on February 06, 2009
Remember the boom times a short three years ago, when a law firm's biggest problem was associate attrition? Back then, firms lost 78 percent of their associates by their fifth year of practice, with annual attrition rates of around 20...

Is Tweeting for Clients the Same as Solicitation?

Posted on February 06, 2009
What's the difference between tweeting a prospective client and outright solicitation? I'm not entirely sure, but an encounter between a car accident victim and a lawyer on Twitter, described at Law Firm and Attorney SEO and Internet Marketing, came close...

Transforming CLE

Posted on February 06, 2009
Over in Illinois, 587 attorneys have been removed from the state's "master roll" after failing to file the paperwork showing that they had completed the required 20 hours of continuing legal education (CLE) between July 2006 and 2008, reports the...

Late to Court, Lawyer Put in Jail

Posted on February 05, 2009
An assistant attorney general in the U.S. Virgin Islands was arrested Monday and held overnight in jail for being 10 minutes late to court. On Tuesday morning, after the lawyer apologized, the judge who ordered his arrest released him from...

The Next New Thing in Law Student Blogs?

Posted on February 05, 2009
At The Volokh Conspiracy last week, Orin Kerr wondered where all the law student bloggers had gone. "Back in the early days of law blogs, around 2002-04, law student blogs were a really important part of the blawgosphere," he wrote....

Profit Is the New Growth

Posted on February 05, 2009
For the largest of the world's law firms, revenue has long been the barometer of success. Gross revenue is, in fact, the measure The American Lawyer applies to compile its annual listing of the Am Law 100. And by the...

The Last Word From LegalTech?

Posted on February 05, 2009
Here is another chance to hear more about LegalTech New York directly from the show floor. Is it the last word on the show? No, and I'll tell you why below. Yesterday in this space, John Bringardner pointed out West's...

LTNY 2009: Dictation Software Roundup

Posted on February 04, 2009
It may not be as big as other areas of technology at LegalTech, but companies selling dictation software made a solid showing at the trade show this year. Rees Morrison saw seven, and rounds up his thoughts here. As the...

LTNY 2009: Jeffrey Toobin at the Fios LegalTech Party

Posted on February 04, 2009
LegalTech New York 2009 is now officially over, but in spite of the dire state of the economy, Tuesday night still saw the typical slate of conference parties. Many took place at the Hilton shortly after the sessions ended for...

LTNY 2009: Video Interviews and Predictions for the Future of Legal Technology

Posted on February 04, 2009
Legal vendor West brought back its video interviews at LegalTech this year, providing a handful of reports from the show floor. Most of the interviews are with folks who fall somewhere under the West or Thomson Reuters corporate umbrella, but...

LTNY 2009: Ask EDD Vendors, What Can You Do for Me?

Posted on February 03, 2009
After talking with a few e-discovery vendors at LegalTech this morning, the general consensus seems to be that while they all expect an uptick in litigation as a result of the financial crisis, it hasn't happened yet. So far, anecdotal...

LTNY 2009: Gadget Update

Posted on February 03, 2009
LegalTech isn't the most gadget-focused tech conferences out there, specializing as it does in tools for practicing law -- whether that means electronic discovery services, time and billing software or how lawyers can use Twitter. Sure, every tech-savvy lawyer has...

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