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By Lisa Stone

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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 17:07:51

Name These Harvard Law Review Editors

Posted on November 03, 2008
Last January, the New York Times ran this 1990 photograph of the editorial board of volume 104 of the Harvard Law Review. Of course, we all know the identity of that guy in the center of the photograph, holding that...

Good Work if You Can Get It

Posted on November 03, 2008
What job could be cushier than working for the in-house legal department of a free software organization? I mean, the product is free. Who needs licensing agreements? Who needs distributorship agreements? Sounds like a job even George Costanza could love,...

Lawyer Flees Psych Facility, Finds Success

Posted on November 03, 2008
Jonathan Delman was not going to let another stay in a mental hospital unravel the life he'd finally started to repair. The University of Pennsylvania law school graduate had been here before. Now in his thirties, his bipolar disorder had...

Supreme Court Stalemate Resolved

Posted on October 31, 2008
The case of Carcieri v. Kempthorne, which involves a dispute between the Narrangansett Tribe and the state over land in the town of Charlestown, R.I., is scheduled for argument before the Supreme Court in three days. Yet until earlier today,...

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Would You Pay for Social Networking Apps?

Posted on October 31, 2008
Just as social networking applications like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn are gaining traction and respectability within the legal community, there's a new question worth considering: Would you pay to use these applications? In this piece in Slate, "A Radical Business...

Lawyer's Blazing Anger Gets Him Disbarred

Posted on October 31, 2008
Let's just say that Samuel Pontier, former lawyer and O'Hara, Pa., councilman is hot-tempered. What else could explain his decision to burn down his family's home out of frustration that his estranged wife kept an untidy household? Last February, Pontier...

Are Lawyers More Prone to Cheating?

Posted on October 31, 2008
Are lawyers more prone to cheating than other professionals? Maybe so, at least if there's any truth a recent report on cheating that appeared in a Cambridge (U.K.) student newspaper. According to the report, nearly half of the undergraduates surveyed...

Obama Unrated on Lawyer Rating Site

Posted on October 30, 2008
In just a few days, voters will be asked to decide whether to cast their ballots for or against the one lawyer running for president, Barack Obama. But at lawyer-rating site Avvo, the verdict remains out on Obama's score as...

Judge: 'Huge Imbalance' in RIAA Cases

Posted on October 30, 2008
At his blog Recording Industry vs. The People, Ray Beckerman, a lawyer who defends people sued by record companies for unlawful file sharing, has posted a fascinating transcript of a June 17, 2008, motion hearing in Boston before U.S. District...

The Hottest Law Profs

Posted on October 30, 2008
No, this post is not about physical hotness or even about a calendar, but rather about blogosphere buzz. Paul L. Caron at TaxProf Blog has updated his rankings of the hottest law professors in terms of traffic to their blogs....

It's Official: Blawging Now Mainstream

Posted on October 30, 2008
Given the popularity and influence of blogging, I continue to be surprised by the number of luddites lawyers who continue to debate whether it will catch on among the mainstream of the profession. Well, it doesn't get much more mainstream...

Law Clerk Slain, Suspects Charged

Posted on October 30, 2008
Sad news from the U.S. Virgin Islands, where a young lawyer who had recently moved there was found dead yesterday, murdered in an apparent robbery. Gabriel Lerner, 27, was a graduate of Georgetown University Law School who moved to St....

IM for Lawyers

Posted on October 29, 2008
As my colleague and fellow tweep Bob Ambrogi posted here yesterday, Twitter.com is gaining traction in legal circles. But what about Twitter's distant cousin, texting or instant messaging, with which it shares a "conciseness" gene? (Twitter limits posts to 140...

How Blogs Can Hurt Employment Prospects

Posted on October 29, 2008
Though Web 2.0 tools like blogs or social networking Web sites can help lawyers build relationships or better position themselves for employment opportunities, there's also a downside to creating a public digital trail. Though by now, most of us realize...

Lawyer Burns Ties to Harvard, Literally

Posted on October 28, 2008
We've seen lawyers' careers go up in smoke before, but never quite so literally. "Jack" is a Washington, D.C., lawyer who hopes someday to be to the legal profession what Siddhartha was to Buddhism -- one remembered for giving up...

The Legal Profession's All Atwitter

Posted on October 28, 2008
Among lawyers on Twitter (of which I am one), there was a chorus of excited tweeting yesterday about the Wall Street Journal article that declared, "Twitter Goes Mainstream." Their excitement was not merely over the article's conclusion that "Twitter is...

Court Documents Rife with Private Data

Posted on October 28, 2008
Publicly available federal court opinions and pleadings are brimming with private and personal information, including Social Security numbers, medical conditions and birth dates, concludes a preliminary audit conducted by Public.Resource.Org. Carl Malamud, the organization's president, describes the scope of the...

The Great Judge Jacobs Pro Bono Dust-Up

Posted on October 28, 2008
Rarely do we see a row that directly implicates a federal circuit chief judge, a law school dean, legal journalists and any number of legal bloggers. But such is the situation following the report by a small New York legal...

Thelen and the Fragile Nature of the Midsize Law Firm

Posted on October 28, 2008
Over in San Francisco, it's d�j� vu all over again. Almost exactly one month after Golden Gate law firm Heller Erhman met its demise, neighboring Thelen likewise has announced its dissolution, reports The Recorder. According to the firm's press release,...

Work/Life Balance: Goodbye to All That?

Posted on October 28, 2008
Just a few months ago, Working Mother magazine was singing the praises of the "Best 50 Law Firms for Women," and highlighting groundbreaking programs like on-site childcare or part-time partnership tracks designed to help retain top female prospects. But given...

The Deterioration of Legal Writing

Posted on October 27, 2008
Legal writing -- along with other genres of business and professional-related writing -- is deteriorating, contends this story from Financial Week. But is the erosion of quality explained by the proliferation of tools like e-mail, texting and Twitter, which encourage...

U.S. Lawyer Population Dwarfs China's

Posted on October 27, 2008
When it comes to national population, China, with its 1.25 billion residents easily beats the United States, whose population of 305,512,549 is one-third the size. But if you count lawyers, there's hardly a contest: The United States outranks China 7-to-1,...

Blawg Review #183

Posted on October 27, 2008
Kimberly Kralowec's UCL Practitioner Blog is billed as "the first and only weblog on California's Unfair Competition Law (UCL) and California class actions. So it's not surprising that in hosting Blawg Review #183, Kralowec opted for another first: a California-themed...

Lawyers Fall Short in Protecting Client Confidences in a Mobile Age

Posted on October 27, 2008
Lawyers have an ethical obligation to safeguard client confidences, yet most are falling short when it comes to protecting clients' privileged information in a this on-the-go age. The results of a recent survey of U.K. law firms by Credant Technology...

Judge Halverston's Husband Found Guilty in Frying Pan Attack

Posted on October 24, 2008
The tragicomedy that is Las Vegas Judge Elizabeth Halverston's recent life closed one act today when her husband pleaded guilty to "one count of battery with a deadly weapon with substantial bodily harm after attacking his wife with a frying...

Lawyer Calendar Prompts Savage Love

Posted on October 24, 2008
Over the past few months, blogger Bob Ambrogi has written a couple of posts -- both here and on his own blog -- about the "Beautiful Lawyers" calendar featuring Massachusetts attorneys put together by a Boston law firm to help...

Excuse Me While I Sue This Guy

Posted on October 24, 2008
Two years ago I went to a live auction of intellectual property at a swank former bank in lower Manhattan. It was the second such event organized by Ocean Tomo (the company is holding its eighth auction next week in...

Resources and Tips for Attorney Transitions

Posted on October 23, 2008
Few attorneys keep one job for life, instead transitioning throughout their careers as their interests and life circumstances demand. This week, I found two resources to help lawyers in transition. The first is AlternativeLawyerJobs.com, a job site for lawyers who...

Presidential Campaign Roundup

Posted on October 23, 2008
With around two weeks to go until Election Day, this will be one of our last presidential campaign roundups. And with so little time, there's more news than ever: The Elections and Employment Issues -- At Point of Law, Walter...

Lehman Bankruptcy Means Record Fees for Lawyers

Posted on October 23, 2008
OK, forget what I said earlier this week about the demise of the billable hour. The billable hour system hasn't gone bankrupt yet. Indeed, if this Bloomberg story is any indication, the billable hour system is thriving in the Lehman...

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