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Disciplinary Costs Survive Bankruptcy Filing

Posted on September 22, 2008
After the New Hampshire Supreme Court disbarred lawyer William Richmond and ordered him to reimburse the state's Committee on Professional Conduct for the costs of bringing disciplinary proceedings against him, Richmond filed for bankruptcy and argued that the cost assessment...

Search for Deep Pockets Pays Off

Posted on September 22, 2008
If it sometimes seems that plaintiffs lawyers are overzealous in their pursuit of potential defendants, here is an object lesson in why that strategy often makes sense. In a piece published yesterday, "The Cost of Tragedy," Boston Globe reporter Jonathan...

Plaintiffs Win Only 15 Percent of Employment-Related Cases in Federal Court

Posted on September 19, 2008
A study commissioned by the American Constitution Society reveals that, based on data from 1979 to 2006, plaintiffs who brought employment discrimination suits in federal district courts prevailed only 15 percent of the time, compared to 51 percent for non-employment...

More on Legal Fitness

Posted on September 19, 2008
Over the summer, I posted about a New Jersey firm's efforts to encourage fitness in the practice of law by allowing lawyers to install exercise equipment, such as treadmill-desks, in their offices. Apparently, the fitness at work trend is spreading:....

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The Economy and the Rest of the Legal Profession

Posted on September 19, 2008
By now, most of us have realized that the market downturn is taking a toll on large law firms, with Heller Ehrman as the most recent victim. But what about the rest of the legal profession? How are other non-Biglaw...

Dumping on Contract Attorneys

Posted on September 19, 2008
Like Rodney Dangerfield, contract lawyers don't get no respect. While law firms earn substantial profits off the labor of contract attorneys, these lawyers have no job security, work long hours but aren't necessarily entitled to overtime and they don't have...

Ike Blows Blawg Off Its Usual Path

Posted on September 18, 2008
Nothing like a major hurricane blowing through town to disrupt one's normal blogging routine. When Hurricane Ike hit Houston, several local lawyers blogged about it, as the ABA Journal noted several days ago. Among them were Tom Kirkendall at his...

The Right to Wear Saggy Pants

Posted on September 18, 2008
Did the Framers foresee exposed boxers? A Florida judge seems to think so, ruling this week that a Riviera Beach, Fla., law against saggy pants is unconstitutional. The law, approved by Riviera Beach voters last March, makes it a misdemeanor...

For Lawyers, the World Is Us and Them

Posted on September 18, 2008
For Ron Friedmann at Strategic Legal Technology, it is the law firm caste system. For Jordon Furlong at Law21, it is a missed recruitment opportunity. What both are talking about is the propensity of lawyers to view the world as...

Two Follow-Ups: Unequal Pay and E-Casebooks

Posted on September 18, 2008
Monica Bay writes at EDD Update that she was outraged to read our post, "Pay Inequity for Women Paralegals" (which picked up on a post from The Estrin Report). "I think this is outrageous," Bay writes, "and I challenge every...

Dissenting Judge Tells Lawyers to Take It to YouTube

Posted on September 17, 2008
Used to be that when dissenting judges didn't get their way, they could only get mad. But as federal judge Beverly Martin's dissent in Buckley v. Haddock (11th Cir. 2008) shows, dissenting judges can now also get even in the...

Federal Bailout of AIG: Is It Legal?

Posted on September 17, 2008
As a practical matter, yesterday's historic $85 billion bailout of insurance company American International Group (AIG) is regarded by many as a necessary action to prevent more widespread damage to the economy. But practical or not, law bloggers want to...

Is Ambulance Chasing Coming to Twitter?

Posted on September 17, 2008
With a a growing number of lawyers using Twitter, it was only a matter of time before someone started tweeting for clients. Today, Kevin O'Keefe writes that he stumbled across a tweet seeking class members for a possible suit against...

The Fairy Tale Law Firm

Posted on September 17, 2008
So what do you get when you cross Snow White with a law firm? Either a fairy tale firm where the all lawyers live happily ever after, or more realistically, a concept for a new law-themed television show that dwarfs...

A Kinder, Gentler Ropes & Gray

Posted on September 16, 2008
The law firm Ropes & Gray yesterday announced that it would be taking a more "enlightened approach" to helping its associates balance their work and family lives. The Boston-based firm launched a program it calls Impact, "designed to accommodate the....

Pay Inequity for Women Paralegals

Posted on September 16, 2008
Given that women have long outnumbered men among the ranks of paralegals, it would seem safe to assume that here is at least one segment of the legal profession where salaries are blind to gender. Surprisingly, such is not the...

Jones Day's 'Gross Abuse of Trademark Law'

Posted on September 16, 2008
Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy is winning praise from some corners of the blogosphere for his post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog in which he says the lawsuit by law firm Jones Day against the Web site...

Verdict Is In: Best Law Student Video

Posted on September 16, 2008
Remember the "One Less Worry Contest"? It was the contest we reported here in March that promised to award $10,000 to the best law student video depicting the worries of law school. Sponsored by Access Group, a nonprofit student loan...

Should Firms Test Lawyers' Substantive Knowledge in Interviews?

Posted on September 15, 2008
When is the last time that you interviewed for a position with a law firm and the hiring attorney grilled you on the finer points of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 or asked you to draft a short memo...

Lawyers Exploring Diversity at Advertising Agencies

Posted on September 15, 2008
As I've posted before, law firms aren't exactly at the forefront of promoting diversity in the workplace. But now advertising agencies are making firms look good when it comes to diversity -- though not in the way that you might...

Blawg Review #177

Posted on September 15, 2008
Third time's the charm for Anita Campbell, who once again plays hostess at Small Business Trends, this time to Blawg Review #177. Ever since JD Supra published this list of lawyers using Twitter, this micro-blogging tool has been the subject...

Libel Tourism: A Vacation You Don't Want to Take

Posted on September 15, 2008
So what's the latest force to threaten writers' First Amendment freedom? It's not the present administration or the courts or even Congress... it's the Internet. As Adam Cohen describes in this New York Times story, because the Internet disseminates material...

Bill Padding, Revisited

Posted on September 15, 2008
Unlike many traditions in the legal profession, it seems that bill padding never goes out of style. Two years ago, allegations of bill padding by a junior partner at Holland and Knight drew national coverage, as well as strong criticism...

Bankruptcy Act Violates Lawyers' Speech Rights

Posted on September 12, 2008
Separate rulings in the span of a week from a federal appeals court and a federal district judge found that a provision of U.S. bankruptcy law violates the free-speech rights of lawyers by barring them from advising clients to incur...

Taking Paper Out of the Paper Chase

Posted on September 12, 2008
If the pressures of law school are not enough to weigh you down, the books certainly are. It is almost as if that legendarily stern Harvard law professor from the 1973 Oscar-winning movie "The Paper Chase," Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.,...

'I Just Wanted to Record the Funny Parts'

Posted on September 12, 2008
Attention citizen journalists: That no-cameras-in-the-courtroom rule includes your video-enabled cell phone. In what the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is calling "an impromptu case of new media meeting traditional courtroom rules," a North Carolina man learned that lesson...

The Great Lawyer E-mail Scam

Posted on September 12, 2008
If you think lawyers are too savvy to fall prey to an e-mail scam, think again. One lawyer who fell victim to it estimates that the scam has bilked lawyers out of more than $1 million. That lawyer is now...

Loan Forgiveness For Judges: What Would It Do To Daytime TV?

Posted on September 11, 2008
There's plenty of discussion of loan forgiveness for public defenders, prosecutors and other varieties of government lawyers. But what about judges? Professor Neil Buchanan ponders whether loan forgiveness programs should extend to the judiciary. Though many contend that federal judges...

The Jury Is Out on City Jury vs. Country Jury

Posted on September 11, 2008
Over at her blog Deliberations, Wisconsin-based lawyer and jury expert Ann Reed explores an interesting question: Would you rather have 12 jurors who lived in the closest major city to you, or 12 who came from that city's suburbs? Reed's...

An Added Casualty of Changing Law Firms

Posted on September 11, 2008
We're all familiar enough with the problems stirred up by lawyers moving from one firm to another: newly created conflicts of interest, disputes about who gets to keep the fees from work originated by the lawyer at one firm and...

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