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More Women GC Than Ever at Fortune 500

Posted on August 07, 2008
Nearly one in five general counsel at Fortune 500 companies are women, the highest number ever. And of those, the number of minority women in GC slots edged up slightly over last year. These are among the findings of the...

Who the AutoAdmit Defendant Isn't

Posted on August 07, 2008
Well, we now know the identity of one AutoAdmit defendant, sort of. One thing for sure, we know who it isn't. As noted here last week, lawyers for the two female Yale law students suing over threatening comments made about...

Lawyers Reap Olympic Gold

Posted on August 07, 2008
"The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well." That century-old quote from the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, may...

Texas Gets Its Way, Executes Medellin

Posted on August 06, 2008
The president of the United States may be the most powerful person in the world, but as the Supreme Court made clear in Medellin v. United States, even the president wasn't powerful enough to force a state to conform its...

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Credit Crunch Hits Home for Lawyers

Posted on August 06, 2008
As the recent mass layoff at Cadwalader demonstrates, the credit crisis has taken its toll primarily on associates. (In this post mortem, Bruce MacEwen notes that only associates and of counsel were laid off). Still, partners are feeling the effects....

Law Professors to React to Threatened AALS Boycott

Posted on August 06, 2008
Several groups of law professors have threatened to boycott the meeting site of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) because the owner of the conference venue, the San Diego Manchester Grand Hyatt, donated $125,000 to an initiative to outlaw...

Another Lawyer Directory -- WhoCanISue.com

Posted on August 06, 2008
As if the controversial Web site Sueeasy.com didn't make suing folks easy enough, now there's yet another site that's come to the rescue -- Whocanisue.com. Already featured in Time Magazine, Whocanisue.com is a new Web site that will assist consumers...

Is Social Networking Working?

Posted on August 05, 2008
Law Technology News this week published the second half (free subscription required) of a two-part column I wrote on social and professional networking sites for lawyers. The first part surveyed "generic" sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook, while this second...

The Death of Parody at Harvard Law

Posted on August 05, 2008
The now-notorious Barack Obama cover of The New Yorker, depicting the candidate as a flag-burning Muslim, was satire, to be sure. Not surprisingly, perhaps, it outraged many. But what was surprising -- at least to civil-liberties lawyer Harvey A. Silverglate...

Lawyers and the Olympics: Part 2

Posted on August 05, 2008
Boulder, Colo., lawyer James R. Moriarty planned his family's trip to the Beijing Olympics well in advance. But with hotel reserved and other details nailed down, he panicked when he was unable to buy tickets through the official Chinese ticketing...

Lawyers and the Olympics: Part 1

Posted on August 05, 2008
No offense to Kelly Crabb, but he doesn't exactly look like an Olympian. Balding and middle-aged, he's no svelte athlete. But Crabb is a key player on an elite team at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics -- the international legal...

A Law Firm That Waxes But Doesn't Wane

Posted on August 04, 2008
Here's a law firm business model that's made to stick -- combine running a law practice with a waxing salon, as Ocala, Florida family law attorney Ami DiLorenzo has done. Actually, when DiLorenzo opened her waxing studio, she was just...

Ben and Jerry's Lawyers Chill Free Expression

Posted on August 04, 2008
You probably remember the chilling effect from ConLaw -- it's a way of suppressing speech not through an outright ban but rather by imposing onerous obstacles or vague standards in such a way that speech is deterred nonetheless. Somewhat fittingly,...

Blawg Review #171

Posted on August 04, 2008
Blawg Review #171, hosted by Victoria Pynchon at IP ADR Blog is definitely a first. It's the first Blawg Review (and indeed, probably the first blog anywhere) dedicated to the "great virgins of history." So what's Pynchon's motive for adopting...

Should Political Contributions Be Publicized?

Posted on August 04, 2008
These days, a Google search for a fellow lawyer or former classmate is likely to produce links to sites like Money Line CQ, which lists individuals' campaign contributions. But should this information be so easily accessible to the public? Concurring...

Middle-Aged Male Lawyers Bad-Tempered Due to Lack of Sleep

Posted on August 04, 2008
Ever wonder why your law partner boss is always so grouchy, or why that judge treats the lawyers in his courtroom so rudely? Perhaps you shouldn't take their conduct personally -- they may simply be sleep-deprived. A recent U.K. study...

Prominent U.S. Lawyers Testify in Moscow Trial

Posted on August 01, 2008
Former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz and Notre Dame Law Professor G. Robert Blakey were among those taking the witness stand in a Moscow courtroom this week. All three testified as experts on the...

Critics: Law Review Hijacked By Right

Posted on August 01, 2008
Has the North Dakota Law Review been hijacked by national religious right activists bent on stopping gay marriage? That is the accusation of some North Dakota lawyers after receiving the latest issue, according to a report in the Grand Forks...

AutoAdmit Critics Outed -- Now What?

Posted on August 01, 2008
We stand corrected. In a post here in January, we picked up on several news reports that said that the two female Yale law students suing over threatening and demeaning comments made about them on the college-admissions forum AutoAdmit.com might...

Chief Justices Elect New President

Posted on August 01, 2008
I never knew that the chief justices of the nation's state and territorial courts have their own organization, the Conference of Chief Justices. They do. In fact, the organization is nearly 60 years old, launched in 1949. They met this...

e-Lawyering Offers a Win-Win for Clients and Lawyers

Posted on July 31, 2008
Today's news brings not just one, but two stories that demonstrate the value of e-lawyering -- that is, the automated processing of simple legal matters -- to both lawyers and clients. Larry Bodine describes how one Chicago firm is benefiting...

The Cadwalader Crash and Famous Last Words

Posted on July 31, 2008
Oh what a difference 18 months can make for a law firm. Recall that in February 2007, it seemed that the future belonged to Cadwalader. Back then, the firm had just come off a banner year, with profits per partner...

Lawyer Raising Ineffective Assistance Claim Is the Subject of One Herself

Posted on July 31, 2008
For a lawyer, filing a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel (IAC) can be tough. Of course, ethically, lawyers have no choice but to raise a valid IAC claim -- after all, it's part of the duty to zealously represent...

Campaign Watch: Obama Earns High Grades for Exams; Should a President Be Computer-Literate?

Posted on July 31, 2008
Grading Professor Obama -- Back before presumptive Democrat nominee Barack Obama became a rock star, he was an unassuming senior law lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, where he taught constitutional law and "Current Issues in Racism and...

Inside Look at Prosecutors' Payrolls

Posted on July 30, 2008
Salaries of district attorneys in Massachusetts are set by state law at just under $150,000 a year, but the DAs are free to pay assistant DAs whatever they want. As a result, ADA salaries in the state vary widely from...

Lawyer Blogs His Boxing Bouts

Posted on July 30, 2008
When last I checked in with Chicago lawyer Steven D. Imparl, it was 2005, two years after his 40th birthday and his launch of the blog Steve's Midlife Crisis and three years after his creation of the Web site MaleDepression.com....

Lawyer Alleged to be Sexual Predator

Posted on July 30, 2008
"Wow." That was the reaction of Zach Lowe at our sibling blog The Am Law Daily after reading charges against prominent Texas plaintiffs' lawyer Richard Laminack made in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed this week by former paralegal Angela Robinson...

The Innovators Among Us

Posted on July 30, 2008
The 2008 InnovAction Awards have been announced. Ron Friedmann provides the pointer via his blog, Strategic Legal Technology. These awards, from the College of Law Practice Management, honor lawyers, law firms and other legal professionals for "extraordinarily innovative efforts...

The Willie Gary Sex Tapes

Posted on July 30, 2008
Here is a story straight out of the annals of bizarre-but-true. Prominent Florida attorney Willie Gary has released two sex tapes that he says help disprove claims made in a sexual battery suit against him. Gary, whose Web site boasts...

How to Trap a Liberal DOJ Attorney

Posted on July 29, 2008
So, are you in the market for a "liberal" lawyer? There's no need to spend time creating a targeted want ad. Why not just use this same LexisNexis string search that former DOJ official Monica Goodling used to screen undesirable...

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