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Should You Break Bread With the Enemy?

Posted on July 29, 2008
Most of us deplore the lack of civility in the legal profession. But does a desire to increase collegiality and respect mean that we should bond with opposing counsel at social activities? That's the question posed by Jon Katz in...

Blawg Review #170

Posted on July 29, 2008
Not surprisingly, Scott Greenfield, the blogosphere's most prolific law blogger (if you don't believe me, then take a look at his monthly archives in the left menu bar of his blog) has done Simple Justice to Blawg Review #170. Dedicating...

Michelle Obama Critiques Law School

Posted on July 29, 2008
Trial lawyer Gerry Spence wasn't the only famous lawyer to gripe about legal education last week. In this interview with the Telegraph, Michelle Obama critiques the law school experience (albeit far more gently than Spence, who calls legal education a...

New England Mourns Superstar Lawyer

Posted on July 28, 2008
Boston criminal defense lawyer Richard Egbert was a superstar -- not for his flamboyance but for his skill and tenacity in the courtroom. One prominent Bostonian called him "the Muhammed Ali of attorneys." Egbert died Thursday while on vacation with....

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Taxpayers Steamed over Lawyers on Payroll

Posted on July 28, 2008
New York lawyer William Glass is currently on the payrolls as an employee of seven Long Island fire districts, earning more than $500,000 in salary since 2002, along with pension, health and dental benefits. But he has no office in...

Spence: Law School is a Fraud

Posted on July 28, 2008
Famed buckskin-clad Wyoming trial lawyer Gerry Spence may be new to this blogging thing, but he sure isn't shy about it. In his latest post, he declares law school a $100,000 fraud. "We have law schools claiming they are educating...

Update on Bush War Crimes Conference

Posted on July 28, 2008
The agenda is now set and speakers in place for the September conference to plan for the war crimes prosecutions of President Bush and other top administration officials. As you may recall, two posts here in June (here and here)...

God Calls Lawyer to Seek Stardom

Posted on July 28, 2008
Some hip hop artists taunt the law, Emeka Onyejekwe celebrates it. Onyejekwe, who performs under the name Mekka Don, refers to himself as The "Legal" Hustler and has titled his first recording "Law & Order" (download it here). Onyejekwe is...

Got Lawsuits?

Posted on July 25, 2008
Talk about nursing a grudge. The California Milk Processor Board, owner of the ubiquitous "Got Milk" trademark, sent a cease and desist letter to Alaska artist Barbara Holmes, putting her on notice that the "Got Breastmilk" T-shirts that she created....

Judge Overturns 9/11 Settlements

Posted on July 25, 2008
Should a court overturn a settlement agreement as unreasonable and excessive where the lawyers adopted a "wait and see" approach to filing a lawsuit and in so doing, achieved a better deal for their clients? That's one of the questions...

For Three Firms, Detainee Work Wasn't Pro Bono

Posted on July 25, 2008
Arguably, the collective efforts of more than 50 of the nation's top law firms to provide pro bono representation to Guantanamo detainees and vindicate their rights has been one of Biglaw's finest hours. Capitalizing on a deep pool of talent,...

The Karma of Business Development

Posted on July 24, 2008
Mark Beese has been an infrequent poster lately at his blog, Leadership for Lawyers, which, like this blog, is part of the Law.com Blog Network. This is understandable, given his day job as head of marketing at Holland & Hart....

The Diogenes of the Legal Profession

Posted on July 24, 2008
Remember the story of Diogenes, who roamed ancient Greece with a lantern in search of an honest man? Well, meet the Diogenes of the legal profession: J. Kim Wright. In place of a lantern, she has a video camera, and...

The Death of Google's Patents?

Posted on July 24, 2008
That is the title of a provocative new article arguing that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's newly developed position on patentability will invalidate countless software patents, notably among them Google's patent on its Web searching technology...

Blogs Shown to Get Press for Lawyers

Posted on July 23, 2008
Over at Law Marketing Blog, Larry Bodine references a new study by eMarketer showing that reporters rely heavily on blogs for a variety of tasks, including finding new story ideas and locating industry experts. Bodine explains that reporters will typically...

Tight Jeans Not a Chastity Belt, Rules Italian Court

Posted on July 23, 2008
As the late Johnnie Cochran might have put it, "If the jeans were too tight, then she didn't put up a fight." As offensive and ludicrous as this defense might be in an assault or rape case in the United...

What Are Your Thoughts on Paternity Leave?

Posted on July 23, 2008
Denise Howell is busy preparing the next installment of her Dicta column for The American Lawyer and she's looking for reader insights on work/life balance and male attorneys. Specifically, Denise asks: Is the legal workplace really changing, or are law...

Some GC Bonuses Dwarf Am Law 100 Profits Per Partner

Posted on July 23, 2008
A few months back, 19 Am Law 100 law firms celebrated $2 million profits per partner for 2007. Gosh, those numbers seem like small potatoes now, at least in comparison to the record pay and stock grants that Chief Legal...

A New Kind of Corporate Workout

Posted on July 23, 2008
For most lawyers, the phrase "corporate workout" describes a complex financial transactional process, which brings to mind images of stressed out lawyers shuffling through documents or pedaling different versions of an agreement during negotiations. But at the Boston office of...

Breakup in the Berkshires

Posted on July 22, 2008
In the bucolic Berkshire mountains of Western Massachusetts, one law firm stands out so prominently within the region that its Web page URL is berkshirelaw.com: Cain, Hibbard, Myers & Cook. So it came as a surprise when four of the...

The 25 Greatest Legal Movies

Posted on July 22, 2008
If only we could all be Atticus Finch. No doubt, the 1962 film, "To Kill a Mockingbird," is the greatest movie ever made about law and lawyering. But what other movies merit mention as the greatest legal movies? In The...

Survey: The Busiest Patent Firms

Posted on July 22, 2008
The magazine IP Law & Business is out with its annual survey of patent litigation, revealing the busiest law firms on both sides of the aisle in patent litigation. This year for the first time, the survey includes patent appeals...

Oldest Patent Lawyer Dies at 107

Posted on July 22, 2008
In a post here last October, I asked readers for help in identifying the nation's oldest lawyer. My query was prompted by the death of Reuben Landau, who at 103 was said to have been the oldest practicing lawyer in...

Sex Crime Expert Nabbed for Sex Crimes

Posted on July 22, 2008
So that's how he got his expertise. A North Dakota psychologist who served as an expert witness in hundreds of sex-crime cases in multiple states has admitted an addiction to child pornography and now faces federal charges for possession of...

The Cravath System and the Demise of Large Firm Business as We Know It

Posted on July 21, 2008
Professor Bill Henderson of the Empirical Legal Studies Blog has opened an interesting discussion with his recent analysis of the bimodal distribution of law firm starting salaries. Essentially, Henderson's salary charts reflect the current "winner take all" nature of the...

Presidential Campaign Roundup

Posted on July 21, 2008
With the Democratic and Republican party conventions fast approaching, it's time for another presidential campaign roundup. Summary of Campaign Positions -- Not sure of who to vote for yet? Then take a look at this summary from Reuters on each...

Lawyer Translator Helps Associates Understand How Firm Is Different

Posted on July 21, 2008
Minneapolis law firm Halleland Lewis Niland & Johnson wants to make absolutely sure that its prospective hires understand how the firm differs from its competitors... so much so that the firm has created The Lawyer Translator, an online recruitment Web...

Microsoft Willing to Pay for Diversity

Posted on July 21, 2008
Well, if law firms won't increase the number of women and minority hires because it's the right thing to do or even because it's what clients want, then by golly, maybe they'll do it for cash. That's apparently the theory...

Sending Judges to Medical School

Posted on July 21, 2008
Marcia Oddi at Indiana Law Blog shares this interesting piece from the AMA Med News about the National Judges' Medical School, a program designed to equip judges with better knowledge of medical science to help them interpret complex health care...

Military Court Finds Right to be Racist

Posted on July 18, 2008
The First Amendment prohibits criminal prosecution of a U.S. Army paratrooper for racist statements he made online, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has ruled in a July 15 decision, United States v. Wilcox. The soldier, Private...

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