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Iowa Flooding Closes Courts, Law School

Posted on June 16, 2008
Floodwaters are receding in Iowa and residents there are beginning to assess the full impact of the Great Flood of 2008. In Cedar Rapids, the tragic flooding closed the federal and county courthouses and required both courts to set up...

Blawg Review Celebrates Bloomsday

Posted on June 16, 2008
It being Bloomsday, what better place to host Blawg Review than Dublin? Eoin O'Dell does the honors, hosting Blawg Review #164 at his blog cearta.ie. For anyone not baptized in the works of James Joyce, June 16 was the 1904...

Tim Russert, the Lawyer

Posted on June 16, 2008
Count me among the many who were shocked Friday to hear of the death of Tim Russert, Washington bureau chief for NBC News and moderator of its program, "Meet the Press." I was also far from alone, I suspect, in...

Law School Plans to Prosecute Bush

Posted on June 16, 2008
The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover will convene a conference in September to lay plans to prosecute President Bush and other high administration officials for war crimes. "This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of...

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Imposter Could Give Lawyers Bad Name

Posted on June 16, 2008
An Illinois woman who tried to pass herself off as a lawyer will now need a real one after her arrest last week. Police in Joliet arrested the woman, Misty Giblin, Thursday on a charge of impersonating a lawyer, The...

Ten Effective Law Firm Marketing Techniques

Posted on June 13, 2008
With a slowing workload, why not take the opportunity to work on marketing? Courtesy of Larry Bodine at The Law Marketing Blog, here are ten of the most effective law marketing techniques. The list includes spending money -- he recommends...

Economy Taking Toll on Public Defenders' Offices

Posted on June 13, 2008
It's not just Biglaw attorneys facing lay-offs in these recessionary economic times. ABC News reports that severe budget shortfalls are forcing public defender offices across the country to fire or furlough attorneys. Anticipating increased workload due to reductions in staff,...

Courting a Superstar Job Candidate on Stage

Posted on June 13, 2008
Even amongst the lawyers in the Am Law 100, there's still a tippy-top tier of true superstars whom firms will go to any length to attract and retain. And what better way to lure a lawyer superstar than on stage?...

Presidential Politics Roundup

Posted on June 13, 2008
There have been a few developments since my last Presidential Politics Roundup, most notably, Hillary Clinton's speech last weekend announcing the suspension of her presidential campaign. Below are some of the issues raised by Clinton's departure from the race, as...

Historic Ruling in Guantanamo Case

Posted on June 12, 2008
Tony Mauro at The BLT describes the drama this morning at the Supreme Court as it handed down its historic opinion in the Guantanamo detainee case, Boumediene v. Bush: When Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said from the bench this...

Here's a Change: Judge Earns Praise

Posted on June 12, 2008
The blogosphere is much like the mainstream media in its coverage of judges. Our blogging skews towards members of the bench who distinguish themselves in less than exemplary ways (like, say, having porn on their computers) and is sometimes accompanied...

Kozinski: Much Ado About Naught?

Posted on June 12, 2008
As a general summation of why Judge Alex Kozinski now finds himself in the midst of a so-called scandal over a porn collection, no one has said it better than Emily Bazelon at the Slate blog Convictions: "The problem with...

Will Law Firms Lose Good People If They Don't Mend Their Ways?

Posted on June 11, 2008
This week, a couple of bloggers discuss whether law firms can retain good people at a time when firms focus, with a laser-like intensity, on profits per partner and the bottom line. At Law and More, Jane Genova offers her...

It Takes a Village to Serve a Corporate Law Department

Posted on June 11, 2008
Ever wonder how many legal jobs are created by corporations? I'm not just talking about in-house lawyer positions or even associate jobs within outside law firms that represent or advise corporations. As Rees Morrison points out, there's a whole cottage...

Should Litigants in Obscenity Case Before Judge Kozinski Moo-ve for a Mistrial?

Posted on June 11, 2008
OK -- so maybe you thought that Judge Kozinski was just a tad bit kinky when he actively lobbied for a nomination as a judicial hottie in a competition sponsored by David Lat's previous blog, Underneath Their Robes. Then again,...

Avvo Sues Again for Access to Lawyer Records

Posted on June 11, 2008
Lawyer rating and directory Web site Avvo is back in court again, this time to petition the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) to provide an electronic copy of the Master Roll of the state's 85,000 attorneys. As explained...

Law School Deluge: One Loss, Two Wins

Posted on June 10, 2008
The National Law Journal reported last week that as many as 10 new law schools are on the drawing boards, raising the question, Do we really need any more? For now, at least, there may be one fewer startup to...

Don't Ask, Don't Tell -- Do Appeal

Posted on June 10, 2008
Busy day at the Supreme Court yesterday, with four major opinions handed down. SCOTUSblog wraps up links to the cases, news stories and blog posts. Meanwhile, a decision yesterday from a three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of...

Short List for Global Counsel Awards

Posted on June 10, 2008
An international competition to honor outstanding in-house lawyers and legal departments released its short list of finalists this week, with the winners to be announced at an awards ceremony in New York June 25. The 2008 Global Counsel Awards is...

When Lawyers Ignore Common Sense

Posted on June 10, 2008
When my colleague Carolyn Elefant isn't posting here at Legal Blog Watch, she of course writes her own blog, My Shingle, where she has a jaw-dropping post about a law-practice "franchise" gone bad. It all started when a Pennsylvania lemon-law...

Survey: Firms Snoop on Others' Rates

Posted on June 10, 2008
A newly published benchmarking report on law firm fees and pricing has a variety of interesting findings about how law firms set rates and bill. But two findings stood out to me as particularly interesting. The first is that at...

Social Networking for Lawyers

Posted on June 09, 2008
My colleague Bob Ambrogi offers the first installment of a two-part series on social networking tools for lawyers at Law Technology News. As Ambrogi cautions, these social networking sites offer real promise for marketing a practice, but like any other...

Across the Pond, Recruiter-Law Firm Smackdown Over Who's Responsible for Diversity Problems

Posted on June 09, 2008
Across the pond, powerhouse London-based law firm Eversheds and law firm recruiters are duking it out in a public dispute over who's to blame for lack of diversity in the legal profession, reports The Lawyer.com. At a conference on diversity...

Blawg Review #163

Posted on June 09, 2008
Even as host of Blawg Review #163, Brian Ritchey doesn't stray far from his own blog's mission of helping firms attain More Partner Income. So not surprisingly, with gas prices on the increase and the economy on the decline, this...

Ties Becoming Obsolete

Posted on June 09, 2008
First, it was typewriters, then law libraries and bike couriers. Now, it seems that neckties are destined for this growing heap of law firm and business accoutrements rendered obsolete by 21st century trends. As the Denver Post reports, sales of...

10 Essential Sites for Litigators

Posted on June 06, 2008
Genie Tyburski, law librarian at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll and publisher of the legal-research resource The Virtual Chase, has compiled her list of 10 Essential Web Sites for Litigators. What stands out about her list is that she leaves...

Drug Charges Overshadow Backdating Case

Posted on June 06, 2008
It may be one of the largest stock-option backdating cases in U.S. history. A federal indictment unsealed yesterday in Los Angeles charges Broadcom Corp. co-founder and former CEO Henry T. Nicholas and former CFO William Reuhle with backdating that last...

Student Suspended Over Souvenir Shell

Posted on June 06, 2008
At Memorial Day events across the country, a similar scenario plays out: Honor guards fire off salutes and children scramble for the expired shell casings. In the town of Winchendon, Mass., one fourth-grader was even luckier -- at least by...

Blawger Pens Guide to Getting Sued

Posted on June 06, 2008
You're a lawyer -- of course you know how to sue someone. But do you know how to get sued? If not, there is now an instructional guide, written by lawyer and blogger J. Craig Williams, whose blog, May It...

From BRICs to Brussia?

Posted on June 05, 2008
The so-called BRICs economies -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- have been touted by investors as a new source of market dynamism for at least the past five years now, but to look at the business pages most days...

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