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Study Debunks Med-Mal Crisis

Posted on May 15, 2008
Massachusetts has the fourth-highest median malpractice settlement payments in the nation. It only follows that Massachusetts doctors should pay the fourth-highest insurance premiums. Right? Turns out, Bay State physicians actually saw their inflation-adjusted malpractice premiums drop between 1990 and 2005...

Are Tort Reformers Going After the Wrong Target?

Posted on May 14, 2008
New York personal injury lawyer Eric Turkewitz takes a critical look at a lawsuit by numbers kingpin-cum-Rikers Island inmate Raymond Marquez, alleging that the New York City Department of Corrections' indoor smoking policy caused Marquez's bladder cancer...

Vista Won't See the Light of Day at Most Law Firms

Posted on May 14, 2008
It's been about two years since Microsoft launched Vista, a Windows-based operating system that has been so poorly received that even Wikipedia devoted an entire entry to "Criticism of Windows Vista." Because of its many problems, Vista is being bypassed...

Web Users Would Support Code of Conduct

Posted on May 14, 2008
Though blogging, Web 2.0 applications, and user-generated content sites represent the still-wild, untamed frontier of the Internet, most users would not resist efforts to settle the laws of this territory. According to a story in the Guardian, nearly half of...

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Ropes & Gray CMO Leaves Firm

Posted on May 13, 2008
The Boston Business Journal is reporting that Jim Durham, the chief marketing officer at Ropes & Gray in Boston, left the firm. Durham was well known nationally as a law firm consultant based near Boston before he joined the firm...

From Music to Law and Back Again

Posted on May 13, 2008
I don't know what's in the water at Boston's Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, but I do know I want to get me some. On lawyering alone, this eight-lawyer PI firm is nationally known for a string of million-dollar verdicts...

The Lateral That Got Away

Posted on May 13, 2008
Recruiting law students is like shooting fish in a barrel, suggests headhunter Stacy Humphries, a principal in the Houston office of MS Legal Search. But when it comes to luring in those more trophy-worthy laterals, few firms know how to...

When the Legislator is a Lobbyist

Posted on May 13, 2008
Legislators and lobbyists are often accused of getting too close, but usually they are not close enough to share the same skin. Not so in Maryland, where several state lawmakers also hold down positions as congressional lobbyists on Capitol Hill,...

Can Flextime Create Work-Life Balance if Lawyers Aren't Comfortable Using It?

Posted on May 12, 2008
In theory, benefits like extended maternity leave, part-time options and telecommuting are the hallmarks of a robust and effective law firm work-life balance initiative. But as it turns out, in practice, less than half of eligible attorneys feel comfortable availing...

Blawg Review #159

Posted on May 12, 2008
Blawg Review #159 is up at The Whistleblower Law Blog, sponsored by the law firm of LaBovick and LaBovick. Blawg Review #159 includes interesting picks such as the greatest pro defense decisions from the Drug and Device Law Blog and...

Bike Couriers Riding Off Into the Sunset

Posted on May 12, 2008
First, it was the typewriter. And now, another former sine qua non of law firm practice -- the bike courier -- faces endangered species status in this Internet-enabled paperless era. The Providence Journal reports on how e-filing is impacting the...

Sports Law Is a Tough Game to Enter

Posted on May 12, 2008
Transitioning from a conventional law practice to work as a sports agent can be a tough game for lawyers, as discussed in this Fulton County Daily Report story profiling several Atlanta lawyers who attempted to make the play. For one...

Was Troll Tracker a Journalist?

Posted on May 09, 2008
The now infamous case of the anonymous blogger known as Patent Troll Tracker and the lawyer who offered a reward to unmask him is an object lesson in the potential perils and pitfalls of legal blogging. As we all know,...

Two Podcasts: Am Law 100 and E-Discovery

Posted on May 09, 2008
The Am Law 100 is out, The American Lawyer magazine's annual ranking of the nation's highest-grossing law firms. All tolled, they brought in a record $64.5 billion and marked their best five-year run ever. So what do the numbers mean...

A Case Study in Crisis PR

Posted on May 09, 2008
I just finished reading, Stop the Presses: The Crisis and Litigation PR Desk Reference, by Richard S. Levick and Larry Smith of Levick Strategic Communications. Drawing on a mix of experience and common sense, the authors provide practical advice for...

Will India Open Its Borders to Foreign Law Firms?

Posted on May 08, 2008
We've posted previously on the huge market for legal process outsourcing providers in India as well as on firms trying to position themselves for business opportunities should India open its borders to foreign firms. Along this same theme, last week's...

Sex, Drugs and Lawsuits at Boston Law Firm

Posted on May 08, 2008
This story about an associate who claims that her law firm failed to investigate her complaint that she had been drugged at a firm holiday party, and that another associate had been drugged and raped, seems like a plot out...

Changing of the Blog-Guard

Posted on May 08, 2008
OK, so maybe it's not as big a deal as changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, but these days, changing of the guard, i.e., the creator or writer, of a popular law blog is significant enough to warrant a...

More Non-Equity Partners = Lower PPP

Posted on May 08, 2008
When The American Lawyer released its Am Law 100 report last week, many noticed a correlation between increased PPP (profits per partner) on the one hand and the decline in the number of equity partners and growth in the category...

Law Prof's E-mail is Campaign Issue

Posted on May 07, 2008
Robert M. Bastress, a professor at West Virginia University College of Law, is campaigning for a seat on the West Virginia Supreme Court. In March, he denied accusations that he was using university resources in his campaign, which state law...

Depression Among Lawyers: Chicken or Egg?

Posted on May 07, 2008
Lawyer depression is one of those topics that seems to reappear on a regular basis here at Legal Blog Watch, and the latest sighting comes by way of an article this month in the California Bar Journal, "Depression Takes a...

RIAA Lead Lawyer Named to Bench

Posted on May 07, 2008
Richard L. Gabriel, the Denver lawyer who has led the recording industry's litigation battles against file sharing and music downloading, will soon be singing a different song. Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter appointed Gabriel this week to a newly created seat...

Blawg Review #158

Posted on May 06, 2008
If you haven't seen it already, Blawg Review #158 is up and running at the Mommy Blawg, with a theme of "Midwives and the Law" in honor of International Midwives' Day. Along these lines, Blawg Review #158 reports on the...

Can a Practitioner Run a Law School?

Posted on May 06, 2008
Last week, University of Miami Law Professor Michael Froomkin blogged that having a law practitioner serve as a law school dean sounds like a better idea than it is. Among other things, Froomkin wrote that practitioners lack the academic credentials....

Can Law Firms Silence Terminated Associates?

Posted on May 06, 2008
In the Internet Age, everyone lives in a fishbowl -- and law firms are no exception. As I've posted previously, it used to be that terminated or otherwise aggrieved associates would slip gently into the night, fearing that a highly-publicized...

Lawyers Atwitter About Twitter

Posted on May 06, 2008
What's the newest social networking-cum-marketing tool that has lawyers all atwitter? It's Twitter, of course, which is best described as a hybrid between blogging and a Web-based IM (instant messaging) system where users respond to the common question, "What are...

Microsoft GC: Face Time Beats Blogging

Posted on May 05, 2008
Brad Smith, senior VP and general counsel of Microsoft Corp., talks about corporate blogging in the latest issue of InsideCounsel magazine. Along the way, he intriguingly raises the question of whether a corporate legal department should have a public blog,...

Dann's Days Numbered as Ohio AG

Posted on May 05, 2008
When Marc Dann announced his candidacy for Ohio attorney general in 2005, he vowed to be an AG in the mold of Eliot Spitzer. That promise has proven more prescient than he could have known, as he faces pressure to...

Legal News Roundup: Edicion de Cinco de Mayo

Posted on May 05, 2008
Is the Criminal Justice System Racist? Article in the Manhattan Institute's City Journal sidesteps issues of poverty and class to argue it is not. Study: Lawsuit reform has helped local economy. Of course, the Texas study was conducted by the...

The Power of Legal Blogging

Posted on May 05, 2008
Will legal bloggers soon find themselves hounded by paparazzi? According to "The Search for Intelligent Life in the Blogosphere," an article in this month's California Lawyer magazine, Southern California legal blogger J. Craig Williams was all the way Down Under...

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