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By Lisa Stone

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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 17:07:51

Like a Grunge Concert, Only With Lawyers

Posted on April 23, 2008
Lollapalooza made its debut in 1990 as a farewell concert for Jane's Addiction and gathered steam over the following years as a touring festival of grunge and alternative rock music. Given that grunge had its roots in Seattle, home to...

Differing Notions of Privacy in an Internet Age

Posted on April 22, 2008
A pair of decisions issued yesterday highlight the courts' different approaches to privacy in an Internet Age. In New Jersey, the state's highest court ruled that law enforcement officials need a grand jury warrant in order to access identifying information...

Can Outside and In-House Counsel Be Partners?

Posted on April 22, 2008
Can law firms create a working partnership with their peers in-house? That's the topic of discussion over at the Association of Corporate Counsel's In-House Blog. The discussion originated with an article by Larry Salibra that appeared in the April 2008...

More Presidential Election Roundups

Posted on April 22, 2008
In honor of today's Pennsylvania Democratic primary and Earth Day, here's another installment of the Presidential Election Roundup. Candidates' Positions On Climate Change - It seems that no matter which candidate is elected, we'll see some national change on climate...

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Updates: Seidel Subpoena Quashed; The Perils of BWD (Blogging While Divorcing)

Posted on April 22, 2008
Here's an update on two stories that we covered here this past month. First, there's good news for autism blogger Kathleen Seidel who was hit with a subpoena by plaintiffs attorney Clifford Shoemaker, seeking disclosure of her research sources, financial...

Blawg Review Gets a Second Life

Posted on April 21, 2008
Benjamin Duranske hosts Blawg Review #156 this week at his blog Virtually Blind. Duranske writes about the law and its relation to virtual worlds such as Second Life at his blog and in his new book, Virtual Law: Navigating the...

Stickin' With My Suit, Goshdarnit!

Posted on April 21, 2008
The Internet Bubble and Casual Fridays were just the start of the slippery slope that led us to the wrinkled knit shirt of a mess we're in today. Not like the good ol' days, says Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice...

Metadata: Read at Your Own Risk

Posted on April 21, 2008
Mining for metadata in documents received from opposing counsel is unethical, says a new ethics opinion from the New York County Lawyers' Association. "A lawyer who receives from an adversary electronic documents that appear to contain inadvertently produced metadata is...

For BigLaw, Change is Good

Posted on April 21, 2008
At his blog Adam Smith, Esq., Bruce MacEwen reports from Georgetown Law School's symposium on the future of the global law firm, where an international assemblage of academics and law firm leaders considered global competition, ownership and capital structure, ethics...

Most GCs Find Jobs Rewarding

Posted on April 18, 2008
Here's a twist: Lawyers who like their jobs. Sheri Qualters reports in The National Law Journal on a new Association of Corporate Counsel survey that finds 85 percent of chief legal officers find their careers to be rewarding. But their...

Podcast: The Case for the Federal Shield Law

Posted on April 18, 2008
John McCain's endorsement this week of a federal shield law for journalists has given renewed momentum to the Free Flow of Information Act pending in Congress (S 2035). At the same time, the U.S. Department of Justice has renewed its...

Site Makes It So Easy to Sue

Posted on April 18, 2008
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch calls it a "Shangri-La for ambulance chasers." Peter Lattman at The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog describes it as a "reverse Martindale Hubbell -- it's a client directory for lawyers." David Lat at Above the Law...

A Salmagundi of Secret Searches?

Posted on April 17, 2008
When we last visited Senior 1st Circuit Judge Bruce M. Selya, it was in a Feb. 1 post titled, A Salmagundi of 'Selyaisms' -- a reference to the jurist's well-known propensity towards "erudite and arcane vocabulary," as former Selya law...

The 17 Types of Lawyers

Posted on April 17, 2008
Ever since he started his blog The Legal Underground in 2004, Evan Schaeffer has periodically pondered the different types of lawyers. What initially inspired him was a Google query, "types of lawyers," that consistently drew readers to his blog. At....

Lawyers Help Out at Papal Mass

Posted on April 17, 2008
As Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass today in Washington, D.C., before a throng of faithful estimated to number at least 45,000, more than 90 lawyers and judges were there to help out. As W.J. Hennigan reports at The BLT, the...

The Best Law School... Softball Team

Posted on April 17, 2008
Forget the U.S. News and World Report law school rankings. Here is an honor that reveals the true grit of a law school -- the best student softball team. Over the weekend of April 4 to 6, more than 100...

I Love the Smell of Litigation in the Morning

Posted on April 16, 2008
While many attorneys in a rut dream of leaving the law to start their own business, at least one litigator-turned-businessman seems to miss the heat of battle. When audio-visual equipment maker Monster Cable sent a cease-and-desist order to Blue Jeans...

Skadden Celebrates 60 With Pledge to Help Minorities Enter Law

Posted on April 16, 2008
Few people work at one job for 60 years, least of all lawyers. So Skadden senior partner Joeseph Flom's sixtieth anniversary at his firm -- indeed, he's the only living person to have worked with the firm since its inception...

Getting Rid of Facebook for Employees May Carry as Many Risks as Retaining It

Posted on April 16, 2008
You might think that with all of the problems social networking sites like Facebook can create in the workplace -- ranging from lost productivity to potential legal liability for discrimination or harassment -- employers should simply prevent employees from using...

Lawyers Playing a Pro Bono Role in High-Profile Events

Posted on April 16, 2008
Lawyers are involved on a pro bono basis in two recently reported, high profile events. As my co-blogger Bob Ambrogi mentioned in this post yesterday, a West Texas court is moving forward with child custody hearings to determine the future...

Another Worry for Divorce Lawyers: YouTube

Posted on April 16, 2008
Tricia Walsh-Smith just may be a divorce lawyer's worst nightmare. Ordinarily, lawyers spend most of their time counseling clients to keep their mouths shut about their cases. Walsh-Smith did just the opposite, venting about her ex in a professionally produced...

On Polygamists, Blawgers' Silence is Deafening

Posted on April 15, 2008
Why is the biggest legal story in the news being ignored by the legal blogosphere? On Thursday, more than 400 lawyers will appear at the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo, Texas, to represent the interests of the 416...

The John Yoo Dismissal Scorecard

Posted on April 15, 2008
John Yoo has certainly made quite a name for himself. The question is, is it a name that should remain associated with the University of California's Boalt Hall School of Law? Yoo is a professor of law at Boalt, but...

EFF Says FBI Bungled NSL Requests

Posted on April 15, 2008
FBI documents published today by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, depict a comedy of errors in the agency's use of National Security Letters to obtain educational records of a student suspected of having...

Situation Wanted: Protesters Optional

Posted on April 15, 2008
On paper, his credentials appear impeccable. A child of poor Mexican immigrants who graduates from Harvard Law School. First Hispanic U.S. attorney. Texas secretary of state. Texas Supreme Court justice. White House counsel. U.S. attorney general. Short-listed for U...

Harry Potter Opens Today!

Posted on April 14, 2008
No, it's not another Harry Potter movie that opens today. Rather, it's the first day of trial in a copryight infringement suit brought by "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling and her publisher, Warner Bros. against RDR Books, publisher of Steve...

New Associates May Find Bigger Benefits in Smaller Markets

Posted on April 14, 2008
In a softening economy, competition for positions at large law firms is more intense than ever. But in some smaller markets, such as Worcester, Mass., the second largest city in Massachusetts after Boston, law firm business is still booming and...

The Blogosphere's Advice for Current and Prospective Law Students

Posted on April 14, 2008
Today's blog offerings contain a wealth of information from some top minds that will guide current and prospective law students on decisions such as where to go to law school or what specialty to pursue. Here's a roundup: More Expensive...

Blawg Review #155

Posted on April 14, 2008
April is National Poetry Month and what better way to celebrate than a poetry-themed Blawg Review #155, hosted by Greg May at The California Blog of Appeal. It's hard to do poetic justice to Greg May's masterpiece with just a...

Blawging as Feminism

Posted on April 11, 2008
In 1872, after the Illinois Bar denied admission to Myra Bradwell, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the action in a decision best remembered for the concurrence of Justice Joseph P. Bradley, who notoriously wrote that "[t]he natural and proper timidity....

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