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The Spitzer Interdisciplinary Roundup From the Blogosphere

Posted on March 11, 2008
New York governor Eliot Spitzer may have thought that he was a law unto himself -- a belief that's rapidly been disproved by recent events. But blog coverage of the Spitzer scandal suggests that Spitzer, if not a law unto...

Tracking Lawyers' Reactions to Unmasking of Troll Tracker

Posted on March 11, 2008
Up until February, no one knew that Rick Frenkel, an in-house lawyer at Cisco by day, was also the anonymous blogger behind the controversial Patent Troll Tracker site, where he regularly outed companies (and their lawyers) that he considered to...

Do Employers Using Facebook for Background Checks Face Legal Risks?

Posted on March 11, 2008
As employers increasingly turn to social networking sites like Facebook to conduct background checks on job applicants and employees, a potential face-off is brewing regarding the legality of this practice, according to reports from Financial Week and The New York...

BC Law Faculty 'Uninvite' Mukasey

Posted on March 11, 2008
I've posted here about the decision by Boston College Law School Dean John Garvey to invite U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey to be commencement speaker and some of the subsequent controversy. Now Eagleionline, the BC Law student blog, reports that...

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Two Lawyers, Two Troubling Mysteries

Posted on March 10, 2008
Two tragic but unconnected stories of missing lawyers making the news. In Plantation, Fla., the body of missing lawyer Melissa Britt Lewis was found floating in a canal Friday just a few miles from her house. Lewis, 39, a labor...

Judge to Former Lawyer: Shovel Snow

Posted on March 10, 2008
When a former lawyer appeared last week before a Maine judge to explain why he had paid just $50 of $219,000 in court-ordered restitution, the judge told him to get a job, even if it is shoveling snow off roofs....

Lawyerly Lingo: Witnesseth Brevity

Posted on March 10, 2008
Blogger Mister Thorne at Set in Style points us to to an article in the Georgetown (Kentucky) News-Graphic, Pleaseth Updateth Thy Language, in which the newspaper's intrepid copy editor lives to tell about multiple encounters with archaic legalese in the...

Do GCs Use Legal Directories?

Posted on March 10, 2008
John Wallbillich at Wired GC and Kevin O'Keefe at Real Lawyers Have Blogs are among the bloggers commenting on the article in the U.K. periodical Legal Week, "Corporate Counsel: Information Overload?" In it, writer Michelle Madsen considers whether corporate counsel...

Air Force Lawyers Fire Strike at YouTube

Posted on March 10, 2008
A Reed Smith lawyer, acting on behalf of the U.S. Air Force, has sent YouTube a DMCA take-down notice demanding the removal of a 30-second recruiting video produced to promote its new Cyber Command, an operation aimed at gaining military...

Supreme Court Recusal Revisited

Posted on March 07, 2008
Last week, I discussed the views of various law bloggers on how Supreme Court justices might handle the problem of recusals so as to avoid tie votes. It turns out that the issue may not be all that significant, according...

An Insider's View of Why Law Firm Marketing Still Doesn't Work

Posted on March 07, 2008
I've posted before about the short shelf life of law firm marketers. Now, via Larry Bodine's Law Marketing Blog comes this insiders' view on the reasons for law firm marketers' problems, courtesy of legal marketer Elizabeth Tursi. What's refreshing about...

Are Law Libraries Becoming Obsolete?

Posted on March 07, 2008
Are law firm libraries going the way of the dinosaur (or the typewriter)? Perhaps not just yet. As the Birmingham Business Journal describes, with the proliferation of electronic research, law firms are downsizing their libraries -- but they're not eliminating...

The British (IPOs) Are Coming

Posted on March 07, 2008
The British are coming, the British are coming -- or at least, the British IPOs are coming. Today's New York Times Dealbook reports that Lyceum Capital, a private equity house, is preparing itself for the changes implemented by Britain's Legal...

Can Female Lawyers Go Home Again?

Posted on March 07, 2008
They say that you can't go home again, but a few female lawyers are proving otherwise. As this story, "Law Firms Opening Up to the Idea of Attorney Re-Entry" reports, some women who left their firms to raise children are...

Prof Charges BC Dean with Retaliation

Posted on March 06, 2008
At my alma mater, Boston College Law School, the big news this week, widely reported, was that the school would not award its highest honor to U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey when he speaks at its commencement in May...

National Honor for Mass. Judge

Posted on March 06, 2008
The National Center for State Courts has named Robert A. Mulligan, chief justice for administration and management of the Massachusetts Trial Court, as the recipient of its Distinguished Service Award, its highest honor. The annual award is presented to a...

U.S. News Rankings Leaked?

Posted on March 06, 2008
Daniel J. Solove at Concurring Opinions pronounces his post "the scoop of the year!" It relates the text of a memo written by the U.S. News and World Report "law school ranking executive" that provides a sneak peak at this...

GPS and Legal Liability

Posted on March 05, 2008
As global positioning system (GPS) navigational devices grow more ubiquitous, so too does the potential for liability claims by those who rely on them, suggests Bingham McCutchen's Peter Neger in this recent article. Neger identifies several potential claims and predicts...

Hot Practice Areas from Above the Law

Posted on March 05, 2008
If you're trying to figure out which practice areas are hot, why not go to the source: the law firm associates who work in those areas. And that's what Above the Law's David Lat has done. Last week, he asked...

Westar Learns That It's Not in Kansas Anymore When it Comes to Legal Fees

Posted on March 05, 2008
When a company has an obligation to an executive's defense costs in a criminal proceeding arising out of his employment, how much is it required to pay? That's the issue raised in this recent lawsuit by former Westar Energy chairman...

No Bankruptcy For Bankruptcy Lawyers

Posted on March 05, 2008
Many law firms are now considering how to retool in response to the downturn of 2008. However, at least one practice area is booming in these bust times: bankruptcy law. Today's Washington Post reports that in the first two months...

'Web of Deceit' Implicates Lawyers

Posted on March 04, 2008
Hat tip to Martha Neil at the ABA Journal for her story alerting us to the spreading scandal in Detroit that could eventually implicate at least a dozen lawyers. We first learned details in January, when The Detroit Free Press...

From Martha's Vineyard, a Case With a View

Posted on March 04, 2008
It is debatable whether George Washington ever chopped down a cherry tree, but we can be certain he was never dragged into court over it. Not so the Martha's Vineyard property owner and his unfortunate landscaper who must pay $90,000...

After Huge Verdict, Lawyer Joins Niro Firm

Posted on March 04, 2008
Chicago plaintiffs' lawyer Raymond P. Niro was a frequent topic among bloggers in recent months as his offer of a reward to unmask the anonymous author of the blog Patent Troll Tracker eventually led the author to unmask himself. Now...

Above the Law's David Lat Booted From Facebook

Posted on March 03, 2008
Everyone in the blawgosphere knows that David Lat is Above the Law. Everyone, that is, except Facebook, which apparently has its own laws that even a blogger of Lat's stature can't transcend. Facebook recently banished David Lat from its site,...

Why Not Web 2.0 Reviews for Law Schools?

Posted on March 03, 2008
Avvo, once considered an upstart lawyer-ranking service, is gaining traction with more established law firms. Two weeks ago, Avvo announced that international law firm Davis Wright Tremaine had claimed Avvo profiles for its Washington attorneys. And in this week's Internet...

Blawg Review #149

Posted on March 03, 2008
This week, Blawg Review # 149 comes to the Antitrust Review, courtesy of one of its co-editors, David Fischer. Not surprisingly, Fischer leads off with a roundup of last week's big news in antitrust, including the European Commission's $1.35 billion....

Will Killing All the Corporate-Friendly Laws Kill the Delaware Economy?

Posted on March 03, 2008
Most of the time, we hear complaints about how lawyers are bad for business: how they obstruct deals by telling clients what they can't do, or increase transaction costs by preparing extraneous memos when all the client wants is a...

Was Judge Too Quick to Resign?

Posted on February 29, 2008
After highly regarded Boston-based U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Somma pleaded no contest to a DUI charge earlier this month and news media reported that he had been dressed in women's clothing when arrested, he resigned from the bench. Now, sentiment...

Blog Helps Expose International Hoax

Posted on February 29, 2008
In a post here last September, Blog Book Chronicles $33M Verdict, I told you about Jane Daniel, the Gloucester, Mass., woman who launched a blog, BESTSELLER!, to tell the story in serial form of the lawsuit that resulted in a...

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