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By Lisa Stone

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

Wednesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on March 02, 2011
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: It is my dream to be a social media guru for lawyers. I've been twitting and tweeting furiously but nobody will follow me on Twitter. Yes, I have an iPad, but other than that my assets are limited to a 1986 Ford Fiesta worth about $1,000...

Pimp Law: Are You Offering Pimp Services if the Woman Is Already 'in the Game'?

Posted on March 01, 2011
There is such a thing as California pimp law, and on March 8 the California Supreme Court will hear argument in a case that will help define it. The Associated Press reports that in 2007, Jomo Zambia was in his car at a "notorious intersection" in the San Fernando Valley known for its prostitutes...

Cast Your Vote for 'Blawg Review of the Year 2010'

Posted on March 01, 2011
I could be wrong, but I suspect it is no easy task for "Ed.", the editor of Blawg Review, to find a new, talented blogger each week to write Blawg Review. And yet Blawg Review continues to crank out good stuff week after week, and celebrated its 300th edition last week...

Judge Carton Rules: All-You-Can-Eat Sushi Bar Law

Posted on February 28, 2011
Welcome back to Judge Carton Rules, where a fake judge issues rulings to spare the parties to cases in which the outcomes are obvious the time and expense of further litigation. There is just one case on today's docket. We'll hear now from counsel for the the plaintiff: Plaintiff's Counsel: The restaurant offered "all you can eat sushi for $28," and my client accepted...

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'The Write Report' Helps Fictional Characters Realistically Navigate the Law

Posted on February 27, 2011
Via the PrawfsBlawg I came across an interesting blog called The Write Report. On The Write Report, Donna Ballman, author of The Writer's Guide to the Courtroom: Let's Quill All the Lawyers, analyzes law as it is portrayed on television and responds to writers' questions about how they can accurately have their fictional characters navigate the civil justice system...

Lawyers Take Charge in Libya's Second-Largest City

Posted on February 25, 2011
The BBC reports that, even as demonstrations continue in Tripoli, the eastern city of Benghazi -- the birthplace of the unrest in Libya -- is now firmly in protesters' control and is being run by a committee made up partly of judges and lawyers. "Led by a female lawyer who has barely slept all week, the committee has moved with remarkable speed," writes The Washington Post's Leila Fadel...

Please Don't Tweet and Drive

Posted on February 23, 2011
Back on Aug. 16, 2010, I innocently stated: Ever since I got Twitter installed on my BlackBerry, it has occurred to me that we cannot be far away from a time when we will regularly be reading articles with headlines such as "Six Car Pileup Results After Man Checks TwitterFon on Beltway" or "Local Woman Walks Into Manhole While Posting TwitPic...

Can Lawyers Sell Their Services on Groupon?

Posted on February 23, 2011
By now you've probably heard of or even used Groupon, a "daily deal"-type website that uses the power of collective buying over the Internet to provide purchasers with discounts. Launched just over two years ago, Groupon has exploded in popularity to the point that it recently received (and rejected!) a reported $6 billion buyout offer from Google...

The Arrow Principle: Trademark Protection for Fictitious Brands

Posted on February 22, 2011
Can I start a newspaper called The Daily Planet? Can a new beer company start selling a beer called "Duff?" (click here -- and you should also probably start watching "The Simpsons" -- if you aren't familiar with Duff beer). Can someone roll out a new eyewear device called the "Opti-Grab?" These questions and more are addressed in a new law review article entitled "Real-Life Protection for Fictional Trademarks" (via Entertainment & Media Law Signal) by Benjamin Arrow, a student at Fordham University School of Law...

Tuesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on February 22, 2011
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I work as a security guard for the grocery store. This couple has been stealing massive quantities of merchandise from our various store locations in town for years...

Judges, Lawyers Join Protests in Libya

Posted on February 21, 2011
Members of Libya's legal community have joined the demonstrations in Tripoli. A witness told The Associated Press on Monday that security forces have surrounded a courthouse where about 200 lawyers and judges have been staging a sit-in to protest against repression...

Could This Be the 'Rite' Way to Win a Case?

Posted on February 20, 2011
Did you catch last week's New York Times report on the variety of superstitions and rituals that some top lawyers follow in the belief that they could help secure a case win (or, put a different way, prevent a loss)? Some attorneys stick to the same food for lunch every day throughout the entire length of a trial, while another puts off getting his hair cut until trial's end...

'Ignite Law' Set for Return Appearance at ABA TechShow

Posted on February 20, 2011
[non]billable hour blogger Matthew Homann of LexThink has announced that Ignite Law 2 is coming to the next ABA TechShow, being held April 11-13 in Chicago. An Ignite event is typically an evening of mini-lectures, with presenters each being allotted five minutes and 20 PowerPoint slides to share their passions...

Friday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on February 19, 2011
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: How many Fannie Mae lawyers does it take to ask a question at a deposition? Answer: More than 13. (South Florida Lawyers, Akerman Thanks Litigation Gods for Chinese Drywall!) 2) Question: I am a gay man...

Sticking It to the Law Students

Posted on February 18, 2011
Last week, Above the Law and The Stanford Daily announced that Stanford law students would face a 5.75 percent tuition hike for the 2011-2012 academic year, a significantly higher increase than the 3.5 percent increase that the rest of Stanford's student body is facing...

Contemplating a Trial Decided by 'the Six People Ahead of You in Line at WalMart'

Posted on February 17, 2011
The South Florida Lawyers blog offered an interesting observation this week about jury trials. SFL notes that lawyers who bluster that they are eager to try their complex case before a jury are actually saying that "they will be asking the guy in a tank top at Target to decide a complex question of securities law involving several hundred million dollars...

Legal Commentators Speak Out on Justice Thomas' Silence

Posted on February 17, 2011
In the wake of a New York Times article pointing out that five years have elapsed since the last time Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke at a high court oral argument, legal observers have been weighing in on the significance of this lengthy silence...

Legal Food Fight Over 'Footlong' Sandwiches Back on the Menu

Posted on February 15, 2011
Remember last year when Subway began sending cease-and-desist letters to other sandwich sellers, telling them to stop offering items with the description "footlong"? Now, an Iowa business, Casey's General Stores, is dishing out some legal action of its own...

Coming Next: Homeowner-Supplied Hand Lotion for Burglars

Posted on February 15, 2011
Shades of the "nanny state!" The Volokh Conspiracy notes that English police have ordered homeowners to remove wire mesh from their shed windows, because burglars could be injured by the DIY crime-busting handiwork. According to a British newspaper, some residents of Surrey and Kent had installed the mesh after a crime spree but were subsequently told by local police that the wire was "dangerous" and could result in criminals claiming compensation if they "hurt themselves...

Tuesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on February 15, 2011
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Everytime I come to the Texas Capitol in Austin I'm forced to wait in this brutally long security line. Is there any way around this? Answer: Of course...

'Conference Call Bingo' Turns Your Pain Into a Game

Posted on February 15, 2011
Via the Inter-Alia blog I came across a new way to deal with even the most painful of conference calls: Conference Call Bingo! There is probably nobody out there who has not had to deal with the pitfalls of the modern-day conference call: crying babies or dogs barking on the line of the person working from home; the dude calling in from his cell phone with bad reception; the lady dialing in from the airport with flight announcements on the P...

Is Caffeine Overconsumption Grounds for a Murder Defense?

Posted on February 11, 2011
According to the St. Petersburg Times, a psychiatrist who evaluated a murder suspect has concluded that a combination of lack of sleep and the consumption of an energy drink led Stephen Coffeen to kill his father in 2009. During questioning by a prosecutor, the psychiatrist said that Coffeen had a sleep deprivation-induced psychosis, which was "accelerated by his use of Red Bull...

Lesson No. 1: If You Get Disbarred, Stop Practicing Law

Posted on February 11, 2011
Timothy Eddy was a practicing attorney in Illinois until he was disbarred in 2002 on charges of embezzling from a debt collection service. However, according to prosecutors, for the next eight years Eddy continued practicing law under the name of another attorney -- someone Eddy had worked with at the collection service...

Saving Souls One (1) Lawyer at a Time

Posted on February 11, 2011
Over at The Appellate Record blog, Kendall Gray is on a mission to save at least one soul from the "purgatory of legalism." He is doing so by pointing out the inane practice, which still continues in many law offices (you know who you are), of writing legal memos or letters as if you were writing a check...

Friday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on February 11, 2011
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Hooray! The substitute teacher in my 7th grade math class just told us we get to watch a movie today! Wait, what did that cowboy in the movie mean when he told the other cowboy, "I wish I knew how to quit you...

NYU Professor Gives New Meaning to Phrase 'Removing Posts'

Posted on February 11, 2011
Usually when I write about people "removing posts," I'm referring to people unpublishing blog posts they've thought better of for one reason or another. But that's not the case when referring to NYU professor Wafaa Bilal, who last year implanted in the back of his head a camera that takes photos every 60 seconds for an art project...

Air Let Out of Koons' Balloon Dog Lawsuit

Posted on February 10, 2011
Jeff Koons -- one of the pop world's most successful artists, known for such work as inflatable bunnies and ceramic replicas of singer Michael Jackson and his pet chimp Bubbles -- last week dropped his lawsuit against a Toronto company that makes bookends in the shape of balloon dogs and Park Life, a San Francisco business that sells the items...

DNA Evidence Revives 1983 Cold Case

Posted on February 10, 2011
Acting on DNA evidence, authorities in Illinois have brought charges in a Chicago murder case dating back more than 25 years. Joseph Walker, 59, has been charged with the murder of 77-year-old bookstore owner Frieda Fenster. Her body was discovered in December 1983 in the store that her family had owned for more than a century...

In Which I Trick the E*Trade Baby Into Saying the Forbidden Words About Lindsay Lohan

Posted on February 09, 2011
There were obviously a lot of awesome things about the Lindsay Lohan-E*Trade dispute, at least from a Legal Blog Watch perspective: the "still-funny-on-the-20th viewing" E*Trade commercial underlying the dispute in which the girl baby demands to know "if that Milkaholic Lindsay" was at her boyfriend baby's house; the fact that Lindsay Lohan then sued E*Trade saying that, since she ?has the same single-name recognition as Oprah or Madonna,? the ad has misappropriated her "name and characterization? entitling her to $100 million; and the fact that E*Trade then agreed to a confidential settlement that supposedly included at least some cash for Lohan...

Legal Blog Watch Follow-up Post: Bad News Update

Posted on February 09, 2011
Often after I post about topics here at Legal Blog Watch, related events continue to unfold. Sometimes, like this week with "that Milkaholic Lindsay," these subsequent events are awesome or at least neutral. Other times, however, they bring bad news. Here are some of the bad news updates I've come across in the past day: 1...

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