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New 'Expo' Provides Resources for the Newly and Soon-to-Be Divorced

Posted on February 09, 2011
Via the idealawg blog I learned about an interesting event coming up this May in Colorado called The Next Chapter Expo: Solutions for Divorce. As further discussed in the Denver Post, the Expo is essentially a big conference geared toward people who are newly (or about-to-be) divorced...

How's That Ad Campaign Doing? -- Search Me!

Posted on February 08, 2011
Ever have one of those weeks when a lot of things you take for granted begin to change on you? Take last week, for example. Under legislation that came up before San Francisco's Board of Supervisors (pdf), that city -- popularly derided for taking away innocent tykes' fast-food toys and prying plastic bags out of shoppers' cold not-yet-dead hands -- could become the first in the United States to ban the unsolicited distribution of the Yellow Pages...

Reminder: When Committing a Crime, Don't Call 911 for Legal Advice

Posted on February 08, 2011
Robert Michelson learned the hard way that you shouldn't call 911 for free legal advice on growing marijuana. After the 21 year-old Connecticut man asked a dispatcher how much trouble growing one plant could bring him, Farmington police quickly tracked the call to his home, where he was arrested for drug possession...

Cairo Law Center Raided, Staff Detained

Posted on February 07, 2011
In Sunday interviews published in The Washington Post, some of the approximately 30 members of Cairo's Hisham Mubarak Law Center for Human Rights who were detained last week described their treatment by authorities, who held them at military intelligence headquarters for two nights and three days for interrogation...

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BigLaw May Roll Out 'Minimum Annual Legal Spend' Requirement for Clients

Posted on February 05, 2011
Legal Week reported Thursday that law firm DLA Piper, which will become the largest in the world following a merger with its Australian partner DLA Phillips Fox, has distributed to partners a 2011-2014 strategic plan that contains an interesting requirement for new clients: New clients will have to commit to a minimum annual legal spend with the firm, understood to be around ?25,000 (�21,000) in the first year of instruction for clients of DLA Piper International where there is no potential conflict and ?100,000 (�86,000) for those where there could be a conflict...

The Day's Three Burning Legal Questions: Sex Edition

Posted on February 05, 2011
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I told my girlfriend I did not want to have kids right now. She vetoed this by performing oral sex on me, covertly saving the sperm, and then artificially inseminating herself...

Can We Finally Attend a 'Super Bowl' Party Instead of a 'Big Game' Party?

Posted on February 05, 2011
Most football fans or even just regular shoppers have probably noticed around this time each year that Super Bowl-themed sales (for TVs, pizzas, chips, whatever) are quite common. But most of the time, ads for these sales cryptically refer to the event in question as the "Big Game" or something other than what everyone knows it is...

Super Bowl Spurs Sex Trade: Myth or Reality?

Posted on February 04, 2011
According to a rash of recent news reports, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers aren't the only ones going to Texas in pursuit of high-paying, potentially dangerous physical activity this Sunday. Some reports, quoting local police, state law enforcement officials and local women's organizations and religious groups, predict that the Dallas-Fort Worth area will be awash in prostitutes and their would-be clients during the run-up to Super Bowl Sunday...

When Schools' Zero-Tolerance Policies Make Zero Sense

Posted on February 03, 2011
Being a typical 14 year-old freshman, Andrew Mikel II got bored one December day and decided to use the plastic tube from a pen to blow small plastic pellets at his fellow students. As it happens, the federal Gun-Free Schools Act requires that students who bring weapons to school be expelled...

Landlord Ordered to Pay $476K for Spying on Tenant

Posted on February 03, 2011
Just days before Miranda Goldston, 27, was scheduled to move out of a furnished room that she rented in Kenneth Ryals' townhome, she noticed a hole drilled into the room's DVD/VCR, which was pointed at Goldston's bed. Concerned that she was being spied on, Goldston called the police, who discovered that the device contained a wireless camera...

Happy Lawyers -- They Do Exist

Posted on February 01, 2011
Lately, between the recession's impact on legal careers and studies saying that as many as 50 percent of lawyers would have chosen another field if they had their lives to live over, I have the urge to immediately caution anyone who's considering law school to think long and hard before acting on that impulse...

Father Blames Glaxo Drug for Turning Him Into Gay Sex Addict

Posted on February 01, 2011
A married father of two is due to take GlaxoSmithKline to court this week, alleging that his use of Requip, a Glaxo drug for treating Parkinson's disease, turned him into a gay sex and gambling addict. As reported by Agence France-Presse, Didier Jambart claims he used up his family's savings and resorted to stealing after becoming addicted to Internet gambling, and that he also became sexually compulsive, engaging in cross-dressing, exposing himself online and participating in risky sexual encounters that culminated in being raped...

Egyptian ISP Goes Dark, but Twitter Users Get New Resources

Posted on February 01, 2011
Security researcher Renesys said Monday that the Noor Group, believed to be the last Egyptian ISP in operation, has now gone offline, meeting the same fate as Egypt's larger providers (Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr), all of which went dark on Friday [Wired]...

Judge Posner's Hatred of the Bluebook Goes to Eleven

Posted on February 01, 2011
How much does Judge Richard Posner of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hate the Bluebook, which I have previously attempted to describe here as "a dastardly creation that attempts to create a uniform and hyper-complex method by which lawyers are expected to cite to legal authority in briefs, articles and so on"? Let me count the ways: He hates it even more than I do, and that's saying something...

Tuesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on February 01, 2011
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: What are some of the most effective techniques against suicide bombers? Answer: Text messages. (Telegraph, Black Widow attempted New Year Moscow attack but blew herself up by mistake) 2) Question: I don't have enough money to pay a hitman to perform an actual homicide of my boyfriend...

Mediocre Data Dooms Google Maps-Real Estate Search

Posted on February 01, 2011
I was intrigued by the Google Maps-Real Estate service to the point that I wrote a post about it here and e-mailed information about it to my wife, who is a Realtor. Google Maps-Real Estate shows homes for sale, foreclosures and much more by integrating real estate sale information with Google Maps...

All Eyes on Egypt

Posted on January 28, 2011
Amid accelerating anti-government protests in Egypt, described as the largest uprising there in three decades, The Associated Press reported Thursday that scores of demonstrators massed outside the downtown Cairo offices of the country's lawyers' union, considered one of the flashpoints of unrest...

Law Schools Do the Shuffle in Crowdsourced Rankings

Posted on January 28, 2011
The Conglomerate recently crowdsourced U.S. law school rankings, prompting some 6,100 people to cast more than 300,000 votes. And now, the final results are in! According to law professor Gordon Smith, the five law schools that came out on top are: 1...

Medical Marijuana: The Cure for State Budget Woes?

Posted on January 28, 2011
In the last election, Arizona voters passed Proposition 203, which legalized medical marijuana for patients diagnosed with certain debilitating conditions. It appears that the law could also transform some forms of pot use into a significant revenue source for the state...

Document Ninja School: A New Program for a New Career Track

Posted on January 28, 2011
Over at Above the Law, Elie Mystal writes that recent events suggest we are seeing a new bifurcation of the attorney career path: traditional partnership-track associates and a new species of what he calls ?barely legal? career paths. This week, law firm WilmerHale announced that it is seeking 20 lawyers with the title of ?discovery attorney" to do document review out of the firm's ?business services center? in Dayton, Ohio...

Baby Name Law: Can You Name Your Child 'Toilet Queen'?

Posted on January 28, 2011
Just when you thought all of the good law review article topics had been snatched up, professor Carlton Larson of the UC Davis School of Law proves you wrong with his new article entitled, "Naming Baby: The Constitutional Dimensions of Parental Naming Rights...

The Law of Decoy Cameras in Restrooms

Posted on January 28, 2011
Via the Legal As She Spoke blog, I see that patrons of the bathroom in the Circle K convenience store in Yuba County, Calif., are not happy about a surveillance camera aimed straight at the toilet area. Customers such as Robert Donaldson told CBS13 that they were shocked to emerge from the stall to see an electronic eye pointed right at them...

'Raging' Attorney Sentenced for Airport Melee

Posted on January 27, 2011
Former Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Angela West pleaded no contest Tuesday to exhibiting a deadly weapon and battery on a peace officer, following a Christmas Eve ruckus at San Francisco International Airport, where authorities say they spotted the 50-year-old Harvard Law grad using a metal pole to smash merchandise, food containers and other items at a Peet's kiosk...

Going to Chicago? Better Leave Your Audio Equipment at Home

Posted on January 27, 2011
A silkscreen artist's long-running opposition to Chicago restrictions on street sales of artwork has netted him a Class I felony charge. Activist artist Chris Drew's campaign, and resulting legal situation, heated up on Dec. 2, 2009, when he hit the streets to sell his art...

Judge Required to Submit to Daily Sobriety Test

Posted on January 27, 2011
Maryland Judge W. Kennedy Boone III has a new ritual before taking the bench each day: He must submit to a blood-alcohol level. The requirement stems from the 68-year-old judge's DUI guilty plea last year, following a collision in which another driver was injured...

Tuesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on January 25, 2011
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: In his closing argument, opposing counsel just referred to my medical malpractice expert witness as a "$400,000 lounge singer." Outrageous! Can I get a new trial? Answer: Nope! (The Legal Intelligencer, No New Trial Despite Lawyer's Closing Argument Gibe) 2) Question: My buddy and I were hanging out on a frozen lake, and a woman who was also out on the lake asked us to turn around while she urinated on the ice...

Lawsuit to Examine Golf Course's Liability for Alligator Attack

Posted on January 25, 2011
In October 2009, a golfer at the Ocean Creek Golf Club on Fripp Island, S.C., reached down to pick up his ball on the course's 11th hole. The golfer, James Wiencek, had hit his ball ?near, but not in? a large pond near the green. As he reached down, a 10-foot alligator "sprung from the brackish and dark water and attacked" Wiencek, biting and holding his right arm...

One Million Dollars Worth of Proof of the Value of Asking for What You Want

Posted on January 25, 2011
Via Consumerist I see that, unless things unravel for him before Feb. 2, comedian Craig Rowin has found perhaps the easiest way yet to become a millionaire: Make a funny video asking millionaires to give you 1 million dollars. Rowin put together the following video asking Steven Spielberg, Lagy Gaga, and every other millionaire he could think of to "give me a million dollars...

Is 'Swinging Baby' Video Anything to Cry About?

Posted on January 24, 2011
Nathan Thornburgh, a DadWagon reporter who also writes about Russia for Time magazine, last week pulled back the curtains to reveal the woman behind "Baby Yoga with Lena Fokina," a video-gone-viral that initially was widely regarded as a hoax and that was later pulled from YouTube, which deemed it too disturbing even for its seasoned, seen-it-all viewers...

Who Owns Student-Created Intellectual Property?

Posted on January 24, 2011
When teens select a college, they have historically considered factors like the school's cost, academic programs, location and climate. Now it seems they should consider whether a school will claim an ownership right if the students create a new invention while attending the school...

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