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Robust Legal Research on Your iPhone

Posted on January 26, 2010
"May you live in interesting times," says an ancient Chinese curse. In the world of legal research, these are interesting times indeed. Westlaw and LexisNexis are both preparing to launch major reconfigurations of their research platforms. Bloomberg Law is jockeying to take them on...

Moonlighting Law Clerk Loses Day Job

Posted on January 26, 2010
In a post here in November, Appeals Court Lawyer 'Traffics' in Term Papers, we told you about Damian R. Bonazzoli, a senior staff attorney for the Massachusetts Appeals Court who advertised himself on Craigslist as available to write term papers for a fee, even though it is against Massachusetts law to sell a term paper...

Lonely Lawyer's Book Documents Her Isolation

Posted on January 26, 2010
If you are overwhelmed by loneliness, it may not seem like the best move to quit your job, become a writer and move to a remote home in Newfoundland. But that is exactly what former lawyer Emily White did. Long having wanted to be a writer, and suffering chronic loneliness, White left her job as an environmental lawyer in Canada and wrote a book, aptly titled, "Lonely: A Memoir...

Monday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on January 25, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I've been summoned for jury duty in Chicago next Monday, but I'm really busy preparing for my first State of the Union speech to Congress, not to mention a meet-and-greet with the Los Angeles Lakers at the White House...

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How to Authenticate Web Pages and Screenshots as Evidence

Posted on January 25, 2010
Last week in ALM's Internet Law & Strategy newsletter, via Law.com, M. Anderson Berry and David Kiernan provided an excellent analysis of an issue that is of rapidly-growing importance: How can lawyers authenticate Web pages as evidence in court? The authors pose an interesting and very realistic hypothetical under which a plaintiff sues your client, claiming that his injuries have made him unable to work, travel or bowl...

Jureeka! New Tools Turn Legal Citations on Web Pages Into Links to Source Docs

Posted on January 25, 2010
The WisBlawg had a very helpful post last week on two new free tools that allow lawyers to have legal citations on Web pages automatically converted to hyperlinks to the actual opinions, statutes, law review articles and so on. The tools are called Citer, which is new from the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute, and Jureeka, created by New Jersey lawyer Michael Poulshock...

'Whites-Only' Basketball League Seeking to Avoid Antitrust Issues?

Posted on January 22, 2010
"Just because something may not be illegal does not make it a good idea." It's the kind of aphorism that should be printed in bold letters on the back of the lawyer's handbook, and Miami lawyer and sports agent Jason Wolf brings us the latest reason why this week with the news of a "Whites-only" basketball league that hopes to begin play this summer...

Today's Special: A Smorgasbord of Citizens United Coverage

Posted on January 22, 2010
Has coverage of yesterday's Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (PDF) got your feed burner feeling a bit ... well, overfed? Can't quite find the time to read Justice Kennedy's 57-page majority opinion, Justice Stevens' 90-page dissent, or the assorted concurring and dissenting ruminations of Justices Roberts, Scalia and Thomas -- but still need to be well-armed for your weekend cocktail chatter? Fear not: On the menu today at Legal Blog Watch is a more manageable serving of notable Citizens United news...

Company Requires 'Tweet' as Part of Law Firms' RFP Response

Posted on January 21, 2010
In a post yesterday, Larry Bodine's LawMarketing Blog gave us an update on an interesting RFP issued last year by a company called FMC Technologies. The beauty contest is now down to the final cut. Not only did FMC post the RFP on Legal OnRamp, an online social network for in-house lawyers, it also required interested law firms to "state in a Tweet on Twitter (140 character limit) why FMC should hire the law firm...

Thursday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on January 21, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I just wrote some brilliant stuff on Twitter. Seriously, it's gold. Can I copyright that tweet? Answer: Maybe. (Internet Law & Strategy, Tweet Tweet: Can I Copyright That?) 2) Question: My friend, who has no street-cred whatsoever, is now saying that he got cited by the cops for "rocking out" too loudly on his stereo ...

Bitter Lawyer Talks to the Creator of ABC's 'The Deep End'

Posted on January 21, 2010
"The Deep End," ABC's new legal drama about first-year lawyers at a BigLaw firm, makes its debut tonight. The show has received some early swipes from critics, who have complained that it is "not realistic," that the "cast is too pretty" and that the show is "too out of touch with the current state of BigLaw...

Conn. Dismisses Ethics Case Against Total Attorneys

Posted on January 20, 2010
We have written frequently here about the series of ethics complaints filed in some 47 states by by Connecticut lawyer Zenas Zelotes against Chicago-based Total Attorneys and its lawyer-founder Kevin Chern. (See, for example, here, here and here.) Although no state has found ethical wrongdoing by Total Attorneys or by any of the lawyers who participate in it, all eyes were on Zelotes' home state of Connecticut, where the chief disciplinary counsel found cause to file charges against five attorneys...

Lawsuit Seeks Share of $65M Facebook Settlement

Posted on January 20, 2010
In 2004, three former Harvard students sued their former classmate, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that he had copied their ideas. The three -- Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss -- were owners of the social networking site HarvardConnection, which they later renamed ConnectU...

An Interview With the ABA President-Elect

Posted on January 20, 2010
In August, Stephen N. Zack will become the first Hispanic-American president in the 132-year history of the American Bar Association. The 61-year-old partner with Boies, Schiller & Flexner in Miami is the son of a Cuban mother and American father. His family moved to Cuba shortly after he was born and he remained there until age 14...

Doggs Allowed: Snoop Hangs Out at Fenwick & West

Posted on January 19, 2010
To all of you lawyers who think you work in hip or particularly with-it offices, I have just one question for you: Was Snoop Dogg at your office on Friday chillin' with your lawyers? Didn't think so! But Snoop was at Fenwick & West on Friday for an event for the firm's client Ustream, The Recorder's Legal Pad reports in this post...

Georgetown 3L Becoming the Ultimate Supreme Court Watcher

Posted on January 19, 2010
I was intrigued to read yesterday about a new project launched by Mike Sacks, a third-year law student at Georgetown who describes himself as "interested in legal journalism and the intersection of law and politics." This semester, Sacks intends to be the first person in the general admission line for every Supreme Court argument, i...

Tuesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on January 19, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I'm eager to get busy making this sex tape but need some quick advice from counsel. What forms do we need to fill out? We're ready to roll! Answer: You might want to start with Consent Form 2257...

U.K. Spiraling Into 'Nanny State' -- Is U.S. Next?

Posted on January 15, 2010
What in the name of Mary Poppins is going on in the U.K., which according to its own local press appears to be spiraling into an unrecognizable "nanny state?" I don't know that I, as an American, can get completely high and mighty about this topic (considering that I recently received a can of peanuts from Williamsburg, Va...

U.N. Finds Lawyer Arranged His Own Death, Faked Assassination by President

Posted on January 15, 2010
"If you are hearing or seeing this message, it is because I was assassinated by President �lvaro Colom." So begins an eerie YouTube video (above) featuring prominent Guatemalan lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg, who was, in fact, shot and killed in May of last year while riding his bicycle near his home in Guatemala City, The Washington Post reports (via the FP Legal Post)...

More on How Lawyers Can Help in Haiti

Posted on January 15, 2010
Yesterday, Legal Blog Watch's Bob Ambrogi discussed here some of the legal community's relief and fundraising efforts for Haiti. On a related point, the Tex Parte Blog had a post yesterday afternoon interviewing author Ben Fountain, a former associate with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Dallas, who discussed other ways that lawyers may be able to help the situation...

Friday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on January 15, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I'm in London and I'd like to take in a law-related musical. Any suggestions? Answer: Your top two law musicals in London this week are probably "Enron (the Play)" and "Legally Blonde: The Musical...

It's Judge v. Judge in Case of Bankrupt Law Grad

Posted on January 14, 2010
In an unusual example of judicial defiance, an on-his-way-out bankruptcy judge is siding with an out-of-work and deep-in-debt law grad and issuing a rebuke to the federal district judge who overruled him. "An irascible Massachusetts bankruptcy judge known for 'whacking lenders' has turned his acid pen upon the chief of the U...

How the Legal Community Is Helping in Haiti

Posted on January 14, 2010
In the wake of the horrific earthquake that struck Haiti, I wondered whether anyone in the legal community was organizing any relief or fundraising efforts of their own. Last night, I put out a call on Twitter for leads on Haiti relief efforts being organized by law firms or legal groups...

Am Law 100 Firm Launches Own iPhone App

Posted on January 14, 2010
The Am Law 100 law firm Arnold & Porter has launched its own iPhone application. The free app enables users to read the firm's Consumer Advertising Law Blog on their iPhones. An e-mail I received from the firm said, "As far as we know, Arnold & Porter is one of the only Am Law 100 firms to offer a mobile or iPhone application...

Trendspotting: Associating Random Things to Lawyering

Posted on January 13, 2010
On the SpamNotes blog, Venkat Balasubramani makes an excellent observation about an "unfortunate" legal blogging trend. In his post this week entitled, "What Tibetan Goatherders Can Teach us About Lawyering," Balasubramani notes that bloggers increasingly "associate two totally random things that have no connection at all, and ask what one can teach the other (or what one can learn from the other)...

'Distraction.gov' Wants You to Hang Up and Focus on Your Driving

Posted on January 13, 2010
A couple weeks ago, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launched a new Web site called "Distraction.gov," the "Official US Government Website for Distracted Driving." The purpose of the site is to help educate the public on the dangers of distracted driving, which NHTSA defines as "any non-driving activity a person engages in while operating a motor vehicle...

The Unwritten Rules of Law Firms: Let's Write Them Here

Posted on January 13, 2010
Over at Slaw.ca, blogger Dan Michaluk has embarked upon a very important project: memorializing the unwritten rules of law firms. Perhaps inspired by the carefully documented Rules of Wedding Crashing, (e.g., "Rule #2 - Never use your real name;" "Rule #76 - No excuses...

Wednesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on January 13, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I'm pretty sure my apartment is one storm away from plummeting into the sea. The weatherman says there's a big one coming this week. Can I get out of my lease? Answer: No way! (The Consumerist, Should You Be Let Out Of Your Lease If Your Apartment May Plummet Into The Sea?) 2) Question: I read your "Legal Blog Watch 5-Point Checklist for Bank Robbers" carefully last month...

Attention YouTubers: Texas Bar Wants You

Posted on January 12, 2010
Think you have some talent as a filmmaker? If so, the eyes of the State Bar of Texas are upon you. It is sponsoring a YouTube contest offering cash prizes and scholarships for the best 30-second video showing why either lawyers or the courts are important to our society...

Law Library of Congress: Now on YouTube

Posted on January 12, 2010
There are few more venerable institutions within the legal profession than the Law Library of Congress. Established in 1832 as a branch of the Library of Congress, its mission is to provide research and legal information to the U.S. Congress, the federal courts, executive agencies and the public...

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