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Faculty Blogs: President Obama's Speech at Notre Dame

Posted on May 17, 2009
Lately, I?ve been researching Abraham Lincoln as a writer.   I?ve also noticed how President Obama has drawn implicit parallels between Lincoln and himself, for example, by opening his campaign in Springfield, Illinois, where Lincoln practiced law...

Faculty Blogs: Protecting the Privacy of Employees' Personal Information

Posted on May 15, 2009
Are you providing advice to employers on maintaining the personal information of employees, such as social security, license, account, or credit card numbers?  Or are you advising employees who have lost personal information because of a breach of an employer's system?  If so, you may find Joseph J...

Jennifer Martin's Blog: Falling Behind on Your Mortgage?

Posted on May 15, 2009
For those wondering how exactly did all these people fall behind on their mortgages, take a look at a pretty honest personal story in the New York Times. The author, like many, bought a home he couldn't afford, tried to compensate with credit cards and refinancing and had a spouse lose a job...

Jennifer Martin's Blog: Bank Stress Test Skit on SNL

Posted on May 14, 2009
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The Cardinal Lawyer: Kimberly Ballard joins UofL Law as director of academic support

Posted on May 13, 2009
The Law School is delighted to announce that Kimberly K. Ballard will return to her alma mater as director of academic support. Kimberly will design and implement an academic support program to help students develop the skills necessary for success in law school, on the bar exam, and in practice...

The Cardinal Lawyer: Elegy for Andrew Franklin Young

Posted on May 11, 2009
»  Reprinted from the May 2009 issue of the Louisville Bar Association's Bar Briefs  « Andrew Franklin Young, a third-year law student at the University of Louisville, died March 19, 2009, mere hours before the vernal equinox and mere weeks before graduation...

The Cardinal Lawyer: True north

Posted on May 07, 2009
Fifty candidates attempted the Alaska bar exam in February 2009. Among these candidates, 26 passed. One of them was Mitchi McNabb, an August 2008 law graduate of the University of Louisville. Congratulations! var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Inflation Affects a Brandeis Tradition

Posted on May 06, 2009
It’s the week after finals here at the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law and the place is still recovering from the previous two weeks. Professors are scrambling to get their exams graded by the deadline while everyone else works to get the place back in shape...

The Cardinal Lawyer: Congratulations to the University of Louisville's newest members of the Kentucky bar

Posted on May 04, 2009
At the Kentucky Supreme Court's annual Law Day celebration on May 1, 2009, the University of Louisville's newest members of the Kentucky bar took their oaths as attorneys: Tammy Renee Baker Stephen Luis Buchenberger Natalie Marie Etienne Stacy Anne Hoehle Patrick James Kilburn Joseph Harry Kraus III Alison Baliff Levine Brooke Morgan Montgomery Claire Elizabeth Parsons Matthew Tyler Reynolds Josh Peter Schneider Leslie N...

Faculty Blogs: Obama's Word Choice: "Stand with"

Posted on May 01, 2009
President Obama recently chastised investment funds that would not compromise to keep Chrysler out of bankruptcy.  "I don't stand with them," he said. "I stand with Chrysler's employees and their families and communities. I stand with Chrysler's management, its dealers, and its suppliers...

Faculty Blogs: Mr. Souter Leaves Washington

Posted on May 01, 2009
While nothing about David Souter should surprise anyone--the concept of surprise contains an assumption of predictably, something that the shy and intensely private associate justice has never engendered--the news that he is leaving the Court is interesting because it offers President Obama his first chance to to put a mark on the court...

Faculty Blogs: Screening Job Applicants Using Internet Information

Posted on April 30, 2009
If you are advising someone who is applying for a job or an employer who is selecting among applicants, Robert Sprague's article Rethinking Information Privacy in an Age of Online Transparency, 25 Hofstra Lab. & Emp. L.J. 395 (2008) may be of interest...

The Cardinal Lawyer: The Law School's federal clerks are featured in UofL Magazine

Posted on April 30, 2009
Four members of the class of 2009 — Caroline Pieroni, Megan Renwick, Jennifer K. Weinhold, and Sarah Mikowski — are headed to federal clerkships after graduation. These graduates, previously profiled on The Cardinal Lawyer, are now the subject of in-depth coverage in the spring 2009 issue of UofL Magazine...

The Cardinal Lawyer: Exam week relaxation: A special service of The Cardinal Lawyer

Posted on April 28, 2009
Here at The Cardinal Lawyer, we love our birds. And while the bird at left is hardly a cardinal, it does have a decided sense of music and rhythm. As a service to students, professors, and staff members during the final days of the 2008-09 academic year, The Cardinal Lawyer presents a classic video of a cockatoo grooving to Ray Charles...

Jennifer Martin's Blog: Chairman Ben S. Bernanke on Financial Innovation and Consumer Protection!

Posted on April 28, 2009
Since I've been busy for a few weeks with exams and all, there is much to catch up on. Chairman Bernanke spoke on April 17, 2009 at the Federal Reserve System's Sixth Biennial Community Affairs Research Conference, Washington, D.C. Bernanke commented "financial innovation, it seems, has fallen on hard times" in that it is often now seen as the problem (for a transcript, see the Federal Reserve website)...

The Cardinal Lawyer: Creamskimming and competition

Posted on April 27, 2009
Herewith my latest contribution to SSRN and the Law School's legal studies series, a paper called Creamskimming and Competition:

The Cardinal Lawyer: Correspondence regarding Lisa Nicholson from Lisa Fairfax of Maryland Law

Posted on April 27, 2009
It gives me great pleasure to share correspondence from Lisa Fairfax of the University of Maryland School of Law about Louisville's own Lisa Nicholson: Dear Professor Nicholson Lisa, I would like to thank you very much for taking the time to participate in the University of Maryland School of Law's Roundtable on Corporate Governance and Securities Law Responses to the Financial Crisis...

Faculty Blogs: Don't Panic: Facts versus Rumor Regarding the Swine Flu

Posted on April 27, 2009
With the 24-hour news media in full-lather and the #swineflu hashtag trending to the top of Twitter Search, as a information professional I feel impelled to rap my ruler sharply on the table and tell everyone to calm down and get the facts! Luckily, there is a place for this, the CDC Swine Flu page at the website of the federally-funded Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta...

Jennifer Martin's Blog: Seton Hall Call for Papers

Posted on April 27, 2009
Seton Hall Law Review SymposiumOctober 30, 2009Seton Hall Law SchoolNewark, NJSecurities Regulation and the Global Economic Crisis: What Does the Future Hold?CALL FOR PAPERSThe Seton Hall Law Review will be hosting a Symposium on October 30, 2009, at Seton Hall Law School in Newark, NJ, to address the role of securities regulation in the current global financial crisis...

Faculty Blogs: Workplace Privacy Laws Abroad

Posted on April 23, 2009
If you are advising a company on employee relations issues and the company is working with foreign companies, William Herbert's article Workplace Electronic Privacy Protections Abroad:  The Whole Wide World is Watching, 19 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 379 (2008) might be a helpful resource...

The Cardinal Lawyer: Additional pictures from Chief Justice Roberts's visit

Posted on April 22, 2009
The University of Louisville's news service has posted additional pictures commemorating the April 17-18, 2009, visit of Chief Justice John Roberts. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl...

Faculty Blogs: Not for Profit Status

Posted on April 21, 2009
A 501c3 must be organized and operate according to the standards for a not for profit corp.  The 3 requirements for organization are:1. that is will operate for the charitable purpose stated in the articles of incorporation, 2. that it will not operate contrary to the non for profit status, and 3...

Jennifer Martin's Blog: 2009 AALS Workshop on Transactional Law

Posted on April 20, 2009
Workshop on Transactional LawWhy Attend"Transactional law" refers to the various substantive legal rules that influenceor constrain planning, negotiating, and document drafting in connection with business transactions, as well as the "law of the deal" (i...

The Cardinal Lawyer: Chief Justice John Roberts speaks at the University of Louisville

Posted on April 19, 2009
The Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, spoke at the University of Louisville on Saturday, April 18. Attending Chief Justice Roberts's speech were many students, graduates, faculty, staff, and friends of the Law School...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Brandeis and Harlan in the New York Times Part 2

Posted on April 19, 2009
Earlier in this blog I mentioned how the NY Times had posted their articles that had fallen in the public domain and how that was a good resource for contemporary newspaper articles on the two justices. Now that research has gotten even easier. CQ Press has just released The New York Times on the Supreme Court 1857-2008, a compendium of articles, editorials and analyses of Supreme Court decisions...

Faculty Blogs: Law Clinic Work Winding Down for the Semester

Posted on April 19, 2009
As the first semester of operation of the University of Louisville Law Clinic winds down, I want to congratulate the six students that worked in the clinic this semester for a job well done. They provided legal assistance to over 40 low-income clients with eviction cases, referred to the clinic by the Legal Aid Society...

Faculty Blogs: Covenant Not To Compete Clauses in Physician Contracts

Posted on April 18, 2009
Originally, because of the corporate practice of medicine doctrine, these covenants were not enforceable.  Now they are enforced if reasonable in time and scope (i.e., 1 year within a 50 mile radius of the previous practice location).  Courts may make an exception and not enforce the covenant if the physician's specialty is not otherwise available in the area and patients would be left without any access to this needed service.

Faculty Blogs: Physician Assisted Suicide

Posted on April 18, 2009
The court will recognize an asserted right as being of fundamental importance only if that right is deeply rooted in tradition.  There is no history of a right to physician assisted suicide; to the contrary, suicide is a criminal offense.  Therefore, the ban on physician assisted suicide only has to be rationally related to a legitimate government interest...

Faculty Blogs: Modifications to Kentucky Rules of Professional Conduct

Posted on April 17, 2009
The Kentucky Supreme Court has approved modifications to the Kentucky Rules of Professional Conduct, which will be effective July 15, 2009.  Included are the modifications to the rules discussed in the footnotes of my paper, Legal Ethics in the Employment Law Context:  Who is the Client?  The paper discusses the rules that govern confidentiality and ex parte communications, Rules 1...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: ?Other People?s Money? and the Current Banking Crisis

Posted on April 14, 2009
Brandeis scholar Mel Urofsky had an op-ed piece in the February 6, 2009 New York Times talking about how Brandeis’ book Other People’s Money relates to the current banking crisis. You can read it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/opinion/07urofsky...

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