International Law

Unfollowed: Twitter Ideas That Never Quite Caught On
I like Twitter. I use it personally (@brucecarton), and also as a news feed of sorts for my publication about SEC enforcement and securities litigation issues (@SecuritiesD). But like Bill Blazejowski in Night Shift, "I'm an idea man, I get ideas, sometimes I get so many ideas that I can't even fight them off" [Note to Grasshopper Lipman: Night Shift is an old, very funny movie--you should go rent it asap]...

Why The Statewide Grievance Committee Doesnt Need To Regulate Twitter
On word: unfollow. Oliver Wendell Holmes would love twitter. It is perhaps the greatest marketplace of ideas in the history of human kind. You’ve got 140 characters to say something or nothing...

Twitter, the good the bad and the ugly...
I?ve been using a href="http://www.twitter.com/"Twitter/a for a while now?at the last count I had posted 1415 Tweets, am following 110 people and am being followed by 112 people. Recently though I?ve struggled to understand the true value of Twitter (and I don?t mean in US Dollars)...

Why companies will stick with Twitter
I was offline for much of Friday for various reasons, with the World Cup not even being the main one. Instead, I was across the street from Reuters, at the Nasdaq, sitting on one panel and giving a keynote speech to a group of financial PR professionals interested in social media in general, and Twitter in particular.

Twitter And Blogs Go Hand-In-Hand
Kevin O?Keefe at LexBlog identifies 7 Reasons Why Lawyers Using Twitter Need A Blog: Twitter, despite a meteoric rise in popularity (mirroring blog growth of 4 or 5 years ago) is not used by enough people...

RE: Sixteen Reasons to Tweet on Twitter
In this article published by Law.com, attorney/blogger Robert Ambrogi offers 16 reasons for lawyers to Tweet on Twitter.

DePuy Metal Hip Replacement
alleging defective product recall of ASR hip implant for health reasons.

Mars Petfood
79 People Sick So Far

Salmonella Outbreak
50 People Sick in Five States

Sudan Plane Crash
100 People Believed Dead

Chemical Companies
alleging danger to people living near the plants.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...