Legal Commentary

By Evan Schaeffer

LAWYERS VOICES ONLINE . . . . More lawyers online, telling it like it is--

• "Plaintiffs' personal injury lawyers have a truism: You don't make your fortune off the cases you try. You make your fortune off the cases you settle, based on the settlement amounts that are (in significant part) a function of the (vastly smaller) number of cases that you try." [Beldar of BeldarBlog, in a long post about John Edwards]
• "If you are going to start your own law blog, make sure you are committed to the process, which means committed to posting regularly. As you can imagine, I see a lot of law blogs, and I am constantly struck by the number of blogs that lie dormant for long periods of time, or are never updated again by the lawyer-blogger." [Tom Mighell of Inter Alia, in an online interview at Kevin O'Keefe's Real Lawyers Have Blogs]
  
• "It just hit me why my blogging grew stale. I got tired of being nice to people. I became worried about offending hypocrites, charlatans, and other shady characters." [Mike Cernovich at Crime & Federalism, explaining why he decided to return to blogging]
  
• "I recently learned that there is also some extremely valuable information hidden away in the digital version of digital photographs. And Microsoft has a free ? that?s free ? program that allows you to discover from the digital version such information as the date and time when the photo was taken." [A.J. Levy at Out-of-the-Box Lawyering]

As always, if you have ideas for Lawyers' Voices Online, please send them to LawyersVoicesOnline--at--gmail.com.

Full post as published by Notes from the (Legal) Underground on January 09, 2008 (boomark / email).