Legal Research

Indiana Supreme Court and a Strange Decision About Advertising Ethics
What if a state bar requires you to submit your marketing materials before using them? What if you do but no one actually reads them? What if you then have to go through a hearing and ultimately a Supreme Court decision because you used the term "legal advertisement" instead of "advertising material...

American Exceptionalism (for and against), the Framing and more in the Book Reviews
American exceptionalism is the focus of a review of A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, andthe Making of America's Freedom by Jedediah Purdy and The Myth of American Exceptionalism by Godfrey Hodgson, taken up by Art Winslow in the Los Angeles Times...

"Second Circuit Rejects Most Of Attorney Advertising Rules"
"Second Circuit Rejects Most Of Attorney Advertising Rules": The New York Law Journal has a report that begins, "In rejecting the bulk of New York's content-based restrictions on attorney advertising, the U...

New York's Advertising Rules and the Problem of Ethics Laundering
You'd expect a personal injury attorney to flatly oppose any restrictions on anti-solicitation rules. But not New York Personal Injury Attorney Eric Turkewitz. In this post, Turkewitz criticizes New York's controversial 2007 advertising rule, which the Second Circuit hears today,...

Ruling on brothel ads spurs appeal: ACLU wants rehearing on restoration of restrictions
Leagle.com: "An attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada has decided to ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a recent decision that restores the state's restrictions on brothel advertising...

2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Issues Opinion on Attorney Advertising and Solicitation
As reported by Debra Cassens Weiss in today's ABA Journal post entitled, "2nd Circuit: Ban on Law Firm Nicknames Violates First Amendent", the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected content-based restrictions on attorney advertising and held that the ban...

Power of Attorney and Living Wills for the aged
Options for caring for aging parents

Gambling Governed by State Laws
State laws vary with respect to gambling

Estate Planning
Documents: durable power of attorney, living will, letter of instruction, and insurance trust

Grandparents Visitation Rights
Every state lets elderly grandparents petition to visit grandchildren

Living Wills and Powers of Attorney
Laws effecting the elderly

Lawyer Jokes
Law Humor

Internet/Technology
involving cyber law, consumer protection, internet crime, internet fraud, online gambling, e-commerce.

Comcast Corp.
alleging false advertising related to the speed of its Internet service.

Google
alleging that companies who used internet advertising to sell mobile content have overpaid for keywords.

Internet Gambling
Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo pay $31.5 million settlement for advertising and promoting illegal gambling sites online.

Katrina Victims See Justice, Ruling Paves the Way for Class Actions
Katrina Victims See Justice Ruling Paves the Way for Class Actions

Specialty Lamp International
Recalls Counterfeit Circuit Breakers