Legal Writing

The story of the week: Microsoft and Yahoo
Hundreds (possibly thousands) of articles and blog posts have been written this week about Microsoft's offer of $44.6 billion to acquire Yahoo, however I thought it may be useful to highlight a couple of particularly good or interesting articles on this very significant tech story...

Short Story Competition: Seventh Batch Is Open for Voting!
I thought this week we would have the final batch of stories, but we still have one more to go next week. We were left with 15 stories, so instead of making a bigger batch, we will have 8 competing today, and 7 next week...

CLAIRE BERLINSKI: Extremely Disturbing, Barely-Noticed Story Of The Week: So: Threaten Chinese te
CLAIRE BERLINSKI: Extremely Disturbing, Barely-Noticed Story Of The Week: “So: Threaten Chinese technicians and they’ll displace 10,000 of you in less than a week, and the only place it will be reported is in the New Light of Myanmar, which you can be dead sure is only hinting at the horror of this...

Public Schools Thinking About 4 Day School Week
Schools Debate A Four-Day Week is an interesting story from the August 10, 2008 Parade.com. Why? To save costs. However, there is a problem and its a big problem. Parents work 5 days a week and if their children were...

Mexican Radio Journalist Fired For Story About President
MVS Communications in Mexico City has fired one of its popular on air host/reporters for a story in which she alleged that President Felipe Calderon has a drinking problem. Carmen Aristegui was terminated this week after reporting the story...

Airline share price plummets after website links to old news story
A major US airline lost three quarters of its value this week when an outdated news story hit newswires and appeared to be fresh. The story said that United Airlines had filed for bankruptcy, sending its stock plummeting.