Miscellaneous

NY Ethics Committees Tackle Social Media Mining
This week's Daily Record column is entitled "NY Ethics Committees Tackle Social Media Mining." A pdf of the article can be found here and my past Daily Record articles can be accessed here...

Cautionary Tales to the Merger Review Process
Three recent developments serve as cautionary tales to parties to prospective transactions.  These actions serve to remind practitioners that there is a genuine possibility of agency action even in cases where the buyer has only a minority ownership interest in a company that competes with the target; the value of the overlapping assets represent less [...

Jack Marshall of ProEthics Flunked Legal Ethics
What is ethics? Or is it Ethics? Does ethics come from God or man? Are ethics a social construct? Who decides what is unethical? Ethics is a rich philosophical subject. That said, there is ethics; and then there is legal ethics...

New York Ethics Committee on Lawyers Use of Social Media During Trials
This week's Daily Record column is entitled "New York Ethics Committee on Lawyers? Use of Social Media During Trials." A pdf of the article can be found here and my past Daily Record articles can be accessed here...

More on Social Media and Judicial Ethics
This is an interesting addendum to the ABA session “?Friend? Is Now a Verb: Judicial Ethics and the New Social Media“. In the Financial Post‘s Legal Post section from August 2nd, Mitch Kowalski notes Oklahoma?s Judicial Ethics Advisory Panel released an opinion on judges and social media in that state on July 6, 2011...

Legal Marketing and Social Media Best Practices: Part I Ethics
By Gina F. Rubel Special to the Legal I recently had the pleasure to present "The Ethics of Social Media Marketing for Law Firms" with Paul Kazaras, of the Philadelphia Bar Association, for the Delaware Valley Law Firm Marketing Group...

Pre-paid Leagal Services
What are Prepaid Legal Benefit Plans

Legal Forms
Business and Commercial Legal Forms

Best Law Movies
Greatest Legal Movies selected by ABA Journal

Law & Order Depicts Police Procedures and Criminal Justice
Accuracy of Criminal Justice Depiction on Television

Media/Telecom
consumer rights involving print, radio, television, video, DVD, video games, and mobile telephones.

Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and Social Security Administration
allegedly denied social security insurance to disabled and elderly immigrants.

Legal Malpractice
legal malpractice lawsuits.

Social Security Loses Class Action, Will Pay $500 Million in Benefits
Social Security Loses Class Action, Will Pay $500 Million in Benefits

Social Security Class Action Launched
to Reinstate Wrongfully Terminated Payments

Marketing Spam
Member Source Media pays $200,000 civil penalty for deceptive online advertising.