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Legal Commentary

Have Opinion, Will Travel

Observations, musings and occasional rants about the law, lawyers, or anything else that I feel moved to comment on.

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Last Entry: August 17, 2009 at 18:18:00

Apparently, elections can kill you.

Posted on October 05, 2008
What with all the fund raising letters, telephone polls, negative campaigning and 24 hour news cycle spin, I guess it was inevitable that someone would discover that elections are hazardous to your health. In fact, you are 18% more likely to die in an auto accident during voting hours on election day...

The Pink Panzer?

Posted on October 05, 2008
I guess I'm dating myself but I remember when the only muscle powered vehicles that people attempted to build involved orange crates and old roller skates. Now they apparently involve pneumatic cannon and bizarre urban camouflage. Via PopSci.

Maybe I should go on a junket factfinding tour.

Posted on October 03, 2008
The New York Times had this interesting piece the other day about how judges are more involved in making foreign policy.

Remembering 9/11

Posted on September 11, 2008

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Tagged!

Posted on September 07, 2008
Even though he is on vacation, Ken has managed to tag me. As he says, the rules are simple: name 5 blogs I read and tag 5 blawgers. Note the difference between blogs and blawgs (law releated blogs). The blogs I read the most in no particular order are: The Scott Adams Blog - by the creator of Dilbert Autoblog - for the car enthusiast Autoblog Green - OK, so I'm also a bit of a treehugger.

If you cross the Da Vinci Code with any John Grisham novel, this would be the result.

Posted on August 19, 2008

Divorce Economics - New Jersey Style.

Posted on August 14, 2008

No mistrial for a fake heart attack. Instead, how about 42 years.

Posted on July 19, 2008
Whenever somebody decides to represent himself, every lawyer and judge in the vicinity shakes their head because they know the likely result will not be pretty. In the case of Keison Wilkins, it actually paid off in an acquittal for him on a charge of felonious assault back in 2005...

Happy Birthday America!

Posted on July 04, 2008

The Chinese idea of a S.W.A.T. Team,

Posted on July 03, 2008

Maybe the missing weapons of mass destruction were in Saddam Hussein's ipod.

Posted on June 26, 2008

The only federal courthouse that serves two different federal districts and circuits.

Posted on June 11, 2008

An example of why leaving it up to a judge should always be a last resort.

Posted on June 07, 2008

This is why you should clean your closet out occassionally.

Posted on June 01, 2008

Memorial Day

Posted on May 26, 2008
We remember.

In Minnesota, you waive your right to counsel when you beat up the one you have.

Posted on May 25, 2008

British judges boldly go 700 years into the (near) future.

Posted on May 16, 2008

Airlines really do treat their customers like [excrement]!

Posted on May 14, 2008

"Peebling" judges.

Posted on May 01, 2008

Now this is just plain silly!

Posted on May 01, 2008

Deadingcake?

Posted on April 20, 2008

What ?s in a name? That which we call a rose gang by any other name ..... (Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2)

Posted on April 13, 2008

15 houses that will cause you to stop and stare.

Posted on April 12, 2008

This law school is to moot court and trial advocacy competitions what UCLA under John Wooden used to be to college basketball.

Posted on April 08, 2008

First they steal your identity and then they steal your house.

Posted on March 26, 2008
Network World reports here that the FBI is concerned that identity theft may just be the first step in stealing people's houses right out from under them. From the FBI website: ... The con artists start by picking out a house to steal - say, YOURS...

Greener and cheaper death from the skies..

Posted on March 22, 2008

What NOT to do in that job interview.

Posted on March 15, 2008
In one capacity or another, I have been hiring young lawyers for the last 25 years and I know from personal experience that law schools graduate a lot of folks who, notwithstanding a first-class legal education, lack the social skills and common sense to handle a job interview in anything but a disastrous fashion...

"Elvis" late for court and drunk to boot.

Posted on March 12, 2008

It's news when a law school actually teaches law students how to practice law.

Posted on March 11, 2008
I am not alone in my criticism of the current model of legal education which the ABA has pushed on American law schools. Fortunately, according to the Associated Press, some law schools are getting back to the basics of training men and women to actually represent clients...