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Quote of the day

Posted on January 11, 2008
"What's the difference between a bookkeeper in New York's garment district and a U.S. Supreme Court justice? One generation."--Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, speaking in D.C. about her participation in PBS' "The Jewish Americans," and quoted by AP's Mark Sherman...

Jena 6 portrayed in shades of gray, but incompletely

Posted on January 10, 2008
Amy Waldman makes an important contribution to the reporting and commentary on the Jena 6 controversy in the January/February issue of The Atlantic (only a tease available here). Unfortunately, she and her editors oversell what her story actually accomplishes...

Throwing the book, methodically, at a victim's betrayers

Posted on January 10, 2008
Here's what dogged reporting and cautious, transparent storytelling can do to shine the light of accountability on public officials -- without giving in to the natural urge to point immediate blame until the facts are in. Last month, a judge in Los Angeles released a man with a criminal history of abusing his wife...

Programming note

Posted on January 08, 2008
I'm headed down south (New York City) for a conference. Returning Thursday afternoon. So my reading and blogging time will be limited. To all my NYC friends whom I did not grace with this knowledge in advance . . . um, this is awkward! Sorry, but I'm booked solid...

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Getting bloggy at the ABA Journal

Posted on January 07, 2008
Stephanie Francis Ward's feature on blogs' coverage of trials is a mishmash of anecdotes, barely making a point before rushing off to make another. Some points are old news -- Blogs are by anyone, including nuts! And they're opinionated! But they're here to stay, so we have to pay attention! -- and some are just plain old (yet another tale of KC Johnson's influence on the Duke rape case)...

AmLaw's newest No. 2

Posted on January 07, 2008
Robin Sparkman is the new executive editor of The American Lawyer. She was named to the vacancy that was created, in chain-reaction fashion, nearly two years ago by Jan Crawford Greenburg's move from the Chicago Tribune to ABC. Greenburg's post was left vacant for 14 months, and then filled last July by Jim Oliphant, editor of Legal Times...

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