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Illinois Clears Total Attorneys of Ethics Charges

Posted on December 10, 2009
The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission yesterday notified Chicago-based Total Attorneys that its investigation of the company found no ethics violations. Connecticut lawyer Zenas Zelotes filed a a complaint last spring against the company's president, Chicago attorney Kevin Chern, alleging that the company's legal marketing program violated state ethical rules...

Controversial Lawyer Pens Playbook for IP Trials

Posted on December 10, 2009
Intellectual property plaintiffs lawyer Raymond P. Niro, co-founder of the Chicago firm Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro, had already achieved notoriety enough when he became even more controversial for offering a bounty of $5,000 to unmask an anonymous blogger...

File-Sharing Lawyer Says Judge Screwed Up

Posted on December 10, 2009
No sooner did U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner issue her opinion this week blasting Harvard Law Prof. Charles Nesson for his "truly chaotic" defense in the file-sharing lawsuit against Joel Tenenbaum than Nesson struck back. In an interview with Computerworld, Nesson brushed aside the judge's criticisms and said it was she who got it wrong and that he will seek a new trial...

Wednesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on December 09, 2009
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I am man in my 50s. There's a six-year-old coming at me on a Big Wheel. Damn kids! Can I consider this Big Wheel a "weapon" permitting me to use a little "self defense?" Answer: You cannot...

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Starbucks Barista Gets Her Tips Stolen, and a Reprimand

Posted on December 09, 2009
What's a poor barista to do when some jerk grabs all of the bills out of the tip jar and takes off? Via this post on The Consumerist blog we learn that at Starbucks, at least, chasing down the thief and flagging down police to arrest the man is the wrong answer...

Supreme Court Engages in 'Talmudic Parsing' of Miranda Rights

Posted on December 09, 2009
It is somewhat hard to believe that 43 years after Miranda v. Arizona, the requirements for providing suspects with their legal rights could still be murky. Indeed, by now, grade-school kids can probably recite most of the now-famous "You have the right to remain silent...

The 'Real-Time Web' Is Upon Us

Posted on December 09, 2009
In October, I wrote here that the "real-time Web" was almost upon us. As defined by patent attorney Brett Trout in this post on his BlawgIT blog, the real-time Web incorporates tools such as Twitter to enable lawyers (and the rest of the world) to obtain instantaneous access to information about something that just happened, or about something that is constantly changing...

Elsewhere in the Blawgosphere

Posted on December 08, 2009
As the world goes to hell in a handbasket, the blawgosphere is abuzz with a debate over whether big firm blogs are boring. Blame it on the ABA Journal's Blawg 100, which listed but two blogs from Am Law 100 firms. Not surprising, opines big-firm blogger Mark Herrmann, because big-firm blogs lack voice and are boring...

Firms, Clients Differ on Legal Industry's Forecast

Posted on December 08, 2009
A survey of private-practice lawyers, corporate counsel and law students found widely divergent views on the state of the legal industry and the future of the law firm business model. Released Thursday during a panel discussion in New York City on the future of the law firm business model, the LexisNexis-commissioned survey (executive summary) found that 71 percent of corporate counsel say that law firms are not doing enough to respond to the current financial pressures on their business model...

Defining the Law Firm of the Future

Posted on December 08, 2009
What will the law firm of the future look like? That was the question for a panel of general counsel, law firm partners and industry observers at a panel in New York City Thursday night. If there was consensus among them on any point -- and I'm not sure there was -- it was this: The firm that will thrive in the future is the firm that is able to deliver better value through innovation and technology...

File-Sharing Judge Blasts 'Truly Chaotic' Defense

Posted on December 08, 2009
A litigation strategy heavy on histrionics and light on substantive law does not play well in the Boston courtroom of U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner, it would appear. In an opinion issued yesterday in the music industry's file-sharing lawsuit against Joel Tenenbaum, Gertner blasted the defense presented by Harvard Law Prof...

Monday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on December 07, 2009
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I'm a lawyer and I'm about to start a road trip with some of my buddies. My friends include a doctor, an architect, a real estate agent, a social worker, an engineer and a consultant...

Best Buy Blog Seeks to Make Corporate Ethics Transparent

Posted on December 07, 2009
Many companies try to sweep their corporate transgressions and internal issues under the rug, but Best Buy is apparently not among them. In fact, I have been quite intrigued recently with the Kathleen Edmond blog, written by Best Buy's chief ethics officer...

Why Aren't NFL Instant Replays Reviewed De Novo?

Posted on December 07, 2009
Over on the PrawfsBlawg, guest blogger Joseph Blocher, a professor at Duke Law School, asks a great question that may resonate with some of you lawyers/NFL fans out there: Why are instant replays in the NFL (or in any other sport) subject to a heightened standard of review that requires ?conclusive? or ?indisputable? evidence to overturn an incorrect call? Why not review them de novo? Blocher observes that football mirrors the legal world in that standards of review "insulate factfinders' decisions from being overturned on appeal, even when reviewing judges disagree with them...

Are Breast Implants and Donated Organs Marital Assets?

Posted on December 07, 2009
ac�ri�mo�ni�ous di�vorce (?k'r?-m?'n?-?s d?-v�rs): A legal dissolution of a marriage accompanied by a request that the former spouse's breast implants or donated organs be treated as marital assets. Okay, I made that definition up, but you must admit that things are getting a bit out-of-hand in divorce proceedings when the husband demands that the $5,500 spent on his wife's breast implants be counted as marital assets, entitling him to additional property in the breakup (and then takes this claim to the state's Supreme Court when the lower court mocks him)...

Happiness Is a Warm Law Blogger

Posted on December 04, 2009
There are many adjectives I would use to describe the tenor of three-time ABA Blawg 100 nominee Above the Law -- snarky, funny and even depressing come to mind -- but happy isn't one of them. That said, happy is a word one could safely use to describe ATL's creator, lawyer-turned-professional blogger David Lat, who is the subject of this interview with Happiness Project author/blogger Gretchen Rubin, herself a former lawyer...

Should Legal Marketing Courses Count for CLE?

Posted on December 04, 2009
It looks like a golden age for the purveyors of continuing legal education programs in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Law Journal reports that the state's Board of Bar Examiners approved 13,000 CLE programs last year. In spite of the wealth of CLE options, many topics don't qualify for CLE, particularly those that deal with practice management, technology and marketing...

Thursday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on December 03, 2009
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I'm at the bus stop with my red-headed son. The other kids are looking at him menacingly. What's going on here? Answer: It may be "Kick a Ginger Day...

Who Owns Your Mug Shot?

Posted on December 03, 2009
In July 2005, Patrick Tribett of West Virginia was arrested for paint huffing and had his mug shot taken by police. Tribett's photo, which shows his face partially covered with gold spray paint following his huffing, appeared in places like The Smoking Gun, which collect notable mug shots...

University Requires Obese Students to Take Gym Class in Order to Graduate

Posted on December 03, 2009
Out of Lincoln University in rural Pennsylvania comes the type of story you just can't make up, and that is sure to end in some kind of terribly bitter dispute. The Consumerist blog alerts us here to an unusual requirement that Lincoln University instituted in 2006: Upon matriculating at the school, each student?s "body mass index" (weight in pounds divided by height in inches squared) is measured...

'The Biggest Loser' -- A Lawsuit Waiting to Happen?

Posted on December 03, 2009
In the wake of an interesting article in The New York Times last week highlighting some of the dangerous weight loss techniques being employed by contestants on the reality TV show "The Biggest Loser," THR, Esq. asks the inevitable question: Who will be the first to sue "The Biggest Loser?" At least two contestants, including the winner of the program?s first season, Ryan C...

Andy Warhol Sued for Child Porn, Torture

Posted on December 02, 2009
Artist Andy Warhol died more than two decades ago, but his notoriety continues well beyond the 15 minutes of fame he predicted everyone would someday have. Now, a federal lawsuit claims Warhol and his associate, film director Paul Morrissey, violated federal child pornography laws and engaged in torture when they used a teenage boy named Richard Toelk in a series of films...

DOJ Will Spend Over $15M on Legal Research This Year

Posted on December 02, 2009
Documents provided this week by the U.S. Department of Justice under a Freedom of Information Act request show that it will spend more than $15 million for legal research this year. Of that, it will pay more than $5 million to each of the major legal research providers, WestLaw and LexisNexis, and pay $4 million for access to the federal judiciary's PACER system...

Updated: 14 ALM Blogs Make ABA Journal's Blawg 100

Posted on December 02, 2009
[This updates an earlier version of this post to add Work Matters, Michael P. Maslanka's blog hosted by Texas Lawyer. Apologies for missing it earlier.] The ABA Journal released its Third Annual Blawg 100 this week, and I am happy to report that 14 blogs published by ALM or that are part of the ALM-owned Law...

Tuesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on December 01, 2009
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I'm accused of murdering my wife. I say I'm innocent and the criminal was a man with one arm. Or maybe an elk? Answer: Stick with the elk...

Sanctioned Lawyer Allegedly Offered Clients His 'Couch of Restitution'

Posted on December 01, 2009
A disciplinary proceeding that came out of Michigan last week may introduce a new phrase to the legal world: "The Couch of Restitution." The Legal Profession blog reports that on Nov. 23, the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board affirmed findings of misconduct and imposed a 180-day sanction on an attorney who had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault and battery, but failed to report the conviction to bar authorities...

Palmers Fight the Power in Waxahachie, Texas

Posted on December 01, 2009
"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions, yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.... If there is no struggle, there is not progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground...

U.K. Hourly Rates Head in an Unfamiliar Direction

Posted on September 30, 2009
There has been a steady onslaught against the billable hour in recent years, not least of which is such as the demand by many clients for alternative billing arrangements. Still, the latest argument for not dividing your day into 6-minute segments may come as a surprise: For the first time in recent memory, attorney billable rates appear to be declining...

Are the Yellow Pages Now Obsolete for Lawyers?

Posted on September 30, 2009
The Lawyerist blog asked a great question in this post yesterday: Are the Yellow Pages now obsolete as a form of advertising for lawyers? Sam Glover ponders that question, noting that he has "not heard any Yellow Pages success stories in a very long time, except from the occasional criminal defense or personal injury lawyer with a full-page spread...

Pint Glass Injuries Cause British Government to Leap Into Action

Posted on September 30, 2009
Writing on his "Lowering the Bar" blog, Kevin Underhill brings us news of the latest effort to make life difficult for personal injury lawyers. On the heels of its ill-fated effort to control stabbings by banning knives that have a point on the end, the British government is now seeking a new design for pint glasses that it hopes will reduce the number of incidents in which people use them to attack each other...

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