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A Video Matching Site for Lawyers and Clients

Posted on September 29, 2009
A new video site wants to play matchmaker for lawyers and clients. The idea behind LegalTube is to help potential clients find the right lawyer by letting them view videos of the lawyers discussing themselves and their areas of practice. "LegalTube is the only legal directory where finding a lawyer or the answers to your law-related questions is as easy as channel surfing," the site promises...

Practice Management Group Inducts 12 as Fellows

Posted on September 29, 2009
I try to avoid shameless self-promotion here, figuring I can do that on my own blog. This weekend, however, I found myself in the company of a group of outstanding legal professionals, all of whom were being honored as leaders and innovators in the field of law practice management...

Judge: No Proof Cows 'Tormented' By Oral Sex

Posted on September 29, 2009
This has to be the strangest legal story I have read in a long time, if not ever. In New Jersey, a judge has dismissed charges against a former police officer accused of engaging in oral sex with calves. The reason the judge dismissed the charges: He had no way of knowing how the calves felt about the encounters...

Should the SEC Deputize the Zero Hedge Blog?

Posted on September 28, 2009
The beleaguered SEC can use all the help it can get right now, so maybe it should deputize the Zero Hedge blog? On Sept. 17, one of its contributors ("Anal_yst") wrote in a post entitled, "Unsolicited Offer to the Securities & Exchange Commission: Hire Me," that the SEC was in such dire shape that I personally just can't sit idly by and facepalm/laugh/cry anymore...

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101 Damn Fine and Not-So-Fine Law Firm Taglines

Posted on September 28, 2009
The Stem Legal blog has collected 101 "taglines" from major law firms in the U.S., U.K. and Canada. As Steve Matthews of Stem Legal observes, these taglines, which firms use to brand themselves on their Web sites and elsewhere, seek to describe the firm?s philosophy "succinctly and (hopefully) memorably" through all sorts of methods: alliteration, puns, you name it...

Indiana Grandmother Jailed After Buying One Box Too Many of Cold Medicine

Posted on September 28, 2009
Ultimately, it was the box of Mucinex-D that Sally Harpold purchased for her daughter in March 2009 at a Clinton, Indiana, drugstore that got her thrown in jail. Because it came on the heels of a purchase of a box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine that she had already dared to pick up for her husband earlier that week, Harpold, a grandmother of triplets, was awoken by police officers banging on the front door of her home on July 30 (four months after the purchases) and taken in handcuffs to the Clinton Police Department...

Juror's Googling Results in New Trial

Posted on September 25, 2009
The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that a judge was justified in throwing out a defense verdict and ordering a new trial in a wrongful death case because of a juror's Google searches. In a Sept. 16 opinion, Russo v. Takata Corporation, the court affirmed the order of a new trial in a case brought against a seat-belt manufacturer by the estate of a 16-year-old girl who was killed after she was thrown from her vehicle...

Schemes Let Lawyers Sidestep Ambulance Chasing

Posted on September 25, 2009
Why chase after ambulances when you can just wait around the hospital for them to arrive? That appears to be the thinking of personal-injury lawyers in two states who are alleged to have purchased hospital records to find clients and beef up recoveries...

Lawyers Convene to Consider Polygamy and the Law

Posted on September 25, 2009
Lawyers are convening today at the Snowbird Resort in Snowbird, Utah, for the first-ever conference focused on the legal implications of polygamy. Sponsored by the polygamy advocacy group Principle Voices, the conference is designed to provide a snapshot into the family, criminal law and constitutional issues that often confront plural families, Principle Voices Director Mary Batchelor told Associated Press...

Remembering Judge Jerry Buchmeyer

Posted on September 25, 2009
If truth is stranger than fiction, few knew that better than U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer of Dallas, who died this week at the age of 76. Highly regarded as a jurist, Buchmeyer was also well known for his long-running Texas Bar Journal column, "et cetera," which culled real-life humor from actual trials and depositions...

They Call Me Bruce

Posted on September 24, 2009
First off, let me just say that I know this won't be easy. My prolific predecessor, Carolyn Elefant, cultivated a very loyal following over her three-and-a-half years writing Legal Blog Watch. Indeed, Carolyn did such a great job during her time here that lawyers from different continents penned poems in her honor when she announced her departure last week...

Deputies' Wii Bowling During Drug Raid Doesn't Please Sheriff

Posted on September 24, 2009
Professor Jonathan Turley's Res Ipsa Loquitur blog has a priceless video (below) showing the execution of a search warrant for drugs carried out by deputies in Lakeland, Fla. The officers of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force did, in fact, find marijuana, meth, weapons, drug paraphernalia and over $30,000-worth of stolen property...

Legal Blog and Journalism Leaders Discuss 'New Media & the Law'

Posted on September 24, 2009
Last night at Georgetown University Law Center, several leaders in the legal blogging and journalism world met to discuss "New Media & The Law." The panel featured David Lat (center in the lousy photo from my camera phone below) from Above the Law, Tony Mauro (right) from the National Law Journal and the Blog of the Legal Times), and Matt Welch (left) from Reason Magazine...

In-House Counsel Confront Social Media

Posted on September 23, 2009
On Monday, I chaired a day-long program in New York, Social Media: Risks & Rewards. The program was produced by Corporate Counsel magazine and its publisher, ALM, which is also publisher of this blog. I cannot offer praise enough to this program's organizers and participants...

Breyer Urges Judges to Engage the Public

Posted on September 23, 2009
Standing before a Boston ballroom packed with hundreds of judges and lawyers, Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer last night urged them to continue their efforts to educate the public about the role of the judiciary and to engage them in the judicial process...

Two Rebels of Legal Journalism Have a Chat

Posted on September 23, 2009
What happens when the original rebel of legal journalism, Steve Brill, sits down for a chat with today's best-known rebel of legal journalism, David Lat? Well, if you happen to have a camera present, you get the fascinating three-part interview posted this week as part of the ABA Journal's Legal Rebels project...

Farewell to Carolyn Elefant

Posted on September 23, 2009
I have not blogged here since last Thursday. In the interim, something momentous happened. Carolyn Elefant left Legal Blog Watch. Carolyn and I co-authored this blog for 3.5 years, alternating posting duties every other day, with occasional time off for good behavior...

Want Dignitary Status? Bring Your Own Shovel

Posted on September 22, 2009
See anything wrong in this picture? No? Then you're clearly not from Texas, where the law bloggers are having all kinds of fun with the recent prank by attorney and party-crasher George Lobb (white hard hat above). On Sept. 2, officials and dignitaries were on hand to break ground for a new federal courthouse in Austin, Texas...

Legal Business Development via Twitter: The Challenge

Posted on September 22, 2009
In a post today on Legal Technology called "Where to Focus With Social Networking," Larry Bodine argues that while the number of online social networks continues to grow quickly, the good news is that marketers and lawyers can ignore most of them. At the top of his list of "time-wasters" that can be ignored is Twitter, which he says a study has shown to be 40 percent "total pointless babble...

East Texas 'Troll Tracker' Defamation Lawsuit Settles

Posted on September 22, 2009
The Prior Art reports that after four days of courtroom testimony in Tyler, Texas, the "Troll Tracker" defamation lawsuit ended last night in a confidential settlement. The jury was set to hear closing arguments and begin deliberations today. According to The Prior Art: Cisco issued a statement Tuesday morning in which it said the dispute between the parties "has been resolved to their mutual satisfaction, and Rick Frenkel and Cisco apologize for the statements of Rick Frenkel on the Troll Tracker blog regarding Eric M...

Lawyers Must Learn to Search

Posted on September 22, 2009
For as long as there has been civil discovery in lawsuits, litigators have had responsibility for the task of figuring out how to search for the documents responsive to an adversary's requests. As the amount of information available to companies and people explodes, however, that task has become more challenging...

Patent Auctions Continue, Despite Setbacks

Posted on September 21, 2009
The New York Times ran a piece yesterday on patent auctions, focusing on the story of Daniel Schlager, a doctor who invented a "personal alarm" device using GPS technology in the early 1990s. As a small inventor, Schlager and a partner hired a patent licensing consultant to help them present the technology to cellphone companies like Qualcomm and Motorola...

Pro Bono Effort Makes All the Difference Between Two Death Penalty Appeals

Posted on September 21, 2009
Earlier this month, The New Yorker ran an epic-length article on the trial, conviction and execution of Cameron Todd Willingham, a Texas man who was accused of setting his own house on fire and killing his three young children. Willingham was put to death in 2004, but writer David Grann details how the pseudo-science prosecutors relied on to show that the fire was not an accident, and a lackluster defense by court-appointed lawyers who couldn't disprove it, doomed Willingham to death by lethal injection...

My Last Day at Legal Blog Watch

Posted on September 18, 2009
So let me get right to the point: Today is my last day as a contributor to Legal Blog Watch. Though I've spent the past three-and-a-half years here trying to uncover salacious little tidbits or outrageous controversies in the legal world to enlighten or entertain readers, I'm disappointed to report that there's no scandalous backstory to my departure...

Are Lawyers Getting Clients From Twitter?

Posted on September 18, 2009
I'm a fan of Twitter, and have been using the service since early this year both personally (@brucecarton) and as a news feed for securities litigation news (@SecuritiesD). I'm also interested in its use and value to lawyers, particularly to lawyers in the "BigLaw" world...

Lawyers and Social Media: A Force for Good or 'Evil'?

Posted on September 18, 2009
An article in Saturday's New York Times highlighting the hazards of attacking a judge in a law blog has sparked a variety of reactions from lawyers. Back in 2006, criminal defense attorney Fred Conway lashed out at a Florida state judge, labeling her an "EVIL, UNFAIR WITCH" and "seemingly mentally ill" in this post on JAABlog, which covers the Broward Country court system...

Study Surveys Public's Idea of 'Noncommercial Use'

Posted on September 17, 2009
A key concept in copyright law is that of commercial use. It is a factor in analyzing fair use. And the Creative Commons licensing scheme includes a noncommercial license, by which copyright owners allow others to use their work provided it is for noncommercial purposes...

Courts Clamp Down On Jurors' Web Use

Posted on September 17, 2009
We've written here about the challenges judges and lawyers face from jurors' tweets and jurors' blogs. Separate stories in the news out of California illustrate how courts are dealing with these challenges. In Sacramento, the court presiding over a wrongful death lawsuit is taking the unusual step of requiring jurors to sign a declaration attesting that they will not use "personal electronic and media devices" to research or communicate about any aspect of the case...

Tax Court Writes Off Lawyer's Deduction for Prostitutes

Posted on September 17, 2009
A veteran New York tax lawyer has lost his legal battle to claim tax deductions for more than $100,000 he spent on prostitutes and pornography. But, hey, you can't blame a guy for trying. William G. Halby, a tax lawyer first admitted to practice in New York in 1956, claimed the deductions as medical expenses...

Controversy Continues Over Law Prof's Anti-Gay Ad

Posted on September 17, 2009
As a graduate of Boston College Law School, I was disappointed to read about BC Law Professor Scott T. Fitzgibbon's starring role in an anti-gay marriage TV ad targeted at voters in Maine. Now that I've watched the ad and read more about it, I find it even more disappointing for the ways in which it distorts some of the underlying issues...

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