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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 17:07:51

Kind of Like Match.com, for Lawyers and Clients

Posted on September 16, 2009
Corporate counsel routinely issue requests for proposal as a way to hire law firms. Now, even small fry clients can do the same using a just-launched site called LawBidding.com, featured today in an article on the State Bar of Wisconsin's Web site. From the article, here's how LawBidding...

Does Bar Exam Failure Presage Career Failure?

Posted on September 16, 2009
Law student blog The Shark takes issue with a UCLA law school researcher's study (first reported at the ABA Journal) which concluded that people who fail the bar exam fare worse than even college graduates in the first five years after graduation but spring back later in their careers...

Is Total Attorneys Complaint a Total Joke?

Posted on September 15, 2009
What are we to make of the complaint by Connecticut lawyer Zenas Zelotes against Chicago-based Total Attorneys and its lawyer-founder Kevin Chern? Zelotes has filed versions of his 303-page complaint against more than 500 lawyers in 47 states. He alleges that these lawyers are obtaining referrals through and sharing fees with Total Attorneys in violation of legal ethics rules...

Report Ponders a Democratic NLRB

Posted on September 15, 2009
Fasten your seatbelts for a Democratic National Labor Relations Board. That is the warning that opens a new U.S. Chamber of Commerce report that considers how the labor board is likely to change under the Obama Administration. "After eight years of Republican majorities and relatively well-balanced NLRB decisions, most of which were accepted by the federal circuit courts of appeals, the Obama Administration will usher in a new Democratic, pro-union majority set to reverse Bush Board decisions and much more," says the report, The National Labor Relations Board in the Obama Administration: What Changes to Expect...

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DMCA Protects Video Site, Judge Says

Posted on September 15, 2009
In what is being hailed as a major victory for video-hosting sites, a federal judge in Los Angeles has dismissed Universal Music Group's copyright case against Veoh, a video site that allows users to share videos. Finding that Veoh qualifies for protection under the safe harbor provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, U...

Senate Hopeful Once Had Centerfold Spread

Posted on September 15, 2009
Scott Brown, a lawyer running as a Republican to fill Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat, has achieved much in his career. He has been a Massachusetts state senator since 2004 and before that he served three terms as a state representative. For 30 years, he has been in the National Guard, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps...

Prop 8 Controversy Splits California Bar

Posted on September 14, 2009
A year ago, I posted here about a group of law professors that decided to boycott the Association of American Law Schools' annual meeting at the San Diego Manchester Grand Hyatt as a protest of hotel owner Douglas Manchester's financial support of the Proposition 8 campaign to ban same-sex marriages...

Hulk Hogan Sues Law Firm for Overcharging

Posted on September 14, 2009
Retired professional wrestling champ Hulk Hogan is up for another fight, only this one doesn't involve grappling with another large man clothed only in a few strategically placed swathes of spandex. Instead, Hogan is taking on American Lawyer "Litigation Boutique of the Year" finalist Zuckerman Spaeder, alleging that the firm overcharged Hogan by more than $1 million in legal fees...

Law Students Exiled to Externships

Posted on September 14, 2009
It used to be that unpaid externships were the ugly stepsister to highly paid summer associate programs. But in this new economy, no more. According to a story in The National Law Journal (Hat tip to The Am Law Daily), externships -- unpaid, for-credit work opportunities -- are providing a path to hands on experience now that many law firms have canceled their internships...

Lawyer on Tap to Lead AFL-CIO

Posted on September 11, 2009
Richard L. Trumka, the former coal miner expected to be elected president of the AFL-CIO, America's largest labor federation, at its convention in Pittsburgh next week, is a lawyer who got his start in the labor movement as a staff attorney for the United Mine Workers of America...

Lawyer Faces Discipline Over Blog Posts

Posted on September 11, 2009
A former Illinois assistant public defender faces disciplinary charges over postings to her blog that Illinois authorities say exposed client confidences and revealed her complicity in a client's fraud on a court. The attorney denies the charges and says she plans to hire legal counsel to help her fight them...

Judge Slams Blogger's Special Treatment

Posted on September 11, 2009
A federal prosecutor's decision to let prominent political blogger Andrew Sullivan off the hook for a marijuana bust was condemned yesterday by a federal magistrate judge as unjustified favoritism. But finding that he was without power to override the prosecutor's decision, the magistrate judge dismissed the charges nonetheless...

A Wound That Time Can't Heal

Posted on September 11, 2009
Time heals all wounds, my mother used to tell me. But eight years later, the horrible events of 9/11 continue to hurt. Some were wounded more critically than others that day, they who lost sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, spouses and loved ones...

News Round-Up

Posted on September 10, 2009
Brooklyn man meets his match in lawsuit against Match.com: Sean McGinn, a Brooklyn man who filed a $5 million class-action suit against Match.com over unanswered emails has dropped the suit due to the extreme amount of ridicule he endured from media coverage...

Only a Small Percentage of Lawyers Use Twitter

Posted on September 10, 2009
At the beginning of 2009, Larry Bodine predicted that Twitter would become a popular social media tool for lawyers. However, after several months of usage, Bodine discovered that Twitter was not as effective for lawyer marketing as he'd initially believed...

Law Schools Cutting Back in Down Economy

Posted on September 10, 2009
Turns out the ivory tower isn't insulated as many would believe. Just as law firms have been cutting lawyers from the ranks to deal with the current economic client, now law schools are doing the same. The Harvard Law Record details some of the cuts at Harvard Law School resulting from the downturn...

Corporate Counsel Exchanging Information Through Social Networking

Posted on September 10, 2009
Lawyers -- do you feel your ears burning? Maybe that's because corporate counsel are exchanging information about your services and how to save money on them on social networking sites like Linked In, Legal OnRamp and Martindale-Hubbell Connected, to name a few...

DA Hopeful Shows He's Tough on ... Himself

Posted on September 09, 2009
Michael Untermeyer, a Republican candidate for district attorney in Philadelphia, believes the city could save millions of dollars by moving nonviolent defendants out of prison and keeping track of them by way of electronic monitoring bracelets. To underscore his point, Untermeyer is demonstrating the effectiveness of GPS ankle bracelets -- by slapping one on himself...

Bankrupt Firm Owes $1.5M for Phone Book Ads

Posted on September 09, 2009
Here is the best reason yet for lawyers to quit advertising in yellow pages -- in fact, here are 1.5 million reasons. A Florida personal injury firm filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, listing debts of $2.5 million to its top 12 creditors, $1.5 million of that for advertising in various phone directories...

Lawyer, Trivia Whiz

Posted on September 09, 2009
Did you know that Daniel Boone, that iconic American hero, was once put on trial for treason? Did you know that Lizzie Borden, the woman who the rhyme says "gave her mother forty whacks," was actually acquitted by a jury of any wrongdoing? These are just a couple of the little-known facts presented in the Famous Trials section of the Web site Awesome Stories...

ALM, All Over Again

Posted on September 09, 2009
I used to work for a company called ALM. Sometimes when I tell people that, they answer, "Now, which one is that?" When I add, "You know, it publishes The American Lawyer and The National Law Journal and operates Law.com," I immediately see any uncertainty disappear...

JDs Not to Be

Posted on September 08, 2009
With law firms cutting back, some career counselors are advising lawyers to think about another profession. This week's Maryland Daily Record profiles lawyers who did more than think about leaving the law; they've actually done it. According to the article, nonpracticing lawyers fall into one of two categories: Either they always wanted to be lawyers but found once they started that it wasn?t what they?d hoped for, or they never wanted to be lawyers but drifted into law school because they couldn?t think of anything else to do...

Do Proliferating Ads for Med-Mal Plaintiffs Mean Suits Are On the Rise?

Posted on September 08, 2009
The Blog of Legal Times reports on a recent study by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform that found that television advertisements soliciting plaintiffs for medical malpractice lawsuits increased from about 10,150 ads in 2004 to more than 156,000 ads in 2008 -- a whopping 1,400 percent increase in four years...

Law Firm Marketer Gone Wild

Posted on September 08, 2009
Legal marketers abound. Some are reputable and generate positive results, others are simply ineffective, but still, do no harm besides wasting a lawyer's money. Then there's the third category of marketer who's discussed over at Mark Bennett's Defending People blog: one who causes damage to the reputation of the lawyer for whom he's working...

Playing the Odds on Poker's Legality

Posted on September 04, 2009
Those of you who enjoy anteing up for a barroom game of poker might want to check out recent court actions involving gamblers. That line between the friendly game of cards and the kind that can get you arrested seems to be getting thinner. DeeDee Correll at the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday on a spate of recent poker player arrests in homes, bars and other small-time venues around the country...

Firms Developing Social Media Policies

Posted on September 04, 2009
The Wisconsin Law Journal reports that law firms are beginning to develop guidelines for social media, to ensure that social media activities by the firm's individual lawyers remain consistent with the law firm's image. Unfortunately, some of the contemplated policies seem a bit draconian...

The Silver Lining Behind Attorney Layoffs

Posted on September 04, 2009
On Thursday, The National Law Journal published a piece by Ari Kaplan about three lawyers pursuing unusual career paths. His message to the huddled masses of displaced and would-be attorneys? When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Among the former lawyers mentioned in Kaplan's article are a stand-up comedian and professional speaker, a television producer and novelist, and a Lego sculptor...

Students From Lower-Tier Schools Are Happier at BigLaw

Posted on September 04, 2009
Great credentials may or may not make better lawyers, but apparently they don't make more satisfied lawyers. That's the conclusion of a study entitled "After the JD" by the American Bar Foundation, which found that those graduates of nonelite law schools who work at Am Law 100 and 200 firms are happier than their colleagues from top-tier schools, and they tend to stick around longer too...

The First Global Firm Owned by Minority Women

Posted on September 03, 2009
Two former BigLaw lawyers have teamed up to form what they say is the "first female and minority-owned multi-office global law practice" in the United States. We will have to take them at their word on that, unless someone comes forward to point us to an earlier firm that fits this description...

Work-Life Balance: So Last August?

Posted on September 03, 2009
Ah, the heady days of a year ago. It was a time when lawyers believed they could have it all -- economic success and a personal life to boot. A lot has changed in the intervening year, little for the better. With the economy still in the tank and many law firms still struggling, has the legal profession lost sight of its quest for that elusive prize, work-life balance? At Adam Smith, Esq...

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