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Radical Idea for Med-Mal Cases: Apologize

Posted on September 03, 2009
If love means never having to say you're sorry, a medical mistake means never daring to say it. Fear of a lawsuit keeps doctors and other medical professionals from ever admitting they messed up. But as Associated Press writer David N. Goodman reports, a Michigan hospital is defying the conventional wisdom, admitting mistakes and offering compensation well before patients file lawsuits...

Choice of College Major Sways LSAT Score

Posted on September 03, 2009
Did you know that your choice of undergraduate major may have contributed to how well or poorly you scored on the Law School Admission Test? A new study finds that the highest LSAT scores are achieved by students who major in physics/math, economics and philosophy/theology...

Law School Starts to Provide Real Education on Realities of Legal Job Market

Posted on September 02, 2009
Over on The New York Times DealBook blog, former Wall Street Journal Law Blog author Dan Slater takes the American Bar Association and law schools to task for failing to put a cap on school admissions at a time when law firms are slashing jobs, cutting salaries and canceling summer programs...

Running SueEasy Turned Out to Be Not So Easy

Posted on September 02, 2009
Remember SueEasy.com? It's the lawyer/client matching Web site service with a twist: It allowed potential litigants to publicly post grievances and wait for responses from lawyers with offers to represent them, and also enabled users to search for class actions to join in with other litigants...

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Tort Reform Spurs More Lawsuits in Oklahoma, for Now

Posted on September 02, 2009
It seems that new tort reform legislation in Oklahoma, which takes effect Nov. 1, is having the opposite of its intended effect -- at least in the short term. As The Oklahoman reports, Oklahoma City-based law firm Merritt & Associates recently circulated an e-mail to other law firms in the state, warning: "Danger! Tort reform legislation effective November 1...

Animal Law Practices Grow as 'Animal Companions' Gain Acceptance

Posted on September 02, 2009
The concept of animal companions, or pets as family members, is being taken seriously -- in legislation as well as in the courts. Already growing animal law legal specialties include animal custody in divorces, estate planning for animals and prosecution for domestic violence against family pets...

Study Shows Masculine Name Can Better Odds of Success in the Legal Field

Posted on September 02, 2009
Looking to improve your odds of finding a job in the legal profession these days? If you're a woman, perhaps a name change might do the trick. The Vancouver Sun reports on a study by the American Law and Economics Review that shows "females with masculine names fare far better in legal careers than females with feminine names...

Bad Laws Make Good Cases

Posted on September 01, 2009
In the news this week are two stories linked only by the fact that both involve ill-advised pieces of legislation and suggest well-advised legal challenges. In Kentucky, when the General Assembly passed a law creating the state's Office of Homeland Security, it apparently did not want to take any chances with any power -- whether foreign or higher -- that might influence the state's security...

How to Become a Law Professor

Posted on September 01, 2009
Being a law professor always struck me as a good gig. Sure, it doesn't always pay as well as the private sector. But you get summers off and all the torts you can eat. Best of all, the rat race of the billable hour is replaced with the slower pace of study and scholarship...

Law Student's Video Wins Him $10K

Posted on September 01, 2009
Law student Branigan Robertson of Chapman University School of Law headed back to school last week with $10,000 less tuition to worry about. Chapman won the grand prize scholarship for the video he produced about his inspiration for going to law school...

Mass. Courts Decide Against Sponsored Law Clerks

Posted on September 01, 2009
Earlier this summer, we told you about an unusual proposal out of Massachusetts for making productive use of all those deferred law firm associates sitting around wondering what to do with themselves. The chief administrative justice of the state's trial courts, Robert A...

Immigration Lawyer Was in U.S. Illegally

Posted on September 01, 2009
If experience is the best teacher, then Denver immigration lawyer Ravi Kanwal certainly knew his stuff when it came to representing illegal aliens. You see, Kanwal was himself in the United States unlawfully. Problem is, he never told anyone about his status...

Lawyers Responsible for a Key Internet Milestone: Spam

Posted on August 31, 2009
Later this week the Internet will celebrate its 30th birthday, and to mark the occasion the Associated Press rounds up some of the key milestones in Web history. Not surprisingly, engineers and scientists are primarily responsible for the technological developments that helped the Internet grow from a primitive interconnection between two computers into a global, publicly accessible system...

Got Milk? Get Fired

Posted on August 31, 2009
The WSJ Juggle Blog reports on an Ohio Supreme Court decision finding that a company that fired a female employee who took unscheduled breaks from work to pump breast milk did not violate Ohio's pregnancy discrimination or sex discrimination laws. The facts, as summarized in the post: [LaNissa Allen] was fired after taking unscheduled breaks from work to pump milk...

Will Bar Associations Review Facebook for Applicants' Fitness?

Posted on August 31, 2009
Maybe it's just as well that most bar associations remain in the dark about Facebook and other social media. Via Above the Law, comes news from True/Slant that: The Florida Bar Examiners, the group that decides who gets to become a lawyer in Florida, is considering forcing some wannabe lawyers to be subjected to a thorough social networking investigation prior to their being knighted esquires...

Fewer Newspapers Fighting for Open Access

Posted on August 31, 2009
The New York Times reports on yet another of the consequence of the tough economic situation for the newspaper industry: Fewer newspapers are fighting to open court proceedings. Without newspapers to fight the access battle, the burden falls to the public and litigants themselves...

In a Downturn, Who Gets Priority?

Posted on August 28, 2009
There are three lawyers in a lifeboat built for two: a partner, a third year associate and a new grad. The partner stays because it is his boat. Who gets the remaining seat? Though this hypothetical sounds like the beginning of a really bad lawyer joke, it also depicts a reality that law firms now face in the downturn...

ABA Takes on the FTC

Posted on August 28, 2009
Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission once again delayed enforcement of its "Red Flags Rule," which requires creditors and financial institutions more time to develop and implement written identity theft prevention programs. As discussed here, the FTC considers lawyers to be creditors and therefore subject to the red flag rules because they extend credit to clients by rendering services first and issuing fees after the work is completed...

How Many Twitter Followers Does Your Lawyer Have?

Posted on August 28, 2009
On Twitter, one very misleading metric remains the overwhelming focus of users: How many followers do you have? On the surface, this number would appear to be a reasonable way to quickly gauge whether a new Twitter user you have encountered is worth following: 5,000 other people find this person interesting enough to follow, you might say to yourself, so I will too...

New AIG CEO Expands Definition of 'Work From Home' -- to Croatia

Posted on August 28, 2009
It's the year 2009. Bloggers often work from home and, increasingly, lawyers are seeking out flexible arrangements that will allow them to work from home, too. BlackBerrys, iPhones, laptops, inexpensive fax and copy machines, forwarded telephone numbers and high-speed Internet access make working remotely easier than ever...

Souter Seals His Secrets, but Rabble Guesses Them Anyway

Posted on August 27, 2009
Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter is donating his personal and professional papers to the New Hampshire Historical Society, reports The National Law Journal's Tony Mauro. But in a move that adds yet another epithet to the long list of his eccentricities, the D...

Birthers, Lawyers, Billables and Obama

Posted on August 27, 2009
We're a little late in addressing the "birther" movement, but the unending controversy over Obama's birth certificate has generated so much legal work that, try as we might, we couldn't ignore it anymore. A recent thread in the right-wing blogosphere has it that law firm Perkins Coie has billed Obama's lobbying organization more than a million dollars while trying to suppress lawsuits over Obama's eligibility to be president, an issue that has long been considered settled by the courts but continues to simmer on the Internet...

Was Armed Intruder a Law Prof?

Posted on August 26, 2009
When a man was arrested Friday after carrying weapons into the University of Louisville Law School library, the school's announcement identified the man, Thomas H. Irwin, as a former university student and contract employee. But the announcement neglected to say what appears to be the case -- that Irwin is a lawyer who formerly taught at the law school...

�Viva Al Nye the Lawyer Guy!

Posted on August 26, 2009
In Maine, he is known simply as Al Nye the Lawyer Guy. But in Cuba, he will forever be remembered as "el abogado norteamericano Al Nye." With a few brief remarks on his blog last week, Portland, Maine, family lawyer, Rotary Club member and Red Sox fan Alan R...

Legal Rebels With a Cause

Posted on August 26, 2009
The ABA Journal officially kicked off its Legal Rebels project yesterday, posting the first seven profiles of the 50 legal innovators it plans to feature. As Carolyn Elefant first wrote here last month, the project will profile lawyers, paralegals and other legal professionals who are "remaking the profession" through innovation and perhaps also grit...

Ted Kennedy, RIP

Posted on August 26, 2009
Ted Kennedy died last night. He was a great man and a great representative of the virtues and selflessness of the legal profession. He fought for others ahead of himself and for justice ahead of self-interest.

Justice Is Served?

Posted on August 26, 2009
The wheels of justice grind on: Mother-in-law sues comedian. Apparently, Sunda Croonquist's mother-in-law can't take a joke. The comedian's routine includes frequent jokes about her mother-in-law. Now, the mother-in-law is hoping to have the last laugh with a lawsuit filed in federal court in New Jersey...

Mobile Devices Significantly Expand the 40-Hour Work Week

Posted on August 25, 2009
A few weeks ago I posted about two recent lawsuits by employees seeking overtime pay for responding to work messages on company-issued smart phones after hours. These types of lawsuits are on the rise, not only because of technology advancements, but also the present recessionary climate, with layoffs forcing employers to squeeze more work out of fewer people...

From Small Tweets, Big Firm Clients Grow

Posted on August 25, 2009
Many large firm lawyers are hopping aboard the Twitter bandwagon, (as well as those of other social media sites) and realizing big time benefits from tiny, 140-character tweets, reports the San Jose Business Journal. However, it bears noting that most of the large firm lawyers finding business on Twitter represent startups or emerging technology developers who tend to rely heavily on social media...

Lawyers Beware: Judges May Be Watching You on Social Media

Posted on August 25, 2009
There's an interesting article this week in Texas Lawyer about how judges are using social media. On one level, having judges who are familiar with social media can be helpful in dealing with certain issues that may arise at trial, like tweeting jurors or electronic discovery involving sites like Twitter and Flickr...

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