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Collins Convicted, but Was He Guilty?

Posted on July 13, 2009
A Manhattan jury late Friday afternoon found Mayer Brown partner Joseph P. Collins guilty of conspiracy and four other charges in connection with a massive fraud at now-bankrupt Refco Inc., the New York Law Journal reports. Mr. Collins, who testified in his own defense that he was kept in the dark about more than $2...

The Sotomayor Hearings, Online and on Twitter

Posted on July 13, 2009
To paraphrase a tweet last night from CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen, imagine what the confirmation process will be like when the vacant seat really is a court changer. Even though no one seems to think that Sonia Sotomayor would alter the balance of the Supreme Court if confirmed, and even though there appears little doubt that she will be confirmed, her confirmation hearings should be interesting to watch as they get underway today...

U.S. News to Rank Law Firms

Posted on July 10, 2009
Is U.S. News & World Report some kind of glutton for punishment? We've posted here previously about the various criticisms that U.S. News' law school rankings have generated, to the point that they've spawned a competitor rating system, Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings...

Friday Legal News Link Roundup

Posted on July 10, 2009
Economy still in decline: Though stock prices may indicate otherwise, bankruptcy filings show that the economy has not recovered just yet, at least in California. BankruptcyProf Blog reports that over the course of June, "the Central District of California saw 9,578 total filings, compared to 8,965 in May, 8,398 in April, 8,518 in March, 6,967 in February and 5,999 in January...

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How Does Your Blog Rate?

Posted on July 10, 2009
What makes a law blog influential? ELawMarketing's Joshua Fruchter offers some ideas over at Lawyer Casting, summarizing some of the metrics used by MarketingSherpa, a marketing research firm. Although "eyeballs" (i.e., unique visitors and page views) are significant, there are other, more meaningful ways to measure popularity and influence...

Why Was Law Dean Let Off?

Posted on July 09, 2009
We noted here Monday the abrupt resignation of Mark Sargent as dean of Villanova University School of Law. His resignation was later linked to his involvement in a prostitution investigation. State police said he had been seen leaving a house of prostitution during a raid last November...

The Demise of the Legal Blogsophere

Posted on July 09, 2009
Has the legal blogosphere gone to pot? Mike Cernovich at the blog Crime & Federalism seems to think so. He sees it as overrun by shallow marketing and exclusive cliques. He makes good points. His post is inspired by one at another blog, Apt. 11D, that considers how blogging has changed over the past six years...

Circuit Judge 'Honored' for Muzzling Speech

Posted on July 09, 2009
Juan Torruella, judge of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, earned a dubious honor this week. He was named a recipient of a Muzzle Award, a recognition given out annually by The Boston Phoenix to "those who've brought dishonor to themselves by trampling on the rights of free speech and personal liberties in New England...

Transsexual Loses Libel Suit Against NY Post

Posted on July 09, 2009
In 2007, transsexual Ava Cordero was the sweetheart of the gossip pages -- and the gossip bloggers -- when her high-profile New York lawyer boyfriend William J. Unroch sued the even higher profile billionaire money manager Jeffrey Epstein alleging that he pressured the then-16-year-old into sex in exchange for promises that he would help her get modeling work...

Does the 'Dorothy Factor' Dominate at Top Law Firms?

Posted on July 08, 2009
There's an interesting column by Orrick partner Patricia Gillette up at The Am Law Daily. Gilette asks whether the failure of women to self-promote accounts for their under-representation in the upper ranks of top law firms. She uses Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz to analogize: She?s probably not the first person to come to mind if I asked you to name a female leader...

New Jersey Blogger Not Protected by Shield Law

Posted on July 08, 2009
Bloggers may be gaining respect as citizen reporters or commentators, but they still don't have all of the legal protections that apply to journalists. As The New Jersey Law Journal (via Law.com) reports, Monmouth County, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Louis Locascio ruled that blogger Shellee Hale is not covered by New Jersey's reporter shield laws and must disclose the source of comments posted on Oprano...

More Legal Issues When Working in the Cloud

Posted on July 08, 2009
With the number of virtual law firms on the rise, expect cloud computing to become more pervasive. After all, because virtual firms do not share office space, it's the most efficient tool for enabling individual lawyers within a virtual firm to share files, prepare joint bills or access common documents...

Why the Biggest Firms Don't Blog

Posted on July 07, 2009
"You don't have to say much to set off an avalanche in the blogosphere," observes James M. Beck, counsel in the Philadelphia office of Dechert, in a post yesterday at the blog Drug and Device Law, which he co-authors with Mark Herrmann, a partner in the Chicago office of Jones Day...

The Law Dean and the Prostitute

Posted on July 07, 2009
When Mark Sargent, dean of Villanova University School of Law, abruptly resigned last week, lips were sealed. The university issued a statement saying that he had resigned for personal and medical reasons and that Associate Dean Doris DelTosto Brogan would fill in as acting dean...

Lawyer-Turned-Publisher Calls in the Lawyers

Posted on July 07, 2009
Out of deference to the newspaper's history-making role in exposing the Watergate break-in, many observers are avoiding attaching a "-gate" suffix to this week's scandal at The Washington Post. Others can't resist the temptation, and one label that has been bandied about is Weymouthgate, for Katharine Weymouth, the former lawyer who last year became the newspaper's publisher and now finds herself the center of unwelcome attention...

Dual Q&As Deconstruct the Grace Case

Posted on July 07, 2009
Whether by coincidence or design, two of the defense lawyers in the recent acquittal of chemical company W.R. Grace and three of its former executives appear in separate Q&A interviews this week discussing their successes. This was the case in which federal prosecutors alleged that the defendants conspired to expose the residents of Libby, Mont...

Monday Law Link Roundup

Posted on July 06, 2009
-- The Austin-American Statesman profiles local lawyer Gregory Coleman, who argued twice before the Supreme Court this session in two of the highest-profile cases this year -- eight days apart. [via Above the Law] -- Newsweek columnist George Will questions the High Court's 8-1 decision in one of Coleman's cases, hoping it won't be 1972 forever...

My Law Blog Can Beat Up Your Law Blog

Posted on July 06, 2009
We here at Legal Blog Watch always enjoy finding new niche law blogs, even if we don't know much about the particular niche they cover. Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe's Embassy Law? Interesting (and helpful for all those lawyers Obama keeps picking for ambassadorships)...

Halfway Through the Year in Law Firm Layoffs

Posted on July 06, 2009
Last week, former Wall Street Journal Law Blog editor Dan Slater proposed that we take a more favorable view toward law firm layoffs. The glut of BigLaw associates was bad for both clients and the lawyers themselves, he argued, and a great culling will be better for us all in the long run...

Are the BigLaw Layoffs a Good Thing?

Posted on July 02, 2009
Dan Slater, the former lead author of the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog, has a controversial new column at the New York Times Deal Book in which he ponders whether all of the BigLaw layoffs just might be a good thing after all. Slater writes: The legal media, in its rush to side with the fallen, has often cast the layoff wave as the result of endemic firm mismanagement finally coming home to roost...

Michael Jackson's Will Released, but Who Wrote It?

Posted on July 02, 2009
Last week, I wrote about some of the potential medical malpractice issues that Michael Jackson's death might raise. This week, the legal issues associated with Jackson's recently released will are driving the discussion. The New York Times summarizes the provisions of Jackson's five-page will, dated July 7, 2002...

Law Firm Sued for Using Ill-Gotten Evidence From Spyware

Posted on July 02, 2009
Let's say that you're a divorce attorney and your client brings you damning e-mails that will help her case. Before you decide to use those e-mails at trial, you'd better make sure that they weren't procured through the use of illegal spyware. Otherwise, as Sharon Nelson of Ride the Lightning cautions, you might find yourself the subject of a $2 million lawsuit like the lawyers at Chattanooga, Tenn...

Applicant Denied Bar Admission for Too Much Debt

Posted on July 02, 2009
Seems that University of California Hastings College of Law graduate Robert Bowman is in a bit of a catch-22, courtesy of the New York State bar. As The New York Times reports, Bowman owes roughly $400,000 in student loans. But Bowman doesn't stand a chance of ever repaying those loans now that he's been denied admission to the New York bar, because five appellate judges viewed Bowman's hefty debt and inability to repay it as evidence of a "lack of general character and fitness requisite for an attorney...

World's Oldest Blawg Turns 10

Posted on July 01, 2009
Two years ago, I made an attempt here to identify the first legal blogger ever. After examining the archives of some of the longest-running legal bloggers I knew of, I concluded it was Walter Olson, who launched his blog, Overlawyered, on July 1, 1999...

For Environmental Law, 'Worst Term Ever'

Posted on July 01, 2009
Everyone's doing it -- wrapping up the Supreme Court term, that is. In the New York Times, Adam Liptak says it was a good year for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who emerged as a canny strategist, thanks in part to the swing vote of Justice Anthony M...

Firms Keep Up Good Work, Even in Bad Times

Posted on July 01, 2009
Fears that a down economy would mean a downturn in pro bono work by the nation's largest law firms appear to be unfounded. To the contrary, the annual Pro Bono Report from The American Lawyer finds that the nation's 200 highest grossing firms devoted more hours to pro bono this year than ever before...

West, Lexis Offer Help for Hard Times

Posted on July 01, 2009
Two major legal publishers announced initiatives this week to help laid-off lawyers keep their heads above water and make the transition to new jobs. Coincidentally or not, both West and LexisNexis announced their initiatives on the same day. West's initiative is a two-pronged effort built around two new Web sites...

Yoko Ono Wins Fight Over Lennon Footage

Posted on July 01, 2009
Yoko Ono has won her legal fight to claim ownership of 10 hours of rare, black-and-white footage of John Lennon videotaped at the couple's London estate in 1970. In federal court in Boston, U.S. District Judge Rya W. Zobel has ruled that Ono was the rightful copyright owner of the footage...

Judge Posner's Proposal: Save a Newspaper, Kill a Blog

Posted on June 30, 2009
Sure, the newspaper industry is in trouble. But not even old-guard media companies have proposed as extreme a remedy as what Judge Richard Posner recommends. In a recent blog post, Posner proposed barring online links to copyrighted materials without the consent of the copyright owners as a way to help revive the failing newspaper business...

Law Firms Not Serious About Change, Say CLOs

Posted on June 30, 2009
Law firms may be cutting salaries or creating apprentice programs, but are they really serious about change? Only 5 percent of chief legal officers at corporations believe that firms are committed to innovation, according to a new survey by Altman Weil, reports Larry Bodine...

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