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By Lisa Stone

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Another New Law School, Sort Of

Posted on June 09, 2009
The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover is branching out. It is launching the nation's first college dedicated exclusively to the teaching of history, including American legal history. To be called the American College of History and Legal Studies, the college will open its doors in August 2010 in Salem, N...

There's Something Fishy About Blawg Review #215

Posted on June 08, 2009
This week my home blog, MyShingle.com, hosts a marine-themed Blawg Review #215 in honor of the first official World Oceans Day, June 8, 2009. I've covered a couple of hot topics from around the blogosphere, including the propriety of outing an anonymous blogger, whether law firms whose sites maintain zombie images of associates after they've departed could face liability for the intentional tort of "misappropriation of likeness" and the need, if any for a "Get a Life" conference for lawyers...

Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling in Judicial Bias Case

Posted on June 08, 2009
The Supreme Court issued a landmark 5-4 decision today in Caperton v. Massey Coal Co., holding that due process requires a state judge to recuse himself from a case involving the financial interests of a party who has made substantial donations to the judge's campaign for the bench...

Law Firms Probed in Mortgage Foreclosure Cases

Posted on June 08, 2009
To date, it's been primarily overreaching, greedy mortgage companies that have played the role of the villains in the national mortgage foreclosure crisis. But now, at least in Connecticut, it appears that law firms may be implicated as well. The Hartford Courant reports that State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has sent letters to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as a third mortgage company to find out why they repeatedly retained the same two law firms to handle all of their foreclosure proceedings in Connecticut...

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Watching the Blawgs, Friday Edition

Posted on June 05, 2009
News from around the blogosphere this Friday morning: Big spender spends more. In January, we described James Sokolove as legal advertising's biggest spender. Well, he just got even bigger -- to the tune of $25 million this year. Times really are tough...

Lawyer Readies His Own Touch PC

Posted on June 05, 2009
Last year, lawyer Michael Arrington, the founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, blogged about his frustration over the lack of a "dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web." If no one else was going to build such a device, he declared, he would -- with a little help from his friends and readers...

The Best Dressed Male Lawyers

Posted on June 05, 2009
On Monday, Esquire magazine will announce the "fan favorite" in online voting in its Best Dressed Real Man contest. No fake men are allowed to compete, apparently, but lawyers are. Among the 25 semifinalists are a law professor, two practicing lawyers and a paralegal...

A Uniquely Morbid Bankruptcy Filing

Posted on June 05, 2009
Bankruptcy court is the final resting place for the corpses of many a failed business. But the bankruptcy court in Boston has now become the final resting place for nine actual human corpses. When the Mansfield, Mass., company Innovative Spinal Technologies went belly up last month and filed for protection under Chapter 7 of the federal bankruptcy code, it listed among its assets nine cadavers, reports The Sun Chronicle, a newspaper in Attleboro, Mass...

Do Tech Company Agreements Not to Poach Violate Antitrust Laws?

Posted on June 04, 2009
For those who work in Silicon Valley, it seems that most high-tech companies are perpetually engaged in a talent war for top engineers, marketers and executives. So why is the Department of Justice investigating prominent technology and biotech companies, including Google and Apple, for antitrust violations associated with their hiring practices? According to The New York Times, despite outward appearances, there's apparently a "gentleman's understanding" in Silicon Valley not to poach their competitors' employees...

Wisconsin Court-Appointed Lawyers Seeking Higher Pay

Posted on June 04, 2009
At a time when lawyers are taking pay cuts of $100,000, it's almost unseemly for some lawyers to be asking for a raise. That is, unless those lawyers handle court-appointed criminal work for $40 an hour and are seeking to place their salaries on par with those of lawyers who handle court appointed work in other states...

Unemployed Lawyer Finds Job, Briefly, on Reality TV

Posted on June 04, 2009
Here's another opportunity for unemployed lawyers who can't find a job at Legal Aid, even for free, and who can't afford to party seven nights a week. Why not consider a stint on a reality TV show, like New York Law School grad Stephen Reich? This local news story covers Reich's 15 minutes of fame on the most recent season of "The Bachelorette," which premiered May 18...

More Reasons for Lawyers Not to Use Twitter

Posted on June 04, 2009
Microblogging service Twitter has its share of evangelists, but law firm marketing guru Larry Bodine sure isn't one of them. Two weeks back, Bodine gave Twitter the bird, concluding that it wasn't an effective tool for law firm marketing. Bodine's post spawned an outpouring of criticism (summarized here) from Twitter fans who defended its benefits as a supplement to other marketing efforts and as an effective way to build a brand...

Another M.D. Blogs His Malpractice Trial

Posted on June 03, 2009
Remember Flea? He was the Boston-area pediatrician who anonymously blogged his own medical-malpractice trial, only to be unmasked in open court. Well, now another M.D. is scratching the itch to blog his med-mal trial, as Erik Turkewitz notes at New...

Handicapping Bilski

Posted on June 03, 2009
Patent lawyers can barely control their excitement -- or anxiety -- in the wake of this week's news that the Supreme Court has agreed to review In re Bilski, the Federal Circuit's October en banc opinion that is seen as...

Advice for Summer Associates

Posted on June 03, 2009
At Counsel to Counsel, Stephen Seckler posts his advice to this year's crop of summer associates. What surprised me most about his article is to discover that any firms are actually hiring summer associates. Let's hope these associates are getting...

Lawyer's Indictment Makes It Three for Three

Posted on June 03, 2009
With the indictment yesterday of lawyer Salvatore F. DiMasi, the former speaker of the Massachusetts House who resigned in January, the state earns the dubious distinction of being three for three -- the third consecutive Massachusetts speaker to be indicted...

Even Law Firms Get Bankruptcy Bills

Posted on June 02, 2009
It's too bad that now-defunct, San Francisco-based law firm Heller Erhman couldn't have hired itself as counsel for its own bankruptcy. If it had, the firm could have collected $1.8 million in fees that is now going to other law...

Mayer Brown's Latest Perk: A $100,000 Pay Cut

Posted on June 02, 2009
Talk about lawyers being risk-averse. Associates at Mayer Brown, headquartered in Chicago, are agreeing to accept pay cuts of $100,000 for an extra year of job security, reports the Chicago Tribune. Instead of offering the traditional severance packages or deferred...

Pre-Paid Legal Remains a Good Investment

Posted on June 02, 2009
Demand for high-priced legal services may be down, but consumers are still purchasing plans from Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc. According to the Pre-Paid Web site, a plan costs about $26 per month and gives members access to professional legal counsel....

Federal Judge Resigns, Effective in June 2010

Posted on June 02, 2009
In recent months, we've become all too familiar with the concept of deferred start dates -- as long as six months to a year for many new associates. But deferred retirement dates, like the one proposed today by convicted U.S....

All Things Sotomayor: Weekend Roundup

Posted on June 01, 2009
Continuing coverage. The National Law Journal has launched a new online section, The Choice, with continuing coverage of the confirmation process. Law clerk speaks. Former law clerk to Sotomayor, Jenny Rivera, now law professor at CUNY School of Law, and...

Facebook Friend Earns Judge a Reprimand

Posted on June 01, 2009
Opposing counsel are sitting with the judge in his chambers during a child-custody trial when the lawyer for the husband brings up Facebook. The other lawyer says she is a non-user, but the judge quickly agrees to "friend" the lawyer...

Monday Morning Blawg Wrap

Posted on June 01, 2009
Checking in on this first day of June: Posts for the calendar impaired. Never mind that we are still a month away from 2009's halfway point, 3 Geeks and Law Blog has compiled a list of the must-read blog posts...

20 Years Later, Police Reopen Lawyer's 'Cold Case'

Posted on June 01, 2009
On June 1, 1989, Karen Edwards, a 34-year-old assistant Pinellas County, Fla., attorney on a two-week vacation, arrived in Boston to take in the city's historical sites. Concerned about her safety in a strange city, she brought a cooler of...

Bankruptcy Lawyers: Parasitic or Productive?

Posted on May 29, 2009
Back in the day when top bankruptcy lawyers could still be had for a mere $850 an hour, I posted about the exorbitant fees generated in large, corporate bankruptcy cases and asked why so few challenged legal fees recovered through...

Does Your Law Firm Have a Wikipedia Page?

Posted on May 29, 2009
If you thought a Wikipedia page was only for the really famous or really accomplished, think again. These days, many law firms are staking out a presence on the collaborative online encyclopedia. And as the U.K.'s Law Society Gazette suggests,...

Law Firm Sues Google for Right to Its Name

Posted on May 29, 2009
How'd you like to advertise for your competitor? The New Haven, Conn.-based personal injury law firm of Stratton Faxon wasn't too keen on the idea. It's suing Google for selling the firm's name as a keyword ad to the site...

Should E-Mail Be Taxed?

Posted on May 29, 2009
One would think that the idea of taxing e-mails wouldn't find much support among lawyers. After all, large law firms must send out thousands of e-mails a day, while even a solo like myself can easily dispatch two dozen or...

Legal Blog Watch Gets a Face-Lift

Posted on May 29, 2009
As loyal Legal Blog Watch readers have surely noticed, there's something a bit different about us this week. What's that, you say? You couldn't tell? Don't be coy -- click through from your Google Reader and take a look. After...

And Now, Our Report From Cannes

Posted on May 28, 2009
What with blogging and twittering and all, we weren't able to make it to Cannes this year for the annual gathering of the film world's glitterati. One Texas lawyer did find the time to attend, and where Texas lawyers go,...

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