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By Lisa Stone

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

Sotomayor: The Second 24 Hours

Posted on May 28, 2009
My partner-in-blog Carolyn Elefant did a great job yesterday rounding up the first 24 hours' reaction among bloggers and pundits to President Obama's nomination of 2nd Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Needless to say, the tsunami of...

A Titillating Tell-All Book for Small-Firm Lawyers

Posted on May 28, 2009
So there's another BigLaw tell-all making the circuit. First there was lawyer-turned-sex-novelist Deidre Dare, whose erotic stories about a fictional BigLaw lawyer's party life in Moscow were said to be based on her real-life experiences there as a lawyer with...

In Praise of Self-Laudatory Lawyer Ads

Posted on May 28, 2009
Bans on self-laudatory lawyer ads are paternalistic, overly broad and elitist -- not to mention unconstitutional. That is the argument made by Nat S. Stern, a professor at Florida State University College of Law, in a newly published research paper,....

The First 24 Hours: A Sotomayor Roundup

Posted on May 27, 2009
It's been a little over 24 hours since President Obama announced his first nomination for the United States Supreme court, 2nd Circuit judge Sonia Sotomayor. And while one day may scarcely give Judge Sotomayor enough time to prepare for the...

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Human Rights Lawyers Threatened in China

Posted on May 27, 2009
Nearly 20 lawyers in China stand in jeopardy of losing their livelihood, reports The New York Times. But in contrast to the scores of unemployed American lawyers who are victims of the economy, the lawyers in China are victims of...

GPS: A Divorce Lawyer's Best Friend

Posted on May 27, 2009
Let's say that you're a divorce lawyer and you want to help your client figure out whether her spouse is cheating. You could hire an investigator -- but that could get pricey. Or you could try to get your hands...

The Posse List Reports on the State of Contract Lawyering

Posted on May 27, 2009
BigLaw attorneys have their own annual report in the form of The Am Law 100. But analysis of profits per partner and law firm revenues aren't much use for contract attorneys, who want to know where they can find the...

Supreme Court Reverses Suspect's Right

Posted on May 26, 2009
With all eyes focused today on the new nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, and how she might change its future balance, the court as it is currently constituted let slip a zinger, reversing a 23-year-old precedent that forbade...

The Legal Twitterverse Loses a Shining Star

Posted on May 26, 2009
Twitter users have come to expect it to be a first-line source for major, world-changing news. Earthquakes rocking China. Shootings roiling Mumbai. Many people first learned of these events by way of tweets on Twitter. For many of us, such...

So It's Sotomayor

Posted on May 26, 2009
If the Supreme Court were Churchill Downs, I'd be heading over to the pay window right now, having put my money on 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be President Obama's nominee to replace Justice David...

David vs. Goliath, as Told By David

Posted on May 26, 2009
Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson's defense of alleged file-sharer Joel Tenenbaum against a lawsuit brought by the Recording Industry Association of America has been nothing if not controversial. This is the man, after all, who tape-recorded a telephone conference with...

Chew on This: $10.6M for Chaw

Posted on May 22, 2009
In a victory sure to be hailed by professional baseball players everywhere, a Massachusetts judge is expected to give his approval today to a $10.65 million settlement of a class action lawsuit involving smokeless tobacco, the Boston Herald reports. Notably,...

The Best Weapon Against Pirates? Lawyers.

Posted on May 22, 2009
Call it Blackbeard meets Blackacre. In the early part of the 18th century, in the glory days of peg-legged, hook-handed pirates, it was not naval prowess that sunk their ships so much as the threat of lawyers nipping at their...

When the FCC Visits, It Doesn't Bother to Knock

Posted on May 22, 2009
If you have a wireless router, a cellphone or a cordless phone in your office or home, the Federal Communications Commission says it has the right to walk right in without a warrant at any time of the day or...

Friday Oddities

Posted on May 22, 2009
Is it that these things happen more frequently as the week rolls on or that I'm more in the mood to read them? 'Coldcocked' By Woman in Bar-Seat Spat, Fla. Lawyer Mulls Lawsuit. What would be really embarrassing for this...

More on Legal Issues Related to Twitter and Other Social Media

Posted on May 21, 2009
Who ever thought that a 140 character tweet could get you into so much trouble? If you haven't given the issue thought, fear not -- San Francisco-based Howard Rice Nemerovski Cannady Falk & Rabkin has done the work for you,...

Law Firm Sets Up Niche Practice to Dispute Other Lawyers' Fees

Posted on May 21, 2009
Manchester, England-based law firm Boote Edgar Esterkin has figured out a novel way to generate more revenue. Instead of charging clients more for the firm's services, Boote Edgar has created a new practice specialty going after other law firms for...

Lawyer on the Lam With Her Clients

Posted on May 21, 2009
It seems that Minnesota mom Colleen Hauser and her lawyer, Susan Daya prefer flight over fight -- fighting cancer, that is. The pair took to the road along with Hauser's cancer-stricken 13-yea-old son in defiance of a court ruling by...

Bloggers May Be Shielded in New York

Posted on May 21, 2009
Bloggers in New York may soon be treated on par with other journalists, at least when it comes to receiving protection under New York State's shield laws, reports the New York Times City Blog. Shield laws protect journalists from being...

Craigslist Sues and AG Backs Off

Posted on May 20, 2009
Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster announced on his blog this morning that he has filed a lawsuit against South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster over his repeated threats to file criminal charges against the company. "Mr. McMaster?s repeated threats of criminal...

Study: British Lawyers Get No Respect

Posted on May 20, 2009
Legal and other professionals play vital roles in supporting Britain's economic, political and social structures. Yet they don't get the respect they deserve, from either the government or the general public. That is the conclusion of a research report released...

Juror du Jour: Boredom His Downfall

Posted on May 20, 2009
Lesson to jurors: You can run, but you can't hide. Witness this item from today's news: A Hillsboro, Ore., man who left jury duty after lunch because he was "extremely bored" was due back at the courthouse Tuesday to be...

Court OKs Service of Summons on Facebook

Posted on May 20, 2009
In the latest twist involving the interface of law and social media, a court in New Zealand has given lawyers the go-ahead to serve process on a defendant in Britain by way of the social-networking site Facebook. A High Court...

It's Official: Nominee Is a Hispanic Woman

Posted on May 20, 2009
For all you out there who have been making short lists and debating the relative merits of the potential nominees, the wait is over. The nominee's name has been announced and, if approved, the female lawyer who has been selected...

Are Younger Workers More Vulnerable to Layoffs?

Posted on May 19, 2009
With a slumping economy forcing more companies to lay off employees, you might think that it's the higher-paid, older workers who are bearing the brunt of the terminations. But as Jane Genova points out at Law and More, millennials are...

Can You Ask Clients for Business?

Posted on May 19, 2009
Can -- and should -- lawyers ask prospective clients for business? That's the question Roy Ginsburg tackles today over at The Lawyerist. Ginsburg begins by noting that most states' ethics rules prohibit direct solicitation of business from prospective clients...

What Is the Million Dollar Advocates Forum?

Posted on May 19, 2009
Have you ever heard of, or been invited to join the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and wondered exactly what it is? So did Eric Turkewitz, who addresses that million dollar question at his New York Personal Injury Law Blog. Here's...

Corporations Turning to Social Networking to Find Lawyers

Posted on May 19, 2009
Maybe social networking for lawyers isn't a waste of time after all. The Am Law Daily carries an article by Amy Miller of Corporate Counsel Magazine describing how FMC Technologies, a Houston-based manufacturer, is bypassing conventional options for updating a...

Two Blawger Transitions to Note

Posted on May 18, 2009
What makes a blog worth reading? A distinctive voice. A unique topic. Smarts and savvy. Fearlessness. Those characteristics describe two legal blogs that are no more thanks to their writers moving on to other things. In writing Law Beat, Mark...

Nominees' Secrets and Secret Nominees

Posted on May 18, 2009
As the watch continues for who President Obama will nominate to fill the soon-to-be vacated Supreme Court seat of Justice David Souter, two stories in today's news explore the secret sides of the candidate short list. First up is Tony...

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