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Lawyer Urges Officials: Keep Off Facebook

Posted on May 18, 2009
The law sometimes lags behind technology. One area where this is much apparent is in the law of public access. Many states' public records and open meeting laws were enacted years ago -- in some cases even before the Internet...

Group Seeks Disbarment of 'Torture Lawyers'

Posted on May 18, 2009
A group of antiwar activists is filing a series of legal ethics complaints today seeking the disbarment of 12 Bush-administration lawyers for their alleged roles in condoning torture. The complaints target a sitting federal circuit judge, Jay S. Bybee; three...

Supermarket Legal Services Coming to the U.K.

Posted on May 15, 2009
Five apples, a dozen eggs, a liter of milk, two wills and a lease. That's what a grocery list could might look like in supermarkets in England and Wales by the middle of 2011, according to the BBC. Under the...

Law Firm Markup of Research Costs: Annoying or Unlawful?

Posted on May 15, 2009
Virtually every law firm that subscribes to commercial, computerized legal research providers like LexisNexis or Westlaw pays a flat rate for unlimited searches. Even so, the companies will ordinarily provide a breakdown of the per-minute cost of each individual search,...

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For Expat Lawyers, a Return Passage to India

Posted on May 15, 2009
Roughly a year ago, I posted about law firms in India boosting salaries to retain talented lawyers who might be lured by firms from abroad. But with the economy down, Indian lawyers who joined U.K. firms during the boom periods...

Rules of Conduct for Social Networking

Posted on May 14, 2009
Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal gave its editorial staffers a set of rules for how to conduct themselves online and, in particular, on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The news got me to thinking about...

New York AG Appears Miffed at Craigslist

Posted on May 14, 2009
The attorneys general of Illinois, Connecticut and Missouri were claiming victory yesterday in the wake of the announcement by Craigslist that it would eliminate its Erotic Services ads and replace that section of its site with a yet-to-be-named adult category...

A Milestone for This Blog's Founder

Posted on May 14, 2009
Long, long, long-time readers of Legal Blog Watch will remember that its original writer -- and still its inspiring voice -- was Lisa Stone. She launched this blog way back in November 2004 and in February 2006 handed over its...

Law Firm 'Pyramid' Sees Thinning at Base

Posted on May 14, 2009
Take a pyramid, squeeze in its base, and what are you left with? A diamond. The model will no doubt need polishing, but the diamond may come to better represent the structure of law firm staffing than the pyramid, suggests...

More Commentary on How to Judge a Justice

Posted on May 13, 2009
As suspense grows over the naming of President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, so too does discussion in the blogosphere about how to judge the future Justice. For all the talk of nominating a woman, a recent Gallup poll shows that...

Philadelphia Law Firms Making 'Market Corrections'

Posted on May 13, 2009
Yesterday, The Am Law Daily reported that large law firms don't expect to make any radical changes in response to the economic downturn. Instead, firms are making modest "market corrections" such as cutting attorneys (both associates and partners), and relying...

Study Shows Female Lawyers Willing to Leave Firms to Get a Life

Posted on May 13, 2009
Female lawyers are willing to leave law firms to get a life, concluded a recent study by Rutgers University's Center for Women and Work, "Legal Talent at the Crossroads: Why Women Lawyers Leave Firms and Why They Choose to Stay."...

Recession Sends Lawyers Into the Clouds

Posted on May 13, 2009
For years, the legal profession lagged behind other industries in adopting cloud computing technologies, which encompass a range of services -- platforms, infrastructure and software -- delivered over the Internet, instead of residing on local computers...

Gitmo Litigation: More Kafka Than Kafka

Posted on May 12, 2009
This Sunday magazine piece from The Chicago Tribune, The Guantanamo Labyrinth, by Tom Hundley, is the best description I've read of what it is like to be a lawyer representing a Guantanamo detainee. The story focuses on Candace Gorman, a...

Booty Vids Haunt Supreme Court Hopefuls

Posted on May 12, 2009
We're not saying that any of the upstanding members of the legal profession who are rumored to be under consideration for the Supreme Court ever made booty videos -- come to think of it, we hope and pray they did...

ABA Announces 2009 Silver Gavel Awards

Posted on May 12, 2009
The top federal public defender in Oregon and a former actor on The Sopranos who became a lawyer are among the winners of this year's Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts from the American Bar Association. The awards...

Law Firm Partner Isn't An Adequate Substitute for Defendant's First Choice of Lawyer

Posted on May 11, 2009
A criminal defendant can't be forced to settle for representation by his lawyer's partner when the lawyer he hired is unavailable for trial, ruled the Maryland Court of Appeals in Miguel Gonzales v. State of Maryland. As the Maryland Daily...

The True Toll of Unemployment

Posted on May 11, 2009
These days, losing a law firm job doesn't necessarily mean a complete loss of income with most firms offering some kind of severance -- either two to five months worth of salary, or several months of pre-termination notice. Still, financial...

On-Campus Online Notoriety Continues to Haunt Graduates

Posted on May 11, 2009
Remember the saga of attorney Shakespear Feyissa He's the Washington state lawyer whose never-prosecuted arrest for attempted sexual assault and ensuing suspension from college continues to shadow him 10 years later because coverage of the incident remained search-engine-accessible in his...

Why Not Doctor a Stalled Legal Career With a Nursing Degree?

Posted on May 11, 2009
Last week, Above the Law readers discussed whether returning to school for an LLM degree is a good option for laid off lawyers. Most commenters agreed that in today's economy, an LLM is a waste of both money and time....

Friday Blawgosphere Buzz

Posted on May 08, 2009
Here is a round-up of what legal bloggers are buzzing about on this Friday before Mother's Day: Are You Fit for Solo Practice? Stephen Seckler hones in on an essential quality of every entrepreneur. Study Projects Growth in Corporate Legal...

A Year Later, Lawyer Remains Missing

Posted on May 08, 2009
It has been more than a year since lawyer Elizabeth Calvert and her husband John disappeared from Hilton Head, S.C., where they lived part time on their yacht, and police still are not sure what happened to them. The couple...

Law Profs Urge Non-Judge for Souter Seat

Posted on May 08, 2009
Two former Supreme Court law clerks who are now highly regarded law professors and Supreme Court scholars are urging President Obama to to fill retiring Justice David Souter's seat with someone who will bring to the court a different set...

Lawyer/Escort Unhappy with Exposure

Posted on May 08, 2009
A Rhode Island escort told police that a man who called her for an appointment attacked her at knife point when she arrived at his apartment last week, according to The Providence Journal. Not the kind of item we usually...

Do We Need Ethics Rules on Ex Parte Blogging?

Posted on May 07, 2009
With postings on legal blogs now offering prompt, detailed and readily accessible analysis of Supreme Court cases, is it time to re-evaluate the ethical standards that govern the interplay between lawyers, the Internet, and the Court? That's the money question...

Representing Illinois Governors In Prosecutions Isn't High Paying Work

Posted on May 07, 2009
Defending a former Illinois governor in a criminal prosecution may seem like a terrific high-profile gig, but don't expect to get rich off of it. According to the Chicago Sun-Times blog, lawyers representing ex-governor Rod Blagojevich have agreed to give...

Bar Complaints Rather Than Criminal Prosecution Likely for Bush Lawyers

Posted on May 07, 2009
It's unlikely that former Bush administration lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee will face criminal prosecution for approving the legality of harsh interrogation tactics for terrorism suspects, reports The Washington Post. Instead, sources say that a forthcoming Justice Department investigative...

Potential Confidentiality Perils of Twitter

Posted on May 07, 2009
This Washington Post piece about a low-level editorial assistant who inadvertently spilled the beans on Twitter about the start date of a Virginia gubernatorial candidate's television campaign doesn't involve a lawyer, but holds cautionary lessons nonetheless...

Folos: Commencement Speakers and Webby Awards

Posted on May 06, 2009
We noted here last month that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke was on tap to speak at this year's Boston College Law School commencement and reported earlier on UNC School of Law's d�j�-vu-ish choice of former U.S. Attorney General...

Diversity, Redefined, Yields Intriguing Results

Posted on May 06, 2009
What is the measure of diversity within a law firm? The obvious approach is to look at the raw percentage of minorities within a firm. And that, in past years, has been how The Minority Law Journal calculated its annual...

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