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File-Sharing Judge Accused of Conflicts

Posted on April 24, 2009
The Swedish judge who last week sentenced four men to prison in the high-profile Pirate Bay file-sharing case is being accused by the lawyer for one of the four of having conflicts of interest that should compel a new trial....

Cameras in Courts: Bad News, Good News

Posted on April 24, 2009
I took a few days off last week and was disappointed to return and find that the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had issued a decision barring the webcasting of a hearing in a recording industry file-sharing case pending...

The World's Most Ethical Companies

Posted on April 24, 2009
The Ethisphere Institute -- a think-tank that ponders best practices in business ethics and corporate responsibility -- recently came out with its 2009 list of the World?s Most Ethical Companies. The list recognizes enterprises that promote ethical business standards and...

Ohio Supreme Court Asks Lawyers to Pitch Its Web Site

Posted on April 23, 2009
Courts don't often encourage advertising by the legal profession. But the Supreme Court of Ohio may be an exception. As this article reports, the Ohio Supreme Court justices are urging members of the bar to actively promote the court's Web...

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Lawyer Arrested for Evicting Her Own Children -- From Her Car

Posted on April 23, 2009
Talk about Kafka-esque. That's what Sunday must have felt like for high-powered Kaye Scholer partner Madlyn Primoff, who spent the night in lock-up after being arrested for kicking her bickering 10- and 12-year-old daughters out of her car in downtown...

The End of Law Schools?

Posted on April 23, 2009
We've heard a good deal about legal futurist Richard Susskind's predictions for the future of the legal profession. But what about the future of legal education? Turns out that Susskind has some thoughts on that topic too, which he shared...

Law Firm Replacing Itself With Free Term Sheet Generator

Posted on April 23, 2009
At a time when law firms are scrambling to hang on to every piece of paid business that they can, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is giving away services for free. According to CenterNetworks, the firm has...

Incisive Media's Twitter Scorecard

Posted on April 22, 2009
Ashton Kutcher, who recently passed 1 million followers on Twitter, has no fear of losing his standing to anyone in legal publishing. Still, it is interesting to note this Bill's blog post from William L. Pollak, CEO of legal publisher...

Hoping to Revitalize Legal Scholarship

Posted on April 22, 2009
Is legal scholarship on its death bed? The current and former editors of several law reviews suggest it is and they believe they have a way to revitalize it. In what they are calling an unprecedented online collaboration, seven of...

Law Professor Wins Pulitzer Prize

Posted on April 22, 2009
The 2009 Pulitzer Prize for history was awarded this week to Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor of law at New York Law School. Gordon-Reed won the $10,000 prize for her book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, which the prize...

Law Blogger Runs Marathon, Finds Beer and Kisses

Posted on April 22, 2009
I missed watching the running of the 113th Boston Marathon this year. For many years, standing along the marathon route was a rite of spring for me. I went to Boston College Law School, just down the street from the...

Help Wanted: MoFo CMO

Posted on April 22, 2009
At a time when some law firms are paring back their marketing departments, at least one firm is hiring. The international law firm Morrison & Foerster has posted a help-wanted ad for a chief marketing officer at the Web site...

Can Using E-Mail Place Lawyers at Risk of Ethics Violations?

Posted on April 21, 2009
Generally distrustful of new technology, the legal profession has -- for at least a decade -- embraced e-mail as a secure means for communicating with clients. Indeed, even the ABA thinks nothing of letting lawyers have unencrypted e-mail communications with...

How Will the Law Firm of the Future Look?

Posted on April 21, 2009
From ongoing associate layoffs to cuts in partner pay to jiltings by major corporate clients, the future of BigLaw seems bleak indeed. So what better way to spring BigLaw attorneys from all of the doom and gloom than to appeal...

Will Bush Lawyers Face Jail Time for Legal Advice on Torture?

Posted on April 21, 2009
By now, most agree that John Yoo and other former Justice Department attorneys gave the Bush administration shoddy advice on the legality of torturing suspected terrorists. But was their advice criminal? As Bloomberg reports, President Obama is now saying that...

Bloggers Don't Outnumber Lawyers, Yet

Posted on April 21, 2009
Though blogging came on the scene just a decade ago, a recent survey claims that 452,000 people say blogging serves as their primary source of revenue, according to a recent Wall Street Journal story, posted in its entirety at Media...

Lawyer Owes Ethics Duty to Non-Client

Posted on April 20, 2009
Hat tip to the blog The Ethical Quandary for pointing out this potential ethical pitfall. The D.C. Bar Legal Ethics Committee has issued an opinion finding that a lawyer owes a duty to maintain the confidences of someone who never...

Webby Awards Announces Nominees for Law

Posted on April 20, 2009
Nominees were announced last week for the 13th annual Webby Awards, called by The New York Times the "Oscars of the Internet." The awards honor excellence in Web sites in more than 100 categories -- among them, law. The awards...

The Things Lawyers Do to Get Disbarred

Posted on April 20, 2009
I am an unabashed fan of Legal Profession Blog for its never-ceases-to-amaze chronicles of lawyer discipline from around the country. It's not that I take some perverse joy in seeing lawyers get disciplined -- I don't. It is just that...

Friday Law Link Roundup

Posted on April 17, 2009
-- The U.S. News law school rankings will be published next week, on April 23, unless they're leaked early (like last year). Last week, law professor and prolific blawger Brian Leiter wrote an open letter to law bloggers asking them...

We Caught a Pirate, Now What?

Posted on April 17, 2009
We've been hearing about those pesky Somali pirates for some time, but now that the United States has actually caught one red-handed, we're going to have to start dusting off old laws to figure out what to do with these...

No Spanish Inquisition After All, and No American One Either

Posted on April 16, 2009
On Tuesday we relayed a story from The Daily Beast claiming that "The Bush Six" -- the Bush administration lawyers accused of greenlighting the use of torture in America's war on terror -- were about to be indicted by Spanish...

Legal Blog Watch Is Looking for Guest Bloggers

Posted on April 16, 2009
Legal Blog Watch has been humming along since 2004 (we're almost ancient in blawg years!) with only a handful of authors churning out daily reports on the latest issues and ideas in the legal blogosphere. For much of that time,...

Alleged Fraudster Used Law Firms to Cover His Tracks

Posted on April 16, 2009
The Wall Street Journal went whaling on Thursday, and it looks like it speared a big one (even if the paper missed Moby Dick himself). A fascinating front-page story digs into the details of Private Equity Management Group CEO Danny...

Law Firms Liable for Defective Process Servers

Posted on April 15, 2009
United Press International reports that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has filed criminal charges against American Legal Process of Long Island, a process service company that failed to provide notice of debt-related lawsuits to consumers. As a result, consumers...

Online Social Networking Tied to Lower GPA, Ohio Study Says

Posted on April 15, 2009
It probably comes as no surprise, but Facebook use has a negative impact on academic performance, according to a recent study done by The Ohio State University, which comes courtesy of John Wallbillich of the Wired GC. According to the...

Northwestern Bridges the Gap for Unemployed Law Grads

Posted on April 15, 2009
In a down economy, law schools are having a tough time helping students find employment. Ever resourceful, Northwestern Law School (which last year proposed a two-year JD program) has found a way to assist students and alumni while they're on...

'Bush Six' Lawyers Await Their Spanish Inquisition

Posted on April 14, 2009
New York lawyer, law professor and American Lawyer contributor Scott Horton brings us an update on the Spanish case against former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five other former Bush Administration officials over their role in the so-called "torture memo"...

El Rushbo Opines on the Lawyers of Silicone Valley

Posted on April 14, 2009
It's not that we avoid the purely scandalous stories here at Legal Blog Watch, but the dictates of good taste and editorial relevance sometimes keep us from mentioning certain stories about lawyers out there in the vastness of the Internet....

Blawg Review #207 -- All the News That Fits

Posted on April 13, 2009
Perhaps if today's traditional newspapers took a virtual page from Jordan Furlong at Law 21, they wouldn't find themselves in such a sorry state. Furlong's Blawg Review #207 is structured to resemble your local newspaper, complete with sections like News,...

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