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Patent Application Filings Decline, but Why?

Posted on April 13, 2009
Isn't innovation supposed to be recession-proof? Apparently not, at least if the number of patent filings for fiscal year 2009 is any indication. According to Dennis Crouch at Patently-O, original utility application patent filings have slowed in 2009...

What Would You Do With $80,000?

Posted on April 13, 2009
What would you do if your law firm handed you $80,000 and said that you could do whatever you wanted for the year? Would you turn down the cash and stay put at your law firm job, earning triple that...

Juries Threatened by Sinking Economy

Posted on April 13, 2009
The economy is making it harder for the courts to find willing jurors, reports the Connecticut Law Tribune. Increasingly, prospective jurors are expressing concern that taking too much time off from work for jury duty might mean losing their jobs....

Disbarred for Yelling at Law Clerk

Posted on April 10, 2009
Be kind to a judge's law clerk. That is the moral of a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision this week upholding the one-year disbarment from federal court of a lawyer who did not take kindly to the law...

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Bernanke to Speak at BC Law Graduation

Posted on April 10, 2009
One thing for sure about this year's commencement speaker at Boston College Law School: He is sure to be far less controversial than last year's. The BC Law school blog Eagleionline is reporting that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke...

Was Life at BigLaw Just One Big Waste?

Posted on April 09, 2009
In an op-ed piece in today's Wall Street Journal, controversial author-turned-lawyer Elizbeth Wurtzel (you read that correctly, she gained fame as an author and then became a corporate lawyer) ruminates on whether time spent working at BigLaw was really just...

BigLaw Salaries Likely to Shrink, But No One Wants to Make the First Cut

Posted on April 09, 2009
With layoffs on the rise, cutting associate salaries seems like a no-brainer. But as The Legal Intelligencer reports, we haven't seen mass salary cuts yet primarily because no one wants to be first. Though some firm leaders disagreed with the...

Recession Increases Bartering

Posted on April 09, 2009
Bartering is making a comeback during the recession, reports The Washington Times. These days, traffic is up on Craigslist due in part to service providers willing to make a deal. For example, unemployed sales representative Rachelle Dixon helped a salon...

Technology Outpaces Reasons to Keep PACER a Fee-Based Service

Posted on April 09, 2009
My colleague Bob Ambrogi has posted several times on open government advocate Carl Malamud's efforts to liberate all court documents from their password-protected chains. But how much progress are Malamud and others making toward the goal of free, open access?...

No New Trial for Juror's Tweets

Posted on April 08, 2009
Remember the Twitter-loving juror who boastfully tweeted to the world at large that he and his fellow panel members has just given away $12 million? As we wrote here last month, the defendant whose pocketbook was hit in that Arkansas...

Big Business Is Dumping BigLaw

Posted on April 08, 2009
After writing here Monday about Richard Susskind's predictions for the future of legal services and the importance that multisourcing will come to play, I heard from Bloomberg legal reporter Cynthia Cotts, who wrote a story this week that is right...

Is Charles Nesson Brilliant or Insane?

Posted on April 08, 2009
Just last week, I happened to be talking to someone who knows Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson and asked him his impression. The person described him as "brilliant," then adding after a moment, "and eccentric." It is safe to conclude...

In Other News, Jesus Draws a Hung Jury

Posted on April 08, 2009
Some short takes from around the legal blogosphere: Tex Parte Blog notes the new book, "Jesus on Death Row: The Trial of Jesus and American Capital Punishment." Author Mark Osler, a Baylor University law professor, says he was inspired to...

DOJ Lawyers Need Training on Rules of Evidence

Posted on April 07, 2009
Send those DOJ lawyers back to law school for training on rules of evidence and Crim Law 101! According to The BLT, that was Judge Emmet Sullivan's message to government prosecutors during today's hearing on the government's motion to dismiss...

Calif. Court Rules What's MySpace Is Yours

Posted on April 07, 2009
Are comments posted on a MySpace or Facebook page considered public information, freely available for publication? That's the question that a California state appeals court recently decided in a case involving a suit by a UC Berkeley student against a...

Building a Better Legal Profession, but for Whom?

Posted on April 07, 2009
Nearly two years ago to the day, the law student group Building a Better Legal Profession came on the scene, intent on using its collective bargaining power and impressive top-tier law school credentials to force law firms to sign on...

Should Use of Open Wi-Fi Be Criminalized?

Posted on April 07, 2009
Let's say you're out of town on a business trip and you need to check e-mail. So you fire up your laptop in search of a connection and go online. Though you may not realize it, you may just have...

The Top GCs, Here and Abroad

Posted on April 06, 2009
The National Law Journal is out with its first-ever Profiles in Power, its listing of the 20 most influential general counsel in America. And in the same week that the NLJ released its list, the International Law Office announced the...

Blawg Review Toasts the Scottish

Posted on April 06, 2009
No doubt you are all busy with your bagpipes and kilts for Tartan Week, a celebration of Scottish heritage by its transplants here in the United States. Joining in the festivities is Blawg Review, which has recruited lawyer and Scottish...

Techshow Feast and Famine

Posted on April 06, 2009
I wrote in a separate post today to praise Richard Susskind's keynote address at ABA Techshow last week. I was not the only Law.com blogger who was at the show. My colleague in writing this blog, Carolyn Elefant, was there,...

Richard Susskind on the End of Lawyers

Posted on April 06, 2009
I spent the tail end of last week at ABA Techshow in Chicago. It was a good conference in many ways. But the highlight for me was the keynote address delivered Thursday by Richard Susskind, the legal technology consultant, adviser,...

One Last Appointment With the Dictaphone Doctor

Posted on April 03, 2009
Here at Legal Blog Watch we like to mark the passing into obscurity of certain trappings and technologies of the lawyer's life (for better or worse, there are always a few tradition-bound codgers who refuse to let things become completely...

Conference Watch Part 3: LMA in Maryland, M&A in New Orleans

Posted on April 02, 2009
We've already talked about two legal conferences going on this week, but two more shows are taking place right now. (Is it always this busy in April or did all the conference organizers just figure lawyers didn't have anything better...

Conference Watch Part 2: ABA Tweetshow

Posted on April 02, 2009
D.C. isn't the only town with a lawyer party tonight. ABA Techshow 2009 kicked off over in Chicago today. The three-day conference began with a keynote by legal IT expert Richard Susskind, who is, well, kind of a big deal....

Conference Watch Part 1: The News From NALP

Posted on April 02, 2009
NALP -- the nonprofit formerly known as the National Association for Legal Placement -- is holding its Annual Education Conference in D.C. this week, and as we near the end of day two the reports so far are more or...

Martindale-Hubbell Wants You to Get Connected

Posted on April 01, 2009
This week, venerable Martindale-Hubbell steps into the online social networking fray with Martindale-Hubbell Connected. M-H Connected joins an already saturated field, including big players like the ABA , with its site Legally Minded. My colleague Bob Ambrogi reviewed the ABA's...

April Fools' -- Not a Great Day for Serious Blogging

Posted on April 01, 2009
As you know, my colleague Bob Ambrogi and I alternate days for posting here at Legal Blog Watch. So I was dismayed to see that once again, I'd drawn April 1, or April Fools' Day. Let's just say it's a...

Like 'Craigslist for Lawyers'

Posted on April 01, 2009
The American Lawyer interviews Laurel Edgeworth, a lawyer and creator of a new Web site that's bound to be a hit with recently unemployed lawyers as well as new grads who can't find jobs: Law Clerk Connection. Working as a...

Department of Justice Changes Its Tune on D.C. Voting Rights

Posted on April 01, 2009
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation's top lawyer, overruled the opinions of his own lawyers within the Office of Legal Counsel on the question of the constitutionality of giving the District of Columbia voting rights in the House of...

Twitter Doesn't Stack Up for Law Librarians

Posted on March 31, 2009
The folks at Law Librarian Blog wondered whether law librarians use Twitter. So they took a poll. The outcome: Most law librarians do not use Twitter for library-related purposes and have no plans to tweet anytime soon. The admittedly unscientific...

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