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By Lisa Stone

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

Lawyer Sues Playboy for Harassment

Posted on March 31, 2009
A Chicago divorce lawyer who put up billboards around Chicago showing her in skimpy black lingerie and who then posed nude and wrote a legal advice column for Playboy is now suing Playboy for sexual harassment. Corri D. Fetman yesterday...

Love in the Age of Legal Blogs

Posted on March 31, 2009
Given that this is Legal Blog Watch, we tend to watch what is happening out there in the world of legal blogs. We've seen blawgers come, blawgers go, blawgers rise in popularity and blawgers fall in popularity. But here is...

Corporate Scorecard 2009: Annus Horribilis

Posted on March 31, 2009
For anyone who lived through 2008, no Latin training is required to understand the import of the phrase annus horribilis. That is the phrase used by the editors of The American Lawyer to describe the state of corporate law practice...

Another Social Media Site for the Legal Community

Posted on March 30, 2009
Ho hum. Another day, another social media site for the legal community. This time, reports The Shark, it's Advanced Advocates, which bills itself as the first "worldwide collaborative platform for law students." Translated into current parlance, that's "Facebook for law...

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Blawg Review #205 at Declarations and Exclusions

Posted on March 30, 2009
This week, Blawg Review #205 comes to Declarations and Exclusions, and it's a multimedia extravaganza featuring English composer Gustav Holt's orchestral suite, "The Planets," as both a theme and background music. Anne Reed of Deliberations is included in the Venus...

Lawyers Flocking to Chinese Drywall Cases

Posted on March 30, 2009
Another week, another new practice area. This time, the focus of attention is Chinese drywall, a possibly defective drywall product installed in houses that is spawning claims nationwide, reports Bradenton Herald.com. (See previous reports here and here...

Expert Witness in Poker Case Takes No Chances

Posted on March 30, 2009
Over the past few months, courts have been addressing the question of whether games like poker or Texas Hold 'Em depend on luck or skill. The question is important because, typically, state gambling laws outlaw games based entirely on chance...

Lawyers, Dominatrix Whip Up Mortgage Scam

Posted on March 27, 2009
Three Long Island lawyers stand accused of teaming up with a Manhattan dominatrix and a Manhattan fetish club to run a $50 million mortgage scam. Prosecutors allege the lawyers were part of a scheme that took out mortgages on more...

New to the Blawgosphere: Incisive's CEO

Posted on March 27, 2009
When William L. Pollak, CEO of legal media giant Incisive Media's operations in North America, launched Bill's blog, his thought was that it would be read only by the company's employees. But he soon realized, as he wrote there recently,...

An Appellate Victory for Working Moms

Posted on March 27, 2009
By all accounts, Laurie Chadwick had been a stellar employee in the Maine office of insurance company Wellpoint Inc. Hired in 1997, she was promoted in 1999 to the position of recovery specialist II with responsibility for pursuing overpayment claims...

First Amendment Protects Lawyer Who Asked to Tickle Kids

Posted on March 27, 2009
On at least four occasions in 2008, Charles R. Douglas, a lawyer in Glen Carbon, Ill., allegedly approached parents in a local park and asked if he could tickle their kids. In one case, he asked a mother if she...

Law Student Organizing Loan Forgiveness Drive

Posted on March 26, 2009
Student loan forgiveness is a familiar concept for lawyers. As I've written before, many law schools and even Congress have devised loan forgiveness programs to ease the debt burden for graduates working in low paying public interest or government jobs...

Talk About Turnover

Posted on March 26, 2009
Many of us have grown immune to the daily layoff announcements. Still, we tend to forget that even before the economy tanked, law firms fired associates, many times for merit-based reasons rather than financial necessity. This advice column from The....

Law Suit Against Data Storage Company

Posted on March 26, 2009
As data storage and security moves online, expect to see more lawsuits like this one, by online storage service provider Carbonite, against a storage vendor. Carbonite contends that the vendor's $3 million hardware package did not perform as specified, causing...

Going Green to Make More Green

Posted on March 26, 2009
For lawyers seeking to establish or retain an edge in a green-building practice, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) makes the perfect accessory by demonstrating to clients a deep understanding of green building best practices and principles established by...

'Flipping the Bird' is Protected Speech

Posted on March 25, 2009
A Pittsburgh motorist was exercising his constitutional right of free speech when he gave the finger to a police officer and another driver during an argument over a parking space. U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone ruled this week that...

WIPO Rules in Fight over 'Virtual Sex'

Posted on March 25, 2009
It was the battle of the Internet porn sites at the World Intellectual Property Organization as two California companies sparred for rights to the domain name "virtualsex.com." In one corner was the company that claimed to have coined the term...

From Law School to Solo: Is it Criminal?

Posted on March 25, 2009
An interesting discussion is going on among the blogosphere's criminal defense bar. The question under debate is whether someone straight out of law school should go directly into a solo criminal defense practice. New York criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield...

Privilege Withstands Client's Threats to Judge

Posted on March 25, 2009
Here is a scenario that sounds like a law school exam question. It was after midnight when the client began to leave a series of six messages on the lawyer's answering machine. In the first, the client said that he...

Aren't Students Doing Cost-Benefit Analyses of Law School?

Posted on March 24, 2009
Even before the economy took a turn for the worse, many law students had trouble finding employment after graduation. Recall, for example, Kirsten Wolf, the Boston University Law School grad who couldn't find a job and made it her one-woman...

Another Lucrative Practice Area: Britney Spears

Posted on March 24, 2009
So, maybe your firm hasn't gotten a piece the Bernie Madoff work, which has spawned a practice area unto itself. No worries, there's always Britney Spears. Today's Los Angeles Times carries a story devoted to Spears' extensive legal team, showing...

Electronic Discovery and Facebook

Posted on March 24, 2009
In responding to discovery requests, must clients disclose information posted on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and other similar social media sites, even where they've blocked their accounts from public access? Absolutely, says Canadian decision Leduc v. Roman, 2009 CanLII 6838 (ON...

So Much for the End of the Billable Hour

Posted on March 24, 2009
So much for the death of the billable hour. When it comes to Madoff-related litigation, lawyers across the pond are still commanding the $1,000+/hour billable rates that I'd thought were so two years ago. According to Bloomberg, clients are paying...

The Wolf Block Postmortem

Posted on March 24, 2009
Looks like it's d�j� vu all over again with yesterday's collapse of mid-size Philadelphia-based law firm Wolf Block. As with last year's demise of firms like Thacher Profitt, Thelen and Heller Ehrman, Wolf Block's failure, as described by The Legal...

Blawg Review Goes Above the Law

Posted on March 23, 2009
What's next? Will Page Six take over Washington Week? So I wondered when I saw that the "legal tabloid" blog Above the Law had taken on responsibility for this week's Blawg Review. It was to be an installment of Blawg...

U.S. Sides with RIAA in Filesharing Case

Posted on March 23, 2009
Purchase a song online and it will cost you, at most, 99 cents. Download the song via filesharing and it can cost you anywhere from $750 to $30,000. That is the range of statutory damages allowed under federal law for...

Torture in Our Nation's Prisons

Posted on March 23, 2009
Setting aside Jack Bauer, the United States does not engage in torture, right? Just last night on "60 Minutes," President Obama reaffirmed that. "I think that Vice President Cheney has been at the head of a movement whose notion is...

U.K. Legal Publisher Shutters Journal, Awards

Posted on March 23, 2009
The U.K. legal publisher Legalease Ltd. will no longer hand out annual awards in legal technology and legal marketing and will discontinue its quarterly magazine Legal Technology Journal and the magazine's Legal Technology Update e-mail alert. A notice on the...

Friday Law Link Roundup

Posted on March 20, 2009
-- What's the worst part of being the other B. Madoff? It's not just the lawyer ads that pop up on Google under the headline "Madoff Ponzi Victim?" when you do a Google search for Madoff Productions, owned by Ben...

Skadden Lawyers Jump on the Start-Up Law Firm Bandwagon

Posted on March 20, 2009
Two weeks back, my colleague Bob Ambrogi wrote that "solo is the new SoHo,"arguing that solo practice is fast becoming a top career option for laid-off lawyers. It seems that two Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom litigators, Andrew Sandler...

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