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Collection Lawsuits on the Rise

Posted on March 20, 2009
With the economy down, lawsuits against collection agencies in the Northern District of Alabama almost quadrupled, reports The Birmingham News. This past year, 158 lawsuits were filed against collection agencies and credit bureaus for violations of the Fair Debt Collection...

An Old-School Approach to Social Networking

Posted on March 19, 2009
If you are an old-school lawyer who remains undecided about whether to belly up to social networking, then Evan Schaeffer may have just the networking recipe you've been waiting for. He was reluctant himself to try yet another network, he...

Wikipedian Justice in India's Courts

Posted on March 19, 2009
Intrigued by an article in The New York Times about the increasing citation of Wikipedia by judges in the United States, Raghav Sharma wondered whether judges in India were also increasing their use of this collaboratively edited encyclopedia. Sharma, a...

Good News for Court-Appointed Lawyers

Posted on March 19, 2009
Yesterday was the 46th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, the Supreme Court's 1963 decision holding that states have a constitutional obligation to provide court-appointed lawyers for indigent criminal defendants. "In our adversary system of criminal justice, any person haled into...

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Divorce as a Networking Opportunity

Posted on March 19, 2009
With social networking all the rage, the latest such site to launch seeks to unite the worldwide community of spurned spouses. Divorce Network launched yesterday as a social networking platform for anyone affected by, contemplating or going through a divorce...

BigLaw Partners Duke It Out Over the Billable Hour

Posted on March 18, 2009
Back in January Cravath Swaine & Moore head partner Evan Chesler fired the legal profession's equivalent of the shot heard round the world when he called for the end of the billable hour. Now, U.K.-based publication The Lawyer is reporting...

Should Empathy Be a Standard for Judging a Judge?

Posted on March 18, 2009
When it comes to evaluating nominees to the federal bench -- particularly to appellate courts and the Supreme Court -- presidents typically focus on the candidates' legal skills and intellectual acumen. And indeed, the public has come to expect stellar...

Some Lawyers Enjoying Unemployment

Posted on March 18, 2009
While some newly unemployed lawyers are frantically scrambling to find any job, even if it means working for free, others are using their newfound free time and generous severance pay to party the night away, according to Charlotte, N.C.-based radio....

Some Firms Still Finding an Upside in the Downturn

Posted on March 18, 2009
Over at the Law Marketing Blog, Larry Bodine writes that in spite of the economic downturn, some firms are still doing quite well, thank you very much. But how are they doing it? For that, Bodine turns to an analysis...

Twittering on the Brink of Mistrial

Posted on March 17, 2009
We knew this would happen. It was only a matter of time before a juror would get caught tweeting. But twice in the same week? First came the news, reported yesterday on Law.com (via AP), that a defendant hit with...

In Search of Sunshine in Government

Posted on March 17, 2009
It is Sunshine Week, a national initiative focused on the importance of open government and freedom of information. Sunshine Week is led by the American Society of Newspaper Editors and its participants include the news media, civic groups, libraries, schools...

Former Law Dean is Headed to Paradise

Posted on March 17, 2009
David Hall, the former dean of Northeastern University School of Law in Boston and still a professor of law there, is on his way to Paradise -- America's Paradise, that is, aka the U.S. Virgin Islands. On Saturday, the board...

Thoughts on NLJ/Legal Times Merger

Posted on March 17, 2009
Several blogs commented yesterday on Incisive Media's announcement that it will merge The National Law Journal and Legal Times. Having served a stint as the NLJ's editor-in-chief, I was on the fence about expressing my opinion about the merger. However,...

Is the President Powerless to Stop AIG Bonus Payouts?

Posted on March 16, 2009
Yesterday The New York Times reported that AIG, which received more than $170 billion in taxpayer bailout money, planned to pay $165 million in bonuses to executives who worked in the AIG business unit responsible for the company's financial collapse...

Lawyers Can't Even Find Work for Free

Posted on March 16, 2009
Pity poor Jeremy Dyme, a former fourth-year law firm associate. Dyme's New York firm shut its doors at the end of 2008 and he's not been able to find a job since -- even though he's ready, willing and able...

Business School Comes Under Criticism

Posted on March 16, 2009
Looks like law schools aren't the only institutions of higher education to come under criticism for failing to prepare lawyers for the real world. Now, via Wired GC, comes a link to this New York Times piece that discusses whether...

Do We Pay Partners Less Than Associates? Dewey Does

Posted on March 16, 2009
Even as associate layoffs at top law firms have become a near-daily occurrence, most partners have avoided the fate of their underlings. But how much longer can partners insulate themselves from the impacts of the economic downturn? Not much longer...

The First Amendment's Fair Weather Friends

Posted on March 13, 2009
Kristen Juras, the University of Montana law professor who is trying to shut down a student-written sex column (see here) would do well to read an opinion piece published this week by one of the nation's preeminent First Amendment lawyers,...

Law Prof Battles Student Sex Column

Posted on March 13, 2009
Just a few days ago, I was praising the University of Montana for its innovative Grace Case Project teaming law and journalism students to cover the conspiracy prosecution of W.R. Grace & Co. Now from the same school comes a...

Abolish IP Law, Save the Economy

Posted on March 13, 2009
Two economists at Washington University in St. Louis say they know how to revive the economy -- and it doesn't involve a single bailout. Their proposal is to abolish patent and copyright law. These laws serve only to discourage innovation...

The Madoff Roundup

Posted on March 12, 2009
Today's legal news was dominated by Bernie Madoff's entry of a guilty plea to eleven charges -- including securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering and making a false filing to the SEC -- all tied to his alleged...

Judge Suspended for Getting Discount Divorce in Exchange for Referrals

Posted on March 12, 2009
A Minnesota judge will be benched without pay for six months for steering business to a divorce lawyer who represented the judge in his divorce proceeding and gave him a $63,503 discount off of his $108,876 bill, reports the Star...

Is It Time to Change the LSAT?

Posted on March 12, 2009
Few lawyers who've taken the LSAT can identify any connection between the exam's largely theoretical questions and the actual practice of law. So it's no surprise that two professors at the University of California agree that the LSAT is a...

Federal Judge Chastens Harvard Law Prof

Posted on March 11, 2009
Legal advocacy and legal education may not always be the best of bedfellows, it turns out. A Harvard law professor's efforts to combine the two while defending a file-sharing case earned him an admonishment this week from a federal judge...

Lawyer Loses Bid to Get Patent on Marketing

Posted on March 11, 2009
California lawyer Scott C. Harris hoped to get the patent on marketing. But his hopes were dashed this week when the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that a marketing business is not the sort of subject matter...

Defenses Flop, but at Least They Were Creative

Posted on March 11, 2009
One has to hand it to Antonio Cruzado Jr. -- or at least to his lawyer -- for being creative in his defense. Sure, he sped off in the car he'd just stolen with one Christopher Adams clinging to the...

Bruce MacEwen Explains the 'Great De-Leveraging'

Posted on March 10, 2009
Bruce MacEwen's blog, Adam Smith, Esq., carries a masterpiece this week. "The Great De-Leveraging" explores whether leverage (the ratio of associates to partners) is still part of a sensible business model for law firms. It turns out the answer isn't...

Lawyers Break CrackBerry Addiction With iPhones

Posted on March 10, 2009
Forget the CrackBerry addiction -- that's so late-'90s. Increasingly, lawyers are jumping ship from BlackBerrys to iPhones, reports PC World. According to the article:The iPhone's big screen, slick interface and easy-to-use touchpad makes it an enticing device...

Harrison Bergeron, Esq.

Posted on March 10, 2009
Is the average intelligence of lawyers on the decline? In the U.K., The Lawyer reports on a study carried out by the Centre for Market and Public Organisation at the University of Bristol that suggests lawyers have moved closer to...

Is Offshoring Document Review a Duty When It's the Cheapest Option?

Posted on March 10, 2009
When offshoring document review is the cheapest option, are law firms ethically obligated to outsource the work, or at the very least inform clients of its existence? That's the question Mark Ross ponders in this column at Immigration Daily. Ross...

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