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Obama's Botched Oath of Office

Posted on January 21, 2009
By now, even those who didn't watch yesterday's inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama have heard about the debacle surrounding his oath of office, or "Oaf of Office" as the New York Post put it. As described by the New York...

Some Partners Still Seeing Profits

Posted on January 21, 2009
Since the start of 2008, many observers predicted that law firms would experience decreased revenues and diminished profits per equity partner (PPP) for the year. But so far, a handful of law firms are reporting modest increases. Earlier today, The...

World Court Finds U.S. Guilty as Charged

Posted on January 20, 2009
The International Court of Justice at The Hague in the Netherlands ruled unanimously yesterday that the United States violated international law by failing to stop Texas from executing a Mexican national last summer, Lyle Denniston reports at SCOTUSblog...

Supreme Discomfort on Inauguration Day

Posted on January 20, 2009
Will there be a hint of frost in the air today as Barack Obama is inaugurated as president of the United States? I am not referring to the weather; the frost I am talking about would come from the chilly...

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Lawyers Celebrate Inaugural With Cash

Posted on January 20, 2009
It is a festive time to be in the nation's capital and law firms are at least partly to thank. Marcia Coyle writes today in The National Law Journal that lawyers and law firms are a major financial force behind...

A Long Weekend's Legal Link Wrap

Posted on January 20, 2009
It was a long weekend for some, a work weekend for others. But legal blogs and legal news kept on rolling. Here is some of what has happened since Friday: The Martin Luther King Jr. Day Edition of Blawg Review...

Trade Secret Ruling Crashes DUI Cases

Posted on January 16, 2009
A manufacturer's refusal to reveal the source code for its breath machines to test blood-alcohol content could cripple hundreds of prosecutions of suspected drunk drivers in Florida. An appeals court has upheld the rulings of two trial court judges that...

Nancy Gertner: New Media Judge

Posted on January 16, 2009
U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner gets new media. She was the first judge in Massachusetts to blog, she has appeared as a guest on at least one podcast that I happen to know of, and this week she entered a...

Early End to Depo Put Lawyer on Flight

Posted on January 16, 2009
Lawyer Michael M. Nunn was no doubt happy about the early end to the deposition that had brought him to New York. Worried that bad weather was on the way, he went straight to LaGuardia and was able to get...

Geese in Engines, Vultures on Land?

Posted on January 16, 2009
Passengers on U.S. Air flight 1549 had barely found time to thank their lucky stars yesterday when Carl Malamud, founder of public.resource.org, discovered a legal referral Web site offering legal assistance to those involved in the Hudson plane crash...

Partner Confidence at All-Time Low, but Some Bright Spots Remain

Posted on January 15, 2009
It's no surprise, but law firm managing partners aren't very optimistic about the health of the economy, says Legal Times. The paper cites Citi Private Bank's Law Watch Managing Partner Confidence Index, whose fourth quarter findings show that managing partners'...

Former Lawyer's Infidelity Agency Called a Bitter Success

Posted on January 15, 2009
They say the law is a jealous mistress. If that's the case, then former lawyer Noel Biderman is uniquely qualified for his current position as president and CEO of The Ashley Madison Agency, a dating service for people who are...

Work/Life Balance in Theory, Not in Practice

Posted on January 15, 2009
The National Law Journal reports that the Diversity and Flexibility Connection, a new initiative headed by the Project for Attorney Retention, will bring together a dozen general counsel from major U.S. companies with managing partners from law firms with good...

Does Naming a Child 'Adolf Hitler' Constitute Abuse?

Posted on January 15, 2009
What's in a name? Quite possibly, child abuse, at least if you've named all three of your children after Nazi figures. Various news sources, including Lehighvalleylive.com and Fox News, are reporting that the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family...

Another Firm Recruits on Facebook

Posted on January 14, 2009
If you want to catch fish, go where the fish are. If you want to catch law students and young associates, go to Facebook, which is teeming with them. That was the reasoning last August, when the Am Law 200...

Folos: Violent Felons and WhoCanISue

Posted on January 14, 2009
The news today brings follow-ups to two stories we previously wrote about here. The Supreme Court yesterday decided Chambers v. U.S., a sentencing opinion holding that the failure to report to prison is not the same as a prison escape...

Bar's Firing of Director Causes Waves

Posted on January 14, 2009
The mystery surrounding the Massachusetts Bar Association's decision last month to terminate its executive director, Marilyn J. Wellington, is causing waves within the state's legal community. Last week, the Massachusetts Lesbian & Gay Bar Association sent MBA leadership a letter...

The Business World's Most Ethical Lawyers

Posted on January 14, 2009
Ethisphere, a magazine that covers ethics in business practices and corporate citizenship, recently came out with its list of the 100 most influential people in business ethics. The list recognizes individuals in 2008 "who pushed the envelope in legal compliance,...

Rabbis Call for Release of Jewish CEO

Posted on January 13, 2009
Bernie Madoff should feel fortunate that he doesn't live in Iowa. Yesterday, Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis rejected the government's motion to jail Madoff pending trial, merely imposing new restrictions to keep him from mailing any...

Will Obama Side With High-Tech or Hollywood?

Posted on January 13, 2009
Tony Mauro of Legal Times reports that the Supreme Court justices have invited the view of the solicitor general on a petition for cert filed in Cable News Network Inc. v. CSC Holdings, which concerns the issue of whether, under...

Does Blogging Generate Business?

Posted on January 13, 2009
Once again, a perennial question has resurfaced in the legal blogosphere: Does blogging generate revenues? Leading off is Mark Hermann, of Drug and Device Law, who writes:In our little niche, however, we're pretty well known. To the extent that a...

Exploring Innovation, Significant or Small

Posted on January 12, 2009
How do lawyers innovate? Susan Cartier Liebel counts the ways as author this week of Blawg Review #194. Innovation, she notes, may be incremental, radical or revolutionary. For examples, she culls through the week's blawg postings, where she finds innovation...

Who's Worse: Blagojevich or Fitzgerald?

Posted on January 12, 2009
Has U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald absconded with Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich's presumption of innocence and right to a fair trial? If so, whose conduct -- that alleged of Blagojevich or that seen of Fitzgerald -- is more abominable?...

The Young-Gun Lawyers of Porn

Posted on January 12, 2009
Looking for a recession-proof area of practice? If so, perhaps X marks the spot. The business of porn grinds on even in lean times, and its purveyors need lawyers just as do any businesses. Adult-entertainment law is not just about...

D.C. Lawyer Urged for V.I. Judgeship

Posted on January 12, 2009
Wilma A. Lewis, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia from 1998 to 2001, is a search committee's top choice to fill a federal district court vacancy in the U.S. Virgin Islands. On Dec. 30, the president of the...

The Case of the Stinky Juror

Posted on January 12, 2009
Something smelled fishy in the courtroom of Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Nancy Staffier-Holtz. In fact, it wasn't just in the courtroom. The smell pierced through even into the judge's lobby. Turned out, the smell was a juror -- the juror's...

The Non-Legal Side of Practicing "Madoff Law"

Posted on January 09, 2009
A few weeks back, I noted the the proliferation of law firm practice groups dedicated to assisting the victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, as did Bruce Carton of the Securities Docket, who's keeping count. Most of the firms that...

Law Still Far From the Worst Profession

Posted on January 09, 2009
In spite of all of the complaining that lawyers do about their jobs, law is far from the worst profession one can have -- by a long shot. Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal and one of its blogs,...

Lawyer Incompetence No Bar to Deportation

Posted on January 09, 2009
Ineffective assistance of counsel in an immigration proceeding is no longer a valid defense to deportation, reports The New York Times. An opinion released Wednesday by Attorney General Michael Mukasey holds that ?neither the Constitution nor any statutory or regulatory...

Even Former Attorneys General Can't Find Jobs in This Economy

Posted on January 09, 2009
It's been over a year since Alberto Gonzales' September 2007 resignation as Attorney General, yet like many of his fellow lawyers, he remains unemployed. According to an interview with the Austin American-Statesman, Gonzales is blaming the economy for his inability...

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