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By Lisa Stone

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Seventh Deadline's No Charm, Lawyer Finds

Posted on January 08, 2009
Five days after the deadline to serve the summons and complaint in a medical-malpractice action he'd filed, Massachusetts lawyer H. Paul Carroll filed an "emergency" ex parte motion for more time. The motion explained that his failure to serve the...

Silverglate Seeks Say in Harvard's Governance

Posted on January 08, 2009
Civil liberties lawyer Harvey A. Silverglate graduated from Harvard Law School in 1967. He continues to live in Cambridge not far from the school and he has remained involved with the law school and the broader university ever since. "I...

A Gallery of Juror Art

Posted on January 08, 2009
Is it a conceit to call the doodles and snapshots of bored jury members "art"? I might have thought so, until I visited The American Gallery of Juror Art. Wisconsin trial lawyer Anne Reed maintains the gallery as part of...

Nat Hentoff Hangs Onto His Skunk Suit

Posted on January 08, 2009
We noted here recently the surprising transition of a civil liberties icon -- the layoff of Nat Hentoff after half a century as a columnist for The Village Voice. One of the best friends the Bill of Rights ever had,...

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Are Reduced Hours and Pay a Viable Alternative to Layoffs?

Posted on January 07, 2009
Instead of laying off associates, why don't law firms reduce associate hours and pay? That's an option the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR) discusses on its blog:Essentially, PAR's idea is this: if a law firm or practice group is experiencing...

Law School Lacks the Write Stuff

Posted on January 07, 2009
A few months back, we posted about the deterioration of legal writing and theorized that the proliferation of e-mail, texting and Twitter -- all of which encourage stream-of-consciousness ramblings and careless phrasing -- might explain the erosion of writing skills...

Skilling to Be Resentenced

Posted on January 07, 2009
The 5th Circuit provided the slimmest of victories to former Enron Corp. CEO Jeff Skilling yesterday, vacating his 24-year prison term and remanding the case for resentencing, but affirming the conviction on appeal. [Source: Associated Press, via Law...

The Blook: A Way to Recycle Blog Posts

Posted on January 07, 2009
If you're as prolific as Law.com Blog Network affiliate blogger Rees Morrison, of Law Department Management, what can you do with your hundreds of old posts? Morrison came up with a great way to repurpose all of that content: He's...

Even Partners Not Immune in a Downturn

Posted on January 07, 2009
Law firm partners across the pond are not immune to downsizing, and are particularly vulnerable if they're underperformers, reports the Times Online. According to the Times, up to 2,000 partners at London's top law firms -- more than 10 percent...

More Twittering From the Courtroom

Posted on January 06, 2009
Last May, we wrote here about Ron Sylvester, the Wichita Eagle reporter who was covering a capital murder trial through a series of Twitter posts -- each capped at 140 characters. At her blog Deliberations, lawyer Anne Reed called Sylvester's...

ABA Publishes Bio to Settle Lawyer's Lawsuit

Posted on January 06, 2009
The American Bar Association's book division recently published Fearless: The Richard A. Sprague Story. The ABA calls the biography the chronicle of "the significant events of a renowned Philadelphia lawyer" and the "compelling story of a man who wasn't afraid...

Lawyer Wins Top Liar Award

Posted on January 06, 2009
Cynics might say that Garth Seehawer had an unfair advantage. Winner of the award for top lie of 2008 from the Liars Club of Burlington, Wis., Seehawer is a retired Wisconsin lawyer. Out of 160 entries from all over the...

Legal Advertising's Biggest Spender

Posted on January 06, 2009
Three years ago, James Sokolove invited me to lunch. The Massachusetts-based legal advertising pioneer wanted to pick my brain about Internet trends and discuss a possible business arrangement. We had a nice talk and met once more, but nothing came...

Good News for Nation, Not for Harvard

Posted on January 06, 2009
The four lawyers President-elect Barack Obama named yesterday to senior posts in the Justice Department are described by the Washington Post as "pragmatic leaders who are likely to reverse some of the more divisive policies of the Bush administration...

Blawg Review #193

Posted on January 05, 2009
Charon QC, who blogs across the pond, has the privilege of hosting the first blawg review of 2009, Blawg Review #193. Adopting the theme of the Seven Deadly Sins, Blawg Review #193 has already garnered praise from What About Clients,...

Fired on Facebook

Posted on January 05, 2009
These days, Facebook isn't just a go-to social media application. The Web site's ubiquitous role in everyday life is also transforming it into a conduit for lawsuits. A few weeks back, I posed about the Australian court that allowed lawyers...

What Counts as Experience for Women Who Wander Off the Partnership Track

Posted on January 05, 2009
If you've left the law to raise children, what counts as "work experience" when you seek to return? Is it part time work on a contract basis for other lawyers or teaching as an adjunct at a nearby law school?...

Will Blagojevich's Burris Appointment Wind Up in the Supreme Court?

Posted on January 05, 2009
The Supreme Court probably isn't eager to hear another presidential election-related Constitutional question after all of the controversy generated by the Bush v. Gore decision of 2000. But it's possible that a constitutional question tied to Obama's election, albeit indirectly,...

Madoff Mess Hits Funding for Legal Groups

Posted on January 02, 2009
Fallout from the collapse of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme continues, with news of several legal foundations and organizations losing funding because their endowments were tied to investments in Madoff's funds. The National Law Journal identifies...

Patent Application Points to iPhone Gloves

Posted on January 02, 2009
The New Year brings news of a handy accessory for iPhone users who want to check their e-mail, change a song or send a tweet while standing outside in the cold. An Apple patent application, published Jan. 1, reveals an...

Legal Tweets Find a Place to Perch

Posted on January 02, 2009
We've talked up Twitter quite a bit here at Legal Blog Watch (see posts here, here and here), but legal media gadfly Kevin O'Keefe has launched a new tool called Lextweet that builds and unites the legal community on Twitter,...

Wishes for the New Year

Posted on December 31, 2008
As we wrap up another year here at Legal Blog Watch, I would like to offer to all of our readers and friends our wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2009. May your work be fulfilling, your transactions seamless...

Survey Non-Shocker: Part-Timers Mostly Women

Posted on December 31, 2008
Just under 6 percent of U.S. attorneys work part time, but three quarters of those who do are women. That news is unlikely to startle anyone, but it is the finding of a new study compiled by the National Association...

An Inaugural Dis-Invitation for God

Posted on December 31, 2008
Invitations will be sent out any day now for the Jan. 20 inauguration of Barack Obama as 56th president of the United States. But one who will not receive an invitation, if California lawyer Michael Newdow can help it, is...

A Civil Liberties Icon Is Let Go

Posted on December 31, 2008
Nat Hentoff is not a lawyer. But in five decades as a columnist for The Village Voice, he has done more to uphold and advance civil liberties than an army of lawyers. Thus, it is sad to hear the news,...

Help for Law Firms Abounds in the Blogosphere

Posted on December 30, 2008
Large law firms are facing one of their worst crises ever. As 2008 draws to a close, layoffs are at an all time high (roughly 1,760 so far) and several prominent law firms, most recently Thacher Profitt & Wood, have...

When Memoirs Are Fiction, Lawsuits Are a Fact

Posted on December 30, 2008
We've all heard the maxim that real life is stranger than fiction. But what happens when memoirs purportedly about someone's real life turn out to be fiction? Bring on the lawyers. That's what's happening in the latest chapter of the...

Bush Shoe-Thrower Gets Well-Heeled Defense

Posted on December 30, 2008
Turns out that Muntadhir al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist who two weeks ago threw his shoes at President Bush during his news conference with Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad, has a defense team typical of far more well-heeled defendants. According to...

Pro Bono on the Rise in Down Times

Posted on December 30, 2008
Over at JD Bliss, Steve Imparl highlights one of the silver linings in the otherwise cloudy economy: an increase in pro bono work by lawyers. According to ALB Legal News, as a result of the economic downturn, lawyers have found...

Former GC: BigLaw Really Is Better

Posted on December 29, 2008
When Ron Friedmann recently derided general counsel for staying with time-worn practices in their hiring of outside counsel, even in the face of the worst economic crisis since the Depression, he heard from one former GC who said that large...

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