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Of 'Outliers,' Lawyers and Success
Posted on December 29, 2008Am I the only person who has not yet read Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers?" On a recent flight, the man next to me was absorbed in it from takeoff to landing. On the subway in Boston, a woman looked up...
Vote for Year's Best Blawg Review
Posted on December 29, 2008Week in and week out, a string of legal bloggers take on the thankless task of editing Blawg Review, the weekly carnival of law bloggers that reflects the best buzz of the legal blogosphere as seen by each successive editor....
Martindale: AV Ratings Alive and Well
Posted on December 29, 2008Mark Twain is credited with the quote, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," although historians quibble over whether that is precisely what he said. Whether or not that is what Twain said, there is no disputing this note...
Case Continues for Alleged Lawyer Impersonator
Posted on December 29, 2008Remember lawyer-impersonator Misty Giblin? She is the Illinois woman we told you about in June who was arrested in Joliet for allegedly trying to dupe a neighboring couple into believing she was a lawyer. Pretending to be a lawyer concentrating...
Lawyer Holiday News Roundup
Posted on December 24, 2008With so much depressing economic news, we thought we'd leave you with a roundup of uplifting holiday stories before signing off for the week. Here's a sampling:Associates v. Partners for Charity -- Each year, partners, associates and staff at Oklahoma-based...
Law Firm Gives Clients a Little Black Book
Posted on December 24, 2008The holiday season is a time of sharing, and the Minneapolis firm of Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg and Gotlieb (PKR+G) is sharing its attorneys' secrets with clients -- from a favorite organic catering shop to a recommended dentist. As Larry Bodine...
End of Year Brings Lumps of Coal for Law Firms
Posted on December 24, 2008Looks like most Am Law 200 firms can expect a couple of lumps of coal this Christmas. According to The Am Law Daily, global deal volume dropped by a third in 2008 and the downward spiral is expected to continue...
Is Martindale Dropping Its AV Ratings?
Posted on December 23, 2008That's the talk around the water cooler this morning, The Legal Watercooler, that is. The blog's author, Heather Milligan, director of marketing at Barger & Wolen, conveys an e-mail she received from a peer whose position as a rating specialist...
In Madoff, BigLaw Sees Christmas Future
Posted on December 23, 2008Bernard Madoff left coal in the stockings of countless investors. But some large law firms are seeing their Christmas future in the fallout from this modern day Scrooge. So much legal work is likely to result from Madoff's bilking of...
Microblogging Roundup of Legal News
Posted on December 23, 2008Legal news from all around the globe: Sixties drummer wins right to Animals name. I don't care what the court says. Without Eric Burdon, it isn't The Animals. Blood from mosquito traps car-theft suspect. This is why car thieves should...
Blawggie Awards: Best of Legal Blogging
Posted on December 23, 2008In doling out his annual Blawggie Awards for the best of law-related blogging, Dennis Kennedy gives himself the slightly tongue-in-cheek recognition of having "the longest-running annual awards list for law-related blogs selected by Dennis Kennedy." Well, even taking into account...
Law Student's Experience a Triumph Over Racism, or Typical?
Posted on December 22, 2008With law firms downsizing left and right and most lawyers stressed out or overworked, it's easy to forget that some people really, truly want to be lawyers. So amidst all the press about the downside of being a lawyer, I...
Sonnenschein Rescues 100 Thacher Lawyers
Posted on December 22, 2008Looks like 150-year-old, New York-headquartered Thacher Profitt Wood may not survive through the end of 2008. The Am Law Daily is reporting that following a breakdown in talks between Thacher and King Spalding, predictions are swirling that Thacher...
Posner on Madoff
Posted on December 22, 2008Did Bernie Madoff have the perfect Ponzi scheme? Perhaps not, because in the end, Madoff was caught. But for a while he had a good thing going. That's because Ponzi scheme (where returns are paid to investors out of money...
Blawg Review #191 and the Start of Year End Lists
Posted on December 22, 2008Sunday was the first day of the Jewish Festival of Lights, so Ron Coleman of Likelihood of Confusion gives us the gift of a Chanukah-themed Blawg Review #191. And while you'll find plenty of great links wrapped inside, one of...
Music Industry Changes Its Legal Tune
Posted on December 19, 2008Major news for online music geeks, to quote the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog. After years of suing seemingly anyone with an MP3 file, the Recording Industry Association of America is changing its tune and writing the score for a...
Judge Reprimanded for Letters to Publisher
Posted on December 19, 2008The Massachusetts judge who sent threatening letters to the publisher of The Boston Herald received a public reprimand yesterday from the state Supreme Judicial Court. The SJC concluded that Superior Court Judge Ernest B. Murphy violated standards of judicial ethics...
A Law School's Profile, in 140 Characters
Posted on December 19, 2008What is going on right now at the University of Chicago? Well, 3L Cleve Doty, president of the school's chapter of the Federalist Society, is organizing a last-minute poker game. Professor Tom Ginsburg is pondering the unlikelihood that President Bush...
Thousands of Crazed Tweens Storm Texas Firm
Posted on December 19, 2008This just in from our entertainment ... er, Texas division: Houston's Lanier Law Firm has survived its annual holiday party, despite a deluge of thousands of screaming, dancing preteen girls. It was not W. Mark Lanier, the firm's dapper founding...
Most Lawyers Believe Legal Industry Will Recover by 2010
Posted on December 18, 2008The results of an American Bar Association poll of 14,307 attorneys -- more than 1.3 percent of the nation's 1.1 million lawyers -- show that 52 percent believe the recession will last through 2010, while 22 percent predict that the...
More Privacy for Yahoo Users
Posted on December 18, 2008Cord Blomquist, of Technology Liberation Front, writes that Internet giant Yahoo has changed its data retention policy to anonymize user-behavior information after three months, 10 months less than the previous 13-month retention period. According to this story from the Washington...
New Jersey Supreme Court Is the Hero for Super Lawyers
Posted on December 18, 2008Sometimes, even Super Lawyers need a hero. Yesterday, the New Jersey Supreme Court came to the rescue, vacating a 2006 decision by a committee of the court that banned lawyers from advertising their inclusion on lists such as Super Lawyers...
Bernie Madoff: A Practice Area Unto Himself
Posted on December 18, 2008Bernie Madoff is a man of superlative accomplishments, albeit negative ones. He bilked thousands of hedge fund investors in a gargantuan and unprecedented $50 billion Ponzi scheme. He repeatedly evaded review by the SEC, as detailed in this Wall Street...
Hellholes Update: AAJ Responds
Posted on December 17, 2008After our post earlier today, The Worst Judicial Hellholes, the American Association for Justice e-mailed me a response that called the American Tort Reform Association report an early holiday present for its tobacco and insurance financiers. The AAJ statement said...
Crack Cases Clog Federal Courts
Posted on December 17, 2008A new report from the U.S. Sentencing Commission says that federal courts handled more than 17,000 cases this year brought by crack cocaine offenders seeking shorter prison sentences. The cases came in the wake of retroactive amendments to the federal...
The Worst Judicial Hellholes
Posted on December 17, 2008In the spirit of the holiday season, the thoughtful folks at the American Tort Reform Association have delivered their annual gift to the defense lawyers and tort critics of the world. In what has become an annual tradition, ATRA has...
Fighting -- and Singing -- for Your Rights
Posted on December 17, 2008The lawyers and staff at the Electronic Frontier Foundation work hard all year to defend civil liberties in the digital world. But who knew they could also sing? For its holiday greeting this year, the EFF produced the Twelve Days...
Political Lawyers Ask, What Could Be Verse?
Posted on December 17, 2008It is the time of year when poor Clement Moore begins rolling restlessly in his grave. The author of the 1823 poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas, is condemned to endure a perpetual litany of adaptations and parodies of his...
Survey: Law Firms on Steady Footing
Posted on December 17, 2008With salary freezes at Latham Watkins, layoffs at Dechert, Drinker Biddle and Wolf Block, and who knows what else going on out there, there is this one piece of good news for the legal industry. A survey released this...
Follow-Up on Blagojevich Saga
Posted on December 16, 2008The drama continues in Illinois, following last week's arrest of Governor Blagojevich on charges of soliciting bribes in connection with an attempt to sell the Senate seat vacated by President-elect Obama. For starters, Blagojevich's arrest has lead to a bit...
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Oh, yes. This can be taken in as so many things, especially since you had testif...
How to evict a roommate?
First, in most jurisdictions "self-help" is not a remedy available to any party ...
I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...
This has happened 3 or 4 times a month now- they have turned the electric off 2 days consecutively, the water off about 9 or 10 times now, and our heat has broken 5 times (once it would not shut off, and we were forced t
i say stick with the apartment. eventually, everything possible will be replaced...
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Look up CONSTRUCTIVE DISCHARGE...................this looks like what happened t...
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