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Court Papers Served by Facebook

Posted on December 16, 2008
Imagine opening your inbox on a social networking site and finding an invitation -- not to connect to an acquaintance -- but to show up in court. That may be the direction that social networking is headed, at least in...

Do the Guantanamo Detainees Have an Unfair Advantage?

Posted on December 16, 2008
Ordinarily, criminal defendants represented by pro bono or court appointed counsel find themselves at a significant disadvantage against the government. But when it comes to the Guantanamo defendants now filing for habeas corpus in United States courts, the tables are...

Supreme Court OKs Cigarette Suits

Posted on December 15, 2008
A split-down-the-middle Supreme Court today issued a ruling giving the green light to lawsuits over the labeling of light cigarettes. In Altria Group v. Good, the court said that federal law does not preempt smokers from bringing lawsuits under Maine...

Author of Famed Law Review Note Dies

Posted on December 15, 2008
William S. Stevens, a Pennsylvania lawyer who died last week at the age of 60, will forever be remembered for the anonymous law review note he published as a law student at the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. Published as...

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Law Dean Among Madoff Victims

Posted on December 15, 2008
Among the victims of Bernard L. Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme was Lawrence R. Velvel, the outspoken dean of Massachusetts School of Law. Velvel, 69, told the Associated Press that he and a friend may have lost millions of dollars...

Lawyer Says He Was Leak in Justice Department

Posted on December 15, 2008
Nothing like an appearance on the cover of Newsweek to bring a lawyer attention. Thomas M. Tamm is getting plenty of that today, thanks to a story by Michael Isikoff that identifies him as the hitherto anonymous source who tipped...

Cyberlaw Scholar Lessig Heads East

Posted on December 15, 2008
Was it a flood of curious readers or a malicious attack that brought down Larry Lessig's blog Friday afternoon? He was hacked, he explained on Twitter, and it could not have happened at a less auspicious time. Lessig had just...

Harvard Law Students Fight Evictions

Posted on December 12, 2008
I know that law students in legal clinics all around the country provide critical legal services every day. But this story from The Harvard Crimson stood out for me because of the extra effort it describes by two third-year students...

Blogging About the Bill of Rights

Posted on December 12, 2008
Pardon my cynicism as I read President Bush's declaration of Monday, Dec. 15, as Bill of Rights Day. Now he remembers the Bill of Rights! The proclamation, which also made Wednesday Human Rights Day and this Human Rights Week, is...

Handicapping the Blawg 100 Derby

Posted on December 12, 2008
We thought we'd head over to the track and check in on the standings as voting continues at The Blawg 100, the ABA Journal's second annual listing of the best legal blogs. As we noted here recently, the magazine's editors...

The Best Legal Technology Products

Posted on December 12, 2008
By way of Law Technology News editor Monica Bay's blog The Common Scold comes news of LTN's annual vendor awards for the best legal technology products, as voted by the magazine's readers. Gold, silver and bronze awards are given in...

Can Elitism Survive in a Pass/Fail World?

Posted on December 12, 2008
In the past year, Stanford and Harvard law schools have adopted pass/fail grading systems similar to the one long in place at Yale. For Michael Estrin writing at Bitter Lawyer, this raises the question: In a world of grade-less egalitarianism,...

Canadian Law Blogs, Eh?

Posted on December 11, 2008
Got a favorite north-of-the-border law blog? Between now and Dec. 27, you can nominate it to be honored by the CLawBies, the Canadian Law Blog Awards. This is the third go-around for these awards. Like last year, the winners will...

Law Student Taps His Testosterone

Posted on December 11, 2008
Brett McKay, a third-year law student at the University of Tulsa College of Law, believes men have forgotten how to be men. "As I looked around at the men my age, it seemed to me that many were shirking responsibility...

We Are Now on Twitter

Posted on December 11, 2008
Readers of Legal Blog Watch can now keep track of our latest posts via the microblogging service Twitter. You can follow us there at twitter.com/LegalBlogWatch. As new posts are published to this blog, updates appear on our Twitter feed. Both...

The Weirdest Legal Cases of 2008

Posted on December 11, 2008
Every week, Gary Slapper, the director of the Centre for Law at the Open University, writes a column in The Times of London entitled "Weird Cases." As the name suggests, Slapper's column highlights bizarre legal disputes from around the world....

Law Firms Can Penalize Former Partners

Posted on December 11, 2008
A law firm's partnership agreement that penalizes partners who leave the firm by canceling their entitlement to partnership income credits has been upheld by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. The SJC had previously struck down an earlier version of...

At Christmas, Lawyer's Holiday Greeting Is a Cease-and-Desist Letter

Posted on December 10, 2008
Around the country, several local communities are abandoning planned holiday displays, reports Forbes. But the cancellations aren't the result of budget cuts, or even First Amendment-based claims of improper commingling of church and state activity. Instead, threats of copyright infringement...

Illinois Governor Arrested for Attempting to Sell Senate Seat

Posted on December 10, 2008
It's been a bad year for governors. Back in March, then-New York governor Eliot Spitzer resigned following revelations that he'd engaged in regular dalliances with a high-priced call girl and member of a prostitution ring under federal investigation. Now, the...

Justice John Paul Stevens: The Best Argument for Telecommuting

Posted on December 10, 2008
Over at Chuck Newton Rides the Third Wave, Chuck Newton offers the most effective argument for allowing lawyers to telecommute that I've ever seen: Supreme Court Justice Stevens is doing it. Referencing a recent article on the Justice, Newton notes...

Can Schools Discipline Students for Off-Campus Conduct That Involves On-Campus Issues?

Posted on December 10, 2008
As the popularity of social networking sites increases, so too has the number of cases in which schools have taken disciplinary action against students for off-campus speech that takes place in these online forums. David Kravets, at Wired Blog, highlights...

Political Leanings of Supreme Court Clerks Help Sway Votes

Posted on December 09, 2008
A recent study published in the DePaul Law Review confirms what Supreme Court observers have long suspected, and what former Chief Justice Rehnquist has long feared: that judicial law clerks' ideological policy preferences have an effect on the way the...

The Disturbing Side of Life as a Contract Attorney

Posted on December 09, 2008
Yet another expos� has emerged on the daily grind of the contract attorney, this time in the December issue of the ABA Journal, of all places. (H/T Rees Morrison at Law Department Management Blog). The article offers the usual overview...

Court Orders Removal of Deposition From YouTube

Posted on December 09, 2008
Depositions are a matter of public record, and as such, most lawyers never think to shield videotaped deposition testimony from public disclosure except in cases involving highly sensitive or proprietary information. After all, up until a few years ago, even...

Blawg Review #189

Posted on December 08, 2008
Colin Samuels, of Infamy or Praise, hosts this week's long awaited Blawg Review #189. After exhausting Dante's "Divine Comedy" as a source of inspiration for his first three epic blawg reviews, Samuels discovered that the task of finding a theme...

Weird Tales of Insider Trading

Posted on December 08, 2008
Oh, the lengths to which people will go to gain an inside advantage in the stock market. This amusing article in Compliance Week offers a glimpse of some of the far-fetched schemes that have entrapped those intent on coming up...

Law Firm on the Brink of Collapse After Arrest of Sole Equity Partner

Posted on December 08, 2008
In 1996, Marc Dreier founded Dreier LLP as an innovative alternative to conventional large firm practice. Twelve years later, the firm stands on the brink of collapse after Dreier, the sole equity partner, was arrested for the most desperate (and...

Law Firms Increased Hourly Rates in 2008: What Were They Thinking?

Posted on December 08, 2008
Well, it's no wonder that clients are grousing about rates, going so far as to demand that law firms send work to India. Turns out that even as the economy skidded downhill in 2008, law firms continued to crank up...

Do the Disgraced Deserve a Second Chance?

Posted on December 05, 2008
Disgraced ex-New York governor Eliot Spitzer is getting a second chance of sorts. Via Overlawyered, we learn that Eliot Spitzer is now writing a column on financial markets for Slate. For Professor Bainbridge, however the Slate deal reflects our growing...

What's the Price of a Name?

Posted on December 05, 2008
For most lawyers, seeing their name on the door of the law firm satisfies the ego. But some lawyers aspire to see their name up in lights -- on a stadium perhaps, or even a law school. So if you're...

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