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By Lisa Stone

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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 17:07:51

The Original Team O.J. -- Where Are They Now?

Posted on December 05, 2008
With O.J. Simpson facing sentencing today on charges of armed robbery, what better occasion for a retrospective on the lawyers involved in O.J.'s landmark trial of the century. Bitter Lawyer checks in on the status of those who found their...

Good News for Real Estate Lawyers

Posted on December 05, 2008
Just in time for the holidays, Larry Bodine has good news for real estate lawyers: The real estate market is looking up. Mortgage rates dropped below 6 percent, with fixed rates as low as 5 percent. That means more buying...

Sixteen Tips for Using Twitter

Posted on December 05, 2008
My colleague and fellow "tweet" Bob Ambrogi is a self-described recent convert to Twitter. For those of you still not familiar with Twitter (which we've previously discussed here, here and here), it's a microblogging tool that limits each post to...

Inadequate Security and Marketing Blamed for Wal-Mart Black Friday Trampling

Posted on December 04, 2008
Not surprisingly, the family of the man killed in a stampede of shoppers at Wal-Mart on the day after Thanksgiving filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., reports Reuters. What is surprising, or even troubling to some, is...

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Lawyer Featured In New Reality Series, Secret Millionaire

Posted on December 04, 2008
OK, what kind of reality show would you have if it didn't include at least a handful of lawyers? Probably a more interesting one ... but that's beside the point. These days, lawyers are infiltrating virtually every genre of reality...

Lawsuits Challenging Obama's Citizenship Persist

Posted on December 04, 2008
The presidential election may be over, but the lawsuits continue. (H/T court-o-rama). As you may recall, early on in the election cycle, some challenged McCain's eligibility because he was born on a naval base outside of the United States. Those...

Accountants Can Soon Become Law Firm Partners, Across the Pond

Posted on December 04, 2008
In just a few months, the U.K.'s Legal Services Act will take effect, opening the door for non-lawyer professionals like accountants to become partners in law firms, according to Accountancy Age. Under the new law, up to 25 percent of...

Circuit Court Bars Sketch Artist

Posted on December 03, 2008
Here is a sketchy decision if ever there was one. When longtime courtroom sketch artist William J. Hennessy Jr. showed up last week at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, supplies in hand, to capture oral arguments in a high-profile...

Callous Lawsuit of the Day

Posted on December 03, 2008
Here is a lawsuit sure to tug at the heartstrings of even the most callous among us -- with the possible exception of the lawyers for the RIAA. In the latest of its battery of lawsuits targeting illegal music downloads,...

The Confucius of the Legal Profession

Posted on December 03, 2008
The ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius is best remembered today for The Analects, a compilation of his teachings in the form of concise aphorisms. Confucius said, for example, "Have no friends not equal to yourself" and "When you have faults, do...

Obit: A Pioneer of Technology Law

Posted on December 03, 2008
At the age of 60, Stephen J. Davidson had only recently left his law firm of 35 years to start his own information technology law practice when he died suddenly on Dec. 2. The Minnesota lawyer was recognized internationally as...

Of Chippendales, Tackiness and Trademarks

Posted on December 02, 2008
If one sees a bare-chested male adorned in cuffs and bow tie, it sort of screams out Chippendales. But the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office apparently is unacquainted with the telltale garb of male exotic dancers. It denied Chippendales' application....

Goings and Comings at Mass. SJC

Posted on December 02, 2008
Yesterday was the last day on the bench for Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice John Greaney, who stepped down just four months shy of the state's mandatory retirement age of 70. After more than three decades as a judge, he...

ABA Launches Networking Site

Posted on December 02, 2008
The American Bar Association has jumped on the social-networking bandwagon with a networking site of its own, Legally Minded. The ABA hopes to separate its site from the professional-networking pack by combining the best features of the top social networking...

Legal Blog Watch Named to Blawg 100

Posted on December 02, 2008
We are proud to report that Legal Blog Watch has been named to the ABA Journal's second annual listing of The Blawg 100, the editors' picks of the best legal blogs, in the News category. The ABA editors wrote:Blogosphere insiders...

Blawg Review Visits Alice's Restaurant

Posted on December 01, 2008
You'd think it would be reason enough for a blogger to give thanks to have Arlo Guthrie show up at your door on Thanksgiving Day and offer to help you write Blawg Review, that weekly recap of highlights from the...

What is a Law Degree Good For, Besides Law?

Posted on December 01, 2008
The National Law Journal this week raises the question, "Is the Versatility of a Law Degree Just a Myth?" "People don't see the value in the joint degree. They think I'm confused," Dina Allam told the NLJ regarding her joint...

A Very Different Thanksgiving Story

Posted on December 01, 2008
At his blog, Leadership for Lawyers, Mark Beese tells the story of one adventurous boyhood Thanksgiving he spent on the Tonawanda Indian Reservation near Buffalo, N.Y. A local Boy Scout leader named Dan had been able to get an invitation...

Three Lawyers' Mumbai Survival Stories

Posted on December 01, 2008
No doubt many lawyers were touched by the week's tragic turn of events in Mumbai. Here are three survival stories I've found from news reports. Boston transplant stays safe. Lawyer Nirva Patel and her husband Paresh left Boston two years...

Happy Thanksgiving, No Matter What Type of Blog You Are

Posted on November 26, 2008
Via Court-o-rama, I learned about Typealyzer, a neat tool that subjects your blog to a Myers-Briggs personality test. In case you're wondering, we here at Legal Blog Watch rank as an INTJ (introverted, intuitive, thinking and judging) -- or "The...

Lack of Lawyer Marketing Blamed for High Levels of Intestacy

Posted on November 26, 2008
It's not often that you hear that lawyers market too little. But that's apparently the premise of this recent abstract entitled "Marketing Wills" that appears in the Elder Law Journal. (H/T Mark Merenda, Smart Marketing Blog) The paper's authors, Michael...

Ticketed While Exercising

Posted on November 26, 2008
We often hear stories of police officers arresting folks for exercising their rights, but apparently, the cops are now picking on folks simply for exercising. That's what Eric Turkewitz tells us at New York Personal Injury Attorney Blog, where he...

Pressure to Cut Costs Drives More Work to India

Posted on November 26, 2008
In this troubled economic climate, one trend is clear: Clients are looking for ways to cut costs and are no longer willing to write firms a blank check. A few days ago, I noted that clients are making clear that...

Holder's Critics Not Holding Back

Posted on November 25, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama will officially nominate Covington & Burling partner Eric H. Holder Jr. to be attorney general sometime after Thanksgiving, Politico.com reports. Obama is satisfied that the Senate will confirm Holder despite plans by Republicans to grill him about...

On Being a Black Lawyer

Posted on November 25, 2008
On Being a Black Lawyer is the intriguing title of the blog launched this month by Yolanda Young, a lawyer, author, columnist and TV commentator. She began the blog on the very day a black lawyer was elected president of...

Motrin-Gate: A Lesson for Lawyers?

Posted on November 25, 2008
Did mighty pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson bow to a small but vocal flash mob when it pulled an online video ad for its Motrin pain reliever? Or was the incident a study in the power of social media? "Yes...

BlockShopper Brings in the Big Guns

Posted on November 25, 2008
Just a few days after losing its bid to dismiss a law firm's trademark lawsuit against it, the real estate Web site BlockShopper.com has called in the cavalry, Wendy Davis reports at Online Media Daily. It has retained high-powered First...

Should Firms Cut Bonuses in Response to Clients?

Posted on November 24, 2008
Slashing associate bonuses isn't making law firm management popular with their subordinates, as the comments at this post at Above the Law make clear. But does it matter what associates think when clients are giving firms kudos for their parsimonious...

Lawyers Seeking Opportunities Overseas

Posted on November 24, 2008
In a waning economy, lawyers looking for new employment horizons might be advised to look across the horizon -- literally. Because as Legal Blog Watch's own John Bringardner writes in the New York Times, overseas markets are the new land...

Cravath Partner Offers Tips on Cost Cutting

Posted on November 24, 2008
You know times are tough when Evan R. Chesler, the head partner at Cravath, is dispensing advice to Business Week on how clients can economize on the legal front. Given that, up until recently, large firms took the position that...

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