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Blawg Review #187 -- Evolution Day Edition

Posted on November 24, 2008
Today is Evolution Day, the anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's seminal work, On the Origin of Species, most commonly associated with the principle of "survival of the fittest." And with many law firms struggling to survive, Evolution Day...

Blogger on Scene as Mukasey Collapses

Posted on November 21, 2008
At least one legal blogger was in the audience last night when Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while delivering a speech at the annual dinner of the Federal Society in Washington, D.C. Laurie Lin, a contributor to the blog Above...

Study: Class Actions Not Such a Big Deal

Posted on November 21, 2008
A just-published Federal Judicial Center study of class actions in federal courts finds that there is less to them than might appear. Released yesterday, the report presents preliminary findings from the second phase of an ongoing study of the impact...

Jones Day Wins Round in Blockshopper Case

Posted on November 21, 2008
More news in the lawsuit by law firm Jones Day against the Web site BlockShopper.com. You may remember that as the case that Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy, in a post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog, said...

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Online Law Grad Sidesteps Accreditation Hurdle

Posted on November 21, 2008
For the first time in Massachusetts, and perhaps for the first time anywhere outside California, a graduate of an online, unaccredited law school will be permitted to take the state bar examination. Ross E. Mitchell, a graduate of the wholly...

Blaming the Defendant, Even When the Penalty Is Death

Posted on November 20, 2008
So, the judge and the prosecutor in a capital case in Texas admit to having an affair, but don't disclose it at trial. The defendant, Charles Dean Hood, is convicted and sentenced to death. Eighteen years after the trial, Hood's...

Can Employees Be Booted for Wasting Time While Computer Boots Up?

Posted on November 20, 2008
Seems like some companies will do anything to squeeze an extra 30 minutes of work out of employees. Believe it or not, companies actually have the gall to dock employees' pay for the time spent waiting for their computers to...

Go Green, Get Green

Posted on November 20, 2008
Here's an interesting program: Boston-based law firm, Sherin and Lodgen will discount legal fees for clients who go green. The firm's ?Going Green? Take Fifteen? program, which begins in 2009, will provide 15 percent off legal fees for green projects...

Now That's a Holiday Party

Posted on November 19, 2008
In a year when budgetary belt-tightening is forcing corporate planners to scale back on holiday parties, one Texas law firm is letting its belt out a few notches. In a state known for doing things big, the Houston-based Lanier Law...

Holder Called in June for Closing Gitmo

Posted on November 19, 2008
With Covington & Burling partner Eric H. Holder Jr. President-elect Obama's apparent pick for attorney general, a speech he gave in June suggests he would make a top priority of closing Guantanamo Bay. In the June 13 speech to the...

Post Prompts Apology; Apology Prompts Praise

Posted on November 19, 2008
In a post last week entitled "Best 'Elevator Pitch' Ever...?" legal marketer Larry Bodine related the elevator pitch of a lawyer he described as "the silver-haired senior-most litigator" at a law firm in Joliet, Ill. The lawyer's pitch involved a...

Costumed Jurors No Reason for Reversal

Posted on November 19, 2008
It was a decision that could have haunted the trial judge for years, had the appeal turned out differently. As the complicated civil trial in Massachusetts Superior Court dragged on into late October, the jurors asked the judge if he...

Banned by ABA, 'Ellen' Launches Blog

Posted on November 19, 2008
"After reviewing our last week of comments, we have decided to become more assertive with our comment moderating," ABA Journal Assistant Managing Editor Molly McDonough wrote in a post to the magazine's Web site Monday. "We will more readily exercise...

Third NAWL Study Shows Women Still Underrepresented and Underpaid at Large Firms

Posted on November 18, 2008
The Am Law Daily shares this somewhat underwhelming news from the third annual National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) Survey: Women remain underrepresented in the top ranks at large law firms and underpaid in comparison to their male colleagues...

Harvard Law Professor Takes on the RIAA

Posted on November 18, 2008
If you're a fan of Jonathan Harr's book, A Civil Action, you probably remember Harvard law professor, Charles Nesson, who was retained by plaintiffs lawyer Jan Schlictmann to give his firm (which represented a group of Woburn, Mass., residents in...

Breaking Up Harder to Do in Poor Economy

Posted on November 18, 2008
With the economy floundering and unemployment on the rise, you'd think that this increased financial stress would drive more people to divorce. In fact, the opposite may be true. According to this story in the Associated Press, times are so...

Corporate Bankruptcies on the Rise

Posted on November 18, 2008
For anyone reading the business pages these days, the increased number of corporate bankruptcies should come as no surprise. But on top of the steady flow of anecdotal evidence, The Conglomerate now provides us with statistics on the uptick in...

New Legal Risks: Skydiving for Charity

Posted on November 18, 2008
So, you think lawyers aren't risk-takers? That may be true when it comes to advising clients or practicing law, but for charity, one group of lawyers across the pond was willing to take a chance. According to this story, five...

Savage Predictions for the Supreme Court

Posted on November 17, 2008
Los Angeles Times legal reporter David G. Savage speculates today on who President-elect Barack Obama might pick for the Supreme Court. While Obama's first nominee is virtually certain to be a woman, she is not so certainly going to lean...

Obama Names White House Counsel

Posted on November 17, 2008
Gregory B. Craig is "certainly the only trial lawyer who has represented a president (Bill Clinton) and a man who shot a president (John W. Hinckley Jr.)," says The New York Times. On Saturday, the Williams & Connolly partner achieved...

This Blawg Review Speaks for Itself

Posted on November 17, 2008
As any 1L can tell you, "res ipsa loquitur" means the thing speaks for itself. This week, however, Res Ipsa Blog speaks not just for itself, but for the universe of other legal bloggers, as it hosts Blawg Review #186....

Revenge is Tweet

Posted on November 17, 2008
We have it on no less an authority than The Wall Street Journal that Twitter is now mainstream. But it seems that some lawyers want even more proof than a proclamation from the WSJ. And their reluctance to jump on...

Wal-Mart's Full Employment Act for Lawyers

Posted on November 14, 2008
Why would a company seek to enjoin a practice that generates money for the company? Perhaps if opposing that practice would generate money for lawyers. That's what Techdirt suggests is behind the latest takedown notice Wal-Mart's law firm, Baker &...

The Future of the Law According to Richard Susskind

Posted on November 14, 2008
In a profession that prizes adhering to precedent, many lawyers might be inclined to ignore the advice of "legal futurist" Richard Susskind -- but doing so would be as foolish as not Shepardizing a brief. In a recent interview with...

Great Elevator Pitch for Lawyers

Posted on November 14, 2008
Larry Bodine has an amazing example of the best "elevator pitch" ever. Here's an excerpt: The silver-haired senior-most litigator at the firm came up with the BEST elevator pitch ever. The senior partner said, "when I step onto elevator at...

Another Lawyer, Another Gay Romance Writer

Posted on November 13, 2008
We wrote here not long ago about Scott D. Pomfret, an enforcement attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Boston who moonlights as an author and publisher of romance fiction (and erotica) for gay men through his company Romentics....

Note Left on Chair Ousts Firm Leader

Posted on November 13, 2008
Until last week, Michael Hausfeld was chairman and name partner of the Washington, D.C., law firm Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll. Then on Nov. 6, he returned to his office to find a note left on his chair. It was...

Bill Ayers Heads to Georgetown Law

Posted on November 13, 2008
Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin calls it a case of an "unrepentant, anti-capitalist terrorist" cashing in. The occasion for her ire is a lecture scheduled for Monday at Georgetown Law School by Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground leader who resurfaced...

Connecticut Same-Sex Marriages Moving Forward Today

Posted on November 12, 2008
Even as the future ability of same-sex couples to marry remains uncertain in California, same-sex couples in Connecticut are tying the knot today, a month after Connecticut's highest court legalized the unions, reports the New York Times. However, Connecticut isn't...

Should You Stay or Should You Go Now?

Posted on November 12, 2008
It seems that every day now brings new announcements of law firm layoffs or downsizing. The latest: White and Case is laying off 70 associates and there are reports of reduced summer hiring, even at top schools like Harvard. So...

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