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While Many U.S. Firms Struggle to Survive, Indian Firms Thrive

Posted on November 12, 2008
As U.S. law firms struggle to survive in this economy, India's lawyers thrive, reports the Financial Times. And it's not just outsourcing companies that are reaping the benefits, but India-based law firms. At top firms, junior partners are earning up...

New iPhone App Helps Drunk Drivers Calculate Blood Alcohol and Find a Lawyer

Posted on November 12, 2008
So, let's say that you've been laid off from your Biglaw job and you go out drinking to drown your sorrows (or celebrate your freedom). En route to your next destination, you get pulled over. So who are you going...

Supreme Court Lets Secret Case Stay Secret

Posted on November 11, 2008
The Supreme Court yesterday declined to accept review of a federal employment discrimination case that has remained hidden from public view for seven years, according to The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. RCFP had filed an amicus brief...

Skeeter Jones, Canine-at-Law

Posted on November 11, 2008
If you try to hire Skeeter Jones as your lawyer, you're barking up the wrong tree. Sure, Skeeter has a degree from Baylor Law School in Texas. And, yes, Skeeter has a knack for sniffing out the essence of a...

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The Registry of Dope Smokers

Posted on November 11, 2008
By a landslide margin, Massachusetts voters last week passed Question 2, a ballot initiative decriminalizing possession of an ounce or less of marijuana. Even though the law will not take effect until 30 days after it is endorsed by the...

Former D.C. Lawyer is the 'Other' Hero

Posted on November 11, 2008
If you've watched CNN lately, you've probably seen the promos for its CNN Heroes contest and Nov. 27 broadcast that will highlight the 10 finalists and the hero of the year. Voting is underway now to pick one from among...

Is a Prison Escape a Violent Act? Depends

Posted on November 11, 2008
Here is a question for the criminal law attorneys out there: Is a prison escape an act of violence? That was the issue yesterday as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Chambers v. United States. The...

Blawg Review #185

Posted on November 10, 2008
Blawg Review #185 is up now, hosted by Duncan Bucknell's IP Think Tank Blog. The theme du jour is Inventor's Day, and true to form, the review discusses a variety of innovation-related topics, such as what an Obama administration means...

No Surprise, Growth at Nation's Largest Firms on the Decline

Posted on November 10, 2008
The National Law Journal's annual survey of the nation's largest law firms is out, and not surprisingly, growth is down from the incredible gains reported last year. But make no mistake, firms are still in fact growing, just at a...

Passage to India for New York Personal Injury Attorney

Posted on November 10, 2008
New York Personal Injury Attorney Eric Turkewitz traveled to India 20 years ago and now he's returned -- or more accurately, his blog has. Seems that last week, Turkewitz offered this detailed analysis about whether the Reuters reporter bitten by...

Lawyers Turn Down Cases to Uphold Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel

Posted on November 10, 2008
Every day, public defenders give teeth to the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel by representing indigent criminal defendants without a fee. But now, public defenders are attempting to preserve the Sixth Amendment in a manner that seems...

Lawyer Seeks Patent on Form of Patent Trolling

Posted on November 10, 2008
Patent trolling is nothing new. Basically, it's a pejorative term for practices such as enforcing patents against purported infringers without intent to manufacture the patented product. But apparently Clive D. Menezes, a Halliburton patent attorney, believes that patent trolling is...

Lawyer Trades Corporate Finance for Christian Fiction

Posted on November 07, 2008
Until recently, Pamela Binnings Ewen was a corporate finance partner with Baker Botts in Houston. Now, she lives in Mandeville, La., where she devotes herself full-time to a career writing what she calls "Christian literature with a twist." How she...

In Era of Texting, Smoking Guns Abound

Posted on November 07, 2008
At a time when employees are texting and Twittering like never before, their fleeting missives have replaced e-mail as the corporate world's digital smoking guns, says an article at CIO.com, "How Text Messaging and Facebook Can Get You in Legal...

Hold on Kozinski Probe Raises Questions

Posted on November 07, 2008
An ethics panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco issued an order this week staying the investigation of a lawyer's complaint against Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, Cynthia Cotts is reporting at Bloomberg.com. The complaint...

Clients of Disbarred Lawyer Get $1.1 Million

Posted on November 07, 2008
I am not sure why the annual report of the Clients' Security Board in Massachusetts is just surfacing, given that it is dated Aug. 31, but it makes for interesting reading nonetheless. [Hat tip to The Docket for pointing it...

Organizations Unprepared for Potential Liability from Web 2.0 Applications

Posted on November 06, 2008
Corporations are starting to integrate Web 2.0 applications in their day-to-day business, but they may be unprepared to deal with the resulting liaiblity, reports PC World. As more employees text colleagues and friends or complain about work on social networking...

California's Proposition 8 Headed to Court

Posted on November 06, 2008
Now that California voters have approved Proposition 8, which would change the state constitution to prohibit recognition of same sex marriages, opponents have sued, seeking to overturn the measure, reports the Modesto Bee. If you haven't been tracking this story...

Obama Administration May Offer New Opportunities for Law Firms

Posted on November 06, 2008
Though another president who took office at a time of economic crisis has already laid claim to the song "Happy Days Are Here Again," law firms may find themselves recycling that tune in January when Obama takes office. That's because...

Chinese Lawyers Lose Their Jobs After Calling for Bar Association Elections

Posted on November 06, 2008
The American Bar Association gets its fair share of criticism from lawyers who don't appreciate the political positions that the ABA adopts or who feel that the organization is dominated by large firm interests. But here's a story about the...

Beware the Supersize Law Firm

Posted on November 06, 2008
From an in-house counsel's perspective, what's not to like about large law firms? They're chock full of talent, boast dozens of practice groups that allow for one-stop shopping and bring a respected brand name that allows corporate clients to show...

Some Straight Talk on Value Billing

Posted on November 06, 2008
For several years now, value pricing has been touted as an alternative to the billable hour but many lawyers, myself included, have had some difficulty in figuring out how to apply it in practice. For example, do you estimate how...

In Other News ...

Posted on November 05, 2008
It is a day when discussing anything but the election seems irrelevant. But life -- and blogging -- goes on. So allow me to point to some other items of note: Judge: prosecutors mischaracterized record in secret briefs. In a...

Blawgers on Obama: Early Returns Are In

Posted on November 05, 2008
On this Wednesday morning after, it is a bit early for many legal bloggers to have weighed in on last night's victory for Barack Obama. Here are some of the early returns I've found: Above the Law: "A mere 389...

Lawyers and the 'Nonviolent Revolution'

Posted on November 05, 2008
Interviewed by ABC's Charles Gibson last night, U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) described the outcome of this election as a "nonviolent revolution." I tend to be an optimist, but, until recently, I doubted I would see a black president in...

Law Firms Across the Pond Practicing Frugality

Posted on November 04, 2008
A few weeks ago, I posted about some of the cost cutting measures that top U.S. law firms have implemented as a hedge against declining revenues. Now, their colleagues across the pond are pinching pennies as well, reports The Times....

The Last 2008 Presidential Election Roundup

Posted on November 04, 2008
I started posting these presidential election roundups sometime back in January, when the field was packed with far more candidates -- many of them lawyers. Today, it's been winnowed to just two and by late tonight or early tomorrow morning,...

Even Biglaw Attorneys May Be Entirely Self-Made

Posted on November 04, 2008
When you think of top law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, adjectives like "white shoe," "blue chip" or "elite" come to mind. What you may not realize, however, is that Joe Flom, Skadden's first associate and now name...

The Dawn of an Urban Legend?

Posted on November 03, 2008
Could this be the next spilled-coffee case, one where the facts are conveniently ignored in furtherance of a great urban legend? Eric Turkewitz wonders about this at his New York Personal Injury Law Blog, as he compares the facts about...

Mild-Mannered Blawger Gets Savage

Posted on November 03, 2008
Until recently, Schenectady, N.Y., lawyer David Giacalone was best known within the blogosphere as someone who combined punditry with poetry. Not just any poetry, but that most simple and natural form known as the haiku. On his blog f/k/a ...,...

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