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Voice Mail: The Next Casualty of the Internet Age

Posted on September 11, 2008
In this Internet Age, we've watched as typewriters, then bicycle couriers have gone the way of the mastodon and the woolly mammoth. Next up on the endangered species list (besides the polar bear)? Voice mail. As Larry Bodine writes at...

Secrecy Report Card Says Government Flunks

Posted on September 10, 2008
The United States government remains firmly committed to keeping us in the dark. So says the 2008 Secrecy Report Card issued this week by OpenTheGovernment.org, a coalition of journalists, consumers, environmentalists, library groups, labor and others devoted to promoting openness...

Coming Soon: Boston's 'Beautiful Lawyers'

Posted on September 10, 2008
Back in June at my LawSites blog, I wrote about plans in Massachusetts to publish the first-ever Beautiful Lawyers calendar. It promised us 12 months of Massachusetts lawyers and judges, "decked out in glamorous attire and stunningly photographed in their...

Lawyer Helps Save Little Boy's Life

Posted on September 10, 2008
Ten-month-old Frank Matos Lopez from the Dominican Republic is being admitted to Children's Hospital Boston today for surgery to save his life. It may never have happened without the efforts of Louis J. Farrah II, a lawyer in Lawrence, Mass....

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The War Crimes Conference Will be Televised

Posted on September 10, 2008
The gallows has yet to be built on the Andover, Mass., town common, but this weekend brings to that bucolic town an international array of lawyers, academics and authors for the Justice Robert Jackson Conference on the Planning for Prosecution...

Dredging Up Archives Causes Run on Company Stock

Posted on September 09, 2008
By now most of us realize that in this cache-and-carry Internet age, the sins of our past can emerge at any time to tank our careers. But who'd have thought that stale news of a company's six-year-old bankruptcy filing could...

Bush v. Gore: Full Employment Legislation for Election Lawyers

Posted on September 09, 2008
Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court decision that resolved the impasse in the 2000 presidential elections, is one of the High Court's most controversial and polarizing decisions. But for election lawyers the decision has paved the way for full employment,...

English Speakers Get Better Results at Trial

Posted on September 09, 2008
Lady Justice may be blind, but she's not deaf, conclude the authors of a recent study sponsored by Texas Tech University showing that English-speaking Hispanic plaintiffs fare better at trial than their non-English-speaking counterparts. As described in this press release,...

No More 'Slapping With the Enemy' for Virginia Lawyers

Posted on September 09, 2008
While many lawyers have no objection to defense attorneys socializing with prosecutors outside of the courtroom, when it comes to chumming around in the courtroom, most would draw a different line. At least, that's what the Virginia District Court judges...

Five Years, 30,000 Lawsuits, and Counting

Posted on September 08, 2008
A moment of MP3 silence, please, as we observe the fifth anniversary of the Recording Industry Association of America's massive litigation campaign against peer-to-peer sharing of copyrighted songs. It was five years ago today that the RIAA filed its first...

Firm Launches World's Worst Web Site

Posted on September 08, 2008
Four Australian lawyers, hoping to make a mark for the new firm they've dubbed Marque, are claiming the mantle of having the world's worst Web site. Across the top of the site's front page, a banner declares: "NEWSFLASH: MARQUE Lawyers...

Is This Utah's AG or Reality TV?

Posted on September 08, 2008
Fans of the Fox reality TV show COPS should just love the new Web site of Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff. But the American Civil Liberties Union is anything but enamored. The AG's redesigned Web site, unveiled Aug. 27 as...

Headline Wrap, Legal Tabloid Edition

Posted on September 08, 2008
From the weekend's news: Attorney's Computers Seized in Woman's Complaint. Seattle police seized the computers from a Washington assistant attorney general's home last week. The seizure came in connection with an investigation into a woman's complaint that someone impersonated her...

With the Web, Who Needs Mediation?

Posted on September 08, 2008
Time was that couples with irreconcilable differences turned to divorce court. Then came divorce mediation, offering a kinder, gentler way to resolve disputes. But in this age of social networking and crowdsourcing, why trust your relationship problems to a judge...

Finding Out More About FindLaw's Link Sales

Posted on September 05, 2008
Two weeks ago, I posted on an emerging story reported on various blogs that FindLaw was using paid links to game Google and earn better search engine placement for customers, some of whom paid as much as $1,000 for a...

Biglaw Attorneys in the U.K. More Than a Little Out of Touch

Posted on September 05, 2008
Biglaw attorneys across the pond are out of touch, big time, with how the other half lives, writes John Malpas at Legal Week's Editors' Blog. Interviewed as part of a study on attitudes towards privilege reported in the Guardian, a...

Judicial Candidates Brawl Over Campaign Slogans

Posted on September 05, 2008
After a seemingly endless presidential primary, most of us have grown accustomed and, indeed, immune to candidates going at each other over anything and everything. But here's a new one: a lawyer running for a position as Family Court judge...

Damned if You Effectively Represent Death Penalty Litigants, Damned if You Don't

Posted on September 05, 2008
Utah defense lawyer Ed Brass just can't get it right. Along with Lynn Donaldson, Brass represents convicted capital defendant Michael Anthony Archuleta in a post-conviction appeal, and now the pair find themselves the subject of a Rule 11 motion for....

Secret Court Decides It's a Secret

Posted on September 04, 2008
An attempt by the ACLU to shed some light on the work of the super-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has failed, with the court ruling that national security concerns prohibit it from publishing even unclassified versions of court documents or...

Two Bloggers Sued, One by a Lawyer

Posted on September 04, 2008
Has someone installed a hair trigger on libel lawsuits against bloggers? If you don't like what a blogger writes, just take a litigation potshot. Consider these two cases from this week's news. At the blog of the Citizen Media Law...

Lemon Law Firm Gets Sour Sanction

Posted on September 04, 2008
Remember Kimmel & Silverman, the Pennsylvania lemon-law firm? I wrote about them here in June, picking up on a post by my colleague Carolyn Elefant at her blog My Shingle. She described a law practice "franchise" gone bad that started...

Lawyers Tell Blockshopper: Not in Our Backyards!

Posted on September 04, 2008
It must have been some sort of litigation sixth sense that brought me back to write last week about Chicago BlockShopper, the Web site that reports on real estate sales in Chicago's Lincoln Park and Lake View neighborhoods. Little did...

Paternity Leave at Law Firms

Posted on September 03, 2008
Most articles on work/life balance focus on moms, rather than dads -- and I admit that I'm equally culpable of omitting the interest of fathers when it comes to the discussion of flexible schedules at large law firms. So I...

Everything You Need to Know to Learn About Succeeding as an Associate

Posted on September 03, 2008
With summer over, law students return to school and new grads embark on their first legal job, many as law firm associates. And in honor of that first job, the theme of this month's issue of Complete Lawyer is "The...

Lawyers Still Lag on the Technology Front

Posted on September 03, 2008
Lawyers still lag behind the curve when it comes to taking advantage of most of today's Web 2.0 applications, concludes the ABA's annual Legal Technology Report, which ABA Journal editor Ed Adams summarizes in this month's issue. The ABA survey,...

Twittering Gustav

Posted on September 02, 2008
On Aug. 29, 2005, lawyer Ernest Svenson, known to many as blogger Ernie the Attorney, filed a post titled, "Massive change is coming to New Orleans." At that point, shortly before Hurricane Katrina hit, the New Orleans resident could not...

Law Schools Ranked for Clinical Programs

Posted on September 02, 2008
Yale University Law School far outranks other law schools in the number of clinical opportunities it offers students, according to a ranking published in the September issue of National Jurist. Clinical positions are available for more than 90 percent of...

Lawyer Pair Back Preservation-Minded Billionaire

Posted on September 02, 2008
This week's Boston Globe Sunday Magazine featured an article, "The Billionaire and the Bookstore," about efforts by Wendy Schmidt, wife of Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to preserve the historic, small-town character of the island of Nantucket off the Massachusetts coast...

Blawg Review Passes the Nystagmus Test

Posted on September 02, 2008
Labor Day weekend is known for boating, barbecues, ball games and, of course, beer. And where there is consumption of beer and other intoxicants over a three-day weekend, there is bound to be drunk driving. Thus, in the spirit of...

Palin Judicial Pick Due Today

Posted on September 02, 2008
Allow us to deviate from the blogospheric preoccupation with Sarah Palin's daughter's pregnancy and turn to a matter more telling of her qualifications to hold high office -- her record of judicial appointments. Over the weekend, Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft...

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