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Are Women Their Own Worst Enemies in the Workforce?

Posted on August 20, 2008
Via a tweet from Sui Generis' Nicole Black comes this Reuters piece on a recent international study that concludes: "Women are their own workplace enemies when it comes to cracking the glass ceiling." The 2008 study, conducted by U.S. behavioral...

The High Cost of a Protest

Posted on August 20, 2008
The next time New York City police decide to engage in mass arrests of peaceful protesters, they may want to engage in a cost-benefit analysis. Today's New York Times reports that the 2003 arrest of 52 protesters demonstrating against the...

Corporate America's 'A' Team

Posted on August 19, 2008
Corporate Counsel magazine is out with its annual listing of the law firms that represent America's biggest companies.The usual suspects make the list -- the megafirms whose names alone are enough to make general counsel sleep better at night. As...

Former Lawyer Convicted in Art Case

Posted on August 19, 2008
A federal jury in Boston yesterday found former Massachusetts lawyer Robert M. Mardirosian guilty of possessing six Impressionist paintings that he knew had been stolen in the largest private art theft in Massachusetts history. As Jonathan Saltzman reports today in...

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'First Amendment Guerrilla' Jack Landau Dies

Posted on August 19, 2008
Jacob "Jack" C. Landau, a lawyer and journalist who helped found the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in 1970 and was its executive director from 1974 to 1985, died this week at the age of 74. The 1961...

Strange But True, Legal Edition

Posted on August 19, 2008
These kinds of stories seem to travel in packs. Then again, it is a full moon. Some items from the week's news: Non-lawyer disbarred by federal court. Problem was, he should never have been barred in the first place. Report...

Is FindLaw Gaming Google?

Posted on August 18, 2008
Is FindLaw, one of the oldest online lawyer listing sites, gaming Google by buying and selling links to generate higher search rankings for customers? That's the question that Kevin O'Keefe examines at Lexblog. O'Keefe quotes from the story originally reported...

Lasting Impressions

Posted on August 18, 2008
Once upon a time, a nasty tabloid story or unflattering newspaper profile would fade into practical obscurity. But today, the concept of "practical obscurity" has been rendered practically obsolete by tools like Google and the Wayback Machine, which forever memorialize...

Testing For Rainmakers

Posted on August 18, 2008
From law school finals to bar exams, lawyers routinely -- and in my view, foolishly -- place their faith in one-time test results rather than performance to judge merit. But now an article in The Lawyers Weekly (Canada) reports on...

Blawg Review #173

Posted on August 18, 2008
In the spirit of the Olympics and Michael Phelps' record-breaking gold medal run, R. David Donoghue makes a huge splash with his swim-themed Blawg Review #173. Diving into the Blawg Review event with gusto, Donoghue leads readers at breakneck speed...

Oligarchs On Trial

Posted on August 15, 2008
Two fascinating stories published this month provide two very different perspectives on the clashes between once-powerful Russian oligarchs and a Russian legal system that many believe to be incurably corrupt. In "Enemy of the State," Portfolio magazine writer Christopher S...

Jurors Watch Four Hours of Porn

Posted on August 15, 2008
Jurors in the obscenity trial of a Virginia adult video store were required to sit through nearly four hours of "adult entertainment" in a Staunton courtroom yesterday. After showing the jury the videos, prosecutors rested their case against the owner...

An Interview with Gerry Spence

Posted on August 15, 2008
If Gerry Spence didn't exist, Hollywood would have to invent him. From his home base in Jackson, Wyo., the legendary, buckskin-wearing lawyer has devoted more than 50 years to defending the underdog. He won $10.5 million for the estate of...

Lawyer Publishes Her Own Legal Thriller

Posted on August 15, 2008
A decade ago, just out of Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Jeannine Reardon had some time on her hands and began to write her first book, a legal thriller. "The idea for the book just popped into my head...

Hardin Scores One for the Unfriendly Skies

Posted on August 14, 2008
Rusty Hardin, the high-profile Texas trial lawyer known for his work with Roger Clemens and Anna Nicole Smith, can add another notch to his belt. This time Hardin successfully defended Victoria Osteen, wife of television preacher Joel Osteen, against a...

Gambling Capitals Show Their Discriminating Tastes

Posted on August 14, 2008
America's Playground may be getting more expensive -- but just for women. A ruling by the Nevada Equal Rights Commission, which found that the Las Vegas Athletic Club's discounted rates for women were discriminatory, could have an effect on business....

Malaysian Blogger Ordered to Give Up Sources

Posted on August 14, 2008
Popular Malaysian political blogger Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin (known in the blogosphere as RPK) was ordered to reveal his sources for three articles alleging that attorney Muhammad Shafee Abdullah fabricated sodomy charges against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, the Associated Press...

Remember the Rambler? Trademark Board Does

Posted on August 13, 2008
Remember the Rambler? In the 1950s, it was a popular and inexpensive small car made by the Nash-Kelvinator Corp. When Nash become American Motors Corporation in 1954 and George Romney became the company's chairman, the Rambler line was expanded and...

The Vault Rankings Are In

Posted on August 13, 2008
Which law firms are thought to be the creme de la creme in terms of prestige? If you consider the answer to that question important, then the 2009 Vault law firm rankings are for you. Earlier this year, Vault surveyed...

The Lawyer With the Most Medals

Posted on August 13, 2008
Swimmer Michael Phelps set a new record yesterday for career Olympic gold, but the athlete who holds the distinction of being the most decorated gymnast in U.S. history is also making nightly appearances in the television coverage from Beijing --...

'Working Mother' Ranks Best Law Firms

Posted on August 13, 2008
Balance between their professional and personal lives remains elusive for many lawyers -- in particular for women. Forty-two percent of women lawyers leave the profession at some point in their careers, reports Working Mother magazine. So the firms that make...

Trump Sues Former Attorneys... Again

Posted on August 12, 2008
In a continuing feud with New York law firm Morrison Cohen, Donald Trump filed a $10 million lawsuit alleging the firm "engaged in the rank commercialization" of his name. Bloomberg reports: Trump sued the law firm Morrison Cohen and partner...

Looking For New Clients? Try Hackers

Posted on August 12, 2008
A recent outbreak of hackers (gasp!) hacking has prompted legal controversies at the Las Vegas Black Hat Conference, a meeting of corporate security professionals and hackers, and DEFCON, its sister conference for hackers only. Craig Williams points out that at...

Lawyers Support Obama with Cash

Posted on August 11, 2008
The lawyer-candidate is luring lawyer love. Lawyers have donated $21 million to Barack Obama so far, compared with only $7 million to John McCain, Daniel Fisher reports today at Forbes.com. But in contrast to what might have been the donor...

California Gives Non-Competes the Boot

Posted on August 11, 2008
In a ruling sure to send shudders through corporate legal departments up and down the west coast, the California Supreme Court has ruled that virtually all non-competition agreements are invalid in that state. The Recorder has a full report on...

ABA Annual: Roundup of Blogs

Posted on August 11, 2008
The ABA annual meeting wraps up this week in New York. For those among us who are not there, legal blogs have been helping to keep us informed of the goings-on. Much of that coverage comes courtesy of the ABA...

An Olympian Blawg Review

Posted on August 11, 2008
Blawg Review #172 goes for the gold -- or, more accurately, doles out the gold. This week's host Jonathan T. Hyman of Ohio Employer's Law Blog awards gold medals to what he considers the best posts from the legal blogosphere....

All Shook Up Over Bar Exam

Posted on August 08, 2008
Aftershocks continue a week after a magnitude 5.4 earthquake disrupted the California bar exam in Los Angeles. While hardly seismic, a rattle of protests are emerging from test takers who say they were not given a fair shake. At issue,...

Go for That Settlement, Study Says

Posted on August 08, 2008
"Better the devil you know than the devil you don't." That old saw has long summed up my attitude about litigation. Part of my practice is as a mediator, and I strongly believe that a settlement is almost always better...

Is the Hamdan Sentence a Sham?

Posted on August 08, 2008
Yesterday's decision by a panel of military officers at Guantanamo Bay to sentence Salim Ahmed Hamdan to five and a half years in prison came as a surprise to many. Given that the military judge presiding over the trial, Navy...

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