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E-Filing Incompetence Gets Lawyer Suspended

Posted on April 11, 2008
The assertion that lawyers these days need to be technologically competent is repeated so often that it is in danger of becoming a platitude. But here is a disciplinary case that underscores the point. Michael S. Frisch at Legal Profession...

No Nude Dancing in Harvard Square

Posted on April 11, 2008
Massachusetts' highest court has stripped a Cambridge woman of her ability to express herself by dancing naked in Harvard Square. Yesterday, the Supreme Judicial Court reinstated felony charges of open and gross lewdness against Ria Ora, who was arrested in...

Law Firm Reigns as Tops in Trivia

Posted on April 11, 2008
Many law firms have earned recognition for having the Best Lawyers or for having Super Lawyers, but the Buffalo, N.Y., firm Connors & Vilardo may be the only one that can lay claim to having the smartest lawyers -- and...

How Firms Are Coping With the Downturn

Posted on April 10, 2008
Large law firms are finding different ways of coping with the downturn in the mergers and acquisition market and overall weak economy. Bloomberg reports that firms are finding work overseas, with deal volume in Asia, Latin American and the Middle...

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Long Billable Hours Causing Problems for Lawyers Around the Globe

Posted on April 10, 2008
Today, Conde Nast's Porfolio covers this "earth shattering" story about stressed-out, overworked, guilt-plagued, miserable lawyers who don't lead balanced lives. This time, the conclusion came from a three-year study by the New York State Bar Association...

Lawsuit Seeks to Raise Court-Appointed Rate Above $650

Posted on April 10, 2008
What do large-firm, white-collar criminal defense attorneys and court-appointed criminal lawyers have in common? They both charge $650. Only for the Biglaw attorneys, that's $650 an hour, while for court-appointed lawyers in Pennsylvania, it's $650 for preparation of a felony...

A New Circuit for Justice Scalia

Posted on April 10, 2008
It's been years since Justice Scalia sat on the D.C. Circuit. But these days, he can be found on a different circuit entirely -- the speaking circuit. As today's Washington Post reports, with Scalia's upcoming book, Making Your Case: the...

Lawyer's Disappearance Remains a Mystery

Posted on April 09, 2008
The disappearance last month of lawyer Elizabeth Calvert, 45, and her husband, John, 47, remains a mystery, deepened by the apparent suicide of the man with whom they were last seen, their former business associate Dennis Gerwing. As we first...

Pulitzer Prize for Legal Writing Prof

Posted on April 09, 2008
Winners of The Pulitzer Prize were announced this week, and among them was an associate professor of literature and legal writing at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. John Matteson, a graduate of Harvard Law School,...

And the Webby Nominees Are ...

Posted on April 09, 2008
Voting is underway for the 12th annual Webby Awards, honoring excellence in Web sites in more than 100 categories -- among them, law. Called by The New York Times the "Oscars of the Internet," the awards are presented by the...

Legal Careers: Two Views, Both Bad

Posted on April 09, 2008
Two items in the news today combine to make a single point: Law is a jealous mistress but not always a generous one. By way of the New York Law Journal comes word of a just-published New York State Bar...

D.C. Madam Trial -- All About the Male, er, Mail

Posted on April 08, 2008
The Blog of the Legal Times is offering up-to-the-minute coverage of the trial of D.C. Madam, Deborah Palfrey. Early accounts suggest that prosecutors downplayed some of the salacious details in their opening statement to get jurors focused on RICO, the...

Where There's Smoke, There's Flames

Posted on April 08, 2008
A blogger's posting about a lawyer-couple's lawsuit against their neighbor for her failure to abate cigarette smoke seepage from her apartment into a common hallway ignited a swarm of flames against lawyers for their aggressive, obnoxious and money-grubbing ways...

Still Two Sides of the Bar in the Legal Profession

Posted on April 08, 2008
Two lawyers walk into a bar ... One orders a round of drinks for the house. The other one puts on an apron and serves it. Is the above quote just another silly lawyer joke -- or is it an...

Presidential Election Roundup

Posted on April 08, 2008
Once again, here's another installment of our presidential election roundup, with the latest tidbits on the candidates and the law-related issues in the race. Obama the Associate. Obama has referenced his background as a civil-rights attorney at various points during...

Work-Life Balance and Space-Time Continuum

Posted on April 07, 2008
Denise Howell inaugurates her new column in The American Lawyer with some time travel worthy of "Back to the Future." The author of the long-standing legal blog Bag and Baggage begins her piece in the Pleistocene Era -- 1989 to...

A Healthy Serving of Blawg Review

Posted on April 07, 2008
HealthBlawg blogger (and my fellow Bay Stater) David Harlow hosts Blawg Review #154 today, which, not so coincidentally, is World Health Day. The World Health Organization has declared today's theme to be the endangerment of human health by climate change,...

Rees Morrison Hangs a Shingle

Posted on April 07, 2008
Congratulations to Rees Morrison, who announced yesterday that he has left the professional-services consulting firm Hildebrandt International to start an independent practice as a management adviser to corporate law departments. Morrison's blog, Law Department Management, is part of the Law...

Kozinski: First Amendment is Dead

Posted on April 07, 2008
It was quite a week for 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski. First he punched a hole in the seemingly impermeable immunity given Web site operators under Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act, authoring Thursday's...

Yet Another Lawyer Sex Controversy

Posted on April 07, 2008
This one has me scratching my head in puzzlement. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported yesterday that the "talk of the downtown courthouse" has been a case that alleges an inappropriate sexual relationship with a former partner at the Pacific Law...

London Law Firm Nets a Controversy With Ban on Fishnet Stockings

Posted on April 04, 2008
The Daily Mail reports that a London law firm is netting plenty of controversy for banning women lawyers from wearing fishnet stockings on the job. The firm determined that fishnets conveyed an "unprofessional image" and posed "too much of a...

Blogger Subpoenaed for Influence

Posted on April 04, 2008
For many bloggers, gaining influence within the blogosphere represents a dream come true. For others, like Kathleen Seidel, a frequent critic of autism vaccine litigation at her blog Neurodiversity, influence can prove nightmarish. As Walter Olson at Overlawyered shared yesterday,...

Outsourcing to India Grows, Despite Concerns

Posted on April 04, 2008
In spite of some questions over the ethics of outsourcing legal work to India, the practice continues -- most recently garnering coverage in this piece in Time. Among other things, the article points out that new e-discovery rules are giving...

Quick News Roundups

Posted on April 04, 2008
Here are some interesting stories in today's news that warrant just a quick link: Is Fenway Park liable for a raptor attack on a 13-year-old fan? Call in the vulture lawyers! [Sports Law Blog]. "No good deed goes unpunished" --...

Apple v. Big Apple

Posted on April 03, 2008
If this keeps up, we may eventually need a new name for that fruit whose daily dose keeps the doctor away. As you will recall, last year computer maker Apple Inc. and The Beatles' company Apple Corps Ltd. settled their...

Penalty for Libel: Banishment?

Posted on April 03, 2008
Because tribal reservations have sovereignty over many of their own affairs, their laws sometimes veer away from the common law most of us are accustomed to. But tribal leaders at the Rocky Boy's Reservation in northern Montana apparently went too...

Crossdressed Judge Reconsiders Resignation

Posted on April 03, 2008
Is it just that I live in Massachusetts, or is prudishness really dead? The most remarkable aspect of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Somma's OUI arrest was not that he was dressed in drag, but that the legal community's response was...

Justice Goes to the Dogs (and Cats)

Posted on April 03, 2008
Pet food maker Menu Foods is ready to settle claims that its tainted products killed or injured thousands of household pets. The New Jersey Law Journal reports today that the Canadian manufacturer has reached a settlement in principal with lawyers...

Is Standing Out in the Cards?

Posted on April 02, 2008
Every lawyer wants to be noticed. But is standing out in the cards, err, business cards for you? Could be, if you follow the example of Ernie Svenson, whose unique business cards are the featured topic at Larry Bodine's Law...

Is the Billable Hour Costing Your Firm Money?

Posted on April 02, 2008
Generally, law firms use the billable hour because they believe that they can earn more money by charging for every hour spent on the case. But is the billable hour costing your firm money by causing clients to leave? That's...

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