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By Lisa Stone

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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 17:07:51

Secrets of Work/Life Balance From That '70s Law Firm

Posted on April 02, 2008
Few would voluntarily choose to turn back the clock to the the 1970s, what with record peacetime inflation and Watergate, not to mention polyester leisure suits, bell-bottoms and disco. But as Denise Howell convincingly writes in The American Lawyer (4/1/08),...

John Yoo, Hired Gun

Posted on April 02, 2008
After years of legal wrangling, the U.S. Department of Justice yesterday released a 2003 memo by then- Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo that offers legal justification for the use of torture to interrogate suspected terrorists held abroad. The Justice...

Say It Ain't So! Footnotes in a Blog

Posted on April 01, 2008
Lawyers are as reluctant to shed their footnotes as prudes are their clothes. In that sense, the legal blogosphere should be considered a footnote nudist colony. If you are unwilling to strip yourself of these linguistic overcoats, then go and...

As Avvo Expands, What's Your View?

Posted on April 01, 2008
Tomorrow will bring the expansion of lawyer-rating site Avvo to two more states, Massachusetts and Florida, as I reported yesterday on my LawSites blog. Meanwhile, New Jersey has opened the door for Avvo to add lawyers there. As Carolyn Elefant...

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What Fools These Lawyers Be

Posted on April 01, 2008
On this day devoted to the practical joke, I set out to see what pranks I could find among the ranks of legal bloggers. What I discovered, instead, is that fiction is often difficult to distinguish from fact. Consider some...

If You Have to Lose a Jury Trial, This Is the Way To Do It

Posted on March 31, 2008
Akin Gump partner Michele Roberts didn't win a complete victory for her client, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in its dispute over compensation with its ex-partner Douglas Rosenthal. But she won something possibly even more valuable -- praise for her efforts...

New Jersey v. Delaware, Tofu and Bean Sprouts v. Liquified Natural Gas

Posted on March 31, 2008
What's most interesting about today's Supreme Court decision in Delaware v. New Jersey isn't the main course, i.e.whether Delaware could lawfully block a liquified natural gas (LNG) facility proposed on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River. Instead, it's...

Blawg Review #153

Posted on March 31, 2008
The only fault that I could find with this week's pirate-themed Blawg Review #153 (or Blarrg Review) is that it's simply not C (sea)-worthy. Captain George Wallace of Declarations and Exclusions gets an A for his spirited journey around the...

Acting Like Lawyers

Posted on March 31, 2008
For lawyers who don't experience much drama or action in their day jobs, the play's the thing. As described in this article, lawyers in North Carolina's Triangle have discovered that community theater productions offer a way for them to indulge...

Lawyers as Litigants in Boston

Posted on March 28, 2008
Yesterday brought two appellate opinions from Boston-based courts -- one federal, one state -- in which lawyers participated not as advocates, but as litigants. One, from the state's highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court, addressed the applicability of an anti-SLAPP...

'Neutral' Sites as Fronts for Firms

Posted on March 28, 2008
At the Fortune blog Legal Pad, Roger Parloff points to perhaps the most recent example of what strikes me as an increasingly common and problematic trend -- PI firms setting up seemingly neutral front sites devoted to health, pharmaceutical or...

USPTO Chief Slams Bad Patents

Posted on March 28, 2008
No less an innovator than IBM once filed a patent on a system for providing restroom reservations. Or, as Ars Technica more crassly describes it, "Big Blue wanted a patent on taking a number to use the can." According to...

Martin Takes Helm of Bingham in Boston

Posted on March 28, 2008
Both The Boston Globe and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly have the news that Ralph C. Martin II has been named managing partner of the 270-lawyer Boston office of Bingham McCutchen, putting to rest speculation that the former Boston district attorney would...

God's Lawyer Pens Legal Help Book

Posted on March 28, 2008
When a legal self-help book is promoted as coming from God's legal department, you can't ask for a higher authority. That's the pitch for the new book from "Christian lawyer" Stephen L. Bloom, The Believer's Guide to Legal Issues, due...

Firm Salaries on the Rise in India

Posted on March 27, 2008
Though given the present economy, major pay increases for associates seem unlikely here in the United States, over in India, law firms are hiking salaries -- as much as 100 percent -- to retain talent, as reported in India's Economic...

Partner Takes Over Her Partner's Job... Literally!

Posted on March 27, 2008
When a law firm partner leaves the firm to move in-house, the firm typically asks another partner to assume responsibility for the the departing lawyer's matters. Indeed, that's what London-based Allen & Overy did when Graham Vinter, head of the...

Lawyer Leaves Firm and Takes the Rap

Posted on March 27, 2008
After this recent flurry of stories on involuntary law firm departures and subsequent law suits, it's refreshing to learn about one lawyer who left his firm and took the rap for it... quite literally! According to this story in The...

Globalization of Law Practice, In Ways We Don't Expect

Posted on March 27, 2008
For most of us, the concept of a "global law practice" conjures up images of a high-priced, international mega-firm, whose lawyers criss-cross the globe, representing corporate clients in complex business transactions. But as this week's blawgosphere posts bears out, international...

The Poster Child for Solo Practice

Posted on March 26, 2008
For two years now, I have had the honor of sharing blogging duties here at Legal Blog Watch with Washington, D.C., lawyer Carolyn Elefant. Carolyn and I alternate days posting here and we each write our own blogs, Carolyn at...

Policing Plagiarism = Fair Use

Posted on March 26, 2008
Four high school students from Virginia and Arizona got a lesson in copyright law when a federal court in Alexandria dismissed their case against a company that archives their school papers in order to police for plagiarism. The students sued...

Going In-House? Get a One-Way Ticket

Posted on March 26, 2008
News today from Corporate Counsel magazine that Robert Graham's work as an in-house lawyer at General Re Corp. could land him in jail for life should be reason enough to think twice before leaving a law firm and going in-house....

Howrey Offers Suits, Harbottle Offers Sex

Posted on March 25, 2008
Above the Law's David Lat reports that Howrey may be filming some type of video of its firm. Lat's informant notes that the Howrey set included "multiracial attorneys in suits everywhere." Meanwhile Ben Moshinsky at The Lawyer.com reports that a...

Animal Law Can Bring Out the Beast in Some Lawyers

Posted on March 25, 2008
As today's Chicago Tribune reports (and as we've covered previously), the practice specialization of animal law is becoming increasingly popular. The Tribune notes that "92 of the 196 ABA approved law schools in the country now offer courses on animal...

Most Law Firms Not Giving a Second Thought to Second Life

Posted on March 25, 2008
A little more than a year ago, I blogged about lawyers venturing into the virtual world, Second Life, either for personal enjoyment or marketing opportunities. Today, however, you'll find that many lawyers' infatuation with Second Life has already died, with...

Law Bloggers Take Both Sides of Ohio Voter Fraud Debate

Posted on March 25, 2008
Depending upon your political views, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos campaign, exhorting Republicans to switch sides and vote for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries to prolong the race, is either smart strategy or smarmy politics...

What's the Deal with GAO/Thomson Deal?

Posted on March 24, 2008
Questions continue to be raised among bloggers about an agreement in which the U.S. Government Accountability Office gives publisher Thomson West exclusive rights to federal legislative histories prepared on the public's dime. Public-access proponent Carl Malamud (who we've written about...

Massacring the Boston Massacre Trial

Posted on March 24, 2008
When it comes to TV trials, dramatic license trumps law license every time. No exception is the now-running HBO miniseries, John Adams. In the first of seven installments, Adams the young lawyer takes on an unpopular cause by agreeing to...

Law School Woes Could Win You $10K

Posted on March 24, 2008
Attention stressed-out law students: Now you can profit from your angst. Access Group, a nonprofit student loan company, is sponsoring a contest that will award $10,000 to the best law student video depicting what worries you in law school. Up...

Grammarians Parse the Second Amendment

Posted on March 24, 2008
In District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court is expected to interpret the meaning of the Second Amendment, which says, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to...

The Impact of Children on Lawyer Productivity

Posted on March 21, 2008
Having children impacts lawyer productivity in different ways depending on gender, concludes a recent investigation by the British Psychological Society, reported here. After studying the schedules and billing records of 670 lawyers in Alberta, Canada, researchers Jean Wallace and Marisa...

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