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Judge Shuts Down Wikileaks, Then Reconsiders

Posted on February 19, 2008
David Ardia at Citizen Media Law Project gives the rundown on the fast-paced turn of events that resulted Friday in a federal judge issuing a permanent injunction shutting down Wikileaks.org -- a site for anonymous leaking of government and corporate...

Next Best Thing to LegalTech Live

Posted on February 19, 2008
Whether you never made it to LegalTech New York or just want to catch up on what you missed, a series of podcasts and videocasts offer the next best thing to being there: On Lawyer2Lawyer, we have a two-parter on...

The Blawger and the Bankruptcy Judge

Posted on February 19, 2008
By all accounts, Robert Somma had been a top-notch U.S. bankruptcy judge since his appointment to the bench in 2004 and a top-notch bankruptcy practitioner for many years before that. The sense of many in the Boston area is that...

Lessig for Congress?

Posted on February 19, 2008
The Feb. 11 death of U.S. Rep. Thomas Lantos (D-CA) means parts of Silicon Valley and San Francisco will be holding a special election April 8 to fill his seat. Within the blogosphere, one potential candidate has emerged as the...

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Study: Judges Misled by their Intuition

Posted on February 15, 2008
Two legal scholars and a federal magistrate-judge have conducted an in-depth study of how trial judges decide cases and reached an intriguing conclusion: Their frequent reliance on intuition results in regular mistakes in their decisions. The three -- Chris Guthrie...

New Web Salvos in Tort War

Posted on February 15, 2008
They are the Hatfields and McCoys of the legal profession: the plaintiff and defense lawyers who practice in the area of tort law. Two new Web sites drive home their divide, one with soberly dramatic videos, the other with tongue...

Trademark Fight: Yoko v. Lennon?

Posted on February 15, 2008
On Tuesday, Techdirt conveyed news that Yoko Ono had filed "what is essentially a lawsuit" with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office attempting to force musician Lennon Murphy to give up her trademark...

Will Roger Clemens Face Perjury Charges?

Posted on February 14, 2008
Roger Clemens went to Capitol Hill yesterday to deny allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his career as a Major League pitcher. Apparently, the question around the blogosphere isn't so much whether Clemens used drugs or not -- most...

Lawyers Advertising Badly

Posted on February 14, 2008
Today may be Valentine's Day, but some lawyers won't be feeling much love as a result of their advertising campaigns. Consider, for example, the West Virginia law firm participating in a radio station's Valentine's Day promotion for a free divorce....

Law Firms Breaking Records for Revenues and Profits Per Partner

Posted on February 14, 2008
Remember last month's news about impending hard times for law firms? Forget all that! This month, law firms are celebrating record growth for 2007. For example, as Legal Week reports, Weil Gotshal broke the $2 million barrier for partner profits...

First Thing We Do: Investigate Bush's Lawyers

Posted on February 13, 2008
Last week on the blog The Free for All, civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate issued a call for an ethics investigation of the Department of Justice lawyers who advised the CIA on the legality of its torture practices. Yesterday, Silverglate renewed...

ABA Endorses Conditional Bar Admission

Posted on February 13, 2008
In case you missed it, the American Bar Association just wrapped up its midyear meeting in Los Angeles, where perhaps its most interesting action relating to law practice was its adoption of a model rule that would grant conditional bar...

Scalia's Latest Smack

Posted on February 13, 2008
Driving to a meeting yesterday, listening to BBC via my local NPR station, I almost went off the road as I heard Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia come on the air and express his doubts about whether anything in the...

How Does a Blogger Launch a Book?

Posted on February 13, 2008
With a virtual book launch party, of course. Tammy Lenski, author of the blog Mediator Tech, just published her book, Making Mediation Your Day Job. To celebrate, she is inviting readers to her Web site to join in the festivities....

Law Firm Starts a Wiki -- and Bribes Staff to Use It

Posted on February 12, 2008
Many times, the greatest obstacle to successful integration of new technology by a law firm is resistance from attorneys and staff who don't have the time or inclination to figure out how to use it. If that's the case at...

Law Firm Offshores an Office to India

Posted on February 12, 2008
Offshoring document review to India hasn't gained much traction with most law firms, in large part because of concerns about security and quality control. So as The American Lawyer reports, one Am Law 200 firm, Howrey has decided to try...

YouTube Video Leads to Officer's Suspension

Posted on February 12, 2008
A Baltimore police officer, Salvatore Rivieri, was suspended yesterday after a YouTube video showed him bullying and pushing a fourteen year old and confiscating his skateboard. From what I could glean from the video clip, the officer's tirade was triggered...

New Resources for Lawyer-Job Hunters

Posted on February 12, 2008
Today's mainstream news publications brought stories about two different online tools for lawyers seeking law firm jobs. A Wall Street Journal blurb mentions Lateral Link, which combines an online job database with a traditional recruiting service. On the surface, Lateral...

Update: Bizarre Lawsuit Dismissed

Posted on February 11, 2008
Back in September, under the heading Bizarre Lawsuit of the Day, we told you about the Pennsylvania man who had sued search giant Google for $5 billion, claiming in a handwritten complaint that when his Social Security number is turned...

Berenson Bares E-mail's Details

Posted on February 11, 2008
New York Times reporter Alex Berenson's appearance this weekend on the NPR radio program On the Media was intended to set the record straight on the misdirected law firm e-mail that reportedly led to a NYT scoop on a possible...

Ratting Out an Anonymous Blawger

Posted on February 11, 2008
Perhaps it was LegalTech's proximity to Groundhog Day that lured the anonymous editor of Blawg Review to step into the sunlight last week. But his appearance only begs the question: Do we have six more weeks or months or even...

U.K. Lawyers: 'Can You Hear Us Now?'

Posted on February 11, 2008
As Britain's prison bugging scandal widens, lawyers there are suggesting that hundreds of criminal convictions may require review. Following initial reports that police had eavesdropped on prison conversations between a terrorist suspect and MP Sadiq Khan, The Daily Telegraph said...

Bringing Laterals Onboard

Posted on February 08, 2008
Bruce MacEwen has a lengthy post about how law firms are bringing laterals into the fold. Notably, different firms look for different characteristics when bringing in laterals. Some firms look at capability, rather than clients or book of business, at...

More Fights About Pro Bono Fees

Posted on February 08, 2008
If you're a fan of the tree falling in the forest genre of riddles, consider this one: If a law firm seeks recovery of fees at its standard rates for a case that it originally accepted on a pro bono...

The Last of the LegalTech Blog Posts

Posted on February 08, 2008
LegalTech New York '08 concluded yesterday, but the blogger dispatches keep coming. Arnie Herz of Legal Sanity describes his experience at LegalTech in this post, which opens with these remarks: I'm no Luddite. Some have even suggested that I?ve hot....

LTNY 2008: Lawyers Catching Up With Web 2.0

Posted on February 07, 2008
LexisNexis conducted a survey at LegalTech Wednesday on the adoption of Web 2.0 capabilities in the legal market. While 74% of respondents read blogs, the results show, only 10% have their own blog. Only 17% of the respondents' firms have...

LTNY 2008: The Once and Future Blogger?

Posted on February 07, 2008
Jim Eidelman was blogging on legal technology before there were blogs. As Ross Kodner points out, [Jim] is one of the true pioneers in the field of legal technology. With his firm, Eidelman Associates, based originally in Ann Arbor, Michigan,...

LTNY 2008: Photos from Bloggers' Breakfast

Posted on February 07, 2008
Jill Windwer, the ALM vice president in charge of Law.com, did a great job organizing a breakfast get-together for legal bloggers attending LegalTech. Carolyn Elefant of My Shingle and Legal Blog Watch, Monica Bay of The Common Scold and Eric...

LTNY 2008: Anonymous Blawger Sighting

Posted on February 07, 2008
The ability to remain anonymous is one of blogging's most attractive features, especially in the legal world where loose lips can sink client relationships. Whether that anonymity is a good thing or not is debatable. But one thing is certain:...

LTNY 2008: Google Goes to LegalTech, and LegalTech Goes Global

Posted on February 07, 2008
Thursday afternoon marks the end of LegalTech New York 2008, and also of Legal Blog Watch's special coverage of the show. We'll be back to our regularly-scheduled programming Friday, but there's one more LegalTech blogger we need to highlight before....

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