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Legal Podcast Roundup

Posted on January 22, 2008
Some recent law-related podcasts worth tuning in: Social Networking and the Law. Apologies for blowing our own horn, but J. Craig Williams and I had an insightful conversation on our "Lawyer2Lawyer" podcast with three guests who had very different perspectives...

Portraits of Young Lawyer-Candidates

Posted on January 22, 2008
As Peter Lattman observes this morning at the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog, the mud-slinging at last night's Democratic presidential debate can be boiled down to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama each accusing the other of having been a lawyer....

Blawg Review Marks MLK Day

Posted on January 22, 2008
This week's Blawg Review #143 observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with host Public Defender Stuff rounding up blawg posts that pertain to the theme of struggle. Author "Gideon" explains his choice of theme: Preparing for this edition of Blawg...

New Take on the 'Virtual' Law Firm

Posted on January 18, 2008
Since the early days of the Internet, we've heard about law firms going virtual. Nowadays, some lawyers are taking that to the extreme, setting up practices in the virtual world of Second Life, as Stevan Lieberman did. More commonly, though,...

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Boston Lawyer Wins for VI Judge

Posted on January 18, 2008
A Boston lawyer won a notable victory this week on behalf of a U.S. Virgin Islands judge when the U.S. District Court in St. Thomas ruled that the V.I.'s judicial discipline board is unconstitutional. The lawyer, Howard M. Cooper, is...

DOJ Blocks Blogger from Media List

Posted on January 18, 2008
Paul Kiel, deputy editor of the left-of-center political blog Talking Points Memo and reporter for its companion TPMmuckraker.com, realized one day that he had stopped receiving press-release e-mails from the U.S. Department of Justice. Having been on the DOJ's distribution...

The Story Behind the Xbox Class Action

Posted on January 17, 2008
Jason Gibson, the lawyer who filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft on behalf of three Xbox Live consumers angered by connectivity issues experienced over the Christmas holidays, is now explaining the reasons for the lawsuit. As reported in Wired,...

Hot Legal Jobs for 2008

Posted on January 17, 2008
Robert Half Legal, a national legal staffing agency just released its 2008 Salary Guide. Today's press release announces the Guide and provides information that identifies the five "in-demand positions" for 2008. Despite recent lay-offs, Robert Half remains bullish about certain...

Young Lawyers Crusade Against Going to Law School

Posted on January 17, 2008
What's the best way to avoid dissatisfaction as a lawyer? Don't go to law school to begin with. That's the advice of Kirsten Wolf and David Wold, two new lawyers whose respective crusades against legal education are making their rounds...

Of Steamy Sex and Speech in Stalls

Posted on January 16, 2008
When a legal newspaper headlines its story, "Hunter and Firm Sued over Steamy Affair," it is sure to grab attention. As Ontario's Law Times reports, a smoldering series of events led to prominent lawyer George Hunter's resignation as treasurer of...

Blawgs: A Lawyer's First Reader

Posted on January 16, 2008
"See Tom. Tom is a lawyer. Tom has a blawg. See Tom run with blawg. See Tom get attention. See Tom get smarter. See Tom get clients." Maybe that level of simplicity is needed to get some stuck-in-the-mud lawyers to...

Lawyer/Lawmaker Kicks up Controversy

Posted on January 16, 2008
Monday was Douglas Bruce's first day on the job as a state representative in Colorado. As the former lawyer stood with his new colleagues on the House floor for morning prayer, clasping a family Bible in his hand, a Rocky...

Judges' Guide to Keeping Secrets

Posted on January 16, 2008
No doubt, federal judges have enough to think about without having to worry about how to keep secrets from the public. Now, a new "pocket guide" simplifies secrecy for judges, lifting the veil on how to keep the lid on...

Supreme Court Protects Third Party Advisers in Stoneridge

Posted on January 15, 2008
Today, by a 5-3 vote, the Supreme Court decided Stoneridge Investment Partners v. Scientific Atlanta, rejecting the concept of "scheme liability" that would have allowed shareholders to sue third party advisers who may have facilitated the fraudulent transactions...

Curbing Associate Attrition: New Ideas, but Are They Necessary in a Recession?

Posted on January 15, 2008
We've posted about the problem of associate attrition before. Now, early in 2008, I've already come across two new ideas for stemming associate attrition. But I wonder if they come too late, as we enter recessionary times, where at least...

Blawg Review #142 and Blawg Review Awards

Posted on January 15, 2008
Yesterday, Susan Cartier Liebel of How to Build A Solo Practice LLC posted a masterful Blawg Review #142, in the form of a "Letter to a New Lawyer." Not only does Cartier Liebel's letter itself offer sound advice to lawyers...

Inside Story of 'Flea'

Posted on January 15, 2008
Today, New York Personal Injury lawyer/blogger Eric Turkewitz caps off his coverage of pediatrician Robert Lindeman, aka Flea, who blogged pseudonymously about his upcoming medical malpractice lawsuit and was eventually unmasked at trial. Turkewitz interviewed Lindeman by e-mail, and posts...

Court Gags Blogging Lawyer, Maybe

Posted on January 14, 2008
Miami criminal defense lawyer David O. Markus will have to watch what he says on his Southern District of Florida blog now that a federal judge has issued a gag order that appears to extend to him. The gag order...

New Development in Sen. Craig Case?

Posted on January 14, 2008
Is something brewing in Sen. Larry Craig's attempt to reverse his plea of guilty to disorderly conduct in an airport men's room? In case you've forgotten, the Idaho Republican was arrested June 11 in Minnesota as part of a police...

Collective Advice to a New Lawyer

Posted on January 14, 2008
Easter is a ways off still, but there are Easter eggs hidden throughout today's Blawg Review #142, written by Susan Cartier Liebel at Build a Solo Practice, LLC. Liebel styles this week's roundup of law-related blogs in the form of...

Morgan Lewis on Trial Over Advice

Posted on January 14, 2008
Did erroneous advice from Morgan Lewis & Bockius get a client in hot water for violating the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba? That is the issue in a trial that got underway Friday in the firm's home city of Philadelphia....

Lawyer With Racy Divorce Ads Exposed -- Literally!

Posted on January 11, 2008
Remember the racy billboard ads posted by Chicago law firm Fetman, Garland & Associates that raised so much controversy last spring? The ads featured two photographs, centered on the chest of a scantily clad man and woman with the slug...

Will Higher Judicial Salaries Increase Quality? Judge Posner and Son Say No

Posted on January 11, 2008
Last week, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts ushered in the New Year with his annual pitch for increasing judicial salaries in order to attract and retain qualified jurists to the bench. But some law professors, including Eric Posner, son...

Sullivan & Cromwell Disputes a Bill

Posted on January 11, 2008
What I find both odd and admirable about this story, "How a White Shoe Law Firm Disputes a Bill" -- reporting on a lawsuit by Sullivan & Cromwell, which disputes $710,000 of its bill by an electronic discovery company because...

Law Prof Blogger Moves to the New York Times

Posted on January 11, 2008
If you're still skeptical that blogging can put you on the national stage, this story should make you reconsider. Blawg.com's Bill Gratsch passes on this news that Wayne State Law School Professor Steven Davidoff of the M&A Law Profs Blog...

Florida Suit Challenges Lawyer Advertising Rules

Posted on January 10, 2008
Jacksonville, Fla., lawyer Bill Harrell of the firm Harrell & Harrell did what state ethics rules required him to do. In 2002, he sought and received state bar approval to use the advertising slogan, "Don't settle for less than you...

A Lawyer's Blogging Lessons Learned

Posted on January 10, 2008
For Jones Day partner Mark Herrmann, the blogging light bulb went on the day the Wall Street Journal Law Blog mentioned his book, The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law. Within a day, it went from Amazon rank 47,369 to number...

Law Grad to Gays: 'I Apologize'

Posted on January 10, 2008
Stephen Dunne, the law school grad who filed a federal lawsuit against Massachusetts bar administrators after failing the bar exam, is now apologizing to the gay community for his "misguided" action. Dunne's pro se complaint alleged that he failed the...

Lawyers' Anti-Bush Petition Nears Goal

Posted on January 10, 2008
A campaign to get at least 2,000 lawyers and law students to sign onto a petition calling for Congress to investigate the Bush administration for "numerous offenses against the Constitution" is nearing its goal. The American Lawyers Defending the Constitution...

Why Law Firms Should Encourage Associates to Play Nice

Posted on January 09, 2008
Memo to law firms: Maybe forcing associates to demonstrate excellence through cutthroat competition for plum assignments and bonuses isn't such a productive approach after all. A study by UC Berkeley economist Jennifer Block concludes [PDF] that setting up head-to-head competition...

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