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By Lisa Stone

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

Is Blogging Dead?

Posted on September 03, 2010
And if it is, can I go back to bed? I raise the question because some esteemed legal bloggers have been chewing on it recently (that's a legitimate basis, right, Bruce?). Bob Ambrogi, who in the not-too-distant past patrolled the hallways here at LBW, proclaimed on Wednesday that "reports of blogging's death have been greatly exaggerated," and, as evidence, cited 15 legal blogs of relatively recent vintage that he believes to be of value to the legal community...

Thursday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on September 02, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: My wife pronounces the name of our home state as "Ne-VAH-dah," while I say it as "Ne-VAD-a." Who is right? Answer: You are, of course, but please reassure your wife that the Nevada Legislature has "submitted a bill draft request for the 2011 legislative session for a resolution that asserts while the preferred pronunciation of the state's name is 'Ne-VAD-a,' pronouncing it 'Ne-VAH-da' is also acceptable...

Schools Use Technology to Track Exact Whereabouts of Buses and Each Child

Posted on September 02, 2010
Back in my day, we had to walk to school barefoot, in the snow -- uphill both ways. That made our feet cold. Then the kids started riding on those newfangled "buses," which seemed like a good thing until parents realized there was a 45-minute period when they did not know the exact whereabouts of their children...

'It?s Only a Dream Until You Write It Down, and Then It Becomes a Goal'

Posted on September 02, 2010
Before I get to the point here, I'd like to set forth the Rules of LBW Procedure (as decreed by me), which govern this blog's jurisdiction over any given story: 1. It was discussed on a legal blog; 2. It is law-related; or 3. Special jurisdiction under the "Pick of the Litter" theory* I am asserting jurisdiction over the insights below on "How a Dream Becomes a Goal" based on #1 above (it appeared on Heather Morse-Milligan's Legal Watercooler blog), and also because after 40+ years of having never heard the key quote below, I've now heard it twice in two days from completely different sources...

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'I Can Stalk U': A 'Please Rob Me' for People Who Upload Photos to Twitter

Posted on September 02, 2010
As discussed here back in February, a website called "Please Rob Me" launched earlier this year with the mission of raising awareness of a possible downside of using the new geolocation services such as Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz, etc. As I described it at the time: Those of you on Twitter have no doubt seen people using these services to announce things like, "I'm at the Grand Canyon" or "I'm the new mayor of the Reston Sport and Health Club...

Plastic Bags Still Legal in California

Posted on September 01, 2010
The California State Senate hates the environment. That body, per CNN, voted down a bill that would have banned plastic bags in grocery stores, drug stores and convenience stores. You know, the places you get plastic bags. The California Assembly had already passed the bill, and the Governator had stated publicly that he would sign it into law if it passed the Senate...

Miss. Court of Appeals Starts Tour; Taylor Swift Opening Rumor Unconfirmed

Posted on September 01, 2010
Do you go to college in Mississippi? Do you like hearing lawyers blather on and on about obscure legal issues that likely have little if any relevance to you? Then you're in luck. Because the Mississippi Court of Appeals (pictured, left) is starting its Fall 2010 tour...

Law School Deanship as Fast Track to University Presidency

Posted on September 01, 2010
It was big news last week when Northwestern Law School Dean David Van Zandt announced he'd be stepping down to take over as president of the New School. In today's Corporate Counsel, David Hechler explores the law-school-dean-to-university-president phenomenon...

Facebook Sued Again; Class Action Claims Use of Kids' Names and Pics Violates Calif. Law

Posted on September 01, 2010
All the cool kids are suing Facebook for something or other. We are, by now, all familiar with the lawsuit in which some guy claims to be the 84 percent owner of the company (thanks to Above the Law for the latest update on that suit). This morning, the National Law Journal is reporting on a class action filed in California, claiming that Facebook is using names and images of minors for advertising purposes without getting parents' permission as required under California law...

Tuesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on August 31, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I just returned home from a vacation. Why are half of my tools missing and the other half laying out in my front yard? Answer: Sometimes burglars break into homes and hold a garage sale of the homeowner's possessions in the front yard...

The Blogosphere Examines Lawyer Bios

Posted on August 31, 2010
One of this week's themes in the blogosphere appears to be the art of creating effective lawyer biographies on law firm Web sites. Matt Homann kicked this off on his [non]billable hour blog with a funny Venn diagram showing the tiny overlap between what lawyers include in their bios and what clients actually care about: That led LBW alumnus Bob Ambrogi to offer a different view on the subject...

Want to Run for 8th Grade President? Well, What Race Are You?

Posted on August 31, 2010
I'm still shaking my head in disbelief over this memo from Nettleton Middle School in Nettleton, Miss. that specifies which race you must belong to in order to run for certain school offices. What's that? You are a black kid interested in running for 8th grade president? Ha!! Try vice president or reporter instead...

Property Law Made Easy: The 'Conveyance Interpreter'

Posted on August 31, 2010
Property Law was just about the death of me in law school. Crazy people bequeathing "Blackacre to my third cousin for life, then to my cat for 20 years, then to my ex-wife for eternity so long as she never stops practicing law." These bequeaths get complicated and you ultimately need to map them out to figure out who gets what, for how long, and when...

Two-Track Legal Education Coming to a Law School Near You?

Posted on August 30, 2010
What makes a good law school professor? This is a debate that, I daresay, will go on in perpetuity. Bruce brought you some of the latest thoughts on Friday, with his discussion centering on Brent Newton's recent law review article, and the reaction thereto...

China Bulletin: Illegal to Wipe With Propaganda

Posted on August 30, 2010
I have been to China. Though this was over five years ago, I still occasionally have nightmares about some of the "public restrooms" I saw. (And my Chinese travels were limited to major metropolitan areas.) This morning at the Volokh Conspiracy, none other than the blog's namesake linked out to a post on the Language Log, which shows this photo of the wall of a Chinese public toilet: The translation: "Use of Party newspapers and magazines as toilet paper is strictly forbidden...

Striking Coke Workers Sue Over Health Insurance Cancellation

Posted on August 30, 2010
If you can spell out the full name of the statute commonly abbreviated ERISA without falling asleep, you're probably an ERISA lawyer. You know, the one who has to sit through interminable conference calls on every mergers and acquisitions transaction your firm does, just so that four hours in someone can say, "Sound OK to you, Mary?" Some striking Teamsters at Coca-Cola plants in Western Washington, though, have filed an ERISA suit in federal court in Seattle, claiming that Coke improperly canceled their health insurance coverage a day after their strike began...

Friday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on August 27, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I'd like to trademark a color. Any advice? Answer: Stay away from yellow. That color is taken. (Very Demotivational, The Color Yellow) 2) Question: I have a restraining order against these protesters -- they can't come within 50 feet of my store...

Gossip Blog 'TheDirty.com' Hit With $11 Million Defamation Judgment

Posted on August 27, 2010
A story today involving a Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader shows the significant hot water bloggers can get into if they ignore the law. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman ordered a gossip blog called TheDirty.com to pay cheerleader Sarah Jones $11 million for libel and defamation resulting from allegedly false accusations that Jones had sex with Bengal football players and had two venereal diseases...

Should Law School Be More Than Just a 'Sorting Mechanism' for Potential Employers?

Posted on August 27, 2010
A lively discussion is underway at The Volokh Conspiracy blog on the issue of whether law schools hire the wrong type of people to be professors by overemphasizing "elite academic credentials at the expense of practical knowledge and experience." More broadly, the debate there is over whether law school should be a "trade school" or rather a place of scholarship where students gain academic and theoretical insights about the law...

Thursday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on August 26, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: All I ordered was a bagel. Why am I being charged sales tax? Answer: Did you want it sliced? If so, your bagel transforms into "prepared food" subject to an 8...

Dog Law: Austin Court Awards Wife Custody of Clementine the Chihuahua

Posted on August 26, 2010
While Austin, Texas resident Eric Lipman, my co-blogger here at Legal Blog Watch, is off gallivanting about the Texas traffic court, there are cases of real importance going on right under his nose. Take the case of Calder v. Calder, in which the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin ruled yesterday that Brooke Ashley Calder may keep her Chihuahua named Clementine as part of her divorce...

Can Today's Lawyers Practice Without a Cell Phone?

Posted on August 26, 2010
Via a post on the ABA Journal's Web site I came across a Bloomberg article about certain high-profile professionals who are saying goodbye to their cell phones in favor of, well, nothing. Among the unreachable individuals noted in the article are Warren Buffett, Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, national radio show host Tavis Smiley and law professor Afsheen John Radsan...

Twitter Law (cont.): Doctor Drives Off Cliff While Sending Twitter Message

Posted on August 26, 2010
This is a bit creepy. On Aug. 16, I noted that: Ever since I got Twitter installed on my BlackBerry, it has occurred to me that we cannot be far away from a time when we will regularly be reading articles with headlines such as "Six Car Pileup Results After Man Checks TwitterFon on Beltway" or "Local Woman Walks Into Manhole While Posting TwitPic...

Wednesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on August 25, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Years and years of study to obtain my degree in Ebonics translation and now I can't get a job! Are there any opportunities in the legal field? Answer: Why, yes! Try applying to the Department of Justice's Drug Enforcement Administration...

Reports From Multiple Fronts in the 'Breast-feeding in Public' War

Posted on August 25, 2010
The battle lines are fairly well-drawn by now: Mothers with infants sometimes like to actually venture out into the world and do things. While they are out, they want to be able to breast-feed their children in McDonald's, retail shops, etc. Some restaurants and shops, however -- or at least some of their employees -- do not welcome breast-feeding on the premises...

Burglarized House? Oakland Police Want You to Know 'We're Not Coming'

Posted on August 25, 2010
Via the free copy of USA Today that was left in my hotel room this morning comes this money quote from the Oakland, Calif. police on the effect of budget cuts in that city: "If you come home to find your house burglarized and you call, we're not coming...

'Hi, I'm Roni Deutch, and I'm the Defendant.'

Posted on August 24, 2010
If you haven't seen a commercial for "Tax Lady" Roni Deutch, you must be either blind or Amish, making it extremely unlikely that you're reading this post. But just in case, they look something like this: Yes, she's always that grating. But it seems the California Attorney General wants her to pipe down...

Blawger/Candidate Suggests Giving Your Law License to God, but Not Your Vote?

Posted on August 24, 2010
It may not have the mainstream appeal of the story about the Georgetown Law graduate who sold his law degree on craigslist, but blogger, and Republican candidate for the Pennsylvania legislature, Stephen Bloom of the Believer's Guide to Legal Issues, has built a following around the notion of giving your law license to God...

Apple Wants to Spy on You All Hi-Tech-Like

Posted on August 24, 2010
Here I am, seriously considering switching from a BlackBerry to an iPhone when my contract runs out next week, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation has to go and ruin it for me. On the EFF Deeplinks blog yesterday, Julie Samuels posted about Apple's patent application for technology, which Samuels dubs "traitorware," that will enable Apple to "secretly collect, store and potentially use sensitive biometric information about you...

Judge Shows Burglar Some Georgia Justice

Posted on August 24, 2010
Yesterday, the WSJ Law Blog linked out to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about the state of Georgia's seemingly league-leading run of recent scandalous behavior on the part of its jurists. The article references, among others, the judge caught having sex with a public defender in a parked car, and the one who "inappropriately touched a prosecutor and investigator after they sat in his lap posing for a photo...

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