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

Green Party Candidate for Ill. Treasurer Wants to Shutter Law Schools

Posted on August 12, 2010
We've reported in these "pages" before about the increasingly loud voices proclaiming that law school is a scam being perpetuated by the dissemination of inflated employment statistics, while encouraging potential students to stay away in droves. Well, someone is listening...

Wednesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on August 11, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I got into a squabble with another driver as we are both trying to exit the county fair. She got out of her car and smeared my back windshield with some nasty substance! That's got to be a crime, right? Did I mention the substance was brown and came straight from a dirty diaper? Answer: In Pennsylvania, at least, they charge people who assault cars with dirty diapers with "harassment...

Action Group Calls Happy Meal Toys 'Horrifying;' Carton Kids Not Horrified

Posted on August 11, 2010
The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood has identified the latest scourge that will ruin your kids' lives, and it can be found at the bottom of a McDonald's Happy Meal box. CCFC says that McDonald's has hit a "new low" by giving away Marvel comic action figures that include, brace yourself, "The Thing" and the "Human Torch...

'Why No One Under 30 Answers Your Voice Mail'

Posted on August 11, 2010
Via the idealawg blog, I came across this article under the excellent headline, "Why No One Under 30 Answers Your Voicemail." The reasons are discussed below, but first a couple of confessions: 1. I'm not under 30. 2. For whatever reason, in the past year or so, my attention span has shrunk to the point that I now really dislike voice mail -- I don't like to punch all of the keys on the phone; I don't like to wait for the voice mail robo-lady to tell me what to do; I don't like to listen for 30 seconds per message while the message-leavers collect their thoughts and ultimately say, "please call me back;" I don't like to spend time replaying the message if I missed the phone number or some key part of the message -- and so on...

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Trend Watch: Creative Counter-Protesters

Posted on August 11, 2010
Among the things that I seem to consistently like in this world are the "counter-protesters," i.e., people who are the targets of protests who then grab their own signs and protest right back. I first saw this in the context of the Westboro Baptist Church, a Kansas church that "has sparked outrage around the country for its pickets, which feature profane and derogatory language warning people about the danger of Hell...

Lawyer for Con Man Needs Refresher in Civil v. Criminal Law

Posted on August 10, 2010
Marc Payen might want to consider hiring new counsel. Payen was arrested yesterday in New York, and charged with 23 counts, including grand larceny, forgery, criminal possession of a forged instrument, scheme to defraud and the unauthorized practice of law...

Lawsuit of the Day: Fan vs. Baseball, Team, Players for Shattered Bat to Face

Posted on August 10, 2010
For many a New York Mets fan (myself included), some courtroom drama might be a pleasant diversion from yet another season that started off with high hopes but appears to be headed rapidly downhill. So, thank you James Falzon, for suing Major League Baseball, the Mets, Luis Castillo and Ramon Castro...

San Francisco 'Market Rate' Parking Experiment Underway

Posted on August 10, 2010
Via a post on the Land Use Prof Blog, I discovered that San Francisco (funded by your federal tax dollars) has, over the past couple of weeks, begun toying with a system of variable rate, electronically monitored parking meters, the stated goal of which is "collecting and distributing real-time information about where parking is available so drivers can quickly find open spaces," and instituting "demand-responsive pricing...

Harvard Law Prof Attempts to 'Scare the Bejesus' Out of ABA

Posted on August 10, 2010
The sky is falling. So sayeth Professor David B. Wilkins of . . . excuse me . . . Harvard Law School. According to the ABA Journal, Wilkins, director of HLS's "Program on the Legal Profession," was invited to speak to the ABA's House of Delegates, with the express intention of making them quiver, pee their pants, and possibly start stockpiling weapons and canned food...

Monday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on August 09, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Who does this Gypsy fortune teller think she is, predicting that I will be sent to jail in the future. Outrageous!! I will kill her! Answer: Get a hold of yourself, sir!!!! You are playing right into her hands! (The Moscow Times, ?I See Jail in Your Future ??) 2) Question: I have exceedingly high laundry standards...

Idea of the Day: Using 'Virtual Litigation' to Spur Settlements

Posted on August 09, 2010
Over at the Settle It Now blog, Victoria Pynchon offers some creative thinking based on an article she recently read about litigation filed over "virtual property" in Second Life. The property at issue is a "lush tropical island" that exists only in the world of virtual reality...

Expert Witness in Unsuccessful 'Popcorn Lung' Case Files Appeal of His Own

Posted on August 09, 2010
Via this post on OnPointNews, I came across a case pending in federal court in Spokane, Wash. today that brings several interesting things to the table. 1. The plaintiff, Larry Newkirk, developed a rare lung disease called bronchiolitis obliterans. Newkirk sued Conagra Foods and other defendants claiming that his condition was "popcorn lung" caused by his eating "between five to seven bags of microwave popcorn each day for about 11 years...

Cold Feet? Buy Some 'WedLock' Divorce Insurance Before Taking the Plunge

Posted on August 09, 2010
I wrote here about Wedsafe, a wedding insurance product that offers brides and grooms all-inclusive policies insuring against cancellations due to sudden illness or weather calamities, as well as disaster cakes, lost photographs, drunken guests getting into an accident or a fight -- and so on...

Friday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on August 06, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: The new broadband Internet service our company is rolling out is blazing fast! We call it the "birth of the instant internet." How does that sound? Answer: "Instant?" Unless it takes users exactly zero seconds to download files, the U...

TechnoEsq. Reviews the 'iJuror' iPad App for Jury Selection

Posted on August 06, 2010
Via the TechnoEsq. blog comes this review of a new iPad app called "iJuror." iJuror is a graphical app by a company called Front9Technologies that is designed to help lawyers with the task of selecting a jury. TechnoEsq. reports that the app works as follows: The attorney selects the layout of the jury pool by specifying the number of potential jurors in columns and rows...

Plaintiffs Unveil Smoking Gun Photo in Support of 'Deposition Toe-Tapping' Accusation

Posted on August 06, 2010
I was a litigator for years. How do I not know about tricks like deposition toe-tapping? Maybe I needed to practice in Florida to learn these things? The South Florida Lawyers blog reports that accusations of "the ancient method of 'toe-tapping' to allegedly signal to a witness how to respond during a deposition" are being thrown around in a case pending in federal court down in Key West...

New York Town Uses Google Earth to Find Pool Permit Scofflaws

Posted on August 06, 2010
You want to add a pool to your home, and you want it now. But you really don't want to deal with the expense and red-tape of getting a pool permit from the city, so you just skip that step. After all, the city has a lot on its plate already -- is it really going to hire pool police to walk around town and peer over thousands of fences to see if its citizens have added a pool in their backyards? I don't think so! But Riverhead, N...

Baby Video Background Music: A New Low for Copyright Claims?

Posted on August 05, 2010
Promoting the progress of science and useful arts is all well and good, but have we gone a little too far with this whole thing? First, we've got the "copyright troll" searching for news stories reposted by bloggers, purchasing copyrights and suing on them, without so much as the courtesy of a takedown request (as noted by Above the Law yesterday)...

Father Charged With Critically Injuring 2-Year-Old as Part of 'Boxing Lesson'

Posted on August 05, 2010
Yesterday, we brought you the story of the Ohio man sentenced to probation for "Daddying While Intoxicated." Today, an "are you kidding me?" parenting story that is no laughing matter at all. According to CNN, Lee Willie Dejesus of Homestead, Fla. has admitted to police that he beat his 2-year-old son nearly to death, hitting him approximately 15 times in the face, head and chest...

Body Language During Negotiation: Use These Tips at Your Own Risk

Posted on August 05, 2010
Over at The Careerist, Vivia Chen has set out a few tactics that lawyers might want to use the next time they sit down at a conference room table and try to hammer out a deal, be it settlement of some silly domain name dispute or where to put the commas in your $1...

Chefs Sue Over Olive Oil's Dubious Virtue

Posted on August 04, 2010
Claiming to be a virgin when you're not can result in a get out of jail free card for your husband over in Europe. But false claims of extra virginity can get you sued by "Top Chef" Dave Martin, right here in America. Martin and other chefs and restaurants have filed a class action complaint in California Superior Court, alleging that a host of olive oil manufacturers have been bottling up inferior product, labeling it "extra virgin," and selling it for much more than it's actually worth...

Florida Judicial Candidates Can't Solicit Donations on Personal Facebook Pages

Posted on August 04, 2010
Do you "like" Lloyd Comiter, candidate for County Court Judge in Palm Beach County, Fla.? Do you maybe want to contribute to his campaign? You can do that on Facebook. But, according to a recent opinion from the Florida Supreme Court Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee (via the Legal Profession Blog), only because the appeals for donations are on a page sponsored by Comiter's election committee, rather than his personal page...

Are BigLaw Suicides Becoming More Common?

Posted on August 04, 2010
That's the question posed by Steven Harper, recently retired Kirkland & Ellis partner and adjunct professor at Northwestern University Law School, in a column published in The American Lawyer. Harper cites several recent cases of partners and associates taking their own lives, including that of Stewart Dolin, who apparently threw himself in front of a train in Chicago last month...

Ohio Man Gets Probation for DWI (Daddying While Intoxicated)

Posted on August 04, 2010
Many a mother or father will tell you that the stress of parenting is sometimes eased by the occasional glass of chardonnay, bourbon on the rocks or other adult beverage of choice. Then there's Steven Melendez. Melendez was arrested last week in Mansfield, Ohio, while walking around the streets drunk -- pushing his children, ages 1 and 2, in one of those nifty double strollers...

Clients Increasingly Bringing e-Discovery In-House

Posted on August 03, 2010
A post on the U.K.-based InfoRiskAwareness blog might be setting off alarm bells among BigLaw firms, both here and across the pond. Tim Bovy, CEO of an outfit called d2Ops, writes that we should expect to see more corporations doing their own document search and review, rather than simply letting their outside counsel run wild among the company's files as they see fit...

$11 Million Verdict Against Pizza Hut for Accident Caused by Epileptic Delivery Driver

Posted on August 03, 2010
Last week, a California jury returned a verdict in a personal injury case against Pizza Hut, a division of Yum Brands Inc., requiring the company to pay at total of $10.8 million to a mother and daughter whose car was hit by an 18-year-old delivery driver in 2008...

Former AUSA Loses Law License, but Didn't Really Feel He Needed it Anyway

Posted on August 03, 2010
You would think someone able to land a job as a federal prosecutor -- a highly coveted post in the intersecting worlds of criminal law and public service -- would be pretty responsible and, one would hope, honest to boot. In at least one case, you'd apparently be wrong...

Texas Federal Judge Rips City Council for Rejecting Settlement

Posted on August 03, 2010
An interesting legal drama is playing out in Austin, Texas, arising out of a fatal police shooting and subsequent civil suit filed by the victim's relatives. Austin Police Officer Leonardo Quintana shot and killed Nathaniel Sanders II on May 11, 2009, leading to unrest in the community amid disputed accounts of the events of that night...

Monday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on August 02, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Why are these guys from Unilever hanging around outside my house? Answer: Congratulations! You must have won a prize by buying a lucky box of Mr...

Let's Get Ready to Rumble! Fight Lawyer Joins Mixed Martial Arts Law Blog in Tiny Niche

Posted on August 02, 2010
I'm not exactly sure what this development means for the current state of legal blogging, but just know this: There are now two blogs dedicated to mixed martial arts law! First there was the Mixed Martial Arts Law Blog, which looks to have gotten up and running in June 2009...

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