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Monday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on June 28, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: A mall Rent-a-Cop is trying to detain me for shoplifting even though I just explained that I am a freelance reporter and I was stealing the item for an assignment I'm doing "on the side...

Unreasonably Dangerous? Introducing the 'World's First Practical Jetpack'

Posted on June 28, 2010
Today I learned about a new product on the market that I am adding to my wish list. The Martin Jetpack, touted as the "World's First Practical Jetpack," promises to launch you to your next destination at speeds of up to 63 mph. Already I envision strapping this 535-pound baby on my back and heading due east along the Potomac River into D...

Project Management an 'Exploding' Option for Lawyers in E-Discovery Field

Posted on June 28, 2010
Back in May, I wrote here about a budding trend where Big Law firms were formally training their lawyers to be better project and quality managers. Law firm Seyfarth Shaw, for example, has adopted the "Six Sigma" methodology and encouraged its lawyers to attain "Black Belt" and "Green Belt" status in various quality-management methods...

Ready or Not, Cameras Start Rolling on Film Version of 'Atlas Shrugged"

Posted on June 28, 2010
Sometimes it just takes a firm deadline to prompt action, even after more than a decade of delay. In 1992, John Aglialoro purchased the film rights to Ayn Rand?s epic novel "Atlas Shrugged." Since that time, Aglialoro has shopped the the film to studios and tried to entice big-name stars to take on the lead roles -- with no success (although Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron each reportedly "flirted" with the idea of playing the novel's protagonist, Dagny Taggart)...

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You Really CAN Buy Anything at Walmart

Posted on June 25, 2010
In today's installment of "Seriously?" I present the story of Patrick Fousek and Samantha Tomasini: The two were arrested Wednesday in Salinas, Calif., for trying to sell their 6-month old baby outside a Walmart store. (If only they had made it inside the store, I'm sure they would have been prominently featured here...

Credit Rating Agency Provision in Financial Reform Bill a Boon to Litigators?

Posted on June 25, 2010
Everybody is talking this morning about the hard-fought compromise on a financial reform bill, which will now be making its way to the president's desk for signature before July 4. As expected, there are widely divergent opinions on whether the bill is a "game-changer" or will serve only to preserve the status quo...

A Peek Inside the PTO

Posted on June 25, 2010
Hey IP geeks: Grab a Diet Dr. Pepper and get comfortable. Intellectual Asset Management magazine (available on newsstands all over Alexandria, Va.) has posted a video of an exclusive interview with Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos (pictured, left, looking like a cross between comedic actor Rob Corddry and that character actor who always plays the hapless corporate or governmental lackey, whose name escapes me right now)...

Big Law Webbies Highlights

Posted on June 25, 2010
Yesterday, a shadowy figure known only as "The Snark" published in the Fulton County Daily Report the results of the "First Annual Big Law Webbies," and I, for one, am hoping the tradition continues ad infinitum. As you might expect of honors bestowed by a Snark, many of the categories in which awards were given were on the biting, sarcastic side...

Value Billing: Getting Paid for Knowing 'Where to Pound the Nail'

Posted on June 24, 2010
I have seen two posts recently on the topic of the value of one's work that I think are interesting in the context of the legal profession. Seth Godin argues here that there is a big difference between what people will pay for "hourly work" versus "linchpin work...

The '12 Most Bizarre Comedian Lawsuits'

Posted on June 24, 2010
Comedy.com is not usually on my list of LBW sources, but maybe I've been selling it short? Earlier this week on Comedy.com, Josh Spector offered up his suggestions for The 12 Most Bizarre Comedian Lawsuits ever filed. Here are some of my favorites from his list: 10...

PrawfsBlawg Proposes New Federal Consumer Law: All Instruction Manuals Shall Be Posted Online

Posted on June 24, 2010
I'm not usually one to lobby for new laws, but given that there are already so many of them coming out of Congress each year, adding just one more proposed by the PrawfsBlawg yesterday can't really hurt, can it? PrawfsBlawg's Eric Johnson, like me and many others, I assume, is tired of having to file and save instruction manuals for consumer products, a practice that Johnson says "is absurdly out of date...

Survey Shows Increasing Gap Between Legal and IT Departments

Posted on June 23, 2010
Recommind, a software vendor with several e-discovery products, last week released the results of a survey showing that collaboration and communication between corporate legal departments and IT departments is on the wane. The press release doesn't specify how many companies, or what kind of companies, were surveyed, other than to say that respondents were "senior IT managers at enterprises averaging 13,000 employees...

More Lawyer Advertising: Depositions 101

Posted on June 23, 2010
Maybe I just don't get it. On the Birmingham Injury Blog, lawyer John Watts has begun a series of videos on the basic principles of deposition preparation. He's posted the first video, in which he discusses the most important principle of sitting for a deposition: Tell the truth...

Cease and Desist Letter of the Day: Naked Cowboy to Naked Cowgirl

Posted on June 23, 2010
New York fixture Robert Burck, better known as the Naked Cowboy, apparently doesn't dig on people stealing his shtick. Namely, standing in the middle of Times Square, minimally clothed, playing music and singing poorly. The New York Post reports (via Lowering the Bar) that Burck has sent a cease and desist letter to Sandy Kane, apparently a well-known stripper and frequent guest on the Opie and Anthony show, who has been rocking (and I use that word lightly) a bikini and entertaining (again, lightly) tourists in Cowboy's territory, but refusing to sign a "franchise agreement...

Dopiest Catch: Lack of Fishing License Costs Winning Blue Marlin Team $1.2 Million

Posted on June 23, 2010
Add now to the annals of "the one that got away" stories the tale of the one that was taken away on a technicality. The crew of the Citation thought they were sitting pretty, having pulled in the biggest fish in the annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in Morehead City, N...

Legal Writing 102: Lessons From Songwriters

Posted on June 22, 2010
I've posted here several times recently to pass along the blogosphere's ongoing tips for better legal writing. I'd characterize most of those tips as Legal Writing 101 -- tips for avoiding truly "bad briefs," tips from brief-writing rockstar Justice John Roberts, and so on...

Tuesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on June 22, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I'm in the airport gift shop and my flight leaves in 20 minutes. Should I get the snow globe for my kids or not? Answer: What!? Are you not concerned with airport safety? Did you not see the large, stand-alone sign that clearly states that snow globes of any size are not allowed to be carried through the airport security checkpoint? (Seth's Blog, Don't Snowglobe Me, Bro) 2) Question: I noted your answer a couple of weeks ago to the woman who paid the Florida police officer who pulled her over a "roadside fee" to avoid a speeding ticket...

After Grades, What Else Can We Alter to Make Ourselves 'Look More Attractive?'

Posted on June 22, 2010
My mind is spinning now that I've learned that law schools are willing and able to retroactively inflate by 0.333 every grade recorded by their students over the last few years if it will make their students "look more attractive in a competitive job market...

Why Should Law Schools Give Away Better Grades When They Can Sell Them Instead?

Posted on June 22, 2010
The New York Times reports that next month, every student at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles will "awake to a higher grade point average," but not because of anything the students did. Rather, the school has simply decided that by retroactively inflating its grades by 0...

Not-Too-Bright Defendant of the Day: Catherin Vaughn, aka Katherine Funk

Posted on June 21, 2010
IF you've pleaded guilty to child abuse, and IF you're lucky enough to be sentenced only to probation (a travesty in and of itself in my opinion), it's probably a pretty bad idea to threaten to kill a judge, the judge's children, and the parenting-skills and anger-management instructor you're seeing pursuant to court order...

Legal Blog Watch Vacation Planner: Destinations to Avoid

Posted on June 21, 2010
Today is officially the first day of summer, and, no doubt, lawyers everywhere are thinking about planning their annual summer vacations. With many of us being unemployed -- in some cases merely a bit underemployed -- the temptation may be to try to find a good deal on a trip to a less-popular vacation spot...

Gimme an 'I'! Gimme an 'X'! What's That Spell? 'LAWSUIT'

Posted on June 21, 2010
Kicking off today in federal court in Bridgeport, Conn., is a trial that will seek to answer the question, "Is cheerleading a sport?" According to the AP, U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill will be presiding over the case brought by members of the Quinnipiac University women's volleyball team, against the university for failure to comply with the requirements of Title IX...

Behind the Scenes (Sort of) of Murder Trial Prep

Posted on June 21, 2010
Last time we looked in on D.A. Confidential, the blogger was fantasizing about punishing doctors for their lack of respect for the value of their patients' time. It seems that he's currently engaged in something a bit more serious. Namely, preparing to try a murder case...

Friday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on June 18, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I have a brilliant plan to rob people at ATMs. It's low-cost, too. All I need are some squirt bottles and some liquid feces. Sound good? Answer: Sounds terrible...

Are Cash Bonuses the Wrong Way to Incentivize Lawyers?

Posted on June 18, 2010
Recently, The Invent Blog posted a great video based upon a short lecture by Daniel Pink (?What Motivates Us?) related to his book, ?Drive.? In short, Pink says that while cash bonuses successfully produce higher performance for tasks that only require mechanical skill, studies show this is not true for tasks where even rudimentary cognitive skill or creativity is required...

Preparing for the 'Digital Afterlife'

Posted on June 18, 2010
UsefulArts.us raised an interesting question earlier this week: How should the "digital afterlife" work, and what do we need to be doing now to make sure our intentions are carried out? People invest a great deal of time, energy and money in their "digital selves," Dave Wieneke observes, and he says that he and his lawyer friends "have always wondered about digital inheritance, and if businesses would rise up to provide escrow services for endowing our digital selves...

'Strategic Default' as Explained by Rapper Chamillionaire

Posted on June 17, 2010
By now, the fantastic burst of the housing bubble is old enough news that we've all become acquainted with the notion that some otherwise law-abiding, good-hearted, all-around nice people have decided to simply stop paying their mortgages and walk away from their homes...

Kentucky Court Watchers Rejoice -- Tell-All Book Now Available

Posted on June 17, 2010
Anybody can read "The Brethren" or "The Nine" and call himself a court aficionado. But if you're really hardcore -- and/or live and practice law in Kentucky -- you should get your hands on a copy of "Secrets of the Ky. Supreme Court" by retired Justice Donald Wintersheimer...

Digging for Bobby Fischer: Iceland Court Orders Chess Great's Exhumation

Posted on June 17, 2010
Say what you will about Deep Blue, but at least after its "death" in the late '90s, nobody claimed it had fathered an illegitimate child named Jinky. That is exactly the claim that has led a court in Iceland to order Bobby Fischer's body exhumed as part of a dispute over his estate that has been raging since he died in 2008...

Leahy to Introduce Bill Allowing Retired Justices to Fill Slots in Case of Recusal

Posted on June 17, 2010
Picture retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter as Al Pacino in "The Godfather III" -- "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!" If Sen. Patrick Leahy has his way, Souter, and any other retired justice, could be a special guest star for future cases where one of the active members of the Court has to recuse himself (or herself) because of a conflict of interest...

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