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Bad but Potentially Hilarious Idea of the Day: Buy a Google Ad Naming A Hiring Partner

Posted on June 06, 2010
I have to assume it was tongue-in-cheek, but Matthew Homann at The [non]Billable Hour has suggested that one way an attorney in search of a job might increase his or her chances would be to purchase an ad on Google, using the hiring partner's name as a key word...

A Harvard Economist Explains Soda Tax Proposals

Posted on June 06, 2010
As we told you several weeks ago, proposals to tax soda and other sugar-filled beverages are all the rage. While the idea for a stand-alone soda tax was tabled in Washington, D.C., the district did extend the sales tax, from which non-alcoholic beverages were previously exempt, to the drinks...

Axiom: A Personal Approach to the Law Firm Website

Posted on June 04, 2010
Law firms -- particularly big law firms -- tend to be conservative with their websites. Although listing all of a firm's lawyers on the site and providing their bios is now pretty standard, these listings tend to be limited to name, rank and serial number, usually accompanied by a conservative photo (or no photo at all in some cases, like at Wachtell Lipton)...

Sex Tape Law Blog: A Nonexistent Blog That Needs an Author

Posted on June 04, 2010
Gather 'round, wannabe law bloggers, because I'm about to give you your big break. Can't think of a good niche topic that's not taken? Want to make a splash and gain instant notoriety? Need a good URL for your nascent blog? Here is my suggestion for you, free of charge: The "Sex Tape Law Blog" (SexTapeLaw...

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'StayFocusd,' the Deal-a-Meal for Time Management on the Internet

Posted on June 04, 2010
Remember Richard Simmons' "Deal-a-Meal" diet gimmick? Basically, each day you dealt yourself a menu of food cards laying out what you could eat for the day, and then moved a card from one side of a "wallet" to the other side after eating that food. When your cards were gone, "you're done eating for the day!" Lawyerist reports that the genius(?) of Deal-a-Meal for weight-management has now been brought to the area of time management on the Internet...

BigLaw Falling for Small Scam

Posted on June 03, 2010
If some guy named "Jimmy" called you at your office and said he had found an envelope addressed to you from the New York State Insurance Fund on the subway or in the back of a cab, would you tell him to bring it right over and reimburse him for his cab fare, with a little something extra for his trouble? Attorneys at two dozen New York law firms would...

Retroactive Perfection a Possibility for Tigers Pitcher Galarraga

Posted on June 03, 2010
Everybody and their mother is talking about it this morning, whether they're baseball fans or not. Last night, Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga was outright shafted out of a perfect game -- one of the rarest feats in all of sports -- by an umpire's admittedly blown call...

Online Journalism Ethics: The Link and Attribution Game

Posted on June 03, 2010
Yesterday, Judge Carton ruled on the case of the woman suing Google on the theory that relying on Google Maps walking directions absolves users of all responsibility to employ their own senses, such as sight, hearing, and common. (BTW, since we're allowed to appoint ourselves to the bench around here, Judge Carton's ruling granting Google's future motion to dismiss is AFFIRMED...

Legal Blog Watch Undercover: Texas Traffic School -- Part 2

Posted on June 03, 2010
Welcome back, readers. I know it's been a rough 48 hours, and you all have been pulling your hair out and rocking back and forth with anticipation waiting for the next installment of this hardcore investigative piece. For those of you who need a refresher on what the hell I'm talking about, go back and read Part 1...

Wednesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on June 02, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I'm gearing up for law school but first I need to ace the LSAT. Any suggestions for a prep course? Actually, I need more than that. How about a full-blown LSAT prep camp? Answer: No problem...

Breaking Down the Legal Case Against the @BPGlobalPR Twitter Feed

Posted on June 02, 2010
One of the side-stories emerging from the BP oil spill disaster has been the popular (and fake) BP Twitter feed @BPGlobalPR. If you haven't been following along, here is a sampling of what has been coming out of @BPGlobalPR since the trouble began: If we're being accused of being criminals, we want to be tried by a jury of our peers- wealthy execs who don't give a damn...

Craigslist: Casual Encounters of the Most Unwanted Kind

Posted on June 02, 2010
In April, I wrote here about a disturbing trend that seemed to be emerging in the Craigslist world: fake posts inviting people to have sex with unsuspecting women.Yesterday, Above the Law editor Kashmir Hill wrote about a similar type of fake Craigslist post that was directed squarely at her...

Judge Carton Rules: Airplane Oversleepers and Google Map Slaves

Posted on June 02, 2010
Welcome back to Judge Carton Rules, where a fake judge issues rulings to spare the parties to cases in which the outcome is obvious the time and expense of further litigation. Here is today's docket: Case 1: Ginger McGuire fell asleep on a flight from D...

Further Reflection on Blawg Post Quality

Posted on June 01, 2010
When I wrote the other week about the British chap arrested for DWI while driving a toddler's Barbie car, I noted that I couldn't help but wonder what had led the proprietor of the Kentucky DUI Defense Lawyer Blog to post on that incident, despite its being a bit stale, and having already been well-covered...

Schumer Proposes Foreign Call Center Tax

Posted on June 01, 2010
TaxGirl has a post this morning about a new bill being endorsed by New York Senator Chuck Schumer (whom I still remember fondly from his "Chuck and Sue Show" days), which would impose a tax of 25 cents for each call to a U.S. company's customer service department that is transferred to a foreign call center...

Legal Blog Watch Undercover: Texas Traffic School, Part 1

Posted on June 01, 2010
Good morning, LBW readers. Hope you all enjoyed your long Memorial Day weekend. While you were having your barbecues and relaxing at the beach, I ventured into the belly of the beast to bring you a report from the legal front lines. Texas law allows drivers charged with certain moving violations to have their records wiped clean of such charges upon completion of a state-approved six-hour driving safety course...

Writing Bad Briefs: How to Lose Your Case, and Lose Big

Posted on May 28, 2010
Judge Gerald Lebovits is the author of an amusing and insightful article in this month's New York State Bar Association Journal entitled, "Writing Bad Briefs: How to Lose a Case in 100 Pages or More." (via the (new) legal writer blog). Lebovits, a judge of the New York City Civil Court, Housing Part, in Manhattan, and an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School and St...

Sonnenschein and Denton Wilde Use 'Microsite' to Roll Out Merger

Posted on May 28, 2010
On the Slaw blog, Steven Matthews observes in this post that the cross-Atlantic merger between U.S. law firm Sonnenschein and U.K.-based Denton Wilde Sapte was announced and rolled out by the firms through an interesting technique: the use of a dedicated "microsite" (http://www...

Friday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on May 28, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Facebook has declared me deceased. And yet here I am breathing and typing this question to you. How do I get my status back to "alive?" Answer: Answer: You make a compelling case for being alive...

New Service Makes Adding e-Signatures to Documents Simple and Free

Posted on May 28, 2010
Via this post on Lawyerist I learned that Adobe has introduced a program that appears to easily enable parties to electronically sign documents. The public beta version of Adobe's "eSignatures" program was rolled out on May 14, and users report that it provides a simple, free and quick way for parties to remotely have their signatures added to a document that is then certified as final, and time and date stamped by Adobe...

Law and Magic Update: Milestone Case on Imitating Magician's Devices Settles

Posted on May 27, 2010
It can't be all that easy writing the Law and Magic Blog -- maybe a bit like being the Maytag repairman, sometimes. You keep a vigilant watch for new material ... waiting, waiting ... any new magic law developments today? No, not today. Sometimes you look to 30+year-old episodes of "Sanford & Son" for blog fodder...

Fixing the Design of the Hot Dog, Part II

Posted on May 27, 2010
Eric Lipman told you here back in February about the scourge that is the design of the hot dog. In February, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a policy statement on Prevention of Choking Among Children that identified the hot dog as the food on which children are most likely to choke and die...

Attention Law School Addicts: Introducing the 'JSD' Degree

Posted on May 27, 2010
At some point, a decade or two into one's legal career, you start to think that even if you don't know a fraction of everything there is to know in the legal world, you at least know the basic, structural things in the profession. For instance, you know the basic structure of the court system, the different types of law firms, the types of law degrees that are available, and so on...

An iPhone App for Supreme Court Con Law Cases

Posted on May 26, 2010
LBW alum Bob Ambrogi featured yet another law-related iPhone application on his LawSites blog yesterday. This one, called PocketJustice, gives you all the information you could ever need about the 600-plus constitutional law cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court...

FTC Wants Lawyers to Compile More Info on Marketing of Food to Kids

Posted on May 26, 2010
The FDA Law Blog linked yesterday to a Federal Register notice requesting public comments on the Federal Trade Commission's proposed issuance of "compulsory process orders" to major food and beverage manufacturers, seeking details about marketing efforts directed at children...

Federal Courthouses Are Too Damn Big, Says GAO

Posted on May 26, 2010
Via The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times, comes a Washington Post story about a recent Government Accountability Office report (.pdf) concluding that there's a bunch of wasted space in federal courthouses built in the last decade. Specifically, the GAO says that 28 percent of the square footage in these newly constructed buildings, including the Rush Limbaugh, Sr...

Public Defender Laments Inevitable Failure of Pot Legalization Referendum

Posted on May 26, 2010
Back on April 20, we put the question out there: will full-scale legalization of marijuana ever happen in our lifetimes? Annnnnd, nobody answered. But just because LBW readers didn't feel compelled to weigh in doesn't mean the topic hasn't been on the minds of others...

The Times Posts Elena Kagan's Law School Transcript

Posted on May 25, 2010
I don't have much to add here. Simply to combat the perception that every conceivable angle on an Elena Kagan story had already been exploited, the New York Times has an article about Kagan's "struggles" in her first semester at Harvard Law. Are you sitting down? Kagan got a B in Criminal Law and a B-minus in Torts...

Wells Fargo Sued Over Mortgage Rep's Request for Naked Customer Pics

Posted on May 25, 2010
This is a good one. Consumerist posted yesterday about a lawsuit filed in New Jersey by a homeowner who claims a Wells Fargo customer service representative demanded that she engage in a little sexting with him before he would correct an error on her account...

Interested in WestlawNext? Doesn't Matter -- You've Got It!

Posted on May 25, 2010
As the rollout of the new and improved Westlaw, WestlawNext, has progressed, we've brought you news from the front lines. Most recently, we gave you some information on pricing policies, including the fact that mucking around in certain databases could run users a cool $3,400 per hour...

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