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PepsiCo Off Hook for $1.26B as Court Reverses Default Judgment
6 November 2009, 6:50 pm |
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Troubled Pa. Court Asks Lawyers to Volunteer to Reduce Trial Backlog
6 November 2009, 6:15 pm |
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Exploding Text-Harrassment Cases Create Pitfalls for Defense Attorneys
6 November 2009, 5:43 pm |
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Legal Secretary’s Paper-Punchings are Confetti for Yankees Victory Parade
6 November 2009, 5:25 pm |
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BigLaw Firms Still Struggle for Balance
6 November 2009, 4:50 pm |
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Rothstein Firm Is Running on Fumes, Newspaper Says
6 November 2009, 4:07 pm |
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Legal Sector Lost 5,800 Jobs Last Month, Labor Bureau Says
6 November 2009, 3:05 pm |
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Two Law Firms Housed in Orlando Building Where Shooter Left One Dead
6 November 2009, 1:27 pm |
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‘Star Associate’ Alleges Breakdown Over Work Conditions, Sues Sedgwick & Partner
6 November 2009, 1:20 pm |
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Did Top Texas Judge’s Testimony Open Door to Wrongful Death Suit?
6 November 2009, 12:10 pm |
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ABA Journal Is it OK for Supreme Court justices (or any judge) to review news accounts of speeches before publication? In this case, Kennedy thinks so...
Source: www.abajournal.com
Supreme Court justices have been the victim of some unfortunate misquotes in recent news accounts of their speeches. Now the office of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is doing something about it. Justice Antonin Scalia didn’t really say he would have dissented in Brown v. ...
ABA Journal How one lawyer/mom used tech to get back in the game...Legal Rebel of the day: Nicole Black
Source: www.legalrebels.com
At that time Black, a former Monroe County, N.Y., assistant public defender and litigation associate at Trevett Cristo Salzer & Andolina, hadn’t practiced law in nearly 2½ years. “At ...
ABA Journal Legal Rebel of the day: U.S. District Judge James Holderman, who's pushing to make jury trials more interactive.
Source: www.legalrebels.com
“The experience the jurors have coming into a jury box is totally different today than 40 years ago,” says Holderman, citing the constant bombardment of information jurors face in everyday life and, as a result, their shorter attention spans. ...
ABA Journal
Question of the Week:
What’s the Weirdest Evidence You’ve Seen Presented in Court?
Source: www.abajournal.com
During a dinner conversation recently with a newly elected judge, we learned that defendants often, and unexpectedly, whip out their cell phones with photographic proof of whatever point they're trying to argue. Talk of cell phone evidence jogged our memory about this
ABA Journal Legal Rebel of the day: Pamela Woldow "Point Person." In her profile, there's audio of her talking about what law firms shouldn't do re social media.
Source: www.legalrebels.com
A principal with the legal managing consultant group Altman Weil in Newtown Square, Pa., Woldow says she's posed the filing-cost question to 600 law firms. The example she usually gives is a summary judgment motion in a two-party case with $100,000 at issue. ...
ABA Journal "Networking is meeting for meeting’s sake—immersion is an education process" - Max Miller "The Immerser"
Source: bit.ly
“I use the word immersion,” says Miller, a former in-house lawyer, brand team member and logistics group manager with H.J. Heinz Co. Last year he was tapped to lead the newly formed Innovation Practice Institute at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. ...
ABA Journal Legal Rebel of the day: the 'un-conference' facilitator Matt Homann: Law Thinker
Source: www.legalrebels.com
Homann, 41, is the creator of LexThink, which promotes innovative legal management concepts such as open-space technology “un-conferences,” which let attendees set the agenda, and the use of pictures and cartoons to simplify complex legal discussions. ...
ABA Journal We've added a Latest Legal Jobs feed to the ABA Journal home page, scroll down, to the right of our Most Read tabs: www.abajournal.com
ABA Journal If you're celebrating Halloween this weekend, are you dressing up? Or do you leave the costuming to the trick-or-treaters?
Source: www.abajournal.com
We received a press release last week with a warning to employers to be careful about costume parties at which workers dress up in ways that could wind up as litigation nightmares. “Employees should have a work environment free of obvious or not-so-obvious harassment,
ABA Journal The Becker-Posner blogging duo have compiled their best blog posts into book form. Any other blogs out there that you think could make the Web-to-print (or Web-to-ebook) transition?
Economics Blog Posts by Judge Posner & U of Chicago Prof Morph Into Book | ABA Journal - Law News No
Source: www.abajournal.com
Two well-known economic thinkers at the University of Chicago are morphing their best blog posts into a book. Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism is being published by the University of Chicago Press, the Becker-Posner Blog reports. ...
ABA Journal Thoughts on this ethics opinion out of South Carolina that says lawyers who "claim" their Avvo listing should take responsibility for the comments that nonclients and others post.
Source: www.abajournal.com
South Carolina lawyers tempted to update their listings on websites such as LinkedIn and Avvo should consider a new ethics opinion by the state bar’s Ethics Advisory Committee. The advisory opinion ...
ABA Journal Legal Rebel of the day: Ronald Staudt... a "combination of intellectual brilliance with a common touch."
Source: www.legalrebels.com
“He’s got a good common-man approach to things he cares deeply about,” says Marc Lauritsen, a Harvard, Mass., lawyer and technology developer who met the Chicago-Kent College of Law professor in the mid-’80s. ...
ABA Journal Rebel of the day: Mark Britton "Shining a flashlight in dark places"
Source: www.legalrebels.com
Britton had been away from the legal world for nearly a year, yet the stream of contacts from friends and acquaintances seeking advice continued to flow. “I remember reading one e-mail and thinking, ...
ABA Journal Legal Rebel of the day: Emery Harlan "Diversifier"
Source: www.legalrebels.com
At the time Harlan was a Ross & Hardies associate who had recently met an in-house lawyer looking for Milwaukee lawyers of color. Harlan first tried to get the work for his firm, but he ultimately ...
ABA Journal Legal Rebel of the day: Mike Roster "The Cost of Value"
Source: bit.ly
“You’re a very successful lawyer, but if you think this is retirement, then you are a failure,” Roster says with a laugh, repeating the admonishment from his handyman. Instead, the San ...
