The Law Blog of Plaintiff's Attorney Max Kennerly
Legalwriting.net is unhappy with this advice:
“Do not ever for the second time give your senior a piece of writing with a typo or a grammatical mistake,” says Berry. “I will take it once and I will tell the junior my set speech.” But if it happens again? Well, find out for yourself.
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At Concurring Opinions, The Truth about Multitasking:
I’ve been of two minds about multitasking for some time. But growing evidence is suggesting that the very concept is a myth:
Dr. Edward Hallowell, a Massachusetts-based psychiatrist who specializes in the treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and has written a book with the self-explanatory title CrazyBusy,
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At Electronic Discovery Blog, "Employee’s motion to quash granted where employer cannot establish that employee had no expectation of privacy in using employer’s computer system:"
Requestor defendant employer subpoenaed third party producer to produce “all electronically stored information on all computers, laptops, PDA’s, portable media or other devices” between plaintiff employee’s husband and plaintiff
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Via How Appealing:
The Boston Globe today contains an article that begins, "The Wilmer Hale law firm, one of the largest and most respected in Boston, has a reputation for championing unpopular causes: President Nixon during impeachment. The US Army during the McCarthy hearings. Even defending serial killer Ted Bundy. But the firm’s past
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A tip of my hat to Judge McLaughlin of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for this footnote:
The URL for the "Fair Value for Dummies" article is:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011107091956/
http://money.cnn.com/2000/04/17/investing/fairvalue/Exhibit FP-35. According to the affidavit of Molly Bragg, Project Coordinator of the Internet Archive, Exhibit FP-34, a URL in
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A debate between Home Office Lawyer and Real Lawyers Have Blogs on the merits of LinkedIn.
Down in the comments at HOL, Grant asks:
I don’t doubt what you are saying as I am on Linkedin also and have form a couple of groups myself. Are there any stats out there which show lawyers are
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A magazine I’m looking at now has a story with this headline:
401(k) Excessive Fee Litigation
This leaves me to wonder what is excessive: the fee or the litigation? The story reveals that it’s about litigation over excessive fees. A little punctuation removes the ambiguity:
401(k) Excessive-Fee
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After much ado regarding AP’s interpretation that the use of more than 5 words of a story required payment, the real core of the issue has been identified:
The sticking point for AP seems to be their belief that a headline-and-first-paragraph excerpt is not covered by fair use:
AP’s argument has been that a
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Adam Smith, Esq. hosts a high-level discussion on competition in the legal market and whether general counsels really want change.
I am, obviously, neither a general counsel of a large company nor an attorney at a large corporate firm, so I won’t speak to that. Some comments (not necessarily by Bruce, he quotes others liberally there) bear comment. If you care, continue on…Continue Reading “GC’s May Be Complaining, But Do They Really Want Change?”
Via Boing Boing is this research paper:
"Happy Birthday to You" is the best-known and most frequently sung song in the world. Many – including Justice Breyer in his dissent in Eldred v. Ashcroft – have portrayed it as an unoriginal work that is hardly worthy of copyright protection, but nonetheless remains under copyright.
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