Lawyers are often willing to give a hand to colleagues in need, but give a kidney? And to a lawyer who is a frequent courtroom adversary? That is exactly what Daingerfield, Texas, plaintiffs’ lawyer Keith Langston did after he learned…
Original post by Robert J. Ambrogi
In another post today, I wrote about the University of Montana blog where law and journalism students are collaborating to cover the criminal trial against W.R. Grace. A somewhat similar effort gets underway today when students from the University of…
Original post by Robert J. Ambrogi
One major difference between publishing online and publishing in print is that the online publisher is not legally responsible for information posted by others. For this shield from liability, publishers of blogs, online newspapers and other Web sites can thank…
Original post by Robert J. Ambrogi
Law, meet journalism. Journalism, meet law. The Grace Case Project is an innovative joint undertaking of the schools of law and journalism at the University of Montana. Students from both schools have teamed up to blog and tweet the federal…
Original post by Robert J. Ambrogi
Bruce MacEwen’s blog, Adam Smith, Esq., carries a masterpiece this week. “The Great De-Leveraging” explores whether leverage (the ratio of associates to partners) is still part of a sensible business model for law firms. It turns out the answer isn’t…
Original post by Carolyn Elefant
Forget the CrackBerry addiction — that’s so late-’90s. Increasingly, lawyers are jumping ship from BlackBerrys to iPhones, reports PC World. According to the article:The iPhone’s big screen, slick interface and easy-to-use touchpad makes it an enticing device. The touchscreen makes…
Original post by Carolyn Elefant
Is the average intelligence of lawyers on the decline? In the U.K., The Lawyer reports on a study carried out by the Centre for Market and Public Organisation at the University of Bristol that suggests lawyers have moved closer to…
Original post by Carolyn Elefant
When offshoring document review is the cheapest option, are law firms ethically obligated to outsource the work, or at the very least inform clients of its existence? That’s the question Mark Ross ponders in this column at Immigration Daily. Ross…
Original post by Carolyn Elefant
Legal advocacy and legal education may not always be the best of bedfellows, it turns out. A Harvard law professor’s efforts to combine the two while defending a file-sharing case earned him an admonishment this week from a federal judge…
Original post by Robert J. Ambrogi
California lawyer Scott C. Harris hoped to get the patent on marketing. But his hopes were dashed this week when the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that a marketing business is not the sort of subject matter…
Original post by Robert J. Ambrogi