Last January, the New York Times ran this 1990 photograph of the editorial board of volume 104 of the Harvard Law Review. Of course, we all know the identity of that guy in the center of the photograph, holding that…
Original post by Robert J. Ambrogi
What job could be cushier than working for the in-house legal department of a free software organization? I mean, the product is free. Who needs licensing agreements? Who needs distributorship agreements? Sounds like a job even George Costanza could love,…
Original post by Robert J. Ambrogi
Jonathan Delman was not going to let another stay in a mental hospital unravel the life he’d finally started to repair. The University of Pennsylvania law school graduate had been here before. Now in his thirties, his bipolar disorder had…
Original post by Robert J. Ambrogi
Could this be the next spilled-coffee case, one where the facts are conveniently ignored in furtherance of a great urban legend? Eric Turkewitz wonders about this at his New York Personal Injury Law Blog, as he compares the facts about…
Original post by Robert J. Ambrogi
Until recently, Schenectady, N.Y., lawyer David Giacalone was best known within the blogosphere as someone who combined punditry with poetry. Not just any poetry, but that most simple and natural form known as the haiku. On his blog f/k/a …,…
Original post by Robert J. Ambrogi
A few weeks ago, I posted about some of the cost cutting measures that top U.S. law firms have implemented as a hedge against declining revenues. Now, their colleagues across the pond are pinching pennies as well, reports The Times….
Original post by Carolyn Elefant
When you think of top law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, adjectives like “white shoe,” “blue chip” or “elite” come to mind. What you may not realize, however, is that Joe Flom, Skadden’s first associate and now name…
Original post by Carolyn Elefant
I started posting these presidential election roundups sometime back in January, when the field was packed with far more candidates — many of them lawyers. Today, it’s been winnowed to just two and by late tonight or early tomorrow morning,…
Original post by Carolyn Elefant
It is a day when discussing anything but the election seems irrelevant. But life — and blogging — goes on. So allow me to point to some other items of note: Judge: prosecutors mischaracterized record in secret briefs. In a…
Original post by Robert J. Ambrogi
On this Wednesday morning after, it is a bit early for many legal bloggers to have weighed in on last night’s victory for Barack Obama. Here are some of the early returns I’ve found: Above the Law: “A mere 389…
Original post by Robert J. Ambrogi