A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law:

• Assara Laser

• The Atlantic

• Cypress Recruiting Group

• Harvard Business School

• Kinney Recruiting

• Lateral Link

• LexisNexis

• The Tikvah Center at NYU School of Law

• The Red Cross

• University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Isenberg School of Management

If you’re interested in advertising on Above the Law or any other site in the Breaking Media network, download our media kits, or email advertising@breakingmedia.com. Thanks!

A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law:

• Assara Laser

• The Atlantic

• Harvard Business School

• Kinney Recruiting

• Lateral Link

• LexisNexis

• The Tikvah Center at NYU School of Law

• The Red Cross

• University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Isenberg School of Management

If you’re interested in advertising on Above the Law or any other site in the Breaking Media network, download our media kits, or email advertising@breakingmedia.com. Thanks!

Yesterday’s Lawsuit of the Day — Jones v. Minkin, a $44 million lawsuit against yours truly, Above the Law publisher David Minkin, and Dead Horse Media (now known as Breaking Media) — has been voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff, University of Miami law professor Donald Jones.

Pursuant to Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i)(B), the dismissal is without prejudice. If Professor Jones wants to refile, he should note the statute of limitations (which had already run as to most of our posts about him by the time his complaint was filed).

There was NO SETTLEMENT in this case. Above the Law has made no changes to our prior posts, and we have paid no money to Professor Jones. The case was dismissed by the plaintiff without anything from our side, except a letter from our lawyer.

UPDATE (3:35 PM): We have offered Professor Jones a guest post on Above the Law in which to provide his side of the story, about either the lawsuit or the underlying facts. We have offered to keep the comments on that post closed or open, depending on his preference. (And we would have done this in the first place, had he made such a request.)

A huge thanks to our counsel, Marc Randazza.

Comment from Randazza, plus links to the notice of voluntary dismissal and other news outlets and blogs — we will UPDATE continually, so do check back for fresh links — after the jump.

A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law:

A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law:

• American Bar Association

• The Atlantic

• Kinney Recruiting

• Lateral Link

• LexisNexis

• Soul Calibur 4 PSP

• University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Isenberg School of Management

• WesCary3D

If you’re interested in advertising on Above the Law or any other site in the Breaking Media network, download our media kits, or email advertising@breakingmedia.com. Thanks!

The devil is going down to Georgia. Our very own Elie Mystal will be on the midnight train, and the party won’t stop until eight in the morning.

If you’ll be in Atlanta this coming Monday, November 2, please check out the following event:

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR LAWYERS
Monday, November 2, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
State Bar of Georgia
104 Marietta Street, NW
Atlanta, GA 30303

Please join GAWL and its distinguished panel presenters for a lively and informative session on Social Media for Lawyers. We will explore how legal blogs and web resources have become a vital source of law firm information for attorneys, and how firms and attorneys can use these resources to shape their image in the legal community - both from a career development standpoint and to enhance business development efforts. Our presenters and moderator are: Mike Allen, President of Lateral Link; Elie Mystal, Editor of Above the Law; Jenny DeVaughn, Social Media Specialist and Founder of Social Precision; and Jackie Hutter, Intellectual Property Strategist and Founder and Principal of The Hutter Group. A special thanks goes out to Jordan Abshire of Lateral Link for his help in coordinating this program.

You can register online at www.gawl.org. Hope you can make it!

Social Media for Lawyers [Georgia Association for Women Lawyers]

A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law:

• American Bar Association

• The Atlantic

• Charles Griffin LLC

• Kinney Recruiting

• Lateral Link

• Legal Reform Summit

• LexisNexis

• Soul Calibur 4 PSP

• WesCary3D

If you’re interested in advertising on Above the Law or any other site in the Breaking Media network, download our media kits, or email advertising@breakingmedia.com. Thanks!

A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law:

• American Bar Association

• The Atlantic

• Charles Griffin LLC

• Kinney Recruiting

• Lateral Link

• Legal Reform Summit

• LexisNexis

• Soul Calibur 4 PSP

If you’re interested in advertising on Above the Law or any other site in the Breaking Media network, download our media kits, or email advertising@breakingmedia.com. Thanks!

A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law:

• American Bar Association

• The Atlantic

• Kinney Recruiting

• Lateral Link

• LexisNexis

• Soul Calibur 4 PSP

• U.S. Chamber for Legal Reform

If you’re interested in advertising on Above the Law or any other site in the Breaking Media network, download our media kits, or email advertising@breakingmedia.com. Thanks!

A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law:

A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law:

A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law:

A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law:

Happy Labor Day! Hopefully you are enjoying a well-deserved day off. But to those of you who are at work, or who aren’t at work but still checking Above the Law today, welcome to Off the Record — our look back on the week that was.

A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law:

Three years ago yesterday, on August 30, 2006, Above the Law was born. Read the letter from the editor that started it all. (If you find this site occasionally immature, cut us some slack; we’re three years old.)

Reaching the three-year mark is a notable milestone for a blog. According to Jim Beck and Mark Herrmann, over at Drug and Device Law:

Legal blogs are like small businesses: Half of ‘em fail in the first year, and 90 percent of ‘em fail in the next five.

But we’re still here. Our traffic (and revenue) continue to grow, knock on wood. And we have you — our readers, sources, advertisers, and friends — to thank. So, thank you.

If you’d like to send us birthday gifts — a reader sent Roxana a lovely Starbucks card the other day, and the rest of us are jealous — our snail mail address is 262 Mott Street, Suite 102A, New York, NY 10012. The third anniversary — or blogiversary, as the case may be — is the leather anniversary. So you can give Lat a leather business card holder, Kash a leather laptop case (or a leather fringe bikini), and Elie the rest of the cow.

(You can also send us news tips or juicy documents by snail mail. They’d be a nice change of pace from our usual hard-copy mail: handwritten letters from prisoners, alleging they were framed.)

In any event, thank you for joining our ATL community. We deeply appreciate your visits, tips, and continued support.

Earlier: Happy Labor Day! (And Happy Blogiversary to ATL)
Happy Birthday to ATL — and Happy Labor Day to All!
Letter from the Editor: Welcome to Above the Law

Please feel free to attend a presentation by yours truly. Details after the jump.

Your above-signed writer will be delivering the keynote address at this year’s ABA Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference, taking place in Philadelphia from November 12-13, 2009. In this tough economy, the subject of how to market your law firm effectively is more important than ever.

To learn more about the conference, click here. To register, click here. Early bird registration closes on August 31, after which rates will increase. So don’t delay — register today!

ABA Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference 2009 [American Bar Association]

A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law:

If you’ll be in New York on Monday, August 24, you might be interested in this event, brought to you by Above the Law and our friends at Applied Discovery:

SPACE IS LIMITED. To request an invitation, please email InviteRequest@breakingmedia.com. Please include your name, employer, and job title in your response. If we can accommodate you, we will send you a confirmation by email.

Thanks! We hope to see you on the 24th.