Based on how her farewell email resonated throughout the blogosphere (and beyond), it would seem that former Paul Hastings associate Shinyung Oh has a knack for writing. The reactions to her dramatic, heartfelt goodbye email ranged from support and sympathy to outrage and anger. But whether readers agreed or disagreed with Shinyung Oh, clearly they were engaged by her story. Her writing struck a nerve.

We are therefore pleased and proud to welcome Ms. Oh to the blogosphere. Check out her new blog, Because you never know...., by clicking here.

She has a number of interesting entries already up on the site; click through to her blog and see for yourself. But here's a teaser, from the post Career Choice:

More than fifteen years [after college], I find myself in the same place, without a direction for my career, fretting about what to do with my life, and once again wondering if lawyers are ogres after all. So what do I have to show for my the past fifteen years of my life? I have no job, no baby, and ten pounds of left over fat that hang like pieces of a dead chicken. I own a house with a mortgage that exceeds the cost of several houses in the mid west. Oh, right, I can put "Esq." behind my name.

I've been spending the past month baby sitting our five year old yellow lab, and every time he sighs at me, I wonder if I've fallen in his estimation somehow.

More excerpts and discussion, below the fold.

We're not naming names, but many bloggers quote liberally from Associated Press stories. Sharing news from the mainstream media, and then digesting it and editorializing on it, is a big part of what we do. And the AP is a big part of the mainstream media.

So our ears perked up when we read that the AP is meeting with the Media Bloggers Association to discuss "standards for online use of AP stories." We imagine there will be quite a few lawyers at the meeting, and an extensive conversation about fair use of copyrighted material.

From the (*gulp*) AP:

Wendy Seltzer, a legal scholar and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, said it was encouraging that AP wanted to find an arrangement with bloggers to facilitate a mutually agreeable way for them to use AP content.

It sounds like the AP is looking to the future. The AP is likely thinking about new sources of revenue, and charging online outlets for use of their stories could offer the AP a way to make up for cuts from shrinking newspaper budgets.

But [Seltzer] cautioned that the news organization, a not-for-profit cooperative owned by its member newspapers and broadcasters, should not try to go beyond what's legally permissible.

"If they take those guidelines and start using them to refine the way they make complaints, and if they closely match the law, then it's helpful -- it's a restraint on their own legal department," Seltzer said.

"If they were on the other hand to say, you may use 10 words only and any time you use 11 we'll send a takedown notice, that wouldn't be helpful," Seltzer said.

Wendy, next time, could you tighten up your quotes to 10 words or less?

More discussion and speculation after the jump.

[We previously posted this announcement last week. We just wanted to post it one more time before the application deadline of Friday, June 6. We've already received many excellent applications, which we will review more closely over the weekend. Thanks.]

Time flies. It's hard to believe, but Above the Law turns two this summer. We started writing for ATL in July 2006, and the site went live in August 2006.

We're happy to report that things are going swimmingly -- so swimmingly, in fact, that we'd like to (and need to) hire another full-time writer. Law firms are firing, but ATL is hiring. This gig may not pay $160K, but we guarantee it's more fun than document review or due diligence.

This is a full-time position. The pay is quite competitive for a media/journalism job, and standard benefits -- health insurance, a 401(k), abuse from anonymous commenters -- are included. If you're looking to transition from law into the writing life, this is an excellent opportunity.

If you'd like to apply, please email us (subject line: "New Writer Application"). Please describe yourself and your background, and explain why you'd be a great addition to ATL. If you have a particular vision for the site or ideas for new features, do share. Feel free to include a résumé, a writing sample, a link to your own blog (if you have one), or any other information you think might be relevant to evaluation of your application.

We will take applications through Friday, June 6 (and will probably throw in another plug for this next week). Thanks for your interest; we look forward to hearing from you.

Gopalan Nair is a Singapore lawyer turned U.S. citizen and blogger. He runs the blog Singapore Dissident.

The lesson we've learned from his story: when we launch AboveTheLaw - Singapore, we'll need to drop the Judge of the Day feature. Nair has been arrested in Singapore for "insulting a public servant".

According to a court document, Nair is charged with insulting Justice Belinda Ang Saw Ean last Thursday by sending an email which said she "was throughout prostituting herself during the entire proceedings, by being nothing more than an employee of Mr Lee Kuan Yew and his son and carrying out their orders".

Nair's lawyer Chia said the comments essentially repeated those Nair made in a recent blog about a defamation case filed by Singapore's leaders against an opposition party and its members.

In the blog, Nair strongly criticised a three-day legal hearing last week at which Singapore founding father Lee Kuan Yew and his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, testified.

In another post on his blog Saturday, Nair taunted authorities, saying he was in Singapore at a particular hotel, and also gave his phone number.

"I am now within your jurisdiction... What are you going to do about it?" Nair wrote.

Arrest you and charge you, that's what. Another lesson learned: Don't go to Singapore and issue a "nah nah nah boo boo" on your blog. Free speech is better practiced without giving your exact coordinates.

US blogger charged in Singapore over 'prostituting' comment [Breitbart]

In today's National Law Journal, Leigh Jones has a most interesting article about the impact of legal gossip blogs (ahem) on law firms. It begins:

Many of the nation's most renowned law firms have felt the public relations wallop delivered by law gossip blogs, those online tabloids that can turn an interoffice memo into a virtual billboard of bad news for partners or associates.

Whether the topic is layoffs or love affairs, it seems that no subject is too edgy for sites such as Above the Law, Greedy Associates, AutoAdmit and a few others that dig up the legal profession's dirt. The immediacy -- and, at times, the brutality -- of the media form is presenting a challenge for firms that are wary of their private matters entering the public domain.

True enough. But blogs can also be a medium for getting positive news out -- e.g., associate pay raises, record partner profits, pro bono work, and charitable contributions -- which firms are only now realizing.

Here's an interesting comment from a firm leader one might expect to be less than enthusiastic about blogging:

Gossip blogs have created an immediacy of information and a quick way to share comments, compared with newspapers and magazines, said Rodgin Cohen, chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell. But the rule for law firms to follow has remained the same over time: "With any widely disseminated message, you have to ask if you're prepared to see it in a publication," he said.

New York-based Sullivan & Cromwell was highlighted for months on law blogs after former associate Aaron Charney filed a lawsuit in January 2007 alleging that he was subjected to sexual orientation harassment and retaliation by the firm. The case settled last year.

"I accept that publicity is a good disinfectant," Cohen said.

Indeed (as Justice Louis Brandeis famously observed). Speaking of S&C gossip, does anyone have updates on Carlos Spinelli-Noseda?

More discussion, after the jump.

Time flies. It's hard to believe, but Above the Law turns two this summer. We started writing for ATL in July 2006, and the site went live in August 2006.

We're happy to report that things are going swimmingly -- so swimmingly, in fact, that we'd like to (and need to) hire another full-time writer. Law firms are firing, but ATL is hiring. This gig may not pay $160K, but we guarantee it's more fun than document review or due diligence.

This is a full-time position. The pay is quite competitive for a media/journalism job, and standard benefits -- health insurance, a 401(k), abuse from anonymous commenters -- are included. If you're looking to transition from law into the writing life, this is an excellent opportunity.

If you'd like to apply, please email us (subject line: "New Writer Application"). Please describe yourself and your background, and explain why you'd be a great addition to ATL. If you have a particular vision for the site or ideas for new features, do share. Feel free to include a résumé, a writing sample, a link to your own blog (if you have one), or any other information you think might be relevant to evaluation of your application.

We will take applications through Friday, June 6 (and will probably throw in another plug for this next week). Thanks for your interest; we look forward to hearing from you.

We'll be doing a more detailed follow-up on the Harvard Law Review Note controversy "in due course" (to use a favorite expression of a former boss).

There has been lots of new blog commentary on the Note that we have not yet fully digested. E.g., Volokh Conspiracy (David Bernstein, via Instapundit); Concurring Opinions (Dave Hoffman). There are also hundreds of new ATL comments that we need to catch up on. So it may be a while.

We were hoping to bring you an interview with Note author Phil Telfeyan, but he has not responded to our multiple interview requests. Perhaps he prefers to address the public through Do the Right Thing At Every Moment, which purports to be a blog authored by him.

Update: There have been suggestions, in the comments here and elsewhere, that Phil Telfeyan is not the author of "Do the Right Thing At Every Moment." The blog appears legitimate to us (and we note, with interest, the 5:05 PM comment on this Concurring Opinions thread). But we have contacted Mr. Telfeyan, through messages to his Harvard email address and through Facebook, to invite him to issue an on-the-record denial of authorship, if he is not in fact the author.

In other Harvard Law Review news, that august publication is taking up new quarters. Move over, Gannett House. Say hello to.... the Law Review Lounge:

Okay, no, the HLR isn't actually moving into these dumpy digs -- they're pretty far from Cambridge. For the real story behind the Law Review Lounge, read below the fold.

The Wall Street Journal has been writing about Mattel's lawsuit against Bratz and has a rundown on the upcoming trial on the WSJ Law Blog. Bratz, "the only girls with a passion for fashion," knocked Barbie from her throne when they hit stores in 2001. At issue in Barbie's suit is whether the man behind the Bratz concept was at Mattel when he dreamed up the attitude-laden dolls.

Allegedly, the person who broke the news to Barbie about the designer's possible betrayal is now a blogger at Jezebel. In 2003, when she broke the story, she was writing as Maureen Tkacik at the Wall Street Journal. Now, she's Moe at Jezebel and she's ignoring her summons for the trial!

Her Jezebel post starts off, "I'm supposed to be in court in Riverside County, California right now." She's totally got the Bratz spirit:

[Mattel] finally convinced me and seven or eight lawyers to show up in a conference room someplace downtown for a few hours of grilling about a story about which I couldn't have ethically provided any information even if I remembered it, which I of course did not. As we left, my lawyer, the in-house counsel of Dow Jones, marveled at the billable hours that had been assembled for our presence alone. It was enough to fund a reality show-worthy bar mitzvah. And they'd been at this case for years!

Today the case is supposed to go to trial and I am apparently, according to an email from the Gawker office manager, to be there, although I am not, because I don't leave my house to buy toilet paper if there is perfectly decent newspaper lying around, and the thing is going down in California.

Be careful, Moe. That Barbie knows how to fight!

Does This Look Like "Intellectual" Property To You? [Jezebel]
Brawl Over Doll Is Heading to Trial [Wall Street Journal]
Barbie Battles Bratz as Toy Makers Head to Trial [WSJ Law Blog]
To Lure Older Girls, Mattel Brings In a Hip-Hop Crowd [Wall Street Journal]

C'mon, guys. You may be a "blog," but you're still part of the Wall Street Journal, a major news organization, and part of the so-called "mainstream media." Shouldn't you leave chronicling Biglaw's every last burp and hiccup to us, and swoop in only once you see a trend emerging?

Even we don't know if we would have written up this item. From a WSJ commenter: "Wow, five secretaries? HOLY COW! Write a blog about it! Come on, guys. This is getting ridiculous. The layoff of five staff people is not newsworthy."

P.S. We intend no disrespect to the five Kaye Scholer secretaries, for whom this is big news, and we're sorry to hear about their job loss. We're just sayin'....

Layoff Watch: Kaye Scholer Trims Five Secretaries [WSJ Law Blog]

Earlier today, in the wake of yesterday's post about troubles in the Charlotte office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, firm chairman Elliott Portnoy sent around an irate email:

From: Portnoy, Elliott I.
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:40 PM
To: #Attorneys-All
Subject: Rumors Regarding Charlotte and Summer Program

Many of you have recently heard claims regarding our Charlotte office that have emanated from certain blogs frequented by law students. I write today to let you know the facts, not rumor or speculation. Firmwide, we will have more than 50 Summer Associates joining us over the coming few months, and we plan to have 24 first-years joining us this Fall across the firm.

First, this fine website, while certainly "frequented by law students," is also read by many other folks - e.g., law professors; associates, partners, and recruiting personnel at top law firms; in-house and government lawyers; law clerks and judges; and legal reporters and PR professionals.

Second, Portnoy attempts to draw a distinction between "facts" and "rumor." But the core of what we reported - namely, that the firm has rescinded offers of summer and full-time employment in its Charlotte office - is a fact, acknowledged by Portnoy later on in his message.

Read the rest of that email message, with our running commentary, after the jump.

Most law firm name changes are pretty silly. The general approach: lop off all names after the first two. If you like, squish the surviving names together into one word, to make yourselves seem contemporary and cool. E.g., "WilmerHale." (A law firm marketing firm would charge you five figures for that advice.)

Okay, so how do you get anyone to care about your name change? You make a YouTube video, that's how! Here's a press release from Hanson Bridgett LLP, a northern California firm with about 130 lawyers:

The firm formally known as Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos, & Rudy LLP has a new tag line—"Inspired"—to go with its new logo and a new abridged name, Hanson Bridgett LLP. Breaking through the monotony of the legal landscape, the firm is employing a light-hearted video to help disseminate the re-branding roll-out by "word of mouse."

Seriously. As the press release notes, "[t]he video stars Hanson Bridgett Managing Partner Andrew Giacomini, who is seen banging a bass drum while walking down Market Street in Lederhosen and knee-highs."

The video, cutely entitled "The Law Accordion to Hanson Bridget," is kinda weird, and a bit too long; you really need just the first and last 30 seconds. But it's an interesting experiment in law firm marketing. Check it out:

Oh, and the firm has its own blog: the Infrastructure Law Blog. Infrastructure law sounds even more boring than ERISA may not be the sexiest practice area ever. But the firm deserves props for participating in, rather than fighting, the online revolution.

P.S. Yes, we've seen the Pillsbury Winthrop video. We'll be writing about it in a separate post.

The Law Accordion To Hanson Bridgett [YouTube]
Hanson Bridgett Launches New Look, Video to Match [press release]
Infrastructure Law Blog
Hanson Bridgett LLP [official website]

Here's an interesting factoid. According to a quick search we ran over at the Public Library of Law (powered by Fastcase), the word "douchebag" has yet to appear in the pages of F.3d. [FN1]

That may be about to change, if the Second Circuit decides to publish in a case that was just argued. From the AP:

A teen who used vulgar slang in an Internet blog to complain about school administrators shouldn't have been punished by the school, her lawyer told a federal appeals court.... [Ed. note: an "Internet blog" -- not to be confused with all those Non-Internet blogs.]

Avery Doninger, 17, claims officials at Lewis S. Mills High School violated her free speech rights when they barred her from serving on the student council because of what she wrote from her home computer.

In her Internet journal, Doninger said officials were canceling the school's annual Jamfest, which is similar to a battle of the bands contest. The event, which she helped coordinate, was rescheduled.

According to the lawsuit, she wrote: "'Jamfest' is canceled due to douchebags in central office," and also referred to an administrator who was "pissed off."

In the district court proceedings, there was some extensive discussion of the whole d-bag remark:

When [the school board's lawyer] pressed [student council treasurer Pat] Abate on whether he had ever seen the famous douchebag posting, Abate’s responses included: “I haven’t seen it on my computer monitor, I haven’t seen it in my dreams.”

Guess he isn't very imaginative.

[A lawyer] asked Abate and [senior class vice president Jackie] Evans to define douchebag.

“Stupid, moron, idiot, Abate said.

“Jerks,” Evans said.

Hmm.... They're in the vicinity, but haven't hit the definitional g-spot. We respectfully submit that the term "douchebag" carries a stronger sense of condemnation than the terms proffered by Abate and Evans. See UrbanDictionary.com (defining "douchebag" as "[s]omeone who has surpassed the levels of jerk and a**hole, however not yet reached f**ker or motherf**ker"). [FN2]

[FN1] Maybe someone with free Westlaw or Lexis access can confirm for us that F.3d is douchebag-free.

[FN2] Alternate definition of "douchebag" from Urban Dictionary: "A student or instructor at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities." Well, as long as it's not the law school....

Update: Thanks, commenters -- F.3d is certifiably douchebag-free.

Further Update: Oh wait... As this commenter notes, if you expand the search to include "douche bag" and "douche-bag," you'll see that F.3d has been thoroughly defiled.

Appeals Court Weighs Teen's Web Speech [AP]
Defense Crumbles as Students Weather Cross-Examination [CT News Junkie]
douchebag [Urban Dictionary]
douche commercial [YouTube]

* Linda Greenhouse to $300K! [New York Observer via ABA Journal]

* Duties of a law school dean: attend parties, appear at conferences, talk to alums. And don't forget the herding of cats -- aka law professors. [TJ's Double Play]

* Even law review editors screw up sometimes. "Constructive acceptance"? [Concurring Opinions]

* Who'd have thunk it? Sometimes blogging can help people. And stuff. [Legal Blog Watch]

* Ethan Leib dresses up as a giant chicken to teach Contracts, thereby guaranteeing ABA accreditation. [PrawfsBlawg]

* Orin Kerr points out online interviews "with eight of the nine current Supreme Court Justices (all but Souter) about legal writing, advocacy, and the process of deciding cases and writing opinions." [Volokh Conspiracy]

* Ann Althouse on John McCain and being a "natural-born citizen." [Althouse]

* Hillary to Russert: You can't handle the truth! About my tax returns. [TaxProf Blog]

Earlier this month, we passed along a rumor that O'Melveny & Myers was conducting a "witch hunt" for ATL tipsters and commenters. For the record, OMM has denied the rumor (not to us, but at internal meetings).

Back in our prior post, we tossed out this hypothetical:

You're a lawyer at a major law firm. You provide negative information about your employer to ATL and/or post a comment on ATL (or a similar message board), complaining about the terms and conditions of your employment (e.g., salaries, bonuses, fringe benefits). Your employer finds out what you did, and promptly fires you.

You're a lawyer -- a well-educated, highly-paid professional ($160K+). You are not a member of a union; your office doesn't have one.

You want to sue your former firm for firing you. Do you have any claim that your conduct was collective activity protected under the NLRA? Might you have any other cause of action, under federal or state law?

We concluded: "Maybe our friends at Workplace Prof Blog can enlighten us?"

And enlighten us they have. One of the blog's editors, Professor Paul Secunda, kindly sent us a wonderfully detailed analysis. After all the conflicting opinions in the hundreds of comments to our post, it was nice to receive some clarity.

Read Professor Secunda's response, the model answer to our law school exam hypothetical, after the jump.

Your reading of gossip blogs -- well, at least those relating to your profession (so Perez Hilton probably doesn't count, unless you're in showbiz) -- has just been blessed. From an article entitled "Gossip Is Information By Another Name," in the New York Times:

Q. The office sometimes feels like one big water cooler, with colleagues gossiping about one another and about management. It’s hard to resist joining in, but it feels subversive to spread information this way. Is it?

A. Not necessarily. Most gossip is just communication, a way that people form networks of trusting relationships.

The word “gossip” has a negative connotation, but you could also call it strategic information sharing, counseling or mentoring, said Michael Morris, a research psychologist and professor of organizational behavior at Columbia Business School who studies social cognition.

So feel free to bill your reading of ATL to "professional development," "office admin," or something similar. If you get asked about it, say you were gathering and sharing "strategic information," or "mentoring" younger lawyers.

As long as the information you’re spreading is not intended to hurt another person, it can actually be good for the company. Especially during times of major change, like downsizing or layoffs, gossip can be cathartic for employees, Professor Morris said.

See, e.g., Friday's O'Melveny & Myers thread (250+ comments).

A little more discussion, after the jump.

We respectfully submit that the powers-that-be at O'Melveny & Myers need to "chill" (as Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) recently told former President Bill Clinton).

The folks at OMM apparently have some totalitarian tendencies. We heard they no-offered a summer associate from last year based on this individual's personal blogging about the summer associate experience (which didn't even mention the firm by name). And now we hear this rumor (by phone and by email, from multiple sources):

[T]he firm is furious about (true) comments sent to ATL about the firm's poor performance and underhanded layoffs. Apparently, the fire rages so much so that OMM is dead set on a witch hunt to find the associate(s) who leaked the goings on to ATL.

Both the firm's tech department and outside techies have been enlisted to figure out which associate's computer the comments were sent from. OMM associates are now scared to even check your site while at work (though of course are keeping in the loop through home computers).

We contacted the firm for comment. We haven't heard back from them as of the time of this posting.

We know next to nothing about labor and employment law. But to the labor lawyers among you, here's a hypothetical:

You're a lawyer at a major law firm. You provide negative information about your employer to ATL and/or post a comment on ATL (or a similar message board), complaining about the terms and conditions of your employment (e.g., salaries, bonuses, fringe benefits). Your employer finds out what you did, and promptly fires you.

You're a lawyer -- a well-educated, highly-paid professional ($160K+). You are not a member of a union; your office doesn't have one.

You want to sue your former firm for firing you. Do you have any claim that your conduct was collective activity protected under the NLRA? Might you have any other cause of action, under federal or state law?

Maybe our friends at Workplace Prof Blog can enlighten us. Or if you're a labor and employment lawyer, feel free to opine in the comments.

P.S. We're experiencing mysterious technical difficulties this afternoon, so this may be our last post in a while. Maybe OMM is hacking ATL?

Earlier: Prior ATL coverage of O'Melveny & Myers (scroll down)

* A PSA for Blackberry Pearl users on the T-Mobile network. Also, Theresa sounds deliciously evil. [PrawfsBlawg]

* "Senator Obama, we knew Jack Kennedy, and you, Senator, are--well, dude, you were two-years-old...." [What About Clients?]

* "Lessons from Mary-Kategate: Why Lawyers Should Not Engage in Media Relations." And we agree wholeheartedly with this statement: "the ability to get under powerful people’s skin. If ever there was a talent valued among tabloid journalists, that’s got to be it." [Starkman & Associates]

* DLA Piper to launch an in-house version of Facebook. But can you play Scrabulous on it? [Legal Blog Watch]

* It's hard out here in a courtroom for a pimp, proceeding pro se. [11Alive.com]

* Oregon Supreme Court puts kibosh on unkindest cut. [Blogonaut]

* Blawg Review #144, with a Lord of the Rings theme. [Cyberlaw Central via Blawg Review]

So far this month, over 1,500 of you have voted on who should receive two significant accolades.

Our Second Favorite Blog Of The Year After ATL survey, sponsored by ATL and Lateral Link, is still dominated by the Wall Street Journal. But the Volokh Conspiracy, Patently-O, and SCOTUSblog are putting up a fight, write-in candidate taxgirl is creeping up on write-in candidate TaxProf Blog, and added-because-we-love-him candidate ProfessorBainbridge.com is just crushing Likelihood of Confusion (whom we also love).

Meanwhile, nominations for ATL Lawyer of the Year have been dominated by Loyola 2L, Aaron Charney, and Barack Obama (which is probably the only time you'll see those folks on the same list). Hillary Clinton -- who's already Legal Diva of the Year, as far as we're concerned -- is close on Barack's heels, and there are a smattering of nods for others.

While both of those surveys remain open, today we reveal results from last month's ATL / Lateral Link survey about your potential prize: Will you make partner?

More than 1,600 of you responded to last month's survey, and, generally speaking, you're a pessimistic bunch. Only about 14% of you thought that you would definitely make partner at your current firm, with another 13.6% holding tentatively positive expectations. About 7% of respondents thought that they would make partner somewhere, but not at their current firms. The remaining two thirds of you either don't think you'll make partner, just don't know, or simply don't care. The most junior associates were the least likely to believe they'll make partner.

The good news is, those of you who don't make partner might still have jobs at the end of the day. Roughly 43% of you responded that your firms are not "up or out." Thirty percent, however, believe the axe will fall if they don't make partner. The rest of you simply don't know.

Tonight's ATL / Lateral Link survey explores the complex interplay between billable hours, pro bono, and sweet, sweet bonuses.

Also, a quick note about this month's who's your favorite blawg other than ATL survey, which is still open. So far, the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog is way out in front. We're also very gratified that so many of you answered "What do you mean 'Other Than Above The Law'???", making us your second choice for second-favorite blog after... ourselves.

A tip of the hat and bang of the gavel to taxgirl, TaxProf Blog, Balkinization and Ms. JD for their successful write-in campaigns. You're all in the survey now.

* Actually, Judge Lamberth, calling a presidential candidate as "a European socialist" constitutes an endorsement -- at least at most American law schools. [AP via WSJ Law Blog]

* News you can use: under the "Free File" program, opening tomorrow, the IRS and its private-sector partners will provide free tax preparation and electronic filing services to qualifying taxpayers (AGI of $54,000 or less -- sorry, Biglaw denizens). [TaxProf Blog]

* The law school essay question: an unrecognized art form? [PrawfsBlawg]

* Practice pointer: don't "recreate" correspondence to use as evidence in your case. Dramatic reenactments belong on television, not in court. [Feminist Law Professors]

* We just got called "the Matt Drudge of the legal world." Our thanks to Neil Squillante for making our day. Now where did we put our animated siren GIF? [TechnoLawyer]