Social Networking Websites
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Biglaw, Facebook, Family Law, Kids, Public Interest, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Vicious Infighting
Entitled Lawyer Confronted By Obnoxious Lawyer And We All Lose
Two lawyers square off online about public interest law and both come across as entirely annoying. -
Bad Ideas, Facebook, Kids, Lawsuit of the Day, Nude Dancing, Social Media, Social Networking Websites
Apparently Hiring Strippers For Your Son's Sixteenth Birthday Is FROWNED UPON In This ESTABLISHMENT
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Christopher Christie, Gay, Gay Marriage, Jury Duty, Morning Docket, New Jersey, Partner Issues, Rudeness, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Twittering
Morning Docket: 10.22.13
* President Obama defends Obamacare (aka the Affordable Care Act), saying that the dysfunctional HealthCare.gov website will get fixed. [Washington Post]
* “Calling All Unemployed Law Grads: Greenberg Traurig Is Hiring.” But there’s a catch. We’ll have more on this later today. [Am Law Daily (sub. req.)]
* The Supreme Court agrees to hear a case regarding how to determine mental disability in death-penalty cases. [National Law Journal]
* If you’re thinking of selling legal services over Groupon, proceed with care. [ABA via WSJ Law Blog]
* Want to get out of jury duty? Try flipping the bird at the defendant. [ABA Journal]
* Chris Geidner takes a closer look at Chris Christie’s decision not to keep fighting marriage equality in New Jersey. Is it all about 2016? [BuzzFeed]
* More details on the circumstances surrounding a Reed Smith partner’s profane and ill-advised tweet. Expect Steven Regan to be sent back to “Tweet School.” [Am Law Daily (sub. req.)]
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Biglaw, Environment / Environmental Law, Partner Issues, Quote of the Day, Real Estate, Rudeness, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Technology, Twittering
A Biglaw Partner's Big Twitter Meltdown
This guy must have been really, really pissed off about something... -
Crime, Education / Schools, Facebook, Law Schools, Politics, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Law Student Of The Day: Alleged Social-Media Hoaxer
Law school: the last refuge of murderers, bank robbers, hate-crime perpetrators, and alleged social-media hoaxers. -
Airplanes / Aviation, Continuing Legal Education / CLE, Deaths, Non-Sequiturs, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Sports, Technology, Twittering
Non-Sequiturs: 10.14.13
* Referees go on a power trip and get arrested. [Legal Juice] * Lawyers enjoy LinkedIn. They may not like it as much if these allegations are true. [IT-Lex] * A New York lawyer is using Twitter to complain about Obamacare. This is what happens when there aren’t enough billable hours to go around. [New York Post] * TSA lets 9-year-old through without a ticket or adult help. Our security is top-notch in this country. [Lowering the Bar] * New York attorney Bradley Dizik is the working to save Detroit’s Masonic temple from its financial woes. How screwed is Detroit? Even the international Freemason conspiracy can’t help. [Detroit News] * Interested in national security — and getting CLE credit? [Lawfare] * A Georgetown Law student was killed over the weekend. On a personal note, I knew Mark and he was truly great guy and my thoughts go out to his family and friends. [Washington Post] -
Facebook, Job Searches, Law Schools, Reader Polls, Rudeness, Social Media, Social Networking Websites
Klassy Student Posts All His Offer Letters For His Fellow Students
Joe and Elie look at a Facebook kerfuffle between a student who posted his offer letters and another who called him out as a tool. -
Facebook, Fashion, Lawyer Advertising, Pictures, Quote of the Day, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Twittering
This State Bar Cares If Your Lawyer's Skirt Is Too Short
Watch your hemlines, ladies, or else you could be looking at some discipline from the Bar. - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
Contracts, Football, JPMorgan Chase, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Sports, Twittering
Non-Sequiturs: 09.05.13
* Fine Print as “Surrealist Masterpiece.” Because sometimes you need legal analysis involving Foucault. [Concurring Opinions] * Speaking of fine print, the story behind an attack ad in Virginia is all about fine print. Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli is running an attack ad against Terry McAuliffe connecting him to the collapse of Global Crossing. The problem is the former Global Crossing workers in the ad thought they were talking to a documentary film crew about the company, not making an ad attacking McAuliffe. Should have read that waiver form more closely! [Mother Jones] * JPMorgan Chase is dropping out of the student loan business. Must be getting too difficult to package likely defaults into some kind of billion-dollar derivative these days. [American Banker] * A New York attorney candidly tells the world that dealing with his kids “is not my problem” because he has a long-suffering wife for that job. See conservatives, gay marriage hasn’t destroyed all the traditional families. [Dealbreaker] * More analysis on the legality of intervention in Syria under international law. Welcome to the art of writing listicles, Lawfare! [Lawfare] * A Q&A with Ignatius Grande of Hughes Hubbard & Reed on the importance of Twitter for clients and law firms. Intriguingly, Hughes Hubbard doesn’t have an active Twitter account. What gives? [Commercial Litigation Insider] * The NFL’s concussion settlement wasn’t just about screwing over the former players, but about the NFL covering up its business practices. But who cares, KICKOFF TONIGHT Y’ALL! [Grantland] * We’re not saying you should drop out of school, but if you do, try to make it like these people. Video embedded after the jump. [Bloomberg via YouTube] -
3rd Circuit, Anthony Kennedy, Bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Biglaw, Cozen O'Connor, Deaths, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Gay, Gay Marriage, General Counsel, International Law, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Magic Circle, Military / Military Law, Morning Docket, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Supreme Court, Technology, Twittering, United Kingdom / Great Britain, Weddings
Morning Docket: 09.03.13
* We bet you never thought you’d be spending Labor Day weekend debating with your relatives the legality of a U.S. military strike on Syria and the intricacies of international law. Gee, thanks President Obama. [CNN]
* Over the long holiday weekend, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as officiant at the gay wedding of John Roberts. No, not that John Roberts, but what an incredibly apropos coincidence that was. [Washington Post]
* Speaking of same-sex marriage, even though “[n]o one told [him] it was an easy job when [he] signed on,” Justice Anthony Kennedy revealed himself to be an ally of the gay rights movement. [New York Times]
* Two days after filing an appeal with the Third Circuit, the parents of a deceased Cozen O’Connor partner have ended their battle to deny their daughter’s profit-sharing benefits to her wife. [Law360 (sub. req.)]
* Twitter’s general counsel deactivated his account position with the social media giant, and looks forward to “goofing off.” Congrats to Vijaya Gadde, who will head up the company’s IPO. [Bits / New York Times]
* Biglaw’s latest scapegoat for the culling of the associate herd is the decline of Chapter 11 filings, otherwise known by industry insiders as the “bankruptcy recession.” [New York Law Journal (sub. req.)]
* Without any rabbits left to pull out of hats, it’s been predicted that by 2018, the Magic Circle will be no more. This is one disappearing act lawyers obsessed with prestige hope will never happen. [The Lawyer]
* If you want to learn more about fashion law, check out this interview with Barbara Kolsun, a woman who literally wrote the book on it (affiliate link) while serving as general counsel at Stuart Weitzman. [Corporate Counsel]
* So what has Kenneth Randall been up to since he left the deanship at Alabama School of Law? He’s working to “train law students for jobs that don’t require a bar license” over at InfiLaw. Awesome. [Tuscaloosa News]
* Legal commentators like Elie and Lat would be ecstatic if law school were two years long, but because so many others have a “vested interest in the status quo,” change will come at approximately half past never. [CNBC]
* Ronald H. Coase, influential legend of law and economics and Nobel prize winner, RIP. [Chicago Law]
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Barack Obama, Education / Schools, Law Schools, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Student Loans, Twittering
Will Twerk For Loan Forgiveness! Ridiculous Responses To Obama's Fictional Student Debt Plans
How much educational debt do you have, and what would you do for loan forgiveness? -
Barack Obama, Facebook, Quote of the Day, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Texas, U.S. Attorneys Offices
Assistant U.S. Attorney In Trouble For Negative Comments About Trayvon Martin, Barack Obama
If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all -- especially not on Facebook. -
Biglaw, Blogging, Facebook, In-House Counsel, Reader Polls, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Technology, Twittering
This 'Social Media' Thing Might Not Be A Fad, Law Firms Acknowledge
Law firms increasingly recognize the value of social media. Take the ATL Social Media survey.
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Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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Celebrities, O.J. Simpson, Quote of the Day, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Trials, Twittering
#NoJustice: Kim Kardashian Forgets Her Father Represented O.J. Simpson
It's so easy to be a hypocrite in Hollywood. -
Constitutional Law, Free Speech, Kids, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Texas, Violence
Terroristic Threat Laws & A Texas Teen: There But For The Grace Go We
Have you ever written something stupid and intemperate on the internet? Watch out. -
Elena Kagan, Eyes of the Law, Facebook, SCOTUS, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Supreme Court, Technology
The Eyes of the Law: The Apple of Her Eye
Supreme Court justices: they're just like us! They like to go window shopping. -
Biglaw, Department of Justice, Free Speech, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Money, Morning Docket, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), SCOTUS, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Supreme Court, Technology
Morning Docket: 06.24.13
* With a sharp focus on the Supreme Court and the legal definition of equality, only one thing’s for sure with respect to this week’s anticipated rulings: at least one group of people is probably going to get screwed. [New York Times]
* And lest we forget, thanks to our society’s near slavish obsession with social media and knowledge on demand, we’ll salivate uncontrollably as we wait for those opinions while the justices blissfully ignore new technology. [New York Times]
* The Justice Department charged NSA leaker Edward Snowden with espionage, and now he’s pursuing political asylum in Ecuador with the assistance of legal counsel representing WikiLeaks. [NBC News]
* Biglaw firms are trying to strengthen their pricing power in a post-recession world, with average rate increases of 4.8% in 2012, and hourly rates soaring in New York City. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]
* There were some bright spots in the otherwise dismal NALP job numbers for the class of 2012. Biglaw hiring is up, and so are median starting salaries. Sallie Mae is pleased as punch. [National Law Journal]
* If you’re considering law school, ask yourself these questions before applying. You should also ask yourself if you’re cool with unemployment. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report]
* Richard Trenk, author of the “ham-fisted” cease-and-desist letter that’s been read around the world, has been honored as the New Jersey Star-Ledger’s “Knucklehead of the Week.” Congrats! [Star-Ledger]
* There’s no solace for people who have had to pay to have their mug shot “depublished” from the internet. Sorry, the First Amendment allows people to turn a profit off your misery. [Washington Post]
* This lawsuit over unpaid internships filed against Gawker will sting any gossip girl’s heart to the core. But really, isn’t the privilege of working for Gawker enough? This fangirl thinks so. [New York Post]
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Bankruptcy, Bar Exams, BARBRI, Biglaw, Crime, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Facebook, General Counsel, Morning Docket, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Twittering
Morning Docket: 06.21.13
* The makeup of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is very homogeneous. Out of 14 judges who served this year, 12 are Republican and half are former prosecutors. Some diversity please? [Reuters]
* Dewey know how much Judge Martin Glenn shaved off of Togut Segal & Segal’s $8.8M fees and expenses in the latest D&L payout approval? Just $167.76 for subway fare and meal overages. [Am Law Daily]
* Ted Boutrous of Gibson Dunn is a very busy man, but he’s been categorized as a “Twitter freak.” The man is a self-professed news junkie, and he follows @atlblog, so you know he’s cool. #winning [Bloomberg]
* Facebook has named a new general counsel. We wish a very warm welcome to Colin Stretch, a man who’s a Harvard Law graduate, a former Kellogg Huber partner, and a former Supreme Court clerk to Justice Breyer to boot. [Facebook]
* If you’re waiting for your check to come for the BARBRI class action suit that was settled back in 2007, then keep waiting. But hey, at least the law firms are starting to get paid. [National Law Journal]
* Ariel Castro, a man you might’ve eaten ribs with, is looking at additional indictments in the kidnapping case against him. Thus far, he’s pleaded not guilty to all of the 329 charges he currently faces. [CNN]
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Bad Ideas, Biglaw, Facebook, Food, Reality TV, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Television
Social Media Darlings at Amy's Baking Company Fear Lawsuit
From the social media meltdown of the century to the best threatened lawsuit yet. -
Facebook, General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Money, Musical Chairs, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Musical Chairs: Ted Ullyot Is Leaving Facebook
How much has he earned while at Facebook? And what's he up to next?