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Screw-Ups, Social Media, Social Networking Websites
A Bluebooking Error In... The Bluebook?
Please, pass this former law school gunner his smelling salts! -
Legal Ethics, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, State Judges, Texas, Twittering
Judges On Twitter: Is This A Problem?
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Biglaw, Partner Issues, Quote of the Day, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Twittering
A Biglaw Partner's Good Deed For A Florida Family
Isn't this a lovely story? Happy Friday!
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Blogging, Conferences / Symposia, Continuing Legal Education / CLE, Events, Parties, Shameless Plugs, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Twittering
Top Tweets From The Attorney@Blog Conference
Highlights from live commentary on the ATL blogger conference -
Benchslaps, Books, Federal Judges, Quote of the Day, Social Media, Social Networking Websites
Tweet of the Day: Ask Your Co-Author, Justice Scalia; He's an Expert on Benchslaps!
Should "benchslap" be included in Black's Law Dictionary? And where did this delightful term originate? -
Abortion, Election 2012, Election Law, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 10.18.12
* For the first time in history, both major party presidential candidates are graduates of Harvard Law School. When reached for comment, Yale Law School said, “President, that’s one of those jobs that you don’t get for life, right?” [Harvard Law Bulletin] * Please tell me our election technology has at least caught up with 1996 by now. [Election Law Blog] * Uruguay legalizes abortion — subject to a panel review, a five-day waiting period, and getting the father’s opinion on the matter. Yay? [Salon] * Twitter censors a user! But it was a Nazi group, so nobody is going to freak out too much. [Slate] * If this freaking idiot makes it even harder for young, intelligent students to come here on student visas, then his thwarted attack will have caused real damage to American interests. [WSJ Law Blog] * Abraham Lincoln would have gotten tort reform done. [Futility Closet] -
Email Scandals, Hotties, Job Searches, Public Interest, Quote of the Day, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Twittering
Tweet of the Day: Try Applying to Chippendales
Landing a Summer Public Interest Legal Job: hotsexyskippy@yahoo.com is not an appropriate email address to have on your résumé. LOL. — PSLawNet, offering job search advice over Twitter. -
General Counsel, Google / Search Engines, In-House Counsel, Quote of the Day, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Technology, Twittering
Quote of the Day: Search Engine Envy
Bad day for the Internet…. Having been there, I can imagine the dissension @Google to search being warped this way. — Alexander Macgillivray, general counsel of Twitter, commenting via Twitter about Google’s recent plan to alter search results based on users’ Google+ networks. Macgillivray used to be in-house counsel at Google. Corporate Counsel analyzed his […] - Sponsored
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Election Law, Politics
Election Day Shenanigans Watch: So Long As You Can Avoid the Pigs, You Should Be Golden
We’ve collected a couple of tips on reports of election day problems around the country. And I have to say, so far, so good. It’s nothing like 2008. Even in New York, things seem calm, despite the fact that the city is rolling out new voting machines which were a total joke during the primaries. […] -
Baseball, Lawsuit of the Day, Sports
Lawyers Who Follow the Texas Rangers Are Crazy
We’ve seen lawyers request continuances because of major sporting events before. There was a great continuance motion last year, when the Alabama Crimson Tide played in the BCS Championship game. Obviously, the entire state of Louisiana lost its collective mind during the New Orleans Saints Super Bowl Run. Notice how we’re talking about football? Football […] -
Small Law Firms
The Inevitable Future of the Legal Profession: Connecticut Firms Open Drive-Thru Law Firm
We all knew it would come to this eventually. The legal profession — once reserved for studious minds who diligently ponder the most complex moral, ethical, and legal issues of the day — has been reduced to a collection of short-order cooks, who whip up documents instead of eggs and toast. Actually, that change probably […] -
Career Alternatives, Deaths
Greg Giraldo, Comedian and Former Lawyer, Dead at 44
The news has been all over the place over the past 20 hours, but it seems like a lot of people want to talk about the passing of Greg Giraldo. The comedian died yesterday. TMZ reported that he died of an apparent drug overdose. What many people didn’t know was that before his comedy career, […] -
john quinn, Law Firm Mergers, Quote of the Day, Social Networking Websites
Tweet of the Day: John Quinn on a Possible Squire Sanders / Hammonds Merger
Since we last checked in on him on Twitter, John Quinn — founding partner of litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel, and one of the nation’s ‘s top business litigators — has gained about 200 followers. And if he keeps tweeting in such insightful, funny, and brutally candid fashion, his following — right now he’s at 665 […]
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Biglaw, Outsourcing
Outsourcing: It's Not Just About the Money
It’s been a while since we checked in with the coming junior associate apocalypse that is legal outsourcing. Rest assured, LPOs around the globe are working hard to make sure that the Biglaw junior associate becomes extinct — at least as we know it. There’s a fascinating article on Law21 that discusses the evolution of […] -
Sex, Tax Law, Texas
No Sin Taxes in the Champagne Room
Many of the things I enjoy in life (smoking, drinking, kicking children who speak out of turn) are either illegal or subject to a sin tax. Luckily, most of the laws against my illegal vices are unenforceable if I commit infractions discretely. (“I don’t know what happened to little Jimmy. He must have fallen onto […] -
Weirdness
Mental Health Break: The Lawyers' Coloring Book
Loyal readers of our In-House Counseling column may have have missed their little dose of psychotherapy yesterday. Will Meyerhofer, aka The People’s Therapist, is regressing this week. He’ll be back next Wednesday. You’re stuck at work, but perhaps you’d like to do a little regression too? For your infantile pleasure, we bring you an oldie […]