Top Legal Terms Of 2016
Have you used the word "sextortion" this year?
Black’s Law Dictionary: An Interview with Bryan A. Garner
David Lat interviews Professor Bryan A. Garner about the newest edition of Black's Law Dictionary.
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Lawyers Like Their Evidence Like They Like Their Dates: Cheap, Quick, and Easy
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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?
Pol Dancing: D.C. Circuit Plays Words With Friends
Campaign finance statutes? Ha! The D.C. Circuit blows off your pesky "plain English" as an illusion.
Quote of the Day: Dueling Definitions of ‘Dominatrix’
See The Compact Oxford English Dictionary 486 (2d ed. 1991) (defining “dominatrix” as a “female dominator; mistress, lady”); see also Urban Dictionary (retrieved on Aug. 23, 2011) (defining “dominatrix” as, inter alia, “a woman who controls her partner mentally and physically, usually in a sexual way,” and “is stereotypically pictured as wearing stiletto boots, [a] […]
5 Tips For Proving Your Legal Department’s Value
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Quote of the Day: But What’s the Alternative?
I think that it’s probably wrong, in almost all situations, to use a dictionary in the courtroom. Dictionary definitions are written with a lot of things in mind, but rigorously circumscribing the exact meanings and connotations of terms is not usually one of them. — Jesse Sheidlower, editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, […]