(larger) Lawrence the Indian (of pink flamingo fame) is decked out again this Spring in tulips, in his traffic circle, at Front, Green and Ferry Sts., in Schenectady’s Historic Stockade District. Read more about Lawrence here. (Stockade tulip photos by D. …
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tulips-R-us today
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tiny poems for Mother’s Day
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/07/tiny-poems-for-mothers-day/Head over to the f/k/a Mother’s Day Haiku Collection (originally posted May 10, 2007), if you’re looking for haiku and senryu for a Mother’s Day card. There are dozens of poems (not all sappy or saccharine), including this pair: orig. …
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Schenectady ponders: 18 months without our Central Library
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/05/06/schenectady-ponders-18-months-without-our-central-library/“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.” . . . Upton Sinclair, US novelist, investigative journalist & socialist politician (1878 - 1968) There are times when the inane actions of our local “leaders” or our justice system here …
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JustOneMinute
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/mainCarter, famous Democrat, former President and lifetime clown, met with Hamas; if Hamas were asked to guess which party is more likely to be sympathetic to them, can we think of a reason they would answer "the Democrats"? MEETING WITH THE ENEMY: I enjoyed this, from a frustrated Democratic adult: As you probably know, Barack Obama appeared on Fox News Sunday on April 27, 2008 (to the apparent dismay of many liberal bloggers who support negotiating with our nation’s enemies, but are boycotting Fox in order
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Around the web, May 6
http://www.pointoflaw.com/archives/2008/05/around-the-web-ma...NY judges' deplorable "Black Robe Flu" slowdown aimed at Albany lawmakers' firms [Giacalone; also see Overlawyered and my comment at NYPIAB]; Judith Kaye issues denial [NYLJ]; Kaye in judge-pay suit wants Sheldon Silver to disclose what he gets from Weitz & Luxenberg [NY Post edit]; and will a Buffalo judge kick W
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poorly framed in Schenectady
http://trialadnotes.blogspot.com/2008/05/poorly-framed-in-sc...— and I would not like to think that the ethical and “professional responsibility” duties of an officer of the court could be so lax as to allow him to look the other way, while his client tried to pin the crime on a picture-frame model." f/k/a . . . » poorly framed in Schenectady
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Blawgletter®
http://blawgletter.typepad.com/bbarnetthad the pleasure yesterday of alerting our gentle readers (Uniform Rates -- Bah!) to a blog we hadn't seen before -- the inimitable f/k/a, by David Giacalone. The post, relating to the tort reform credentials of Barack Obama, reminded f/k/a fans of a four-part essay Mr. Giacalone wrote (sometime before June 2006) "on the ethics and economics of contingency fees." It also noted a belief that lawyers "charg[e] virtually every personal injury client the same percentage fee regardless of how risky or easy the case
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A Comic Interlude (plus Issa)
http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2008/04/comic-interlude-p...you say, back to the poetry? Well, we never left ... Don A PS from the Issa archive, to perfectly capture the season and the vision of cherry blossoms this week (everywhere) ... and in case everywhere doesn't include you, check out the photos at f/k/a of cherry blossoms and other flowering trees. And grab a couple of haiku to go while you're there. a corrupt world in its later days... but cherry blossoms! - translated by David G. Lanoue
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Legal Blog Watch
http://legalblogwatch.typepad.comWhatever the purpose of Law Day, one fact is clear: It was not intended as a celebration of lawyers. David Giacalone, who makes an annual ritual of writing about Law Day at his blog f/k/a ..., pointed this out in a post in 2004. This point is emphasized in a recounting from the Library of Congress for its 2000 Law Day commemoration. The lawyer who came up with the idea for Law Day, Charles S. Rhyne, then-president of the American Bar Association, was initially rebuffed by
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Legal Blog Watch
http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watchhave underscored the point." Whatever the purpose of Law Day, one fact is clear: It was not intended as a celebration of lawyers. David Giacalone, who makes an annual ritual of writing about Law Day at his blog f/k/a ..., pointed this out in a post in 2004. This point is emphasized in a recounting from the Library of Congress for its 2000 Law Day commemoration. The lawyer who came up with the idea for Law Day, Charles S. Rhyne, then-president of the American Bar
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Blawgletter®
http://blawgletter.typepad.com/bbarnett. Let’s hope his readers have the good sense to at least read f/k/a’s essay on the ethics and economics of contingent fees before coming to their own conclusions. We didn't mean to affront our colleague at f/k/a, only to highlight research that offers an alternative explanation. How that became "defensiveness and self-interest trumping facts, reason and legal-ethics" we can only guess. And our point wasn't to praise high contingent fees but to draw
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Uniform Rates -- Bah!
http://blawgletter.typepad.com/bbarnett/2008/04/contingent-f...standard contingency fee (charging virtually every personal injury client the same percentage fee regardless of how risky or easy the case might be), which we believe consistently extracts excessive fees from clients." And it refers the reader to "our four-part essay on the ethics and economics of contingency fees." The "same percentage fee" and "excessive fees" got our attention. Specifically they provoked, how you say, dubiositousness. While we don't practice in the p.i. arena, we do recall that in January we
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IV: 018
http://dagosanshaikudiary.blogspot.com/2008/04/iv-018.html
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