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Rose on the Chivalric Origins of the Legal Profession
Legal History Blog —
Authority: 480
Jonathan Rose, Arizona State University College of Law, has posted Advocatorum Militia: The Chivalric Ethos of the Legal Profession - Loyalty and Honor, a chapter in Chivalry, Care and Honor, a forthcoming collection of essays edited by Warren T. Reich and Jonathan Riley-Smith. Heres the abstract:This book chapter ...1 day ago -
Looking Ahead to "The Tens"
Wise Law Blog —
Authority: 427
In Lawyers & Legal Professionals Looking Ahead to 2010, Adrian Lurssen of JD Supra compiles a good sampling of thoughts from lawyers and leading legal marketers on the year that was and the path ahead for the legal profession. Youll find comments from a strong Canuck contingent that includes Erik ...1 day ago -
Law Firm Homophobia: Ex-Fried Frank Associate Sues Firm, Claiming Harassment, Phony Reviews
Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life —
Authority: 447
I have looked at the homophobia that still permeates much of the legal profession - particularly outside of truly major metropolitan areas - in prior posts. However, even some law firms in the largest cities may still have their prejudices. One potential example is Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson ...3 days ago -
Lelia Robinson, Part 4
Legal History Blog —
Authority: 480
[This is the fourth and final post on the pioneer American woman lawyer Lelia Robinson. The series starts here.]Unable to persuade her family to join her in Seattle, Robinson reluctantly returned to Boston and once again attempted to establish a law practice. She first sought work as a stenographer in the law office ...3 days ago -
Lelia Robinson, Part 3
Legal History Blog —
Authority: 480
[This is the third post on the pioneer American woman lawyer Lelia Robinson. The series starts here.]The Supreme Judicial Courts denial of Robinsons petition proved to be only a minor setback, as the following year the legislature amended the 1876 statute to permit women to practice law on the same terms as men. ...4 days ago -
Ohio Attorneys Will Soon Be Asked to Report Pro Bono Activities Again
Cleveland Law Library Weblog —
Authority: 106
Some time in early 2010, the Ohio Supreme Court will be sending Ohio attorneys a questionnaire soliciting information on their pro bono activities, including any financial contributions to legal services organizations. According to the Courts Press Release , the survey is the second that will be conducted since the ...4 days ago -
Lelia Robinson, Part 2
Legal History Blog —
Authority: 480
[This is the second post on the pioneer American woman lawyer Lelia Robinson. The series starts here.]Upon graduation, Robinson faced another hurdle: admission to the bar. Unlike todays highly formalized bar examination, becoming a member of the Massachusetts bar in 1881 required only that the applicant be a citizen ...5 days ago -
Lawyers & Legal Professionals Looking Ahead to 2010
JD Scoop —
Authority: 408
Send us your thoughts, in a handful of lines, looking ahead to 2010... Thats what weve been asking the lawyers and legal professionals in our circle. And here are some of the answers - disparate thoughts from a disparate mix: our friends, the people we follow with interest online, the professionals using JD Supra. ...5 days ago -
Do Blogs Influence Judicial Decisions?
The Volokh Conspiracy —
Authority: 781
J. Robert Brown considers the potential effect of legal blogging on judicial decisions. Any such influence would be difficult to quantify. Even when a judicial decision cites a blog, it is hard to know whether the blog in question actually influenced the case’s outcome. Nonetheless, there are occasional ...5 days ago -
Lelia Robinson (1850-1891), Part 1
Legal History Blog —
Authority: 480
[During this holiday season, Im serializing a note from my course materials, the first draft of which was written long ago by one of my research assistants, on the early American woman lawyer, Lelia Josephine Robinson. The first installment is below; for more on Robinson, see the materials collected by the Stanford ...6 days ago -
Vulture Culture
NHS —
Authority: 119
Lawyers Waiting For Money People are familiar with lawyers. You can spot one a mile away by the length of their teeth, their piercing eyes and their ability to pick pocket repeatedly. You also recognize them because they circle dead bodies much like vultures in a desert. While the rest of the United Kingdom are ...1 week ago -
The Thin Line Between Activism and Obstruction
The Volokh Conspiracy —
Authority: 781
Fifth installment of a five-part series on Silverglate’s book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent . This week, I’ve had the pleasure of guest-blogging on the Conspiracy and expanding upon discussions from my book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent . I’ve ...1 week ago -
Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee Forbids Facebook “Friendships” Between Judges and Lawyers
The Volokh Conspiracy —
Authority: 781
The Florida Judicial Ethics Committee has issued an opinion forbidding judges to be Facebook “friends” with lawyers who may appear before them : Judges and lawyers in Florida can no longer be Facebook friends. In a recent opinion, the state’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee decided it was time to set ...1 week ago -
BigLaw: Above the Law Founder David Lat
TechnoLawyer Blog —
Authority: 423
Originally published on December 7, 2009 in our free BigLaw newsletter . At age 34, David Lat has already compiled an illustrious set of credentials. After graduating from Yale Law School, Lat clerked on the United States Court of Appeals, worked as an associate at mega-firm Wachtell Lipton, and spent several ...1 week ago -
Felix Frankfurter, Eustace Seligman, and the Securities Act of 1933
Legal History Blog —
Authority: 480
As it happened, I was rummaging around in Felix Frankfurter’s correspondence on the Securities Act of 1933 a few days before the House of Representatives passed its comprehensive bill reforming the nation’s financial sector. I already knew from the thoroughly researched studies of Michael Parrish, Joel Seligman, ...1 week ago -
How was it for you?
Law Actually —
Authority: 122
I was amused to see on Friday that the poll, “2009: Was it good for you?” on the Junior Lawyers site recorded a greater number of negative than positive responses. I’ve just checked again and the same proportion of yeses and noes holds sway: BTW: two of the yeses are mine so I guess there’s quite ...1 week ago -
How’s that for an explosive court case?
Law Actually —
Authority: 122
From The Times Online – Weird Cases 04/12/09: The principal weapon of advocates is language. Sam Kepfield, however, recently sought to extend his options in a Kansas courtroom when he put a hand grenade on the jury box ledge and pulled out the pin. Kepfield, a defence attorney, was representing a ...2 weeks ago -
Abroad
McGarr Solicitors - Dublin Solicitors Ireland —
Authority: 111
England and Wales have taken strange roads in the administration of justice, so it pays to keep an eye on the legal profession there. What a pleasure then to discover from the new Chairman of the Bar Council [there], in his inaugural address [see it HERE ] that, of former Chairmen; Some were extraordinarily ...2 weeks ago -
One Size Fits All Snake Oil Targets Lawyers
Social Media Law Student —
Authority: 121
There’s no doubt that 2009 marks the year when lawyers, law firms, and legal professionals are realistically considering using web 2.0 technologies within their business. (Arguably, these tools have been around for over half a decade.) This was the year that almost every law school signed up for Twitter . Judges, ...2 weeks ago -
Is Federalist Society Membership an Obstacle to Getting Law Firm Jobs?
The Volokh Conspiracy —
Authority: 781
The ongoing discussion over the law firm partner who decided to reject all job applicants with Federalist Society membership raises the question of how common discrimination against Federalist Society members really is in the law firm world. The only real way to get a definitive answer to this question is to look at ...2 weeks ago
