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Lawsuit of the Day: Mike Leach v. Texas Tech University Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
We don’t know anything about college football, but apparently many of you do — and are eager to talk about the firing earlier today of coach Mike Leach, by Texas Tech University. There are a number of legal angles here. First, the disputes between Leach and Texas Tech have already resulted in litigation
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Lawsuit of the Day: Mike Leach v. Texas Tech University
The year 2009 is almost over, but not just yet — which is a good thing. This means we still have time to solicit your nominations for Above the Law’s LAWYER OF THE YEAR . In 2008, you crowned then-President Elect Barack Obama your Lawyer of the Year .
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ATL Lawyer of the Year: Nominations, Please
Yesterday we asked if lateral hiring is picking up , and here is yet another Job of the Week to suggest that it is. To further confirm this, Lateral Link tells us they have five lateral associates starting at big law positions next week (filling several recent Jobs of the Week)
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Job of the Week: Fund Formation Fabulosity
According to the Webby Awards, they are: Craigslist expands outside San Francisco (2000) Google AdWords launches (2000) Wikipedia launches (2001) Napster Shut Down (2001) Google IPO (2004) Online video revolution (2006) Facebook opens to non-college students and Twitter takes off…
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The 10 Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade
CNN is reporting that select models of Ford automobiles will come equipped with USB mobile broadband modems. The automobiles will be mobile Wi-Fi hotspots with secure connections that can support several devices simultaneously.
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Is Wi-Fi Becoming Standard Equipment in Automobiles?
Responding to Jeff Bezos’ self-serving prediction that print is a dead technology [reported at Amazon's Jeff Bezos: eBooks Will Replace Physical Books (Kindled Editions and eReaders, Too?)] Edward Tenner writes “the rhetoric of an inevitable future can be a great…
Google’s search engine dominance threatens web neutrality Tuesday, December 29th, 2009Here’s an interesting Op-Ed from the New York Times suggesting that Google has achieved such dominance as a search engine that for most it has become the de facto gateway to the web. The implications are so serious that the…
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Google’s search engine dominance threatens web neutrality
According to Mashable’s Vadim Lavrusik, “news in 2010 will blur the lines between audience and creator more than ever in an era of social media.” Lavrusik identifies 10 trends in content distribution and presentation that we will likely see more…
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News Industry Media Content Trends in the Social Media Era
Way, way back in 2006, I attended the “Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship” conference at Harvard Law School. Law profs had discovered blogging beyond the instant pundit genre but there were still plenty of raised eyebrows in the…
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Blogging as Thinking Out Loud Sometimes
In its Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, the FBI reports that violent crimes declined 4.4 percent for the first half of 2009, following a 1.9 percent decline in 2008 and a 0.7 percent decline in 2007. All four of the…
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Violent Crime Continues to Decline According to FBI Report
The New York Times ran an article today called “Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites” about the possibility that more and more of the free news outlets we take for granted, including the NYT, may begin charging for content…
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Will 2010 be the beginning of the end of free web news content?
Newsweek’s Daniel Lyons interviewed Amazon’s Jeff Bezos about the Kindle, how the Apple tablet might affect it, and the next phase of digital distribution. Here’s a snip from The Customer Is Always Right: Lyons: Do you think that the ink-on-paper…
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: eBooks Will Replace Physical Books (Kindled Editions and eReaders, Too?)
On Legal Writing Prof Blog, Nova’s Jim Levy reports on how a Google SLOJ user found a discrepancy when he compared the Google-provided opinion text with the official text of the opinion he was using in his brief — the…
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Beware of Discrepancies Between Google SLOJ Opinion Texts and Texts from Other Sources
Results from The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey of the 2000s reveal that more people have a generally negative (50%) rather than a generally positive (27%) impression of the past 10 years. Current Decade Rates…
Government Agencies Withholding Information on Social-Networking Surveillance Sued Monday, December 28th, 2009When a half-dozen federal agencies refused to disclose their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance in response to FOIA requests, the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the UC, Berkeley, School of Law…
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Government Agencies Withholding Information on Social-Networking Surveillance Sued
According to a recent article in the National Law Journal, the University of California, Irvine School of Law will provide “scholarships to cover at least 50% of annual tuition for students arriving in August 2010.” The announcement comes just five…
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UC-Irvine’s Second Class of Law Students Will Pay Half Tuition
The Teaching Research in Private Law Libraries (TRIPLL) Conference application is available through December 31. The TRIPLL Conference, sponsored by the LexisNexis Librarian Relations Group, will be held April 23 – 25, 2010 in Dallas, TX.
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Last Minute Reminder: Applications for TRIPLL Conference Due by Dec. 31
The operators of a mortgage firm and the name partners of a Doylestown, Pa., law firm were among the five defendants charged Tuesday by federal prosecutors in a 15-count indictment for an alleged $14.6 million mortgage fraud scheme that … Officials of mortgage, law firms indicted (source: Biz Journal). Written by business / banking news stories aggregated by FeedZilla.com on December 8, 2009 under Banking News .
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Thomson Reuters is cutting 240 jobs in its legal division because the division’s performance has been hurt by layoffs and cost cutting at law firms. About 120 employees will be laid off in…
Voting Is Underway for the ABA Journal Blawg 100(And we respectfully request your support.) Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009The legal blogs selected for the ABA Journal Blawg 100 have been announced . In case you’re not familiar with this fine tradition, now in its third year, the Blawg 100 are “the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal .” The 100 websites are divided into various categories, and then readers vote for their favorite in each.
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Voting Is Underway for the ABA Journal Blawg 100(And we respectfully request your support.)
I spent all day yesterday trying to summon the rage, trying to figure out a way to trumpet the cause of a sixty-something, recent law school graduate who is still having trouble discharging her student loans in a bankruptcy proceeding. The National Law Journal has the tear-jerking story: When she graduated four years ago with a law degree at the age of 61, Denise Megan Bronsdon likely did not foresee bankruptcy court in her future. But that’s where she ended up — as a debtor
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Discharging Law School Debt in Bankruptcy Doesn’t Get Any Easier When You Are Old
Back in February, we covered a legal malpractice lawsuit brought by Billy Blanks, the Tae Bo king, against his former firm, Seyfarth Shaw . A jury found in Blanks’s favor and issued a $30 million verdict, but that verdict was overturned on appeal, due to flawed jury instructions. A new trial is set for July 2010.
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Lawsuit of the Day: Lancaster v. Seyfarth ShawPartners told to ‘hustle for cash,’ congratulated for ‘prying cash out of clients’ hands.’
NEW YORK (December1, 2009) – This month The American Lawyer unveils the results of its annual Law Firm Leaders survey in a special package profiling the tidal wave of recession-driven challenges and changes facing BigLaw firms . … ALM, an integrated media company, is a leading provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal and commercial real estate sectors.
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“MrChiCity3″ on the State of YouTube: And just a sample of responses to this interesting YouTube Community dialog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUpdevJ_6lU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaoD-oOzw7o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_6V7bnI8Es http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZamwFVcn30 [JH]
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MrChiCity3′s "YouTube is Dying (YouTube Exposed)" And a Couple of Video Responses to It
The Hale Law Firm provides services to a wide range of individuals and businesses based out of our home offices in Waxahachie, Texas, we enjoy working with clients throughout Ellis and Dallas County, including but not limited to: Ovilla, … The HouseOfPain website not only features the finnest in clothing, gear, and workout apparel, you can see our lifting and fighting news areas, our in the gym section, events, links, and other information as well as news pertaining to …
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ZPXFW Blog » Femto Services Gateway, Hale Law Firm, MMA Sparring Gear
I’ve just had a great, very sympathetic interview about Climategate on LBC radio (London’s main commercial news and talk station) with Petrie Hosken. She told me she has been simply inundated with callers, all of them utterly unconvinced … Reform notes that the Sidley Austin law firm and newly-bankrupt KPMG Consulting have been structuring hedge funds with odious (fake) debt or credit in support of ‘naked short selling’ or securities fraud on bcIMC assets on the Chicago …
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Climategate: this is our Berlin Wall moment! – Telegraph Blogs
Theodora Belniak’s The Law Librarian of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: A Figuration in Flux appears in the currrent issue of LLJ. It’s a revised version of a winning entry in the student division of the 2009 AALL/LexisNexis Call for…
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Would Yesterday’s Law Librarian Recognize Today’s Law Librarian? Will Today’s Law Librarian Recognize Tomorrow’s Law Librarian?