Help Lawyers Help Students
At Small Firm Innovation, Washington, D.C., solo Carolyn Elefant writes that she’d love to hire some local law students to clerk for…
Jun 8, 2012 1:30 PM CDT
All over the nation, school years are coming to a close, and many law school graduates have just left teachers and classrooms—well, aside from bar exam prep—behind them forever.
So…
Jun 6, 2012 5:56 PM CDT
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Jun 4, 2012 1:29 PM CDT
Photo of Rachel M. Zahorsky by Marc Hauser.
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A story in last week’s Wall Street Journal explores whether cursing on the job can hurt one’s career. Fired Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said at a…
May 30, 2012 7:33 PM CDT
ABA Journal web producer Lee Rawles talks with Lori Andrews, author of "I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy" about the lack of online privacy rights and the need for a social media constitution. They discuss the changes that social networks have brought to all areas of the law, including evidence gathering; what evidence is admissible in courts; how social media can affect the right to a fair trial; and the right to control one's image.
May 29, 2012 5:19 PM CDT
While Heretofore You May Have Used These Words—Really, You Should Stop
Last year, U.S. Bank attorney Andy Mergendahl meditated on the work of Black’s Law Dictionary editor-in-chief Bryan Garner and…
May 25, 2012 1:30 PM CDT
ABA Journal business of law reporter Rachel M. Zahorsky discusses with Beazley’s Brant Weidner and solo practitioner and legal ethics professor John Steele the challenges of this trend for outside law firms and what lawyers can do to protect themselves and their clients when faced with the increased disaggregation of legal work.
May 24, 2012 4:22 PM CDT
After more than three decades of laboratory studies, experts have found that a few simple changes in police lineup procedures improve the accuracy of eyewitness identifications.
For example, having someone…
May 18, 2012 11:18 PM CDT
Gary Wells of Iowa State University has studied problems with police lineup procedures for 35 years. He says that the progress made in the past few years has been remarkable, “like a runaway train.” Photo courtesy of Gary Wells.
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The Other Big IPO
Today, Facebook makes its historic market debut. But many lawyer-bloggers are talking about a different initial public offering: Last Friday, Web-based legal services provider LegalZoom filed…
May 18, 2012 1:30 PM CDT
Last week at the Careerist, Vivia Chen took note of a post at Forbes’ Crossing Borders blog in which the post’s author, Maseena Ziegler, described…
May 16, 2012 4:51 PM CDT
In today's podcast, ABA Journal Web producer Lee Rawles speaks with Peter Afrasiabi about his recently released book "Show Trials: How Property Gets More Legal Protection than People in Our Failed Immigration System."
May 14, 2012 1:34 PM CDT
Consensus doesn’t seem to have a place in policy discussions about the state of the U.S. immigration system. But there is, at least, widespread agreement that the system needs fixing.
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May 11, 2012 11:05 PM CDT
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