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Around the Blawgosphere: ‘Hangover II’ Tattoo May Be Altered on DVD; Weiner’s Behavior Harassment?

Tattoo in ‘Hangover II’ May Be Altered on DVD The Hollywood Reporter blawg Hollywood, Esq. reported exclusively this week that Warner Bros. has told a Missouri judge in court documents that if litigation over the tattoo on the face of actor Ed Helms in The Hangover II and its promotional…

Jun 10, 2011 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: yFrog Flaw Behind ‘Weinergate’?; Han Solo Practice; Marler’s Yard Birds

Hacking into yFrog We’ve all heard the story: New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account posted a photo of “a man’s bulging underpants” over Memorial Day weekend; Weiner says that his account was hacked. And, indeed, Ars Technica’s Law & Disorder blog notes that the image and video hosting service…

Jun 3, 2011 2:42 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Seeking Fictional Lawyers; UK Blawgs Soar; Strauss-Kahn and Hotel Security

Fictional Lawyer Smackdown Above the Law is looking for nominees as it attempts to create a March Madness-style bracket of 32 fictional lawyers, and determine, by process of elimination, who is the greatest fictional lawyer of all time. If you have suggestions, send them to [email protected]. For inspiration, you can…

May 27, 2011 1:41 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: How Firms Boost Their Bills; Blogger Service Breakdown; Tracking Laterals

Bill, Baby, Bill Daniel Fisher writes at the Forbes blog Full Disclosure about ways that law firms inflate their legal bills. A slideshow of nine different methods is provided. Fisher got his answers from David Paige, who spent 18 years litigating legal bills for insurance companies before starting Sterling Analytics.…

May 20, 2011 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Hacking Osama Bin Laden; Case Western Scholarship Shift

Bin Laden’s Encryption Sharon Nelson, president of Sensei Enterprises, wondered at a Ride the Lightning post Tuesday whether the U.S. will be able to break Osama bin Laden’s encryption. “Encryption is a ballbuster,” she writes. “Assuming devices were powered off and encrypted using best practices, it will probably not be…

May 13, 2011 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Ex-Gov. Crist’s PI TV Ad; Brewing Instead of Suing; Blogging on an iPad

Governor-Turned-P.I. Lawyer’s TV Ad Charlie Crist, who ended his term as Florida’s governor in January, has since joined Florida personal injury firm Morgan & Morgan. At New York Personal Injury Law Blog, Eric Turkewitz notes a TV ad featuring Crist (that has already had more than 35,000 hits on YouTube)…

May 6, 2011 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: ‘Bad Lawyer’ Returns; Quips on the Royal Wedding

Bad Lawyer Is Back The anonymous blogger Bad Lawyer is posting again—after a five-month stint in federal prison. “My professional conduct deviated from the standards of the ethical attorney in the maintenance of my IOLTA account; and, in the reporting of income and payment of taxes,” he wrote in his…

Apr 29, 2011 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Amazon Cloud Crash, Content Marketing, What the Law Prof Ate for Breakfast

Shaken Confidence in the Cloud Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, which hosts a number of Web operations, crashed at 4:41 p.m. ET on Thursday, which affected some legal blogs. “Amazon Cloud Crash is pissing me off,” Seattle lawyer and blogger Bill Marler tweeted (JPG) at the time, noting that both Marler…

Apr 22, 2011 4:31 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Lawyerist Bringing Bitter Lawyer Back from the Dead

Lawyerist announced yesterday that it has acquired Bitter Lawyer, a humor law blog started by TV writer and producer Rick Eid that stopped updating in September 2010. Bitter Lawyer won the Webby for best law website last year and was in the ABA Journal Blawg 100 in 2008 and 2009.…

Apr 15, 2011 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Joseph Rakofsky Sound Off; Client Poachers; and the End of Blawg Review?

Updated: If anything had the legal blogosphere going this week, it was Joseph Rakofsky, a relatively recent law grad whose poor trial performance as defense counsel in a murder trial prompted the judge to declare a mistrial last Friday. Rakofsky admitted during a rambling opening statement that this murder defense…

Apr 8, 2011 5:58 PM CDT

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Brian Tannebaum shares a key tenet of his client intake philosophy at My Law License: Never be the second lawyer. “The majority of people who have a falling out with the first lawyer, will never be happy with any lawyer,” Tannebaum writes. “Many calls I receive from clients with Bar…

Apr 1, 2011 4:34 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: ‘Hangover II’ Tattoo May Be Altered on DVD; Weiner’s Behavior Harassment?

Around the Blawgosphere: yFrog Flaw Behind ‘Weinergate’?; Han Solo Practice; Marler’s Yard Birds

Around the Blawgosphere: Seeking Fictional Lawyers; UK Blawgs Soar; Strauss-Kahn and Hotel Security

Around the Blawgosphere: How Firms Boost Their Bills; Blogger Service Breakdown; Tracking Laterals

Around the Blawgosphere: Hacking Osama Bin Laden; Case Western Scholarship Shift

Around the Blawgosphere: Ex-Gov. Crist’s PI TV Ad; Brewing Instead of Suing; Blogging on an iPad

Around the Blawgosphere: ‘Bad Lawyer’ Returns; Quips on the Royal Wedding

Around the Blawgosphere: Amazon Cloud Crash, Content Marketing, What the Law Prof Ate for Breakfast

Around the Blawgosphere: Lawyerist Bringing Bitter Lawyer Back from the Dead

Around the Blawgosphere: Joseph Rakofsky Sound Off; Client Poachers; and the End of Blawg Review?

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