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Around the Blawgosphere: Ideas on Fixing Long Lines at Polling Places; America’s Funniest Lawyer

How Should Obama ‘Fix That’? University of Califorina, Irvine, law professor Richard Hasen wrote at Election Law Blog about how he thinks President Barack Obama could make good on his promise to ‘“fix” the problem of outrageously long lines at polling places. “I am thinking that a bipartisan commission should…

Nov 9, 2012 2:30 PM CST

Around the Blawgosphere: Legal Bloggers on the Hurricane Sandy Aftermath

Hurricane Sandy has had a tremendous impact on the week’s events for those who were caught in its path or worried from afar about loved ones living in affected areas. Updates about the storm also dominated the news feeds of the rest of the nation. This week, we’re focusing on…

Nov 2, 2012 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: ‘Financial Literacy’ at NYU Law; A 10th Law School in Illinois?

Redefining the Basics Last week, New York University Law School announced plans to remake its curriculum. This week at the New York Times’ Dealbook blog, University of Colorado Law School professor Victor Fleischer and Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports took note of NYU’s new mandatory financial literacy course for first-years.…

Oct 26, 2012 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Media Getting Rape Case Wrong, Bloggers Say; Will LinkedIn Take Over?

In 2008, a Connecticut jury found Richard Fourtin Jr. guilty of sexually assaulting a woman with severe cerebral palsy. But in 2009, state appellate court, considering “the sole issue of whether the jury reasonably could have found that the state introduced sufficient evidence to prove that the victim was unable…

Oct 12, 2012 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: SCOTUSblog Hits 10-Year Mark; Building an Affordable Suit Wardrobe

Landmark Log-in Ten years ago this First Monday, SCOTUSBlog was born. Tom Goldstein and (his wife) Amy Howe’s blog “had 30 hits, and [we] were astonished; really, we were too embarrassed to quit, once we had a few readers,” Goldstein wrote at SCOTUSBlog. “Almost a decade later, on the day…

Oct 5, 2012 2:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Questions Employment Law Bloggers Would Like to See the Candidates Debate

In anticipation of the first presidential debate on Wednesday and the vice presidential debate on Oct. 11, five employment law bloggers joined forces this week to share what labor and employment-related questions they would ask the candidates. In “Face the Bloggers”—as Employment & Labor Insider blogger Robin Shea, a lawyer…

Sep 28, 2012 2:00 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: David Lat Takes a Crack at ‘Clerk Lit’; Introverts and Extroverts on Juries

A Novel Blog Corrected: There was a subtle promo at the end of an Above the Law post last week and at the post at Underneath Their Robes the week before, that we missed. But let it be known that Above the Law founder and managing editor David Lat is…

Sep 21, 2012 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Law Profs Evaluate Self-Help Websites for Consumer Reports; Apples and Eggs

Juris Docs on Legal Docs Robert Ambrogi’s Lawsites took note of how the magazine Consumer Reports used self-help legal websites LegalZoom, Nolo and Rocket Lawyer to create four documents: a car bill of sale for a seller, a home lease for a small landlord, a promissory note and a will.…

Sep 14, 2012 1:29 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: ‘Eastwooding’ in Litigation; In Defense of Strunk & White

Arguing with an Empty Chair in Court Since actor Clint Eastwood’s speech last week at the Republican National Convention in which he talked to an imaginary President Barack Obama in an empty chair on stage, many Internet memes have been born, and the expression “Eastwooding”—to denote the act of arguing…

Sep 7, 2012 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Why the Law Doesn’t Suck; Judge Alex Kozinski on the Big Screen

Bloggers write to win This week at Simple Justice, in honor of finding himself in possession of a copy of Writing to Win by Steven Stark, New York City solo Scott Greenfield decided to have a writing contest on his blog to give it away. The challenge? Finish this sentence:…

Aug 31, 2012 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Blogger’s Advice to New Law Grads? Find Mentor to Answer ‘Dumb’ Questions

For All the New Grads A recent law school graduate and aspiring personal injury lawyer asked New York Personal Injury Law Blog’s Eric Turkewitz if he had any advice for him. Turkewitz recalled the piece of advice that he describes as one of the best things that happened to him…

Aug 17, 2012 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Thoughts of Aspiring BigLaw Summer Associates; Where Should Firms Expand?

BigLaw Rush Because summer associate classes in Atlanta outposts of BigLaw firms are small—“in the single digits, or maybe 11”—or being cut altogether, a number of law students from Emory paid for flights to and hotels in New York City to take a crack at jobs there, American Lawyer Media…

Aug 10, 2012 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Proposal to Save Law Students Money on Books; Adjunct Blasts Rankings

“$150 Million Casebook Challenge” At the CALI Spotlight Blog, Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction executive director John Mayer, laid out a “$150 million casebook challenge.” He noted that there are more than 140,000 law students in the U.S. who (according to Public Interest Research Group statistics) each spend an average…

Jul 20, 2012 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Bar Associations Too Cautious on Ethics of Cloud Computing, Blogger Writes

Clouded Judgment At My Shingle, Washington, D.C., solo Carolyn Elefant takes various state bar associations to task for their uniformly similar recommendations that lawyers get their clients’ express consent when they store clients’ data in cloud platforms. “Not only does this kind of requirement throw up a red flag that…

Jul 13, 2012 1:30 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Lawyer’s Story of Proud Americans—Who Waited 54 Years for Citizenship

Believing in America On July 4, “Ken” shared at Popehat a story (which he confesses he has posted before) of an Independence Day in the early 1990s in which he was a summer extern for Ronald S.W. Lew, the first Chinese-American district court judge in the continental United States. Lew…

Jul 6, 2012 1:38 PM CDT