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Category Archives: Legal Profession
Judge Dierker At Work
Here is a newspaper account of how this judge ruled in a sexual harassment case: “From Anita Hill to Monica Lewinsky, the cry of ‘sexual harassment’ has been selectively raised to advance certain groups’ political agendas under the guise of … Continue reading
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Want to Appear Before a Judge Who Calls You A Femifascist?
Me neither. Robert H. Dierker Jr. is a circuit judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit of Missouri who authored a book called: The Tyranny of Tolerance. According to Random House, Dierker “shows how the courts enable left-wing activists to ram … Continue reading
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Why Now?
As this NYT article discussed back in August, Internet sites featuring fully clothed children in erotic poses are currently the focus of legal actors. That article observed: While many of the recently created sites are veering into new territory, the … Continue reading
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The Project for Attorney Retention
Website here: “PAR seeks to improve recruiting and retention of talented attorneys through the use of work schedules that allow attorneys to better balance the competing demands of their work and their lives outside the office.”
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The MPAA says if it can’t tell lies to protect its copyrights, this will “tie[] the hands of investigators looking into insurance fraud, child support cases and missing children.”
Wired News reports in an article entitled MPAA Kills Anti-Pretexting Bill: A tough California bill that would have prohibited companies and individuals from using deceptive “pretexting” ruses to steal private information about consumers was killed after determined lobbying by the … Continue reading
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Why People Hate Lawyers
On a jar of unsalted peanuts… …is an “Allergy Statement” that says: “…may contain peanuts…” Clearer image of the label here.
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Lindsay Blohm and Ashley Riveira, “Presumed Equal: What America’s Top Women Lawyers Really Think About Their Firms”
From the book’s website: Even though men and women have graduated law school at nearly the same rate for two decades, women still make up only 17% of partners at law firms. Since 1995, Presumed Equal has provided valuable insight … Continue reading
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How To Tell If Your Cell Phone Is Bugged
Found this link via the comments at Discourse.net and can’t vouch for the accuracy, but here is an excerpt from this post: … When cell phones are transmitting — even as bugs — certain things are going to happen every … Continue reading
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Legalese in the Age of IM
Noting the strict word and page length limits judges impose on briefs and oral arguments, Roger Wade Hughes has proposed that appellate lawyers adopt a system of communicating via IM type acronyms, such as: ASSA = assuming arguendo WADR = … Continue reading
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Can You Guess Who The Judge Was?
In affirming a jury verdict in a sexual harassment case (though he grants the defendant a new trial if the prevailing plaintiff is unwilling to accept a much smaller punitive damages award than the jury accorded her), he wrote: Penters … Continue reading
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The Secret World of Lonelygirl15
Wired News has a long story about Lonelygirl15 here. Below is an excerpt: …Beckett ordered a pitcher of margaritas and explained that they wanted the vloggers of the YouTube community to believe that Bree was real. Flinders rationalized the deception, … Continue reading
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Lawyers at Their Desks
This clothing ad ran in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly with the caption, “A custom-tailored suit is a natural aphrodisiac.” Several readers have complained that the ad portrays women in a negative light, reports a Boston Globe article. In a … Continue reading
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“Stop the Press Spree Against Working Moms”
Read Sheila Gibbons’ essay by that name here. Below is an excerpt: …Off-kilter news reporting on the reasons women leave jobs, laced with amateur psychology and traces of biological determinism, have been creating a false impression about women’s employment patterns, … Continue reading
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“Women still account for only 17 percent of law firm partners, 20 percent of federal judges and 14 percent of Fortune 500 general counsels. And, at the current rate, the number of women partners won’t reach parity with the number of male partners until 2088.”
That’s a quote from this Harvard Law School Alumni Bulletin entitled: “Women are still second-class citizens in the legal profession. What can be done about it?”
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The Legal Profession Blog Asks: “Are the Low Numbers of Female Supreme Court Law Clerks a Statistical Blip?”
See full post by Alan Childress here. Below is a short excerpt: David Kaye (Ariz. State, Law) and Joseph Gastwirth (GW, Arts & Sci. [Stats Dept.]) have just posted on SSRN Law & Soc’y: Legal Prof., their new article, “Where … Continue reading
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Drop in number of female Supreme Court clerks “could be anomaly”
At least according to this National Law Journal article, which considers the 50% decrease in the number of female clerks this year as opposed to last, and notes : Discrimination might explain why women do not constitute a larger share … Continue reading
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Supposedly Liberal Satire
Law prof Jack Chin appeared on the Daily Show in a clip that law prof Eric Muller at Is That Legal? does not find particularly funny.
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In Which A Bankruptcy Judge Goes All Dr. Seuss
Actual text of the opinion in In re Riddle, 344 B.R. 702 (2006): SUA SPONTE ORDER DETERMINING DEBTORS’ COMPLIANCE WITH FILING REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 521(a)(1) Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 521(i), if an individual debtor in a voluntary case under … Continue reading
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“Tequila Mockingbird”
That’s the title of Dahlia Lithwick’s recent Slate coumn, in which she says: The first case of the term is a pair of consolidated immigration cases:Lopez v. Gonzales, (out of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals) and Toledo-Flores v. United … Continue reading
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Forced Sterilizations in SC
A local politician, Charleston SC City Councilor Larry Shirley, recently made this public pronouncement, which he later characterized as “starting a dialogue about reducing crime”: “We pick up stray animals and spay them. These mothers need to be spayed if … Continue reading
Not Funny, Redux
The Happy Feminist, a practicing attorney, posted a story about a work-related experience she had that involved a “joke” that few feminists would find amusing. Below is an excerpt: Back in 1999, when I was a 27 year old prosecutor, … Continue reading
Unregulated “Courts”
Today the NYT is featuring an article entitled “In Tiny Courts of New York, Abuses of Law and Power.” Here are the opening paragraphs: Some of the courtrooms are not even courtrooms: tiny offices or basement rooms without a judge’s … Continue reading
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The Texas All-Woman Supreme Court, 1925
In reading the latest issue of the Texas Bar Journal, I noticed a brief reference to “the All-Woman Supreme Court, which was appointed to hear only one case.” Intrigued, a researched a bit further. In 1925, the Texas Supreme Court … Continue reading
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Linda Hirshman Wants to Punish Lawyers Who Stop Practicing Full Time
WOMEN IN THE PROFESSION Staying on the job Linda Hirshman/Special to The National Law Journal September 4, 2006 Well, we recently had the bar exam. In every state, thousands of would-be barristers lined up at testing centers to show what … Continue reading
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Belle Lettre: “On Being A Female Blogger, And Yes, A Real One At That”
Ann Bartow has a post below about the unfunniness that is David Lat’s new blog: The Kind of Satire That Often Isn’t Funny: David Lat’s “Hottest ERISA Lawyer in America” Contest: Possibly Lat doesn’t understand that being celebrated for her … Continue reading
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The Kind of Satire That Often Isn’t Funny: David Lat’s “Hottest ERISA Lawyer in America” Contest
David Lat, at his new blog Above The Law, is holding a contest “to find the hottest ERISA lawyer in America.” Here is an excerpt from the announcement post: Turn on those digital cameras, fire up those email accounts, and … Continue reading
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“Women Suddenly Scarce Among Justices’ Clerks”
From the NYT: Women Suddenly Scarce Among Justices’ Clerks By LINDA GREENHOUSE WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 : Everyone knows that with the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the number of female Supreme Court justices fell by half. The talk of … Continue reading
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According to the LA Times, she’s hot, likes drugs, and cares about fashion – what else can you ask for in a lawyer?
The full title of the news article? “A Law Unto Herself: The criminal defense attorney is star-struck, young and unorthodox. But don’t be fooled. She’s also Ivy League, savvy and successful.” Here’s an excerpt: Her husband said she used to … Continue reading
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Anyone Who Blogs From Work Needs To Read This
At orinkerr.com. Below is an excerpt: … Ziegler was an employee of a company called Frontline Processing, described in the opinion as”a company that services Internet merchants by processing on-line electronic payments”in Bozeman, Montana. Ziegler downloaded some child pornography to … Continue reading
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Women Executives and Female Law Firm Partners: Research Finds A Link!
Via The Conglomerate: The American Sociological Review published a paper last August entitled “Interorganizational Determinants of Promotion: Client Leadership and the Attainment of Women Attorneys,” (link is to a draft, since the ASR version is pay-per-view) by Christine Beckman and … Continue reading
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Another Reason Not To Go To Law School If You Haven’t Already
Excerpts from Judge Kent’s opinion in Bradshaw v. Unity Marine Corp., 147 F. Supp. 2d 668 (2001): “…Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers, who have together delivered some of the most amateurish … Continue reading
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Snitch Reliability
Grits for Breakfast reports: Prof. Alexandra “Sasha” Natapoff of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles has posted on her faculty page a sample 11-page Motion Requesting Snitch Reliability Hearing (Word doc) in federal court. She also included the motion as … Continue reading
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Why So Few Female Supreme Court Law Clerks?
On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court ended its 2005-2006 term. The Justices employed 37 law clerks this past term, 13 of whom were women. During the 2004-05 term, 15 of 35 law clerks were women. Initial … Continue reading
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Supreme Court Clerks: All Washed Up at Age 26?
Slate has an interesting article defending the role of the Supreme Court law clerk: Poor Supreme Court law clerks. Most of them finish doing the coolest job they will ever have when they are 26 years old. All they will … Continue reading
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