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18 May 2013, 9:38 am
Remember the Pied Piper of Hamelin? He made a deal to rid Hamelin of rats, but the village didn’t pay, so he used his magic pipe to kidnap all the town’s children. Here’s a story about a Louisiana parish ravaged by the BP oil spill who hired a law firm with a magical sales pitch for a high contingent fee.
Contingent fees are percentages paid out of any recovery. If there’s no recovery, the client owes either nothing or just the expenses, which can be… [read post]
18 May 2013, 9:00 am
Getting prospects to hire you begins with establishing trust. Since recent research has shown that most people use online searches to look for an attorney, having a website that helps you build that trust is crucial.
Here are some tips on how to use your law firm website to build trust with prospects:
Third-party support. Use testimonials, articles and links to publications and news sites that mention your firm to build credibility.
Show your office. Add photos of your office or… [read post]
18 May 2013, 8:57 am
Dr. Rinke Hoekstra of the Leibniz Center for Law has posted a dataset entitled A Network Analysis of Dutch Regulations.
Here is the description:
This fileset contains two networks (CSV files) of citations between Dutch regulations stored on the MetaLex Document Server, at the document level, and at the article level. We ran several network analysis measures over these networks (stored again in two CSV files) and provide two visualisations of the networks (size is PageRank, color is given by Module).… [read post]
18 May 2013, 8:50 am
Bhuvaneswari Raman of the French Institute of Pondicherry has published The Rhetoric and Reality of Transparency: Transparent Information, Opaque City Spaces and the Empowerment Question, Journal of Community Informatics, 8(2), article 866 (2012).
The paper reports results of, among other things, an ethnographic study of an Indian project to digitize land title records.
Here is the abstract:
This paper examines the purported links between transparency, citizens’ participation and empowerment… [read post]
18 May 2013, 8:36 am
As I’ve started talking about the game I’m developing, I hear people throw out the phrase “gamification of legal services” to describe my project. That’s not what I’m doing and the terminology does make a difference. There is gamification, serious games and simulations and then there are games. The difference really has to do with the design goal.
This is a running debate that gets pretty heated in the game industry. The best known example is the… [read post]
18 May 2013, 7:55 am
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court's Decision and Its Implications
, edited by Nathaniel Persily, Gillian E. Metzger, & Trevor W. Morrison. Here is a description:
The Supreme Court's decision in the Health Care Case, NFIB v. Sebelius, gripped the nation's attention during the spring of 2012. No one could have predicted the strange coalition of justices and arguments that would eventually lead the Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act's principal… [read post]
18 May 2013, 7:36 am
English: this is my own version of what bullying looks like (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We are repeating our very popular series on bullying of children with disabilities. This was one of our best received series, and bullying remains the hot button issue in special education law. We will include some updates and news. Please enjoy the series and send us any feedback!
Bullying is a real problem in our society. Bullies often take advantage of… [read post]
18 May 2013, 6:30 am
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18 May 2013, 5:40 am
The Arizona Bar is supposed to protect the citizens of Arizona from bad lawyers. When lawyers are suspended for periods of time, the bar typically tacks on various preconditions the lawyer must meet to return. A lawyer who steals money, if he or she isn’t disbarred forever, would probably have to pay the money back, plus take some classes and implement some financial oversight to minimize the risk going forward. An alcoholic or other drug abuser might have to be… [read post]
17 May 2013, 11:17 pm
A Texas appellate court has affirmed a summary judgment for an attorney in a legal malpractice case. In Haddy v. Caldwell, a client retained an attorney to bring a medical malpractice suit against United States Army physicians, who treated the client's then wife. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the doctors and the case was dismissed.
The client then sued the attorney for negligently failing to designate an expert witness and file an expert report in the medical malpractice… [read post]
17 May 2013, 6:06 pm
Insurance adjusters are well known for their professional status as claims negotiators. Any potential claimant should always be aware that the insurance adjuster has a particular agenda that is focused on minimizing the claim and receiving a full medical release from further responsibility for an accident. Victims that attempt to negotiate their own claim could easily be under-compensated by the insurance company without some prior knowledge or legal assistance. This situation is the perfect… [read post]
17 May 2013, 4:43 pm
The Florida Supreme Court held this month, that once a cell phone is seized from a suspect who is in custody, the police need a search warrant to view the contents on the phone.
Tyrone Smallwood was a arrested for a robbery of a convenience store. While he wore a mask the cashier recognized his voice as that of a regular customer. At the time of his arrest police seized his cell phone. After Smallwood was arrested and placed in a police car, the arresting officer looked at pictures found on the… [read post]
17 May 2013, 3:28 pm
Sarah Schacht has the dubious distinction of being a client of mine – twice – 20 years apart. However, Sarah has turned her double bad luck into a positive – advocating for the public’s ability of seeing restaurant inspections more readily.
Thanks Sarah. Over at Food Safety News we are doing our best to provide links to all restaurant inspections. See http://www.foodsafetynews.com/restaurant-inspections-in-your-area/#.UZauY4KhN9E
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17 May 2013, 1:46 pm
As I mentioned in my last post, I've been doing some thinking about what it means to be non-state law and looking to different types of non-state law - such as international law or religious law - to consider some common dynamics that consistently arise.
One theme that regularly emerges - and is often discussed - in the context of non-state law is the problem of enforcement. Put simply, without the enforcement power of a nation-state, non-state law must typically find alternative… [read post]
17 May 2013, 1:10 pm
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18 May 2013 - The Deputy Commander of the East Timor Defence Force (F-FDTL), Brigadier General Filomeno Paixao, was reported by Radio Timor Leste on 16 May as saying that he refused to...
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17 May 2013, 1:09 pm
The Council of Institutional Investors has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to intervene after Broadridge, main company that provides real-time tabulations on shareholder votes, stopped providing such information to the groups that sponsor proposals. [read post]
17 May 2013, 12:59 pm
SAC Capital Advisors, the hedge fund owned by the billionaire investor Steven A. Cohen, told its investors on Friday that it would no longer cooperate unconditionally with the government's insider trading investigation. [read post]
17 May 2013, 12:49 pm
Today's issue of Fat Friday contains these articles:
Tim Callins, How to Fix Law Schools
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Frances Ruiz, Review: Fujitsu ScanSnap 1500
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Our most serendipitous offering, Fat Friday consists of unsolicited contributions by TechnoLawyer members. You'll no doubt enjoy it because of its… [read post]
17 May 2013, 12:30 pm
A new survey conducted on behalf of Ernst & Young found that corporate officials and employees in 36 countries -- in Europe, Africa, India and the Middle East -- believe that there is plenty of corruption that needs investigating, Floyd Norris writes in The New York Times. [read post]
17 May 2013, 11:19 am
Bowman v. Monsanto, United States Supreme Court (5/13/13)Agriculture Law, PatentsMonsanto invented and patented Roundup Ready soybean seeds, which contain a genetic alteration that allows them to survive exposure to the herbicide glyphosate. It sells the seeds subject to a licensing agreement that permits farmers to plant the purchased seed in only one growing season. Growers may consume or sell the resulting crops, but may not save any of the harvested soybeans for replanting. Bowman purchased… [read post]