Susan Cartier Liebel says lawyer directories could be worthless;Ron Miller on the ugly practice of lawyers trying to get access to accident police reports in an effort to obtain clients (also at Overlawyered);A UK rugby player sues due to a career-ending eye injury (BBC);Mediator Diane Levin hosts Blawg Review #181 on Conflict Resolution Day;Joe Paduda has the pre-election health care debate in his Health Wonk Review;And a patriotic dad decides to name his kid Sarah McCain Palin. [read post]

We include: Me, Diane Levin, here at Mediation Channel Vickie Pynchon, Settle It Now Negotiation Law Blog Stephanie West Allen, Idealawg and Brains on Purpose Gini Nelson, Engaging Conflicts Nancy Hudgins, Civil Negotiation and Mediation Dominique Lopez-Eychenie, her eponymous French language blog Jan Frankel Schau’s Mediation Insights Phyllis G. [read post]

When the judge denied their motion, they appealed to the supreme court, which agreed to hear the case.Attorneys Adam Levin and Brett Willis, the public defenders representing Santos, argued in briefs filed with the court that imprisoning homeless sex offenders who are "unavoidably homeless" violates the U.S. and state constitutions as cruel and unusual punishment. [read post]

Sarah Jost Nieslen (she will be added to our firm website when we update it next month but we introduced her here) digested the rest of the 2005 cases and all of 2006, and I could not have posted the amount of content without their help. [read post]