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10 Jan 2008, 2:27 am
Here's what dogged reporting and cautious, transparent storytelling can do to shine the light of accountability on public officials -- without giving in to the natural urge to point immediate blame until the facts are in. [read post]
8 Jan 2008, 2:37 am
I'm headed down south (New York City) for a conference. [read post]
7 Jan 2008, 2:19 pm
Stephanie Francis Ward's feature on blogs' coverage of trials is a mishmash of anecdotes, barely making a point before rushing off to make another. [read post]
7 Jan 2008, 10:23 am
Robin Sparkman is the new executive editor of The American Lawyer. [read post]
7 Jan 2008, 8:09 am
The chance that person might actually retain me, assuming I can prove my expertise through my blogpost, is relatively high. [read post]
7 Jan 2008, 5:11 am
The LA Times' Henry Weinstein takes a slightly off-center tack in this preview of today's much-watched Supreme Court oral arguments in Baze v. [read post]
6 Jan 2008, 12:36 pm
Marc Lacey's account of a media-frenzy case in Nicaragua involving an American murder defendant goes heavy on the case's procedural twists and turns, but says far too little about the substance of the case. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 11:57 am
I'm dying to get my hands on a copy of Time (out here in the hinterlands of New York's Finger Lakes, where we think of Syracuse and Rochester as the big but distant cities, hard copies are hard to come by until maybe Monday). [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 3:13 am
The Wall Street Journal is regaining one of its most formidable legal reporters as Paul M. [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 2:59 am
Dafna Linzer does a much better job of illustrating the problem than exploring possible solutions in this Washington Post story today on gay divorce. [read post]
1 Jan 2008, 4:39 am
This John Tierney Science Times column on global warming isn't as off-topic as it may seem. [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 1:37 pm
Here's a sure sign that the latest entrant in the nonprofit/public-interest/investigative journalism world -- the Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy -- is going to be a feisty, creative force for good: this piece by Matt Smith, and a companion piece summoning citizen journalists to root around for scoops in the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library at the University of California at San Francisco. [read post]
29 Dec 2007, 2:56 am
The LA Times' Daniel Costello tackles a complex topic in a sophisticated way in this business-section story about the effects of California's 32-year-old cap on pain and suffering awards in medical malpractice cases. [read post]
28 Dec 2007, 4:28 am
Who better than a skilled legal writer, and author of a book on the controversial drug OxyContin, to explore presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's work for the drug's maker, Purdue Pharma? [read post]
26 Dec 2007, 3:32 am
Profiles of both Antonin Scalia or Ruth Bader Ginsburg inevitably mention the odd-couple friendship the two have long shared -- including their traditional New Year's Eve celebration, when the Ginsburgs have the Scalias over for a toast and dinner. [read post]
24 Dec 2007, 9:45 am
To mark the fifth anniversary of Laci Peterson's disappearance -- which set off a media frenzy that continued through her husband Scott's prosecution, trial, and death sentence -- the Modesto Bee is publishing a retrospective and update. [read post]
24 Dec 2007, 3:56 am
I've long been suspicious of the American Tort Reform Association's "Judicial Hellholes" report (pdf) -- its presentation, and now-routinue coverage of it by the press, suggests a PR game more than anything -- but I never took the time to get under the hood and poke around. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 7:53 am
One of the most successful strategies for an editor is to play dumb (and for some of us, it isn't hard to feign). [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 5:17 am
The Recorder's Dan Levine spots a 9th Circuit decision that makes it harder for trial judges to close courtrooms during criminal sentencing hearings. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 4:26 am
If this is the best front-of-the-book piece in recent magazines, as Slate's Chris Wilson claims, then I'm glad that I've been too bogged down with grading and snow-shoveling to be at the top of my blogging game the past several days. [read post]
