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25 Oct 2010, 12:49 pm
I finally got around to looking at the anonymous Lawyers on Strike blog, which Scott Greenfield, Jeff Gamso, and Mike at Crime & Federalism wrote about last week. [read post]
24 Oct 2010, 8:03 am
Why does it cost more to hire me as the second lawyer on your case? [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 1:08 pm
The researchers supplied people with Sobe Adrenaline Rush, an “energy” drink that was supposed to make them feel more alert and energetic. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 10:54 am
FindLaw’s latest marketing gambit: “blogs” for lawyers, using lightly-reworked (as in, “paraphrased so that a particularly stupid high school freshman might turn it in as original work and then be surprised to get an F”) news stories, published “on behalf” of the lawyers paying for the marketing. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 9:03 pm
Here are the rules—by court order and coerced “agreement”—by which a Texas sex offender has to live for the rest of his life, even after he has served his entire prison sentences, if some hack psychologist doesn’t want him in his neighborhood and so testified, because of consequential ethics, that the offender is likely to engage in a predatory act of sexual violence: Texas Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment Conditions If you’re an ordinary person, you… [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 8:03 pm
Greenfield wrote about some of the travails of Kansas City lawyer Carlos Romious. [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 7:56 pm
Because one of my readers might not have seen it yet: (H/T Chandler criminal defense lawyer Matt Brown.) [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 12:02 pm
I wanted to defend Christine O’Donnell. [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 6:57 pm
. . . to vote for the blind. [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 1:11 pm
Robert S. [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 11:25 am
I recently had an opportunity to cross-examine a heroin-addict witness who claimed that he had watched my client inject another person with heroin, and then had injected himself. [read post]
9 Oct 2010, 8:04 pm
[A] good-faith, case-by-case, consequential ethics approach should be used that balances the greatest good for the greatest number without trampling unduly on individual rights and each citizen’s constitutionally protected liberty interests. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 8:26 am
Lawyer Danny Lampley got himself jailed by Judge Talmadge Littlejohn for not saying the Pledge of Allegiance in a Mississippi courtroom (NMissCommentor via The Agitator). [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 8:05 am
The Houston Chronicle went out of its way to praise Pat Lykos for “promising to investigate the suicide of a young boy whose parents claim he was the victim of intense bullying at his school”; the newspaper ignores the opportunity cost of fulfilling this publicity-happy promise. [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 7:27 pm
In his interview with David Jennings (see my commentary, in five parts, here, here, here, here, and here), Chris Daniel says something downright interesting: There are certain judges who will remain nameless, who have files in their office solely because they’re afraid to send them to imaging because they know that if they send it to imaging, it will be online and it will ruin whoever’s file that is reputation. [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 6:56 pm
Further in his interview of Chris Daniel (my earlier commentary, in four parts, is here, here, here, and here), David Jennings betrays that Daniel is not the only participant ignorant of the operative facts. [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 6:29 pm
In his interview with David Jennings (my earlier commentary, in three parts, is here, here, and here), Chris Daniel renounces the idea of illegally redacting documents as they are filed, claiming that Chronicle Reporter Chris Moran “unfortunately misquoted” him. [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 12:06 pm
Lawyers who try cases will get a chuckle out of Chris Daniel’s description, in his interview with David Jennings (part 1 of my commentary; part 2) of how to figure out how many jurors to summon to eliminate waste: Well, we could use statistical analysis to see how many people would typically be needed on any given day for a docket size. [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 11:42 am
In his interview with David Jennings (part 1 of my analysis), Daniel talks about some of the conceivable problems with making public documents publicly available (he describes online access to documents as “online filing”; two different things). [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 11:13 am
‘Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool . . . . [read post]
