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24 Jun 2009, 7:25 am
From The Namby Pamby, Attorney at Law, comes this story, which sums up concisely both what so much of legal practice is about and why it is so often difficult for students to grasp exactly what it is they’re supposed to be doing: Eight months, untold amounts of hours, it all came to this For the second time in the last month, my brief writing was complimented by a judge: “Counsel, this was excellently briefed, well done…I’m going to deny your motion. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 4:19 am
"I was bemused, incidentally, when reading the galleys of Barry Friedman's forthcoming book, The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution, to come across the following quotation from a 1931 public lecture by then-prominent University of Chicago political scientist Charles Merriam: "There was probably never a period in history when social change was as rapid as at present and when the need for… [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 9:50 am
There is a tension in the common law between doing justice in an individual lawsuit and articulating rules of general application that can guide decisions in future cases. [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 6:48 pm
Barry Friedman, New York University School of Law, has posted The Story of Ex Parte Young: Once Controversial, Now Canon, which is forthcoming in Federal Courts Stories, ed. [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 3:13 pm
Thanks to the wonderful Nancy Friedman for the tip. [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 3:02 pm
Friedman gave a fabulous presentation on bankruptcy for labor and employment lawyers. [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 7:57 am
From cnet news: Jammie Thomas-Rasset was found guilty of willful copyright infringement on Thursday in a Minneapolis  federal court and must pay the recording industry $1.92 million. [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 5:42 am
" Website Resources: The elderly: financially exploited by families, Newsday, Saul Friedman, June 18, 2009. [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 5:27 am
A message I emphasize to my students: learn how to use the tools of your trade as well as possible. [read post]
18 Jun 2009, 7:41 pm
Steven Shankland has written a good piece on the proposed settlement of the lawsuits over the Google Library Project; the proposed settlement  is “now under review by Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. [read post]