It’s the year 2009. Bloggers often work from home and, increasingly, lawyers are seeking out flexible arrangements that will allow them to work from home, too. BlackBerrys, iPhones, laptops, inexpensive fax and copy machines, forwarded telephone numbers and high-speed Internet access make working remotely easier than ever. The introduction of young lawyers — who have [...]

Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission once again delayed enforcement of its "Red Flags Rule," which requires creditors and financial institutions more time to develop and implement written identity theft prevention programs. As discussed here, the FTC considers lawyers to be creditors and therefore subject to the red flag rules because they extend credit [...]

When a man was arrested Friday after carrying weapons into the University of Louisville Law School library, the school’s announcement identified the man, Thomas H. Irwin, as a former university student and contract employee. But the announcement neglected to say what appears to be the case — that Irwin is a lawyer who formerly taught [...]

If you can’t get yourself to ILTA, ILTA is getting itself to you. The International Legal Technology Association is holding its annual meeting this week near Washington, D.C. True to its character, it is enabling those who cannot attend in person to participate virtually. The deskbound among us can get a taste of the goings-on [...]

I’ve long known that many people don’t like lawyers, but I have to confess, I was surprised to learn just how many. According to a recent Gallup poll (H/T ABA Journal News), a scant 25 percent of Americans have a positive view of the legal field. Only three industries ranked lower: real estate, automobile and [...]

If you watched the NewsHour on PBS last week, you might have caught Jim Lehrer’s interview with courtroom sketch artist William J. Hennessy Jr. If you missed it, no problem, because the transcript is now posted at the Online NewsHour. Hennessy was also recently featured in a post at The Blog of Legal Times. The [...]

Via EDD Update, I was directed to an epic post by lawyer and electronic discovery guru Ralph Losey, entitled Plato’s Cave: Why most lawyers love paper and hate e-discovery and what this means for legal education. Losey begins with the allegory of Plato’s Cave, the story of prisoners who have been held captive in a [...]

William Patry is back to blogging and already finds himself in a back-and-forth debate over whether copyright law inhibits innovation and props up antiquated business models. Patry is a prominent copyright lawyer who works as senior copyright counsel for Google and wrote a seven-volume treatise on copyright law. As we reported here at the time, [...]

Lawyers, it seems, prefer coke. And we refer not to soft drinks, but to drugs. As between cocaine and marijuana, occupations show a clear divide in their drug of choice. For lawyers, the choice is cocaine. Over the past week, Richard Florida has written a series of posts for The Atlantic in which he and [...]

What will we see in the law firm of the future? It is a question Richard Susskind considered more than a decade ago in his book, "The Future of Law," and again in last year’s book, "The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services." With the economy what it is, Susskind is far [...]

Used to be that lawyers worried about the cache that their physical mail address would convey. For example, here in the D.C. area, a "K" Street or Pennsylvania Avenue address carries white-shoe prestige while an address on 5th Street near the D.C. Superior Court house suggests a practicing criminal lawyer or consumer-oriented practice. But in [...]

These days, leaving the office doesn’t necessarily mean leaving work behind. Between e-mail and smartphones, workers are finding themselves engaged in work long after they’ve punched out of the office. But should taking calls or returning e-mail after hours be considered activity that is off-the-clock or paid? That’s the question at the heart of a [...]

Even as Sonia Sotomayor takes her seat as the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court, there remain those who question whether she is, indeed, the court’s first Hispanic. Just this weekend, on a legal listserv I follow, someone asked, What about Justice Benjamin Cardozo? Wasn’t he Hispanic? The question of Cardozo’s heritage was floated even [...]

With associate positions hard to come by, new graduates — desperate to find a paying job in the legal profession — are applying for work as paralegals, legal secretaries and law librarians, according to Long Island Business News. The story sites one new grad, Jessica Sparacino, who secured a job as a paralegal at Jackson [...]

Lawyers are commonly portrayed as ambulance chasers but it appears some don’t even have the dignity to stop when the ambulance arrives at the hospital. The FBI in Miami says a lawyer there bought stolen hospital records and used them to solicit clients, later kicking back a percentage of any lawsuit proceeds to the man [...]

Marc Ostrofsky is the victim of a crime: His property was stolen, and authorities know where it is. But 30 months later, Ostrofsky still hasn’t been able to recover it. That’s because the property was a domain name, and as the Houston Chronicle describes, the laws governing recovery of stolen names have not evolved quickly [...]

A funny thing happened this weekend after a federal jury in Boston decided that Joel Tenenbaum should pay $675,000 to several record companies for illegally downloading and distributing 30 songs. People spontaneously started sending him money and a campaign spread on Twitter urging others to donate to Tenenbaum’s cause. But what exactly is the cause [...]

For nearly four and a half years now — 223 weeks, to be specific — the weekly carnival of law blogs known as Blawg Review has been going strong. That impressive streak was nearly broken last week, but thanks to a last-minute substitution we now have not one legal blog news roundup today, but two: [...]