Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I just received a Christmas card with a photo of one of my relatives with her ex-boyfriend. I was surprised because I know they had a nasty break-up. I was even more surprised to see that the photo [...]

Among the truth is stranger than fiction items in today’s news: An assistant attorney general in South Carolina was fired after police found him in his SUV parked in a cemetery in the company of a stripper, a Viagra pill and various sex toys. The 66-year-old former state legislator explained to police that he was [...]

Sure, you may have a Web site for your law firm. You may even have a Twitter account and a blog. But do you have an animated cartoon presenting yourself as a superhero? Well, do you? Didn’t think so! Via this post on the Bad Lawyer blog I stumbled upon this cartoon video about "Snyderman," [...]

I cannot claim to be a close follower of the legal wrangling between Jon and Kate Gosselin, the ill-fated stars of the reality TV show that was to follow their lives together raising eight children. The plot changed when Jon reportedly took up with another woman and the couple separated. They are now engaged in [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I am incapable of consistently parking my car in a standard 2.3-meter-wide parking spot. I just can’t do it. Are there any countries that will make accommodations for my disability? Answer: Are you a woman? If so, then [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: My husband of 17 years left his cell phone at home. I was checking it out and discovered that the nickname he has attached to my phone number in his Contacts is "Guantanamo." Grounds for divorce? Answer: You [...]

The Faculty Lounge blog brings us news from Morehouse College, a private, historically black liberal arts college for men that, after over 140 years in existence, has deemed it necessary to impose an unusual dress code: a ban on the "wearing of women’s clothes, makeup, high heels and purses." As discussed in this CNN article, [...]

News reporters who cover litigation say lawyers are not particularly helpful when it comes to helping them understand the core issues in their cases. Plaintiffs lawyers, however, are more helpful than defense lawyers. Asked which side in a case is more helpful to them, not a single reporter said it was the defense. These are [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I acquired Alabama vanity license plate "XXXXXXX" for my car (as an "homage" to my nickname, Racer X). Now I’m suddenly receiving as many as 10 parking ticket notices a day from the city of Birmingham. Any advice?Answer: [...]

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled today that cigarette smokers who have suffered no apparent injuries to their health may nonetheless bring a lawsuit to force tobacco makers to pay for medical monitoring to scan for cancer that may develop in the future. The case, Donovan v. Philip Morris USA, was decided based on [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I am a truck driver and I’m sitting in my truck smoking a cigarette. A police officer is giving me the evil-eye. Am I missing something here?Answer: Are you in Ontario, by chance? Yes? Then get ready to [...]

You might think that announcing you’d secured Bon Jovi to play at your holiday party would be news enough for any law firm in a single week. But you wouldn’t be Texas plaintiffs lawyer W. Mark Lanier, who also this week revealed plans to open his firm’s first European office in London early next year. [...]

On June 10, a court issued a protective order prohibiting Shannon D. Jackson of Hendersonville, Tenn., from "telephoning, contacting or otherwise communicating with" another Hendersonville woman, either "directly or indirectly." On Friday, Sept. 25, Jackson was "extremely shocked" when police arrested her for allegedly violating the order. Authorities in Hendersonville say that Jackson was arrested [...]

At his blog Recording Industry vs. The People, New York lawyer Ray Beckerman makes no bones about his distaste for the recording industry and its spate of file-sharing lawsuits. But his blog posts about the industry, even as he defended against one of its copyright lawsuits in federal court in New York, did not constitute [...]

At the Legal Profession Blog as well as on her own "Nancy Rapoport’s Blogspot," law professor Nancy Rapoport discusses the impact of the U.S. News and World Report law school rankings on the behavior of law schools. Specifically, she argues that the tail of USNWR rankings is now wagging the dog of legal education. For [...]

The latest contender for the what-were-they-thinking prize is Texas attorney Jane Allen Clark. Last month, the blog Above the Law posted a racy photo of Clark taken from her attorney profile on the State Bar of Texas Web site. Clark reacted by swapping the racy pic for a much milder one. Now Above the Law [...]

The challenge of being both a lawyer and a parent has been a hot topic for years, as has the challenge of being a childless person in an office full of parents. Many childless lawyers and others in demanding careers believe that a "culture of parental privilege" permeates the workforce, allowing moms and dads to [...]

At the Redding, Calif., accident scene was an overturned car, but no one in it. Finding a purse belonging to the wife of lawyer Justin G. Arel, police went to Arel’s house to investigate. When he refused to answer the door, the officers, concerned for the safety of his family, broke in. Arel’s wife had [...]

Modern technology is obviously invaluable to law enforcement’s efforts to apprehend criminals, but the latest confluence of mobile technology and social media is also becoming a powerful tool for avoiding the police. On his blog, law professor Jonathan Turley highlights the case of Elliot Madison, who he notes is now the subject of an intriguing [...]

The president and chief executive officer of the Boston Red Sox, Larry Lucchino, is moonlighting at Harvard Law School. If that strikes you as out of his league, then you probably don’t know that Lucchino is an accomplished lawyer and a graduate of Yale Law School who found his way into baseball through his law [...]