One sure sign of the holidays is the arrival of the latest holiday humor album from lawyer Lawrence Savell. The lawyer, musician and humorist — not necessarily in that order — just released his latest compilation of legally themed holiday songs, "Season’s Briefings from the LawTunes." It joins the musically prodigious lawyer’s earlier collections of [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: How am I supposed to confine my brilliant, lengthy legal argument to the court’s page limits? Maybe I should just ignore the "double-spaced" line requirement and pack in twice as much brilliance? What is the court going to [...]

A man named Willis Willis is not happy, and not for the name-related reason you might think. Willis, who is unemployed, has been playing the same set of lottery numbers at the Lucky Food Store in Grand Prairie, Texas for about 10 years. On May 29, Willis’ ship came in, or at least it should [...]

Attention all hack golfers: It has now been judicially decreed, in Nova Scotia, at least, that the "Happy Gilmore" golf shot is a breach of the standard of care required of a golfer playing on a course with other golfers. As a refresher, this is what the "Happy Gilmore shot" looks like (from the Adam [...]

Yesterday on the Legal Writing Prof blog, Professor James "I am the scholarship dude" Levy flagged an interesting blog article from The New York Times on some of the words and phrases that are becoming despised in our society. The author of the article, law professor Stanley Fish, gets the ball rolling by offering up [...]

The executive director of the American Bar Association, Henry F. White Jr., resigned this week after three years in the job, the ABA Journal reports. ABA General Counsel R. Thomas Howell Jr. has been named to step in as interim executive director. Neither the ABA Journal report nor an official ABA news release gave any [...]

By now, we should all know well the lesson that what we do online can come back to haunt us — or maybe help us — as evidence in court. But new stories continue to come along of the things people do online and of how they get used in court. Here are three recent [...]

It is hard to know just what the take-away should be from the PricewaterhouseCoopers 2009 survey of U.K. law firms. For the Times Online, the headline from the survey is that the economic downturn has not kept London’s leading law firms from producing hundreds of millionaires among their partners. For Bloomberg.com, the headline is that [...]

"The question of ‘likelihood of confusion’ is the signal test to determine if a trademark infringement claim is valid." So says the introduction to the excellent Likelihood of Confusion blog. Using that test, then, I ask you: Would you be likely to confuse a $30 pair of rubber shoes with a $50,000 sports car? That [...]

The city of Proctor, Minn., is $11,000 richer today but $30,000 poorer than it would have been had it not been for the intervention of the lawyers for La-Z-Boy Corp. The city was finally able to conclude its eBay auction of the now world-famous, pimped-out motorized recliner it seized after arresting the recliner’s driver for [...]

In Massachusetts, as in 16 other states, it is against the law to sell a term paper. That was news to Damian Bonazzolli, a senior staff attorney for the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Bonazzolli advertised himself on Craigslist as available to write term papers for a fee, promising to deliver a "quality grade." In the current [...]

A hat tip to Sabrina Pacifici at beSpacific for pointing out the latest update to the federal judiciary’s compilation of judicial facts and figures. The numbers span 1990 to 2008 and provide a surprisingly interesting look at the caseloads of the federal courts and how they have evolved over nearly two decades. Here are a [...]