Judge Gerald Lebovits is the author of an amusing and insightful article in this month’s New York State Bar Association Journal entitled, "Writing Bad Briefs: How to Lose a Case in 100 Pages or More." (via the (new) legal writer blog). Lebovits, a judge of the New York City Civil Court, Housing Part, in Manhattan, [...]

It can’t be all that easy writing the Law and Magic Blog — maybe a bit like being the Maytag repairman, sometimes. You keep a vigilant watch for new material … waiting, waiting … any new magic law developments today? No, not today. Sometimes you look to 30+year-old episodes of "Sanford & Son" for blog [...]

Via The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times, comes a Washington Post story about a recent Government Accountability Office report (.pdf) concluding that there’s a bunch of wasted space in federal courthouses built in the last decade. Specifically, the GAO says that 28 percent of the square footage in these newly constructed buildings, including the [...]

Just after "The Deep End" was confirmed to have been mercifully canceled, we all need to brace ourselves for another lawyer show. The Wild Wild Law blog is reporting that CBS will be airing a "comedic drama" based on the Las Vegas firm Cristalli and Saggese. The (as yet unnamed) show is to star … [...]

Back in February, we brought you news of a new model jury instruction cautioning jurors that tweeting about a case was a no-no. At Lowering the Bar, Kevin took a quick look at tweets about jury duty, and the results were predictable in demonstrating that the instruction is regrettably necessary: yo i was in jury [...]

I have read many posts about "Twitter for Lawyers" over the past 12 months or so, but a new one from myCorporateResource is the best and most informative I’ve seen. Entitled "Twittering Classes: Lessons For and From the AmLaw 100," the article takes a detailed look at the state of Twitter-usage among big firms (see [...]

The Volokh Conspiracy reports today that the Louisiana legislature is poised to pass a "cyberbullying" bill making it a crime to use the Internet to "embarrass, or cause emotional distress to" anyone under the age of 17. Volokh’s examples of people who could be locked up under the terms of such a law are striking, [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: It’s prom night, baby! My date and I are going to sneak a few drinks before the dance, then have the night of our dreams. Yeah, we’re underage, but what’s the worst that can happen? Answer: Well … [...]

Via Overlawyered comes this story from the Toronto Star, about a woman who claims that Rogers Wireless ruined her life. The woman, Gabriella Nagy, had a Rogers cellphone account in her maiden name. The bill came to the address she shared with her husband, who was the named account holder on the home’s cable service, [...]

"You are hereby put on notice to cease and desist from using FOOTLONG (TM) association with sandwiches. You must immediately remove all references to FOOTLONG (TM) in association with sandwiches." If you sell sandwiches that happen to be, oh, 12 inches long, and you dare to refer to said sandwiches as being a "footlong," then [...]

If you haven’t read Kathryn Schulz’s interview with Alan Dershowitz at Slate, you should. It’s the first in a series of interviews about "wrongness," which is the subject of Schulz’s book, "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error." (The interview is actually posted in two parts, and I’ve linked to the second, which deals [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Man, this soccer team stinks! Why did I even bother spending the time and money to come out to watch this game? It’s already 3-0! Answer: If they give up one more goal you may be entitled to [...]

For those parents-to-be who want to ensure that their children’s lives are saddled with crushing debt and filled with 90-hour work weeks reviewing irrelevant emails in a windowless room on the 22nd floor of a New York office building, Conrad Saam, head of marketing for the controversial "lawyer rating" site Avvo, has done a "groundbreaking [...]

In a post today that is sure to please the law school "scamblogger coalition," Adam Smith, Esq. writes that the entrenched ways of law schools are a big part of the current problem facing the legal profession. Despite the massive recent lay-offs in Big Law and the deterioration of the Big Law model, AS writes, [...]

I thought I was being creative when I suggested "marital prisons" for spouses who are convicted of felonies, but George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan has a far more interesting proposal that might cut down on prison rape: "Reduce the variance of strength and aggression within single-sex prisons by separating prisoners into something like ‘weight [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: What is going on here? My phone has been ringing all day with guys from my high school trying to ask me out! Answer: There could be a lot of reasons, but did your school newspaper come out [...]

Looking to find die-hard backers for your campaign to retain your seat in Congress? How about recruiting people your opponent tried (in one case successfully) to send to prison? Via this post on The Legal Satyricon, comes a story from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about a fundraiser for the Allegheny County Democratic Committee, which is supporting [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: The big day finally arrived! My beloved and I got married yesterday, and I’m just about to send our wedding photo over to the local newspaper. Any words of advice? Answer: Quick question — how many wives do [...]

Here at LBW, we’ve chronicled the many blogs dedicated to convincing potential law students to steer clear. One of those blogs, BL1Y, which is generally pretty damned funny, had a post yesterday — the 44th in the series of posts expressly detailing reasons not to go to law school, though that theme runs through just [...]

Just when University of Virginia head football coach Mike London thought he had those Internets figured out, along comes some crazy NCAA Facebook rule to further complicate things. The Daily Press reports that London was trying to send a message to Curtis Grant, a senior linebacker he was recruiting out of Richmond, Virginia. London posted [...]