This is Legal Blog Watch. We watch legal blogs — lots of them. But not all legal blogs are created (and maintained) equal, and some grew to be favorites of mine in 2010. With this being the final post on LBW in 2010, I thought I’d look back and try to identify my 10 "go-to" [...]

I worked at DLA Piper for years, but did Wyclef Jean ever come into one of our conference rooms and start jamming? Heck no! But things are different nowadays, I guess, because on Monday, Jean did just that. The AmLaw Daily reports that the artist and his six-piece band rolled into DLA’s "multipurpose" room on [...]

Our friends at Above the Law occasionally go all "Cribs" with their Lawyerly Lairs feature. But to make those pages, a lawyer and/or his lair have to be pretty high profile. If you’re interested, though, in what kind of pads the rest of the herd is buying and selling, at least in New York, you [...]

Next time someone tells you that lawyers are a plague on society and don’t contribute anything positive, you should let them know about the bike giveaway being co-sponsored by Dallas personal injury firm Godsey Martin. The firm — whose website address is, no joke, www.ijustgothit.com — is, in conjunction with local radio station KSoul, giving [...]

We’ve written several times about the potential hazards of mixing social media/the internet and jury service. There was the blogging juror who was turned in by a law professor. And the disturbing results of an unscientific survey of jury duty-related tweets. The Texas Supreme Court must have been reading LBW. Because yesterday, as reported by [...]

Athletes are increasingly seeking trademark protection for their own personal catchphrases, The New York Times reports. Back in 1989, then-Lakers coach Pat Riley made news when he obtained a trademark on "three-peat," a phrase he coined to describe the Lakers (unsuccessful) effort to win three consecutive championships. Seeking trademark protection appears to be on the [...]

Each day, the Inter Alia blog offers up a new "Blawg of the Day." Today’s BotD is the RLUIPA Blog, a niche blog by Michigan law firm Dalton Tomich Pensler about the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. I’m not otherwise familiar with RLUIPA, so perhaps this statute is more broadly significant than it [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I would like to legally change my name to "Captain Awesome" and have my legal signature appear as a right arrow, a smiley face and a left arrow. I can do that, right? You saw what the artist-formerly-known-as-Prince [...]

"Predictive coding," to me, has the sound of some of those annoying buzzwords like "proactive" and "slippery slope." But it’s a real thing, and Barry Willms has some details at Counsel On Call’s Lawdable (sigh) blog. The headline — "What Would Hal 9000 (WWH9D) Do for E-Discovery?" — hooked me despite the misplaced parenthetical. Having [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I have had the good fortune to receive a Chipotle gift card. I have many questions! Can I eat the card itself? Can I use this gift card other places, such as the Home Depot or at my [...]

After the Republicans re-took the House in last month’s midterm elections, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio was elected speaker-designate. He had lots of stuff to say about his grand plans for the coming era. But yesterday, he made another announcement — this one undoubtedly a great relief to all of the female members that will [...]