Via the PrawfsBlawg I came across an interesting blog called The Write Report. On The Write Report, Donna Ballman, author of The Writer’s Guide to the Courtroom: Let’s Quill All the Lawyers, analyzes law as it is portrayed on television and responds to writers’ questions about how they can accurately have their fictional characters navigate [...]

By now you’ve probably heard of or even used Groupon, a "daily deal"-type website that uses the power of collective buying over the Internet to provide purchasers with discounts. Launched just over two years ago, Groupon has exploded in popularity to the point that it recently received (and rejected!) a reported $6 billion buyout offer [...]

Did you catch last week’s New York Times report on the variety of superstitions and rituals that some top lawyers follow in the belief that they could help secure a case win (or, put a different way, prevent a loss)? Some attorneys stick to the same food for lunch every day throughout the entire length [...]

The South Florida Lawyers blog offered an interesting observation this week about jury trials. SFL notes that lawyers who bluster that they are eager to try their complex case before a jury are actually saying that "they will be asking the guy in a tank top at Target to decide a complex question of securities [...]

Remember last year when Subway began sending cease-and-desist letters to other sandwich sellers, telling them to stop offering items with the description "footlong"? Now, an Iowa business, Casey’s General Stores, is dishing out some legal action of its own. As the Des Moines Register reports, Casey’s on Friday filed a petition in U.S. District Court, [...]

Over at The Appellate Record blog, Kendall Gray is on a mission to save at least one soul from the "purgatory of legalism." He is doing so by pointing out the inane practice, which still continues in many law offices (you know who you are), of writing legal memos or letters as if you were [...]

Jeff Koons — one of the pop world’s most successful artists, known for such work as inflatable bunnies and ceramic replicas of singer Michael Jackson and his pet chimp Bubbles — last week dropped his lawsuit against a Toronto company that makes bookends in the shape of balloon dogs and Park Life, a San Francisco [...]

In Sunday interviews published in The Washington Post, some of the approximately 30 members of Cairo’s Hisham Mubarak Law Center for Human Rights who were detained last week described their treatment by authorities, who held them at military intelligence headquarters for two nights and three days for interrogation. The center’s lawyers have been providing legal [...]

According to a rash of recent news reports, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers aren’t the only ones going to Texas in pursuit of high-paying, potentially dangerous physical activity this Sunday. Some reports, quoting local police, state law enforcement officials and local women’s organizations and religious groups, predict that the Dallas-Fort Worth area [...]

How much does Judge Richard Posner of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hate the Bluebook, which I have previously attempted to describe here as "a dastardly creation that attempts to create a uniform and hyper-complex method by which lawyers are expected to cite to legal authority in briefs, articles and so on"? Let [...]

Lately, between the recession’s impact on legal careers and studies saying that as many as 50 percent of lawyers would have chosen another field if they had their lives to live over, I have the urge to immediately caution anyone who’s considering law school to think long and hard before acting on that impulse. Fortunately, [...]