Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Get this: I have a badge for my job as a state mortgage examiner and if I flash it real fast at restaurants they give me the police discount!! Awesome, right? Answer: Not awesome, and if you get [...]

It makes sense when you think about it, but I never before stopped to ponder the fact that among the many types of expert witnesses out there in the world are "smell experts." For example, let’s say you are an Alaskan trooper with more than 20 years of experience. You have investigated and seized between [...]

Via the South Florida Lawyers blog I came upon an extraordinarily misguided bold Response to a bankruptcy judge’s Order to Show Cause filed by a Florida lawyer named Kevin C. Gleason. I don’t completely understand the underlying ruling, but I don’t think I really need to in order to get the point that Gleason really [...]

Via the Legal Writing Prof Blog I came upon an interesting column in the March 2011 Los Angeles Lawyer entitled, "The Lawyer’s Toolkit: A 30-Year Retrospective." In the column, J. Scott Bovitz, Loyola Law School class of 1980, reflects on how the practice of law has changed over 30 years. He concludes that the job [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I have saved my whole life and now have $90,000 I would like to donate to the legal community. Any ideas? Answer: If you can scrape together another $10,000, perhaps you would be interested in funding a single [...]

On her She Negotiates blog, Victoria Pynchon has taken a well-deserved break from her duties of awarding the "Golden Asshole Award" (which, I repeat, is supposed to a good thing to receive) to dispense some advice for women lawyers. She writes that the Four Magic Words for Women Lawyers — indeed, the "only four words [...]

Welcome back to Judge Carton Rules, where a fake judge issues rulings to spare the parties to cases in which the outcomes are obvious the time and expense of further litigation. There is just one case on today’s docket. We now join the proceedings live as Judge Carton issues his ruling: Judge Carton: For the [...]

In the year 2011, one of the new things lawyers apparently need to worry about is that the opposing party will create an animated video celebrating a legal victory and mercilessly mocking the losing lawyers. Fulbright & Jaworski finds itself as the "mockee" in such a video (below) following a judge’s ruling against its client [...]

Above the Law wrote today about law firm Nixon Peabody, and mischievously included a link to a firm anthem (for lack of a better word) that the law firm clearly put some effort into creating in 2007 before apparently realizing that it was going to haunt them forever. You can read the ATL account of [...]

I would have bet anything that the story below would come out of San Francisco, but I would have been incorrect. Via The Faculty Lounge I see that at least one public school in Chicago has decided that parents are so lousy at packing nutritious lunches for their kids that it has made eating the [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’m in a Spanish prison. I already escaped once a month ago by having my wife fax a bogus piece of paper to the jail "ordering my release." Now I’m back in jail — do you think a [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’m not going to lie, I reallllly like to gamble. Too much, probably. But hey, sometimes it is all worth it, like right now when I just won a $2,001 jackpot! W00t!! Just curious, but does it matter [...]

Jay Baer’s Convince & Convert blog had an interesting post last week on "The 3 Types of Self-Destructive Corporate Tweets." The post was focused on corporate tweets gone bad, but it applies just as easily to law firms that are becoming active on Twitter. Law firms that are now tweeting news and other information about [...]

Think back to when you were a wide-eyed child. You had big dreams. The world was your oyster! You never, never, thought for a second that someday the local paper in your town would have a headline referring to you that read, "400-pound woman caught shoplifting when motorized cart gets stuck at Rochester Hills Meijer [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Ecko promised that any customers who got a permanent tattoo of its logo inked on their bodies would get a 20 percent discount for life. So, now I have the Ecko rhino tattooed on my forearm! I get [...]

In September 2009, Frederick, Md.-based Flying Dog Brewery learned that its license application to sell its best-selling beer had been rejected by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission. Why? Because its best-selling beer is called "Raging Bitch," and includes a label with some other choice words. The Washington Business Journal reports that Flying Dog has now [...]