In the digital age, a company’s domain name is a key part of its identity. Can you imagine Amazon not at www.amazon.com, for example? Or Legal Blog Watch somewhere other than http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com? I don’t think so! A Los Angeles-based start-up company called Lissn learned last week that inadequate security for domain names can lead to [...]

Zoe Tillman, writing for The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times, reports that a Washington, D.C., federal judge on Monday scolded "birther" lawyer Orly Taitz for "wasting the Court’s time" by failing to redact Social Security number information in court papers — a violation of federal rules. "Plaintiff is either toying with the Court or [...]

The anonymous author of Bad Lawyer launched that blog in August of 2009, just about the same time that I started writing here at Legal Blog Watch. I quickly added Bad Lawyer to my list of blogs that I followed because: (a) BL had a great eye for finding many of the twisted developments that [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’ve had one too many rum and cokes on the Lido Deck of this cruise ship, and I now have a very strong urge to break into the ship’s control room and deploy the ship’s anchor. Hilarious, right?! [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I brought some illegal pills into my school, but I’m not really worried about being caught because I can always just jam the pills into my bra to hide them. Ha, what now, suckers?? Now who is the [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I am on food stamps. Does that mean that I cannot ask for my submarine sandwich to be toasted at the Country Fair? Answer: Unfortunately, that’s how it works at the Country Fair. No bacon for you, either. [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: What can I get more prison time for: serving a customer at the grocery store where I work a "yogurt sample" that is tainted with my own semen, or lying to the feds about it when they investigate? [...]

Attention lawyers: There is a new social networking site called Google +. I am now on it, although like most of the other "early adopter" lawyers who have signed up for it I have no idea what to do with it. So far I have successfully posted the "These go to eleven" video clip from [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’m a police officer. We responded to a report of a robber who broke into a woman’s hair salon, but was caught in the act by the woman. The woman who owned the hair salon was a black [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I live in Idaho. It is noon but there is suddenly a dark, buzzing cloud around my house. And now a whole lot of bears have started to roam around my neighborhood. Is this the End of Days? [...]

The Austin Statesman reported earlier this month on the state of court reporting in Texas, and it raises a question in my mind: is the position of court reporter long for this world? Would it be "unthinkable," for example, for the profession to disappear altogether by the year 2020? For many, many years there was [...]

Like the rest of the world, I was touched to read about the contract that T.J. Fredette asked his little brother Jimmer to sign in 2007, near the end of Fredette’s junior year of high school. For those of you who have been in trial for the last two years or so, Jimmer Fredette is [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I am incarcerated in a prison, but what gives the state the right to call me an "inmate?" The word "inmate" wrongly implies that I am "locked up for the purpose of mating with other men," and that’s [...]

The House of Representatives announced this week that its members will finally be able to use the same video teleconferencing technology that most of the world, including my fifth grader, has been using for some time now: Skype and ooVoo. The Hill reports that in a "Dear Colleague" letter on Tuesday, Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) [...]