This is Legal Blog Watch. We watch legal blogs — lots of them. But not all legal blogs are created (and maintained) equal, and some always grow to be favorites of mine during the year. This is the final post on LBW for 2011 so, as I did last year, I thought I’d look back [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’m a guy, and on numerous occasions I have "argued with a woman," with various outcomes: my clothes thrown out the window, the silent treatment, some crying, past arguments brought up again out of nowhere and thrown in [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I ordered the "Pasta Plate from Hell" dish at the East Coast Grill in Cambridge, Mass., which includes Naga pepper — one of the hottest peppers in the world. It was so hot that I passed out and [...]

You might think that after Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7, and Volume 8 of Things You Can’t Do on a Plane, that we’d have exhausted the list of things you can’t do on a plane. Nope! The list grows daily. Here are three more things I’ve [...]

About two years ago, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launched a website called "Distraction.gov," the "Official US Government Website for Distracted Driving." The purpose of the site is to help educate the public on the dangers of distracted driving. The site closely tracks state laws governing distracted driving, listing, for example, the nine states [...]

As I previously discussed here ("Old Law Books Are Not Garbage, They’re Art"), the relevance and need for actual hard-copy law books diminishes each year. For a while, the WisBlawg of the University of Wisconsin School of Law has maintained a running list of clever artistic uses for old law books such as turning them [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I work at a nuclear facility for an Energy Department project and would like to "blow the whistle" on some unsafe practices. However, I hear that if you blow the whistle, the contractor I work for will banish [...]

You are a corporate executive, and you are on business travel in China. And even though you may not be the most handsome guy, the Chinese women are loving you! Suddenly one or more of them are proposing a beautiful-girl party in your hotel room, and who are you to argue? As Ashton Kutcher says [...]