Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I was arrested last week for trespassing and sent to jail. I am scheduled to be released today on my own recognizance but I cannot find my wallet! Can I simply refuse to leave jail until I find [...]

As I have begun to chronicle in my ongoing "Trust Me, I’m an Expert" series of posts, courts have not hesitated to deem people experts in fields such as "smell" and "lap dancing." On the other hand, courts have refused to accept proposed experts in the field of "shit" and "pimping." Now, I’ve learned that [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’m on the school board. We asked the future students of a new school that is under construction to choose a mascot, and they picked "Cougars." Can we ban this choice as being "disrespectful to women?" Answer: It [...]

You might think that after Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7, Volume 8, Volume 9 and Volume 10 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 [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I am a lawyer and I have been asked to represent a man who has stabbed not one but two prior lawyers in their necks with pencils. Do you think I should take the case, provided I can [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I am the mugshot photographer at a jail. This entire head of a guy who the police just arrested is covered in some kind of white powder. Are we supposed to clean him up first or something? This [...]

Hundreds of Circle K stores in Arizona have begun posting store surveillance photos and videos from robberies and thefts at Circle K to the chain’s Crime Busters page on Facebook. Circle K partners with an organization called Silent Witness to provide people who can identify the perpetrators in the surveillance tapes with an anonymous and [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I have an Illinois furbearer license to sell animal pelts. Does Illinois law allow me to grab some freebie pelts from roadkill? Answer: As of Jan. 1, a new Illinois statute allows furbearers like yourself to salvage pelts [...]

Last year, Antonin Pribetic, the same lawyer who helped develop the idea of a "re-tweet taxonomy," coined a new term for use in the legal blog world: "flawg." On his Trial Warrior Blog, Pribetic defines flawgs and flawgers as follows: "Flawg": noun. A legal blog without any substantive legal content that is created, monetized and [...]

Take this for what it’s worth, since I admittedly do not know anything about the art world. Regardless, I still contend that at some point in the not-so-distant future, we will look back and say, "Remember when art galleries used to have $30 million masterpieces sitting unprotected in hallways where patrons could accidentally stumble into [...]

You might think that after Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7, Volume 8 and Volume 9 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 [...]

For decades, law students have received free access to Lexis and Westlaw as a perk of being a student. Lexis and Westlaw offer this free access to further students’ education and, I have always assumed, to get each new generation of lawyers hooked on their services. Of course, both services understandably limit students’ free use [...]