I like Venn diagrams. I was kind of jealous when Bruce got to use one on Tuesday. Luckily, D.A. Confidential apparently likes Venn diagrams as well. He picked up on the same one Bruce wrote about, comparing what lawyers publish in their bios with what clients are looking for in said bios. And based on [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: My wife pronounces the name of our home state as "Ne-VAH-dah," while I say it as "Ne-VAD-a." Who is right? Answer: You are, of course, but please reassure your wife that the Nevada Legislature has "submitted a bill [...]

The California State Senate hates the environment. That body, per CNN, voted down a bill that would have banned plastic bags in grocery stores, drug stores and convenience stores. You know, the places you get plastic bags. The California Assembly had already passed the bill, and the Governator had stated publicly that he would sign [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I just returned home from a vacation. Why are half of my tools missing and the other half laying out in my front yard? Answer: Sometimes burglars break into homes and hold a garage sale of the homeowner’s [...]

What makes a good law school professor? This is a debate that, I daresay, will go on in perpetuity. Bruce brought you some of the latest thoughts on Friday, with his discussion centering on Brent Newton’s recent law review article, and the reaction thereto. Yesterday at Balkinization, Jason Mazzone of Brooklyn Law School came up [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’d like to trademark a color. Any advice? Answer: Stay away from yellow. That color is taken. (Very Demotivational, The Color Yellow) 2) Question: I have a restraining order against these protesters — they can’t come within 50 [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: All I ordered was a bagel. Why am I being charged sales tax? Answer: Did you want it sliced? If so, your bagel transforms into "prepared food" subject to an 8.875% tax. (NY Post, NY’s cut of bagel [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Years and years of study to obtain my degree in Ebonics translation and now I can’t get a job! Are there any opportunities in the legal field? Answer: Why, yes! Try applying to the Department of Justice’s Drug [...]

If you haven’t seen a commercial for "Tax Lady" Roni Deutch, you must be either blind or Amish, making it extremely unlikely that you’re reading this post. But just in case, they look something like this: Yes, she’s always that grating. But it seems the California Attorney General wants her to pipe down. Via Consumerist [...]

Nothing. Which doesn’t mean the former, specifically 1Ls, can’t learn some valuable lessons from the latter, according to Neetal Parekh’s post on the Greedy Associates blog this morning. Parekh doesn’t explicitly suggest learning not to pee on the rug, but distills canine wisdom for baby law schoolers into six nuggets. My favorite: 3. Be able [...]

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton sure thinks so. She is the (in)famous mother of Azaria Chamberlain, the nine-week-old girl who disappeared in the Australian Outback back in 1980. Chamberlain-Creighton and her husband claimed that little Azaria had been snatched by a dingo. The dingo story was viewed with some skepticism and, though the baby’s body was never found, [...]

Pop quiz: Do you know what PACER stands for? I, admittedly, had to look it up, despite having been a frequent user in years past. But it’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records. We’ve previously covered the ongoing crusade to make court documents, PACER and otherwise (including leading proponent Carl Malamud), available for free in [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’m a 26-year-old woman at a topless beach in Italy. Why are the police standing by my towel and giving me a hard time about being topless? Answer: Sometimes police will open an investigation if a furious mother [...]

Via the Entertainment & Media Law Signal blog I came across a great article in last week’s New York Times about what appears to be a very tough job: "licensing executive" at a performing rights organization such as Broadcast Music Incorporated. PROs license the music of the songwriters and music publishers they represent, and their [...]

One of the things I love about this gig here at LBW is that it gives me an excuse to read some fairly obscure legal blogs. For instance, I can’t imagine why else I might find myself randomly checking out the Justice Building Blog, which is dedicated to the goings on in and around the [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I got into a squabble with another driver as we are both trying to exit the county fair. She got out of her car and smeared my back windshield with some nasty substance! That’s got to be a [...]

For many a New York Mets fan (myself included), some courtroom drama might be a pleasant diversion from yet another season that started off with high hopes but appears to be headed rapidly downhill. So, thank you James Falzon, for suing Major League Baseball, the Mets, Luis Castillo and Ramon Castro. As reported by Courthouse [...]

Over at the Settle It Now blog, Victoria Pynchon offers some creative thinking based on an article she recently read about litigation filed over "virtual property" in Second Life. The property at issue is a "lush tropical island" that exists only in the world of virtual reality. An architect named David Denton purchased the island [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: The new broadband Internet service our company is rolling out is blazing fast! We call it the "birth of the instant internet." How does that sound? Answer: "Instant?" Unless it takes users exactly zero seconds to download files, [...]

Promoting the progress of science and useful arts is all well and good, but have we gone a little too far with this whole thing? First, we’ve got the "copyright troll" searching for news stories reposted by bloggers, purchasing copyrights and suing on them, without so much as the courtesy of a takedown request (as [...]