Legal Blog Watch

Legal Blog Watch

This blawg tracks and analyzes the postings of Law.com blogs and other legal blogs.

Author: Robert Ambrogi and Bruce Carton post to this blawg. Robert Ambrogi is a lawyer, writer and media consultant in Rockport, Mass. A longtime legal journalist, he has been editor of the National Law Journal, director of the ALM News Service, publisher of the Connecticut Law Tribune, editor of Lawyers Weekly USA and editor of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. He also authors Robert Ambrogi's LawSites, Media Law, Ambrogi Strategic Media and BullsEye - Expert Witnesses & Litigation and co-hosts the weekly Lawyer2Lawyer podcast on Legal Talk Network. Carton is the editor of Securities Docket, the author of Enforcement Action and a columnist at Compliance Week.

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Recent Posts from Legal Blog Watch


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    Bailiffs are indispensable to maintaining order in court. To that end, court systems often treat bailiffs much like law enforcement officers, even arming them with firearms or tasers. Now, the National Center for State Courts…

  • Hackers Targeting Law Firms, FBI Warns

    The FBI is warning U.S. law firms to beware of hackers. The FBI said this week that hackers are using phishing e-mails with malicious payloads to target law firms and public relations firms. "During the…

  • WSJ Editorial on Judicial Nominee Called Racist

    The Wall Street Journal editorial yesterday made clear that it was not pleased with President Obama's nomination of former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis B. Butler Jr. to be a federal district judge in Wisconsin.…

  • A 'Most-Hated' List of Modern Phrases

    Yesterday on the Legal Writing Prof blog, Professor James "I am the scholarship dude" Levy flagged an interesting blog article from The New York Times on some of the words and phrases that are becoming…

  • 'I Hate Teena Club' Leads to Employee's Termination

    Further proving what your mother told you when you were five years old ("If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all") is the case of Sindoni v. County of Tioga.…

  • Communities Battle Over the 'Right to Hang'

    "If my husband has a right to have guns in the house, I have a right to hang laundry." So says Carin Froehlich of Perkasie, Penn., who likes to hang her laundry to dry on…

  • Thursday's Three Burning Legal Issues

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  • ABA Executive Director Steps Down

    The executive director of the American Bar Association, Henry F. White Jr., resigned this week after three years in the job, the ABA Journal reports. ABA General Counsel R. Thomas Howell Jr. has been named…

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    In an end-of-term decision handed down in June, the Supreme Court in Ricci v. DeStefano decided that New Haven's decision to discard results of a firefighter promotion examination violated Title VII of the Civil Rights…

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