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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Going ... Going ... the DWI Chair is Gone!
The city of Proctor, Minn., is $11,000 richer today but $30,000 poorer than it would have been had it not been for the intervention of the lawyers for La-Z-Boy Corp. The city was finally able…
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Psycho-Acoustic -- or Just Psycho?
Beatles fans did not know whether to gasp or cheer when a little-known music site, BlueBeat.com, began to sell the Fab Four's remastered catalog for just 25 cents a song. After all, it was less…
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Connecticut Set to Hear 'Total Attorneys' Case
Connecticut's attorney grievance committee will begin hearings Nov. 12 on whether five attorneys violated state ethics rules by participating in the Web site TotalBankruptcy.com. The state's chief disciplinary counsel, Mark Dubois, charges that the lawyers…
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Legal Adviser in Iraq Named Judge in Mass.
A lawyer and U.S. Army colonel who has spent much of the last two years in Baghdad on a special assignment to improve the legal rights of women was named this week to a judgeship…
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Thursday's Three Burning Legal Questions
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I just left Toys-R-Us with my new can of Silly String. Now I'm being issued a $1,000 fine…
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California Kidnapping Case Involves Bizarre 'Fake Rescuer'
The California Appellate Report blog writes here about a recent decision involving a kidnapping for ransom. The actual opinion relates to evidentiary issues resolved on appeal, but the post highlights a bizarre and startling set…
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Former Band Members Still Less Than 'Sublime,' Court Rules
The THR, Esq. blog wrote this week about an interesting case in Los Angeles involving one of my favorite bands, Sublime. Bradley Nowell, the band's lead singer, died in 1996 of a drug overdose. For…
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Prosecutor's Best Friend? People Convicted in 'Scent Lineups' Fight Back
Via this post on the ABA Journal's Criminal Justice page, I came across this New York Times article about several people who are doing hard time because of "scent lineups," in which a dog chose…
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Appeals Court Lawyer 'Traffics' in Term Papers
In Massachusetts, as in 16 other states, it is against the law to sell a term paper. That was news to Damian Bonazzolli, a senior staff attorney for the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Bonazzolli advertised himself…
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La-Z-Boy Calls in Lawyers, Calls Off Auction
When last we left the notorious pimped-out, motorized La-Z-Boy whose driver had become the first person ever to be arrested for driving an easy chair while intoxicated, it was on course to be sold on…