Law and More
"Deconstructing what happens in law." A particular focus on consumer law and class-action litigation, and lead-paint litigation in particular. Some posts amount to professional-skills pep talks, and others recap recent episodes of Boston Legal.
Author: Jane Genova is a writer and "executive and marketing communications pro" based in New Haven, Conn. She also authors Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter.
Blawg Related Categories: Consumer Law • Tort Law • Product Liability Law • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Law and More
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Estates Nasty Business: Astor-like trial in Houston
What will forever be known as "The Astor Estate Battle" is having its first mutation in Houston. The daughter of oil tycoon Alfred C. Glassell is accusing the attorneys at Vinson & Elkins Law Firm…
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That $1.26 B award against PepsiCo vacated
It seemed absurd. And another judge agreed. Remember how the plaintiffs in a misuse of trade secrets case were awarded by one judge $1.26 billion against Pepsico because the company never responded to the lawsuit.…
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Top 250 down 5259 lawyers of 4% in '09 [Source: NLJ]
THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL presents the grim statistics of lawyer cuts in 2009. With 4% or 5259 lawyers sent packing it's the worst year for this sort of thing since NLJ began tracking three decades…
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Burn Bridges - or, jobless lawyers, you'll never work again
Those 5800 jobs lost in the legal sector in October [Source: BLS], are not coming back. Even if some kind of Golden Age returns to the profession and business of law post-bubble burst, it will…
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In Humor We Trust - Why the blogosphere decried "Jones v Minkin"
Okay, we all love the crowd at Abovethelaw.com. And we will die at the stake for First Amendment rights. But there was more than that - admittedly that was a lot - to why the…
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"Finding a new job is extremely difficult," David Leonhardt, THE NEW YORK TIMES
The jinx of joblessness is severe. There's that Catch-22: Legal headhunters only will deal with the employed. Skills atrophy. Contacts fade. Confidence, always an unstable entity, falls of the cliff. David Leonhardt sums it up…
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Another Bury The Bad News Friday? - Cleary Gottlieb Bonus Time
Friday is no day to be releasing news, unless it's bad and needs to be buried. So, David Lat at Abovethelaw.com views the fact that Cleary Gottlieb told its employees about their bonuses on a…
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Cornell's John & Lisa: Could Lisa, plus their spouses sue John for neglience?
At Cornell, tech consultant John pressed the "cc" button when transmitting an email to his mistress Lisa, also an employee at the university. That particular transmission indicated his longing to be "SPANKING that FINE ASS…
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"Jones v Minkin" - Coverage by Establishment Media Vs. Blogosphere
Today, the Establishment Media - THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL - is just reporting on the plaintiff's withdrawal of complaint "Jones v Minkin." That withdrawal was done on Wednesday. Abovethelaw.com, whose parent Breaking Media was one…
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October '09 - Legal Sector Loses 5800 Jobs [Source: BLS]
Figure it out. In a report just released today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we find out that the legal sector lost 5800 jobs in just one month. That month was October 2009. Meanwhile…