The Blawgraphy
This blawg has posts covering legal news, Texas lawyers, the content of other legal blawgs and the author's work and play as a law student.
Author: Luke Gilman is rising 3L at the University of Houston Law Center. He also writes High on the Hog Blog.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Schools • Law Students • States • Texas • University of Houston Law Center • Law Student
Recent Posts from The Blawgraphy
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Is Texting Destroying the English Language? Did Telegraphing?
James Grimmelmann’s excellent Laboratorium included the following text in the post Texting, Telegraph Style: t scetus tdy dodd 5 pw f potus dz n xtd to t pips, ogt all pst cgsl xgn q sj…
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Houston Lawyer Charged with Barratry for Having Homeless Man Hand Out Business Cards
As reported in the Houston Chronicle, Houston criminal defense lawyer Lloyd Oliver has been accused of barratry (i.e. generally, the “vexatious incitement to litigation, esp. by soliciting potential legal clients.” Black’s 8th 2004). According to…
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Remembering John O’Quinn
John O’Quinn, the well known Houston plaintiff’s lawyer and alumni of the University of Houston Law Center passed away in a car accident this morning. He was a larger than life figure at the University…
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Marc Dreier on 60 Minutes, Lawyer Convicted of Large-Scale Fraud, Discussing the Seeds of His Career’s Destruction
Watch CBS News Videos Online See also WSJ’s Postgaming Marc Dreier’s Performance on ‘60 Minutes’ Related posts:60 Minutes on Eyewitness Testimony and the Case of Ronald Cotton Leslie Stall had a great piece on Ronald…
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Houston Law Review: Frankel Lecture, Akhil Reed Amar on the 25th Amendment
The 14th Annual Frankel Lecture: “25th Amendment: Revisiting Constitutional Provisions for Presidential Succession” is set for November 6th and is now accepting registrations. Frankel Lecture Brochure Online Registration November 6, 2009, 8:30am – 10:30am Doubletree…
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The Streetwalking Lawyers Of Aurora Avenue (the Future of Lawyer Advertising?)
via Scott Greenfield and Jeremy Richey For the uninitiated (like me), Almost Live was a local sketch comedy show based in Seattle. Aurora Avenue has the reputation you might expect from the skit. Related posts:Video:…
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The U.S. Supreme Court 2.0 – SCOTUS Requests a Website Redesign
As noted on SCOTUSblog, the U.S. Supreme Court has submitted a proposal to bring the U.S. Supreme Court Website in-house, from its current home at the Government Printing Office. The proposal itself (.pdf) is quaintly…
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Sitting at the University of Houston, November 3rd
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will be sitting at the University of Houston Law Center on November 3rd, 2009. According to the Court’s calendar, the following cases will be heard:…
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Cartoon: How Innocent Can You Afford to Be?
This would be funnier if there weren’t some truth to it. Related posts:Cartoon: What flower says you’re sorry without admitting wrongdoing? From the New Yorker ...A Dilbert Cartoon For the Antitrust Lawyers ... Related posts…
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Just Doing My Part to Deforest the Earth…
Our bound copies of all the issues we worked on at the Houston Law Review arrived today. Although I still love to hit the stacks in the library, I cannot remember the last time I…