Around the Blawgosphere: A Stephen Colbert Hypo; Bloggers Pay Last Respects to One of Their Own

A Key Employee Chicago lawyer Jeff Nowak used Stephen Colbert’s recent absence from taping his Comedy Central program, The Colbert Report, to explain “a little-used, often forgotten rule under the Family and Medical Leave Act” at his blog, FMLA Insights. It has been widely reported that Colbert canceled those two…

Feb 24, 2012 3:01 PM CST

What Is the Best Law-Related Movie Quote of All Time?

This week, in advance of the 84th Annual Academy Awards, Bloomberg Law is polling its readers about what they think are the best law-related movie lines of all time. Bloomberg Law’s editors chose 10 quotes and assembled a brief video compilation of them. Tom Cruise was in two of the…

Feb 22, 2012 7:32 PM CST

Around the Blawgosphere: Scott Greenfield Pulls the Plug on His Law Blog, Simple Justice

There’s a spot available in next year’s Blawg 100: Early Monday morning, New York City criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield put a post up on Simple Justice that he said would be his last. Greenfield reported it was his 4,744th post, and exactly five years after his blog’s first post.…

Feb 17, 2012 2:30 PM CST

Do You Ever Read Law Review Articles? Or Write Them?

A story in the February issue of the ABA Journal takes note of how scholarly law review articles are declining in influence and notes a comment that U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. made last year: “Pick up a copy of any law review that you see, and the…

Feb 15, 2012 7:31 PM CST

Around the Blawgosphere: Profs on Economic Realities; Can We Have ‘Authentic Conversations’ Online?

Profs’ Blogging Symposium This week, Legal Ethics Forum hosted the “LEF Symposium on Legal Education’s Response to the Economic Realities Facing the Profession.” It was conducted by having more than 20 law professors contribute posts over a three-day period about “the implications of economic pressures on the way we teach…

Feb 10, 2012 2:30 PM CST

What SCOTUS Decision Would You Like to See a Documentary or Feature Film About?

As reported in the February issue of the ABA Journal, HBO will premiere The Loving Story, a documentary about Richard and Mildred Loving of the U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, on Valentine’s Day. The documentary includes historical and current interviews with the couple’s lawyers, Bernard Cohen and Philip…

Feb 8, 2012 5:30 PM CST

Show Me the Money: Helping Clients Find and Protect Assets in a Divorce

A client can try to preserve his or her assets during a divorce, but if the judge sees actions more along the lines of hiding money, the court will likely take more. Matrimonial lawyers Ira Friedman and Randall M. Kessler discuss this and other battle stories with ABA Journal Podcast moderator Stephanie Francis Ward.

Feb 6, 2012 2:59 PM CST

ACLU Sues DOJ to See ‘Targeted Killing’ Legal Justification Memos

The American Civil Liberties Union has sued to compel the Justice Department release of memos disclosing the legal justification for strikes that have killed U.S. citizens abroad. A lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday follows the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-Yemeni citizen and suspected al-Qaida militant who was…

Feb 3, 2012 5:48 PM CST

Around the Blawgosphere: What’s Wrong with CLE; Wedding at SCOTUS; Do You Dress Like a ‘Real Man’?

How Lawyers Ruin CLE Have you been to a good CLE course lately? If not, why do you think that is? Ernie Svenson, a New Orleans-based lawyer who stopped practicing to start giving continuing legal education presentations full-time, says that, ultimately, lawyers’ risk-averse thinking has helped bring CLE to the…

Feb 3, 2012 2:30 PM CST

Do You Friend on Facebook or Follow on Twitter People You’ve Never Met or Ever Expect to Meet?

Last week, we posted a poll asking readers about their criteria as far as who they choose to follow on Twitter and who they will friend on Facebook, since we know many people have not met all of their Facebook friends or “tweeps” in the physical plane. At the time…

Feb 1, 2012 5:25 PM CST

Patriots Debate: The Meaning of the Constitution in a Time of Terror

Since the events of 2001, the intersection of law and terrorism has become one of the most volatile zones in the public square—a place where qualities of life and manners of death are deliberated against 225 years of the U.S. Constitution.

Feb 1, 2012 11:39 AM CST

Constitutional Dilemma: The Power to Declare War Is Deeply Rooted in American History

Feb 1, 2012 11:35 AM CST

Letters: Twitter Time?

Feb 1, 2012 10:50 AM CST

The Readers’ Choice: Voters’ Top Blawg 100 Picks

Feb 1, 2012 10:00 AM CST

Around the Blawgosphere: Takes on Apple’s iBook Author; Volunteer Job Requiring 5 Years Experience?

Launch’s Legal Fallout A big tech story this week was the Apple’s launch of iBooks Author, a free tool allowing users to create textbooks, which the company says will “reinvent textbooks” by allowing iPad users to access texts that are interactive and constantly updated and available at a relatively low…

Jan 27, 2012 2:30 PM CST