Coming to Techshow? Join us for Beer for Blawggers

Join the ABA Journal and LexBlog for the sixth year of celebrating law blogging and law bloggers at our 6th Annual Beer for Blawggers meetup Friday evening at ABA Techshow. Techshow attendees as well as law bloggers in in town but not registered for the show are welcome to raise…

Apr 3, 2013 1:45 PM CDT

Road warriors’ tips on keeping up with your cases (podcast with transcript)

Transcript Stephanie Francis Ward: What do you do when in the course of one day, you have an appearance, a deposition and a client meeting, all of which are in different locations? Reid Trautz: My mantra is “the more chargers, the better.” Stephanie Francis Ward: I’m Stephanie Francis Ward, and…

Apr 1, 2013 1:40 PM CDT

What judges really think about the phrase ‘May it please the Court?’

Apr 1, 2013 7:58 AM CDT

Predictive coding is on the rise in courts

Apr 1, 2013 7:20 AM CDT

Virtual law firm plans to multiply like magic

Apr 1, 2013 7:00 AM CDT

Let law students ‘vote with their feet,’ Northwestern’s dean says (Video)

Northwestern Law School Dean Daniel Rodriguez says he supports a proposal under consideration in New York that would allow students to take the bar exam after two years of law school without getting a degree. Some fellow deans have told him privately that the idea is putting “the economic model…

Mar 28, 2013 3:35 PM CDT

What are your favorite lawyerly spaces?

Last month, we noted a couple who visited all 254 Texas courthouses and eventually married at one. “In a lot of ways, the courthouse is the keeper of local history, the center of local history, and all of them together make up state history,” Aaron Mason told the American-Statesman in…

Mar 27, 2013 5:05 PM CDT

Blogging gig: Comedy required, law degree optional; What data should law school rankings consider?

An item cross-posted at Lawyerist and the humor blog Bitter Lawyer announced this week that Bitter Lawyer is looking for a new editor. Lawyerist Media acquired the blog in 2011. “Since Bitter Lawyer is a humor website, you must either (1) be funny or (2) know funny when you see…

Mar 22, 2013 1:30 PM CDT

Do you think that curtailing telecommuting is best for the bottom line?

It made headlines last month when Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced that those who had been working from home needed to start working from the Yahoo office. At the time, San Francisco State University management professor John Sullivan said Mayer’s conclusion about the benefits of collaboration is right, if the…

Mar 20, 2013 5:23 PM CDT

Fifty years later, how is the justice system living up to the Gideon ideal?

In June 1962, when the U.S. Supreme Court granted review of the handwritten pauper’s appeal from a Florida inmate named Clarence Earl Gideon, the court correspondent of the New York Times immediately knew he had a good news story on his hands. And, he thought, it was likely to be…

Mar 15, 2013 9:28 PM CDT

What’s the upshot of the Google Reader shutdown for bloggers and the rest of the (not) free world?

When Google announced that it was shutting down Google Reader, its RSS feed reader Legal Blog Watch’s Bruce Carton was, as he put it, part of the “1 percent of the world looked and reacted as if the veterinarian had just said that their dog had only a few months…

Mar 15, 2013 2:16 PM CDT

What words are you always seeing misspelled? What words do you look up every time?

The Bryan Garner on Words column from our March issue, “Why lawyers can’t write,” has been burning up the charts at ABAJournal.com. Garner mentions in this particular column that he personally has a practice of “asking secretarial candidates, who invariably describe themselves as good spellers, to spell three words—such as…

Mar 13, 2013 7:46 PM CDT

‘Law is broken.’ Will these legal tech gurus bring about change?

Corrected: “The law is broken, change is coming.” So said Axiom Law Managing Director Henry Jones at a one-day session not for the many U.S. lawyers clinging to a century-old model for legal services, but for a crowd of tech geeks who say they are leading a law revolution. Forty…

Mar 11, 2013 5:30 PM CDT

Want to protect individual freedom? Have a strong central government, says ‘Rule of the Clan’ author

We live in a society which values individual freedoms, but we come from a place which valued kinship ties above all else. Author Mark S. Weiner has studied ancient and modern-day clan societies in which group responsibility, rather than individual responsibility, is the rule of law.

Mar 11, 2013 1:45 PM CDT

Seeking justice in the killing fields

Even as Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city, hurtles into the future, it can’t quite escape the past. At rush hour, the city’s tree-lined boulevards are clogged with Range Rovers and rusted bicycles alike. But not even the noise of Phnom Penh’s madcap traffic can compete with the sound of construction.…

Mar 9, 2013 12:07 AM CST