The state closed its evidence around 5:30 p.m. Thursday in a two-day trial I’ve been defending. After the nine-hour day in court, I came home, had bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches with my family and started trying to kick-start the ...
Read More »Hungry for change… and a legal job
The American Bar Association's Special Committee on the U.S. News and World Report Rankings issued its findings last month. The committee, which included University of Maryland School of Law Dean Phoebe Haddon, stated the following:
Read More »Market your alternative billing
The debate continues over whether the billable hour is dead, but there is little disagreement that both clients and law firms are increasingly interested in billable hour alternatives.
Read More »Blogging for lawyers has changed
When I first wrote about blogging for lawyers in 2006, the benefits were clear-cut.
Read More »Gay marriage lives happily ever after
Last week's ruling in California represents more than a setback for opponents of same-sex marriage. It lays bare the sparseness of their evidence, the emptiness of their legal arguments and the hollowness of their claims that gay marriage would somehow undermine straight ones.
Read More »Ungrammatical marriage amendment set for chopping block
Right there tacked on the end for the world to see are a few of my favorite sections of the Missouri Constitution’s Bill of Rights. I use favorite as a 12-year-old uses it with his mother or father: “Oh yes, ...
Read More »Some non-citizens need special help
Rounding up "illegal immigrants" is all the rage this summer.
Read More »Fireworks as 11th Circuit rights a wrong
I may not be a federal judge, but even I understand that a sentence of 17 1/2 years isn't nearly enough for a man who raped and tortured 50 little girls.
Read More »Laterals: Making all the right moves?
Even as firms were laying off and otherwise letting go of associates and partners during the Great Recession, they were also hiring laterals from other firms.
Read More »My mind is swimming way out in the water
"With your feet in the air and your head on the ground..."
Tagged with: the pixies where is my mind?
Read More »Soldier’s mom gets letter wrongly marked ‘DECEASED’
Most mistakes made by the U.S. Postal Service are harmless enough.
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