My favorite TV show, “Big Love,” is back on the air for a new season. If you’re not familiar with the show, it’s a family drama about a man in Utah, his three wives and their assorted children. A frequently ...
Read More »Little about breast cancer, much about social media
Checking my friends’ Facebook status updates last Friday was like running through the whole underwear rainbow spectrum. I got the message in my inbox too, about “some fun” going on where the ladies on Facebook were posting their bra color ...
Read More »A split opinion about vested rights, residence and Halloween laws
Child sex offenders across the state can breathe a sigh of relief, as the Missouri Supreme Court sided with them last week. They are free to live close to schools and hand out candy as long as their convictions were ...
Read More »If marriage is so special, then spread it around
However passionate and polarized the gay marriage debate grows, sometimes it is difficult to tell one side from the other. “Where marriage is honored, and where there is a flourishing marriage culture, everyone benefits – the spouses themselves, their children, ...
Read More »Regulator’s client sales pitch hit little guy in the head
In an era when taxpayers are subsidizing Wall Street bonuses and a populist president is embracing financiers, I guess I won't shock you with news that a top securities regulator tried to sell a service to help businesses keep employee and customer disputes out of court.
Read More »Food and sex are motivators; what about solitaire?
You are a record holder. Nobody else in the entire building can say they won a game of computer solitaire faster than you did. And you accomplished it through hours of practice and more losses than you’d care to admit. ...
Read More »It takes more than a Wii to interact with the world
In the 2008 film WALL-E, a garbage-collecting robot follows his true love to a massive spaceship, where all the people of Earth now reside after turning their home planet into a giant garbage dump. These people from the not-so-distant future ...
Read More »Online collaboration tools for lawyers
My co-author, Carolyn Elefant, and I are in the midst of rewriting the last and final draft of our book about social media for lawyers, which will be published by the American Bar Association in the spring. When we began, ...
Read More »No need for incivility in civil practice
People generally understand the difference between criminal and civil law. Criminal law is the exciting law in most television shows or movies and includes the climactic scenes in which someone confesses or is exonerated. Civil law, by contrast, is the ...
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Read More »With Foursquare, your friends can always find you
Just when you were learning how to send Tweets on Twitter, there’s a new social media network that wants to link you to your friends. It is called Foursquare, and it’s part connection tool and part game. Depending on just ...
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Read More »Dormant judgment gobbles up lawyer’s contingent fee
This stinks. A lawyer labors long and hard to win his client’s case and, just as pay day is set to arrive, a long-forgotten judgment creditor swoops in and takes his client’s settlement – along with his 40 percent contingent ...
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