It must be an election year. Check out the proposed Civil Rights Act of 2008. That’s a link to the Workplace Prof Blog, and the post’s author, Professor Hirsch, believes it’ll be a campaign issue. I do hope so. It looks like a laundry list of employee-friendly (thus mostly business-unfriendly) changes to the law, mostly […]
Sorry for the radio silence; work and life have picked up in the past few days.
Speaking of work and life, I saved a link to this New York Times article about work-life balance for lawyers twice, so I must really have been impressed. It’s a trends piece, sort of, about law firms starting to recognize […]
The California legal blogosphere is excited today about the California Supreme Court’s decision in Ross v. Ragingwire Telecommunications, Inc. Watch out; that’s a PDF, which you can expect all of my case links to be. In a nutshell, the case says the California medical marijuana law (aka Prop 215, aka the Compassionate Use Act) doesn’t […]
I’m not planning to talk about SCOTUS (that’s the Supreme Court Of The United States) much on this blog, in part because everybody else already does it. I’d be a mouse among giants. However, a post on the court’s decision in Ali v. Bureau of Prisons on California Appellate Report caught my eye because it […]
So there’s a piece in today’s LA Times about financial fraud in Second Life. In case you’re not familiar with Second Life, it’s an online role-playing type of video game in which there’s an entire virtual society, including a currency. (I should note that I don’t play there; my information all comes from the media.) […]
More here. Whatever else you wanna say about R-n P-ul supporters, they’re clearly true believers. (So much so that I have taken to misspelling his name, so they won’t spam whichever blog I’m on.)
I am a big fan of legal documents that don’t read like legal documents. It saves everyone a lot of time and hassle if you can just say it in plain language. That said, however, “legalese” can be necessary. Like when you need to be specific enough to avoid liability. Like, say, when you’re writing […]
But he needs some very patient and expensive ones, as anyone who pays attention to American Apparel probably knows. Dov Charney is the hipster clothing company’s founder and chief executive, and he’s consistently rumored to be a sexual harasser. The LA Times ran an article today about the fourth sexual harassment lawsuit against him, and […]
I’m a writer who specializes in writing about the law — but I am not a lawyer. This can be both frustrating and a huge relief for someone who writes and reads regularly about the U.S. legal industry. I want this blog to be the home for all of the legal musings that bore my […]
