Corporate Counsel has a good column today entitled “Big-Firm Associates: Where They Go And How to Keep Them.” The observations in the article should not themselves be much of a revelation for people who’ve worked in the legal world for a while. Associates are unhappy to be given drudge work and no time to spend […]
After reading a few articles about the death of the billable hour, I’m sorry to say that the legal media (including me, if I count) seems to enjoy the idea much more than law firms do. A lot of the firms mentioned in those articles appear in other articles on the topic. Although some firms […]
Not all of my articles are killed by cruel, cruel fate. I was lucky enough to write a short piece for GC California’s March issue on the in-house attorney-client privilege. (Link requires premium access subscription to callaw.com; sorry.) So when I ran across another piece on corporate attorney-client privilege today, it caught my eye.
My article […]
It’s likely that a story of mine is about to get killed. I probably can’t go into the reasons since it’s not certain and I sold that intellectual property — but naturally, I’m disappointed. Because the subject truly does interest me, I thought about maybe blogging it here instead. Then I thought about the fact […]
First, welcome to the new home of this blog at wordofthelaird.com, a product of more sweat than CSS/PHP knowledge. It was made possible in large part by the kindness of random strangers who work with Wordpress for fun, as well as an un-random 3L who helped with Photoshopping and advice.
Second, hoo boy, am I going […]
First, here’s an article on the movie Michael Clayton and its criticisms of law-firm life. The thing is, pointing out that large law firms make their employees miserable and sometimes have to turn a blind eye to their clients’ ethical excesses is such a cliche that I’m almost embarrassed by my urge to blog about […]
Because it’s a holiday, I’m working on nonpaying projects today. And of course, I’m procrastinating furiously. So I followed a link to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s blog, which is a relatively new addition to the LA Times Web site. He has a post from Friday on Charlotte E. Ray, who was the first black woman to become […]
This is another entry in the semantic-wonk category. A Ninth Circuit opinion (en banc) caught my eye today because it had four individual components — the opinion, a concurrence, a dissent and a partial concurrence/partial dissent. Oy! Anderson v. Terhune. The issue that stirs up all this controversy was a Constitutional one — the Fifth […]
If there are any actual lawyers reading this, please consider bopping over to the California Blog of Appeal and helping a nice lawyer who’s helped me in the past. The blogger is Greg May, an appellate lawyer up in Ventura who gave me quotes for a recentish article (not yet published, unless I missed something). […]
Via SCOTUSBlog, and in turn via Workplace Prof Blog, I have learned that The Golden Gate Restaurant Association has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the City of San Francisco from implementing a universal health care law. Whew — that was a loaded sentence. More is yet to come, my friends. To explain succinctly: […]
