I am on site with a client today and shouldn’t really be blogging, but I just had to stop in quickly to share the news: The Supreme Court of California has decided in favor of same-sex marriage.
I decided when I started this blog to try to keep politics out of it, but I can’t […]
I just wrapped up a project writing some Web pages for a law firm that wanted a page on wrongful termination (in most states, that’s firing someone in violation of public policy). In listing the various types of discrimination that make a wrongful termination, I realized that I had just read something about Congress passing […]
Jordan Furlong of the blog Law21 caught my eye with a post from Friday about law firm newsletters. Entitled “Burn your newsletters,” the post says law firm newsletters (and blogs) aren’t that useful or interesting:
The necessity and effectiveness of law firm newsletters have been long overrated. Partly this is because the content is written by […]
Thanks to Greg May of the California Blog of Appeal for pointing out that a short piece of mine has finally made it into print in California Lawyer magazine. The piece, “Debate Heats Up Over Unpublished Opinions,” looks at the movement to publish more opinions in California state appeals courts, in the context of a […]
Thus sayeth the Hollywood Reporter, which took some time away from boffo box office today to discuss the Harry Potter Lexicon lawsuit. (Hat tip: Erik Sherman’s WriterBiz.) I am interested in this both as a writer and as an occasional follower of IP law. I believe a certain commenter to this blog has told me […]
I never really got over the “limited civil liberties” aspect of high school, so the Ninth Circuit opinion in Truth v. Kent School District caught my eye. The truth isn’t suing; rather, members of a proposed Bible study club called Truth sued their high school in the State of Washington because the student government there […]
One post, from the Ninth Circuit Blog, has to do with the Ninth’s April 21 decision in United States v. Arnold. If this post is accurate — I doubt they’re lying, but I won’t have time today to read the whole decision — it seems that the government is free, at least in this circuit, […]
This time, I have a good excuse for my silence: I just spent a week in the Bay Area. Not that they lack for internet access up there, but travel is a bit disruptive. However, while I was there, I had the good fortune to meet with Justia, a quasi-client (I don’t exactly work for […]
A friend has just sent me a highly amusing response to a cease-and-desist letter (patent and trademark infringement). The recipient believes it’s a frivolous claim and draws on 19 years of litigation experience with which to say so. It’s on Consumerist and therefore probably all over the Internet, but let me just give you a […]
Today, I turn to a subject near and dear to the modern freelancer’s heart: search engine marketing. Well, more specifically, metatags, which are tags you put in your Web page to tell search engines what your page is about. Or in some cases, to lie about it to drive up traffic. That’s the basis of […]
