Top 5 Most Smug Areas of Law Practice
Ever notice how there are some areas of law practice you love to hate? Here are the top 5.
Ever notice how there are some areas of law practice you love to hate? Here are the top 5.
Even if you’re not a lawyer, you’ve probably had some occasion to read court documents and come across stock phrases like this: TO THE HONORABLE JUDGE OF SAID COURT COMES NOW PLAINTIFF . . . WHEREFORE, PREMISES CONSIDERED, PLAINTIFF PRAYS . . . And yes, they are usually in ALL CAPS. You may have wondered if there is some legal purpose to these formalisms. The answer is no. Leaving these traditional incantations out of a court document would have zero legal effect. They are no more necessary than drafting a court document in Papyrus font. So why do lawyers use […]
What are the ethical limits on lawyers using social media to research members of the jury panel?
A judge’s Facebook friendship with a lawyer doesn’t necessarily require recusal. What about a campaign contribution?
Young lawyers aren’t getting enough courtroom opportunities. Is this a First-World Problem?
No blog post today. Just praying for everyone affected by the hurricane and flooding. We’ll be back next week.
A senior lawyer once said to me that “practicing law would be great, if it wasn’t for the clients.” It’s a joke, of course. Lawyers couldn’t practice law without clients, and the clients pay the bills. So we definitely appreciate our clients. But there’s no question that practicing law would be easier if we didn’t have to worry about the bad decisions our clients sometimes make. Take social media, for example. In Part 1 of this series, I talked about lawyers using social media to do opposition research, i.e. to dig up dirt on the opposing party. Ethically, that’s generally […]
Can a lawyer view an opposing party’s publicly available social media profile and posts?
Sleep deprivation is a widely acknowledged but widely ignored problem in the legal profession. But what if we looked at sleep more like professional athletes do?
Insurance agencies often use non-competes to protect their goodwill, but are the non-competes enforceable? And can the company get an injunction?