Gotta love Hallmark and marketing people. Those who push Mother's, Father's, Valentine's, Grandparents', Sweetest's, Boss's, Clergy Appreciation, Ferris Wheel and Administrative Assistant's Day have another friend. A guy who runs something called the American Lawyers Public Image Association (ALPIA) is declaring that today is the 15th annual National...
The ABA Journal reports that courts are struggling with whether emoticons and emojis, like :) for a smile if you've been sleeping since 1990, have any substantive probative legal value in court cases. If you say something but add a wink does that mean you're kidding or...
Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission proudly announced what Law360 confirmed is a record year in terms of new enforcement cases filed and monies disgorged by alleged and proven law violators. Over $4 billion in sanctions were levied and over 800 new cases brought in the...
Last week, the US Supreme Court said it would not hear a case in which the appeals court overturned two insider trading convictions. By refusing to hear the case, they effectively let stand the decision below, which many say will make it much tougher to...
As the market for law schools finds greater challenge, Bloomberg reports that the average scores of new law grads on the multiple choice part of the bar exam have steadily dropped. And the July 2015 scores, unfortunately, hit a 25-year low. Some say this is...
Feel free to express yourself when paying a traffic ticket, at least according to a judge in Connecticut. The ABA Journal reports that U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel ruled that the First Amendment protects one William Barboza’s profanity-laced comments when paying a speeding ticket in 2012. After he sent...
Enter Ross, a so-called "artificially intelligent attorney," which students at the University of Toronto developed, according to the ABA Journal. This is for real. The students worked with IBM and the Watson computer, you know, the one that won on TV's Jeopardy. Ross can learn...
A trial court in New York State earlier this week ruled on a most difficult question: should chimpanzees used by Long Island's Stony Brook University for research be treated the same as people and deserving of human rights? The case was brought by a group...
To my faithful blogees: as you know I very rarely self-promote here, whether shamelessly or not. But I'm extremely excited about my new affiliation with the 700-attorney international law firm of Duane Morris LLP. The firm's reputation spans many decades and has strongly and steadily...
Has your phone ever made one of those calls by accident while sitting in your pocket? It's happened to most of us. Well, a Cincinnati appeals court says you have no expectation of privacy when that happens. It's easy enough to lock your phone or...