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No. 630

Out of Uniform.

No. 629 Lindsay Starr has stirred up the radio talk shows by complaining to KDKA TV about how the North Allegheny High School administration won’t let her accept her diploma in her Marine Corps dress blues. She finished school early and attended boot camp at Parris Island. Now she wants to express her pride and […]

First Mansmann Professor Named at Duquesne Law School

News release from Duquesne University: Inaugural Carol Los Mansmann Chair in Faculty Scholarship Named May. 6, 2011 Jane Campbell Moriarty has been named the inaugural Carol Los Mansmann Chair in Faculty Scholarship at Duquesne University’s School of Law. She will begin her new role on Aug. 16. The Mansmann chair is awarded to a […]

LAWYERS AND THEIR IPADS

So, the word is out. After a long loveless marriage to Microsoft, lawyers are deserting hers for a fling with you-know-who. In particular, the iPad According to the blog Legal iPad, iPads are reaching a tipping point. The POTUS uses one. So does Queen Elizabeth and Justice Scalia. “iPads are the perfect device for content […]

Encore Post: Don’t Be Bitter, Young Lawyer.

No. 548 and 626 Dear colleague: Sometime when I wasn’t looking, a blog called Bitter Lawyer made it to the No. 2 spot on the AVVO Blogs — moving ahead of that blonde law professor from Wisconsin, Althouse. It was inevitable. Althouse has been gravitating to shorter and shorter posts for years, until […]

Encore Post: Don’t Expect Privacy when Using Your Employer’s Email.

No. 571 and No. 625 I’ve preached this sermon before, but its an important one. Don’t use the company’s email to send a communication containing your own private business. That is, unless you don’t care whether the company and everyone else in the world finds out your secret. This principle was illustrated […]

Italian Prosecutors on Shaky Ground?

No. 624 According to reports gathered and summarized by Economics Professor Tyler Cowan in his blog “Marginal Revolution”, seven Italian seismologists have been charged with manslaughter for failing to give residents of the village of L’Aquila in Central Italy adequate warning of the risk of an earthquake that struck on April 6, 2009, […]

Remembering Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on Memorial Day — Wounded in Battle, he Lived to Fight Again.

No. 623 As we commemorate those who died in service of our Country this weekend, I wish to bring to your attention that the great Oliver Wendell Holmes was wounded three times in the Civil War, but lived to make a singular contribution to American law. The so-called bloodiest day in American history, the Battle […]

Thinking Inside the Box.

No. 622 The mighty forces of the universe do not exceed the power of one human mind. Who said that? I did. Just now. CLT

A Great Name.

No. 621 Lawyers:wouldn’t it be great to have a name that everybody knows and remembers? Some do, you know. There are lawyers who are actually named Abraham Lincoln — or at least its part of their name. How many Abraham Lincolns do you think there among American lawyers living or dead? How does that stack […]

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