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October 31, 2011
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The Criminal Lawyer Turns 3
Huh, we kept it up for another year. Three years of The Criminal Lawyer, happy birthday to us. To be sure, three years is by no means venerable in the blawgosphere, and we’ve only written about 300 posts in that time, but it’s nice to say that it’s made it...
October 6, 2011
Why Should I Have to Pay for a Lawyer When I’m Innocent?
In Patrick O’Brian’s The Reverse of the Medal, one of the novels in his brilliant Aubrey-Maturin series set during the Napoleonic wars, one of the main characters winds up being prosecuted for insider trading. Jack Aubrey, a heroic naval captain, is completely innocent — but the evidence against him looks bad,...
October 5, 2011
Why Write?
We keep being surprised by these folks who insist that lawyers need to blog. That it’s a great way to generate clients, pumping up the old SEO so potential clients see your website and hire you. That advice always strikes us as the equivalent of saying you ought to name...
May 19, 2011
Gee, thanks
We didn’t post as often as usual during the six-week trial we just wrapped up. Common wisdom says that can be deadly for a blog’s readership. So we checked our stats to see what happened (we use Google Analytics, which we’ve found to be the most reliable though not the...
April 16, 2011
Watch this space
Well, the jury’s finally out on that trial we started a month ago. Expect regular postings to resume shortly.
April 7, 2011
Upgrade Achieved
Just upgraded to the newest versions of PHP and WordPress. We do our own coding, so hopefully everything’s backwards-compatible. But if you catch any glitches, please let us know. That is all. (Oh yeah, today’s insider trading webinar went great, thanks to fellow panelists Seth Levine and John Nathanson. Top-notch...
March 3, 2011
Still here
No, we haven’t posted anything this week. We got swamped, what can we say? Busy is good.
January 21, 2011
Need Some CLE?
As many of our readers know (because we won’t shut up about it, apparently) we teach a series of CLE lectures for West LegalEdCenter called “Hope for Hopeless Cases.” Well, this time we’re doing one that’s not part of that series. We’ve teamed up with Gordon Mehler to...
January 10, 2011
Oh, Scalia
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that we really like Scalia. We really do. We like the way he thinks, we like the way he writes, and we like that he’s not a phony. His law clerks may moan and groan that...
January 4, 2011
Excellent Con Law Exam
A quick link to start your Monday morning. The exam question is either incredibly trite, or incredibly profound. Enjoy.
December 13, 2010
In Lieu Of…
Well we still haven’t had half a moment to compose something worth reading. So in lieu of an actual post, here’s some more links to stuff. First, we just went through another election. We live in Manhattan, which votes overwhelmingly Democrat, so the results were a foregone conclusion no matter...
November 3, 2010
Reading list
No time to post something original today, but wanted to link to some other stuff you might not have seen yet: First, there was an article in this morning’s WSJ by Law Blog author Ashby Jones, with Joann Lublin, called “Critics Blow Whistle on Law.” For those who liked our...
November 1, 2010
Text or Email, Don’t Call
The WSJ has an article today called “Y U Luv Texts, H8 Calls: We want to reach others but not to be interrupted.” The sub-headline says it all, really. Despite the loss of context and tone that can be conveyed by an oral conversation, people prefer more and more...
October 14, 2010
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