Custody Battle for Life The divorced parents of 16-year-old Javona Peters are fighting to keep their daughter alive...or not. Peters, who lies in a hospital in a vegetative state, unable to see, hear, talk, move, eat, or think, fell into a coma after a routine brain surgery on October 17. Now, mother Janet Joseph wants to let Javona go. However, father Leonard Peters, who was first against the... (5 views)
How to Review Information for Committing to Memory Reviewing notes and documents become habits for law students. However, only the successful students consciously use reviewing techniques geared to commit information to memory. It helps them to make maximum use of their time and get the highest possible benefits. We are, of course, not talking about short-term memory here, but of committing information to long-term memory... (5 views)
Scamming Law Clerks Can Cost You Your License What do you do if you are upset at the judge in your case? Here's a tip: don't do what lawyers Kevin Curry and Gary Crossen of Massachusetts did. In particular, don't set up false job interviews for former law clerks of the judge to get some information about the judge. (5 views)
A Honey of a Tale What do you do if you like honey? As in, you like honey very, very much? Easy: you become a beekeeper. But there's a potential hazard with this approach. Other critters love honey too. Bears come to mind, and indeed bears have long been a hazard to the beekeeping industry. (5 views)
5 Places to Find Exercise Clothing on a Budget Summary: Buying workout clothes can be expensive. Here are 5 places that I go to find good quality workout clothes for less. (5 views)
A Splitting Difference Would that all judges were so clever at finding solutions that are fair and simultaneously embarrass the parties involved as the judge in this particular story. It seems that there's a dispute between Wal-Mart and a plaintiff who is suing Wal-Mart for some reason or another. Wal-Mart is located in Bentonville, Arkansas, the plaintiff is in San Antonio, Texas, and the... (5 views)
Law Students and Associates Need to Get Out More In late June LegalTech will be moving west to Los Angeles. When I was at a firm, I loved running over to the nation's largest legal technology conference during its New York run for half an hour or so over lunch. I had a chance to preview new tools designed to make my life easier, talk to people excited about their work, and learn about salesmanship. I struck up random... (5 views)
Texas Defies World Court One wonders why the World Court bothers. While there are people like Robert Mugabe starving and assassinating people in their countries, the World Court (the International Criminal Court, as it is officially known) has decided that five murderers deserve its full efforts to save them from punishment. (5 views)
Center for Career & Professional Development at Liberty Law The Center for Career & Professional Development at Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Virginia, offers students and alumni more than access to job listings. Through its three staff members, the office is committed to its mission of providing students and alumni with the necessary tools to serve through both professionalism and community service. Through... (5 views)
Fraud Legal Market Day to day life is full of disputes and issues that need to be resolved. It is for this reason that every country has established a judicial system to cater for such particular issues. A judicial system has two major key players. These are the prosecution and the defendant. Both parties need legal representation, since most of the legal matters are somewhat technical and... (5 views)
Dissolution Vote for Thelen A spokesperson confirmed today that Thelen's Partnership Council recommended a vote to dissolve the firm. In a partner meeting that began today (10/28/2008), management asked the partnership to vote for dissolution. The vote will remain open for seven days; the firm hopes to shut down by December 1, 2008. (5 views)
''West Memphis Three'' Go Free After spending almost two decades in prison for the 1993 murders of three cub scouts, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr., and Jason Baldwin were unexpectedly released on Friday. The case, which drew a significant amount of attention due to the lack of evidence against the men, has been the subject of three documentaries and a slew of celebrity attention over the years. (5 views)
Tax Payers to Fund Mob Bosses' Defense Despite the fact authorities found more than $800,000 in his Santa Monica apartment at the time of his arrest, a federal judge has ruled that James ''Whitey'' Bulger is entitled to a taxpayer-financed defense. Criminal defense attorney J.W. Carney Jr. and his law partner Janice Bassil have now taken over for interim defense attorney Peter Krupp. (5 views)
Ken Salazar's Battle As the anniversary nears for the Deepwater Horizon's explosion that left eleven men dead and devastated the entire Gulf Coast region, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar found himself seething over news that TransOcean, the owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon, issued bonuses to its executives, all the while applauding workers for ''the best year in safety performance in... (5 views)
Alan Dershowitz: A Global Law Star Alan Dershowitz has been involved with several high profile legal cases throughout the entirety of his almost 50 year law career. Dershowitz, who is an esteemed professor at Harvard Law School, has a very global presence. (5 views)
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Speaks To Law Students at Kansas State University The first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court Justice (and the third female one), Sonia Sotomayor gave a lecture to law students at Kansas State University on Thursday, followed by a question and answer session. (5 views)
LSAT Isn't Going Anywhere Fast For all of those law students who became bitter after hearing that the American Bar Association may do away with the LSAT for law school admissions, they can rest assured that for the time being, the exam isn't going anywhere. (5 views)
How to Be a Wrongful Death Attorney There are so many different ways that you might want to focus your law career on making sure that you can make the most out of what you have accomplished. The best way for you to focus on a good law career is to pick something that interests you and something that you will be able to be good at. When you are a lawyer, just like with anything else, you need to be sure that... (5 views)
Jobs For Attorney: How To Position Yourself For Success According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a steady growth in the demand for jobs for attorney is expected in the short and medium term. This implies that even though as of 2008, there were 759,000 attorneys in the United States, the need for lawyers has so far been insatiable. There are many types of attorney jobs that you can choose from; but the best jobs are... (5 views)
Be Careful If You Have Crossed 30 and Studying At a Law School Now, here is a touchy subject. What happens to overage students who join law school from other fields of work or at a relatively late age? Usually, the situation seems grim, unless you have things planned out in sync with reality. (5 views)
8 Ideas to Help Inspire You on Redecorating Your Home or Apartment Summary: Below are some home or apartment redecoration ideas that I’ve gathered from Pinterest recently. Hopefully they help you find some inspiration. (5 views)
Ways to Find Law Job Listings Are you looking for law jobs and wondering where to turn? Perhaps you are still a law student or maybe you are simply not happy with the current sector of law you are practicing and wish to make a change. You will see many job listings in various magazines and newspapers such as law job listings, lawyer careers, attorney job openings, law employment openings, work for... (5 views)
Facebook: Private Eye According to the The New York Bar Association, it is ethical for attorneys to utilize social networking websites such as Facebook and Myspace to gather evidence to submit in court. (5 views)
Law Students Now Have 28 Days To Accept Or Decline Offers This year, law students were forced to get into gear when it came to deciding on offers from law firms. (5 views)
It Ain't Easy Being Green... Or A Lawyer Frustrated members of the legal education system have been voicing their concerns on a global scale as of late. In Uganda, the Bar Exam is said to be too difficult for many students to pass, leaving students high and dry in mounds of debt. Law professors in countries like Japan and India say their law schools are not of high enough quality to create decent lawyers. And for... (5 views)
Summer Law School Hiring 2011 Several sources report differing outlooks on hiring of summer law associates. (5 views)
Can Government Workers Read Wikileaks? The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recommends carrying a towel with you at all times, in case you encounter the ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal. This ferocious animal is considered to be both the most dangerous and stupidest animal in the galaxy. When you encounter one, the guide instructs you to wrap your towel around your head, because the ravenous bugblatter beast... (5 views)
Gender Pay Gap In 2008, according to United States census statistics, women in the United States were making an average of 77 cents to the man's dollar and female attorneys at law firms are not excluded from the pay equity gap. If you look specifically at African American women, that number drops down to 68 cents followed by Latinas making 58 cents. It is illegal to discriminate based... (5 views)
Legal Marketplace Puts Onus on Law Schools to Provide More Practical Experience According to the August 5th Wall Street Journal blog, 'New York State Bar Prez Says Law Students Need Better Training', the position that lawyers need more practical experience upon graduation is an issue that's been gaining steam since the recession. (5 views)
Sin, Redemption and Salvaged Careers This past Sunday, Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter took to the airwaves and expressed his disappointment that President Obama's State of the Union Address failed to mention last summer's massive explosion that killed eleven men and resulted in a shut down of activity along the Gulf Coast. This week, we take a look at the career and scandal that has defined the... (5 views)