The Right to keep and bear Arms and the Supreme Court Hearing In a moment of uncharacteristic ebullience, William Gladstone described the American Constitution in 1878 as ''the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.'' Like many contemporary commentators, the prime minister had given too little thought to the Constitution's Second Amendment. (23 views)
The case of Enron hiding information Let's suspend conventional thinking for the moment and imagine that Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling did nothing wrong when they ran the Good Ship Enron onto the rocks. (16 views)
The Life and Career of Steve Cooley, Los Angeles County District Attorney Being the District Attorney of Los Angeles is a busy, complex job and one that has been done by some larger-than-life lawyers. In the past five years the current D.A., Steve Cooley, has found that the big chair fits him just fine. (592 views)
Foreign Lawyers Seeking to Practice in U.S. Face Roadblocks As the legal profession becomes increasingly global, many are finding that the realities of the market are straining current understandings of international law and convergence, law firms' strategies, and the geography of rapidly growing markets. (2675 views)
Metadata and all the information on Legal Blogs Each week, I am charged with the task of compiling a list of the best and the worst of the Internet's legal blogs. I feed this list into a large computer, which was designed by NASA and is known as Deep Blog. The computer processes the information into a refined database of the week's most noteworthy blogs. I take this database and travel deep into the Himalayas, where I... (8 views)
Lisa B. Vessels; Paralegal; Duane Morris, LLP; Miami, FL The Crossroads of Changing Jobs Between her work for the Florida Bar's 11th Circuit Committee for Unlicensed Practice of Law, her involvement with the South Florida Paralegal Association, and her work as a paralegal in a BigLaw litigation department, Lisa Vessels said there is ''never a dull moment'' in her professional life. (217 views)
Law Schools Encouraged to Make Third Year More Effective Although many say that third-year law students experience a slump in participation and motivation, a recent study suggests the burden of inspiration should fall to the law schools themselves. (21 views)
Champagne Tastes, Six-Pack Pocketbook Dear Dayana, I am at a crossroads. I spent my twenties living a life of excess and reckless spending. Now, having recently turned 30, I am beginning to panic when there is only $4 in my checking account the last week of the month, and I've already begun raiding my minuscule savings account to buy such necessities as toilet paper and Fancy Feast for my cats. (15 views)
Happy birthday, Rembrandt Spring may be tulip time in Holland, but all through 2006 everything's coming up Rembrandt. (194 views)
Big-time redesign: DTS assumes Caddy's flagship role from old standby DeVille Critics might say the Cadillac DTS is the same old hay being pitched with a new pitchfork. Others will see it as an ideal makeover for a flagship Caddy. (53 views)
Digital Couture - Fusion of Phones and Fashion Usually, terms such as ''spring collection'' are reserved for brands such as Prada, Versace, or, at the very least, Kenneth Cole. (7 views)
Case of the Prejudicial Buttons In the newspaper business, a truism teaches that one picture is often worth a thousand words. In a case now pending in the Supreme Court on a petition for review, one picture may be worth a new trial for a man convicted of murder. Then again, maybe not. (15 views)
Upcoming ruling worries extreme BlackBerry users Jason Wood professes his addiction to his BlackBerry, insisting that he never strays far from it. (7 views)
Arthur Gilbert, Presiding Justice of Division 6 of the California Courts of Appeal, Second District Known for his quick wit and concise, well-written decisions, appellate court Justice Arthur Gilbert is also known for his popular blog Gilbert Submits. LawCrossing speaks with the California-based Gilbert about his career as a judge. (6884 views)
Lawyers Looking for Love on the Internet In the 1949 Tracy-Hepburn film Adam's Rib, one character famously quipped, ''Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called inbreeding; from this comes idiot children—and other lawyers.'' (1777 views)
Best And Most Noteworthy For The Gentle Readers Of Lawcrossing This week, saw Google go to China, Enron go to court, and John Kerry turn to the blogosphere for moral support. We bid a fond farewell to Sandra Day O'Connor and Alan Greenspan and offer a warm ''Wazaaaaap!'' to Sam Alito and Ben ''Party Time'' Bernanke. (4 views)
Non-Attorney Legal Careers: The Crossroads of Changing Jobs While it has become commonplace for most people to have multiple careers throughout their lives, some professions, such as the practice of law, are largely considered to be lifetime choices. The time, hard work, and expense involved in attaining a law degree, and the subsequent paychecks, are strong incentives for a lawyer to remain in the field. However, more and more... (694 views)
Coping with Law School Dismissal in 2024 When she first got news of her academic dismissal from law school, Alaina Alexander said, ''It was as though all of my past rejections swirled up and slapped me hard in the face. (35149 views)
Apathy, Spending Spree, or IRA? Apathy or spending spree — take your pick. Those are the two main choices Americans tend to make when handling money in a former employer's work retirement plan. (77 views)
The islands of the Azores were formed by nature's fury If you left Washington, D.C., and traveled due east across the Atlantic Ocean until you hit land, the first place you would go ashore is - no, not Portugal, which lies along the same latitude - the island group the Azores. (1949 views)
Cayman S: Pure sports car, pure fun The hottest new Porsche isn't the most expensive in the lineup, and it's likely to extend an olive branch to diehard 911 Carrera owners. (83 views)
The Bad Tech—Gadgets Hall of Shame Digital cameras, cell phones, laptops, iPods, HDTVs, artificially intelligent androids—yes, indeed, gadgets do make the world go 'round. (29 views)
Back To The 10th Amendment in the case of Oregon's Right to Assisted Suicide Act The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision last week in the case of Oregon's Death with Dignity act was a double disappointment. Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion for the majority was unpersuasive. Justice Antonin Scalia's opinion for the dissenters was unconvincing. And no one even mentioned the 10th Amendment! It makes you wonder what the world is coming to. (486 views)
Business mission statement should be to cut buzzwords Just to touch base and affirm our mission-focused repurposing, we're deploying you to be a change agent who will drill down with compatible bandwidth as we go forward toward a holistic solution. (319 views)
David Wohl; Lawyer, Legal Analyst, and Investigative Reporter; CBS2; Los Angeles David Wohl is a lawyer in the morning and a legal analyst and journalist in the afternoon. LawCrossing talks with Wohl about his two careers and how he moved from the courtroom to network television. (7583 views)
Pay Scale and Firm prestige play an important role in motivating young legals Working in the field of placing lateral attorneys, I keep a close eye on trends within the legal marketplace. A recurring theme heard from candidates is how they place more emphasis on quality-of-life issues than compensation or prestige. (49 views)
Should It Be Blawgs or Law Blogs? It's time once again to take a peek at what attorneys are blogging about. This week, we learned less about Samuel Alito than we previously believed possible, deleted the cookies in our cache before the Attorney General could get his hands on them, and held onto our Blackberries for dear life. (6 views)
Projector Shopping for the Technology-Impaired Within the past year or so, video projectors for home use have seen a drastic price drop. (19 views)
How to develop Negotiation skills ''Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser—in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.'' - Abraham Lincoln (283 views)
Mister Rogers' Money Tips For more than 30 years, Mister Rogers invited television neighbors into his two-bedroom bungalow in the neighborhood of Make-Believe. During that time — from 1967 to 2001 — the rest of the network TV neighborhood was going to pieces. Fast cuts, frenetic action, and product tie-ins became standard children's programming fare. Through it all, Mister Rogers stayed on... (43 views)