Judges aren’t known for their sense of humor… about judges
John (Keeping Tabs on the TTAB®) Welch reports on the unsurprising conclusion that sarcasm doesn’t work better at the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board than... Read more
Category: Law Practice and Profession
Schaden-Fraud?
John Welch has once again updated his Fraud-O-Meter! Behind this clever Infographic-type thingy is a report of a meaningful legal development concerning the concept of... Read more
Not Hiring, but…
I (in my role as head of a small law firm) do get a lot of letters and emails of inquiry. It’s interesting to see... Read more
Linked for eternity
When Goetz Fitzpatrick‘s Scott D. Simon circulated news about a new service that manages the problem of citations to hyperlinks that may or may not... Read more
Mix ‘n’ match
The thing about lawyer jokes — besides the fact that they’re never funny when you all of a sudden have to call one of us... Read more
Bad moments in lawyer advertising
Above the Law reports: Belluck & Fox is a nine-attorney law firm in Manhattan. The firm worked out a deal with the radio station that... Read more
Not my money
Last June, blogging about my presentation to the Copyright Society on the Righthaven litigation, I wrote the following: This brings us to the issue of... Read more
Zombies in Las Vegas?
Ryan Gile reports on an odd ruling that just could — however unlikely — result in some degree of reanimation of Righthaven, of all things:... Read more
Name that geek
Dennis Crouch of the Patently-O blog did a cool little experiment. A professor of law at Boston University and a practicing patent lawyer, he’d be... Read more
Kick in the head
David Nieporent brings our attention to Overlawyered: “The Microsoft of kickball”: As David points out, this is really stupid. But yes, there is kickball for... Read more
Let it flow
The Invent Blog® reports on the latest fashion (and maybe a good idea) for IP lawyers: Flowcharts on IP for Clients to help them understand... Read more
New York ethics rules do not destroy blogs as we know them
Probably not, anyway. We were all upset and flustered over the proposed new rules. As actually enacted, they were considerably more mild and don’t seem... Read more
Best of 2008: Other People’s Money
First published January 8, 2008. WSJ.com’s Law Blog reports about the seven-figure effect in the Central District of California for a one-minute-late filing: A judgment in... Read more
“Go Home”: Why law school was probably a bad idea
Oddly enough, I got a “request” for an article I once wrote in Student Lawyer magazine in a comment here. The point of the article was... Read more