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LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: What to do as a law firm leader
It's easy to contend that "law firm leadership," like "jumbo shrimp," is a contradiction in terms for the larger organizations.
BLAWG LOG: Zaretsky on How Can Law Students Win the War Against Their Lockers?
It’s the beginning of a new school year, and starting fresh at law school is hard. So, if you think walking is tough, just imagine the anxiety that law students across the country were confronted with when they received their locker assignments.
THE DARK SIDE: How the law became a monstrous chimera
The maximum penalty for armed robbery is not just a prison term, but a fine of $100,000.
BEV BUTULA: Federal Land Records
The Bureau of Land Management’s Federal Land Records site provides “live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1820 and the present."
ETHICALLY SPEAKING: Selling your ethics
This is the third article in a series designed to bring ethics to the forefront with regard to the private practice of law.
Super Lawyers, Part Two: What makes one super?
The week before last, I wrote about a few lawyers’ impressions of being designated as “Super Lawyers” by the Minnesota-based publication of the same name (one I find slightly schlocky).
BLAWG LOG: DiMotto on the roles and duties of a judge with a jury; O’Hear on the 7th Circuit
One of the great advantages I have gained from my twitter account is a vast amount of information about juries, jury issues and jury problems.
THE DARK SIDE: I don’t want to be a member of the State Bar
At the end of Henrik Ibsen’s play, “The Pillars of Society,” after the so-called pillars of society have been shown to be a bunch of scoundre[...]
BEV BUTULA: World Statistics
Worldometers is an interesting website that provides real time statistics for a variety of topics. Areas addressed include world population, government & economics, society & media, environment, food, water, energy and health.
THE DARK SIDE: I can play with any of ’em
People say I’m crazy because I’ve gone back to practicing law full time out of my basement. Actually, people say I’m crazy for lots of reason[...]
LEGAL CENTS: BranchOut: Keeping it (sort of) professional on Facebook
BranchOut -- the free, year-old professional networking app for Facebook -- just can’t decide what it wants to be when it grows up.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Internet security a virtual requirement
The American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct have no formal ethical prohibition against conducting legal practice over the Internet.
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- Outside the RNC, small Milwaukee businesses and their regulars tried to salvage a sluggish week
- Biden called to resign immediately after the president announces he won’t seek reelection
- Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Harris
- Local PA cops allegedly thought Trump’s would-be assassin was Secret Service
- Biden-Lead Secret Service admits agency denied past requests by Trump’s campaign for tighter security
- Class action filed against Walgreens
- Former Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant pleads guilty to smuggling contraband
- Two dead, one injured after Ozaukee County water rescue
- RNC Final Day: Trump accepts GOP Nomination
- Wisconsin officials intervene in Planned Parenthood action
- 7th Circuit adopts modifications to Rules 31, 34, 40, 47 and 60
- MPD issues statement on outside agency officer assignments
Case Digests
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Double Jeopardy; Sentencing
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Sexual Assault-Prosecutorial Misconduct
- Contract-Negligence
- Criminal Law; Juvenile Law; Discovery
- Family Law; Child Support; Property Division First paragraph(s)
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel- Exclusion of Evidence of Witness Bias
- Postconviction Relief-Sentencing-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- 14th Amendment – Due Process
- Criminal-Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement
- Bankruptcy-Tax
- Civil Rights – 14th Amendment-Jury Instructions
- Contract; Foreclosure and Property
