Hon. Randall T. Shepard, Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, has been selected as the recipient of the Sixth Annual Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence. Chief Justice Shepard was chosen by a three-member panel: Hon. Judith S. Kaye, former Chief Judge of the New York Court of…
Top Ten Stories for week ending December 4, 2009. Editor’s Note: The 3rd Annual ABA Journal Blawg 100 is now online! Readers are invited to browse the list and are encouraged to register to vote for their favorites. U.S. Supreme Court A ‘Somewhat Tense Moment’ as Justices Consider Discharge of…
I received the following letter from the ABA Journal along with a request to send it along to our readers. I urge all of you to contribute to the Blawg 100 conversation. David Badertscher Dear Blawgger, As proprietor of one of the more than 2,500 blawgs in the ABA Journal’s…
Jurimetrics, The Journal of Law, Science and Technology (ISBN 0897-1277), published quarterly, is the journal of the American Bar Association, Section of Seience & Technology law and the Center for Study of Law, Science and Technology of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. It was first…
For Week Ending August 13, 2009. Top Ten Stories. Law Firms Top 250 Law Firms Collectively Shrank by 5,259 Lawyers Nov 9, 2009, 07:46 am CST Lawyer Pay How Low Will New Lawyer Pay Go? As Low as $110K to $130K at Reed Smith Nov 10, 2009, 11:18 am CST…
For week ending November 6, 2009 Top Ten Stories: Law Firms Ropes & Gray Associate Arrested in Galleon Probe Nov 5, 2009, 09:39 am CST Criminal Justice Sidley Austin Rescinds Offer to New Hire Suspected of Setting Fire to 9-11 Chapel Nov 2, 2009, 01:05 pm CST Media & Communications…
Ten Top Stories of the Week Law Practice Management Check E-Mail Hourly, Quinn Partner Says, Unless in Court, in Tunnel or Asleep Oct 19, 2009, 11:24 am CDT Contract Attorneys Lawyer’s Lament: Pressure to Review 80 Docs an Hour, for $23 an Hour Oct 21, 2009, 08:52 am CDT Careers…
The American Bar Association (ABA), Criminal Justice Section has just published its Fall 2009 Newsletter, Volume 18 Issue 1 Fall 2009. This issue covers a variety of topics including: Practice Tips – Sexting: Balancing the Law and Bad Choices, Three Questions with Charles Hynes, Section Member News, New Books, News…
Want to vote for your favorite National Book Award winner? For the first time ever, the National Book Foundation is polling the reading public. Think of it as a “people’s choice” award. First, the foundation asked 140 top writers to narrow the field to just six titles. The six contenders…
Rick Snow of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) has just announced that results of the NCSC e-filing survey conducted earlier this year are available at . Also, a brief summary of the findings is available on our Court Technology Bulletin at . He writes: “We hope you find…