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Jul 22, 2015

Social media preferences of lawyers, Super Lawyer methodology disparaged, and appellate judges don’t know tech

Survey: LinkedIn top social media tool for Minnesota lawyers Over 60 percent of attorneys surveyed by the Minnesota State Bar Association say that LinkedIn is the best social media network to use for professional purposes. That’s followed by Fac[...]

Jul 17, 2015

Author discusses SCOTUS’ “newfound understanding of modern communications technologies”

'Truculent' justice a bad influence on students Noted scholar and professor Irwin Chemerinsky writes that Justice Antonin Scalia is a bad influence on law students, reports the ABA Journal, quoting the Los Angeles Times. (“L)ately my students ha[...]

Jul 15, 2015

Federal judge to blog no more, Roto Rooter settles for shafting wounded Iraq vet, and sheriffs group says state is failing mentally ill inmates

Judge scotches Hercules and the Empire blog At Above the Law, Tamara Tabo pens an open letter to U.S. District Court Judge Richard Kopf, lamenting Kopf’s decision to quit his widely read blog, Hercules and the Empire. The Nebraska judge annou[...]

Jul 14, 2015

Ginsburg on discipline on the high court

Do not go gentle... Lawyers are unhappy and depressed, but that’s old news. The personality traits that contribute to that unhapppiness to that are perfectionism and pessimism. This may be old news, but it bears repeating What's notable abo[...]

Jul 10, 2015

Archdiocese wins one, Posner is unbowed

Judge Posner doesn’t care about the dignitary wounds of straight people Judge Richard Posner has bench-slapped the dissenters in Obergerfell v. Hodges, with a piece published in Slate. He may go down in history for his legal acumen, but he [...]

Jul 8, 2015

ISIS suspects “de-radicalization” release plan challenged, legal literary styling lambasted, and mandatory retirement age mulled

Terror suspect: ““We’re not gonna be in the program, bro” MPR checks in on what skeptical government prosecutors call “a unique and untested” pretrial release plan for three Minnesota terror suspects accused of plotting to join ISIS. [...]

Jul 7, 2015

Winnipeg lawyer’s office bombed, and Scalia further parsed

Prepare to merge The pace has slowed since the first quarter of 2015, but law firm mergers are nonetheless taking place at a record rate, reports the ABA Journal. A total of 19 were announced in the U.S. during the second quarter of 2015. With[...]

Jul 3, 2015

SCOTUS petitioned to take up implied consent, Minnesota lawyer who skipped trial for Paris wedding suspended and the trouble with sex offender residency requirements

Minnesotan seeks implied consent review from SCOTUS It might be an understatement to say that defense attorney Chuck Ramsey does not have a high opinion of the Minnesota Supreme Court’s jurisprudence when it comes to the state’s drunk driving [...]

Jul 1, 2015

MSOP regrets, bad jurors, hyperlinks ok for e-filing, and 10 new laws

Betzold on MSOP: No one could have predicted failure of treatment program Former state senator Don Betzold, who carried the 1994 legislation which created the Minnesota Sex Offender Program, pens an opinion piece for the Strib about the controvers[...]

Jun 30, 2015