The Blog of Legal Times advises that the Committee on Court Administration and Case Management of the United States Judicial Conference has  developed pattern jury  instructions "to address the increasing incidence of juror use of such devices as cellular telephones or comp ...

Court Keeps White House Spy Docs Secret Pending National Security Review :: Holds Law Does Not Protect Identities of Lobbyists :: EFF v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (pdf)

Man glaubt es kaum, aber dieses Weblog wird heute 9 Jahre alt. Es sind keine besonderen Feierlichkeiten vorgesehen, also business as usual. Aus der Geschichte: Vor ziemlich genau 6 Jahren hat Matt Mullenweg (Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, an ...

WY Judge Gets Sarcastic Over Records Rule Criticism

Maybe, according to this article in the National Jurist (a magazine targeting law students and law students-to-be). According to the author: As in most other aspects of life, the “Seven Deadly Sins” manifest themselves in legal education. There’s plenty of...

At the same time that the president was calling for bipartisanship and putting “petty politics” aside 1. His spokesman, Glib Gibbs, mocked of Sarah Palin for having some notes on her hand (this from the mouthpiece of a man so wedded to the TelePrompTer that he used one to read his remarks to fifth ...

I am on a serious roll with business novels. This time it is the newly-published Simplifying Innovation by Michael A. Dalton. The basic idea behind this book is to apply Theory of Constraints ideas to the process of innovation. Overall, I thought the book did a good job of putting it all together ...

Toyota Motor Corp announced two separate recalls today. The first recall involves a global recall of 437,000 2010 Toyota hybrids—Prius, Lexus, and Sai—over issues with the vehicles’ anti-lock braking systems. Last week, the automaker admitted that there was a problem with the software that controls ...

The subject of antitrust exemptions has been an oft-discussed topic here at TOTM (see, e.g. here and here).  In the latter of those two links I was somewhat critical of the DOJ for taking a neutral stance on the insurance industry exemption, which has now become rather wrapped up in the health care ...

In bold, the search terms that Google Analytics tracked to my site: Sect of liars – I belong to several different criminal defense lawyer associations, so it seems appropriate for me to rank highly for this term. Bong hits for Satan – Turns out my wife was right. Released from prison ...