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 ...

Panel to Focus on Operational & Fundraising Issues On Thursday February 11, 2010 Conifer Securities will host a panel discussion at the The City Club of San Francisco starting at 3pm.  For more information, please see the flyer on the Conifer website.  I’ve also posted more information on ...

Folgt man den offiziellen Angaben, dann ist Osama bin Laden der wohl meistgesuchte Mann der Welt. Doch gut achteinhalb Jahre nach den Terroranschlägen vom 11. September 2001 in den USA hat noch immer niemand den angeblichen Terrorchef gefasst. Warum? Möglicherweise deshalb, weil die in den Medien p ...

Der Bundesgerichtshof hat es für zulässig erachtet, dass Spiegel Online im Internet ein Dossier mit Altmeldungen über den Mord an Walter Sedlmayr zum Abruf bereitgehalten hat, in denen der Name der Verurteilten genannt wurde und kontextbezogene Bilder der Verurteilten enthalten waren. Die Kläger wu ...

A recent article in a Food and Drug Law Institute publication talks about the important benefits — and risks — when a corporate defendant tells the prosecutor that “my lawyer said it was OK.” Attorney John Fleder writes that the government has become more aggressive in prosec ...

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 ...

Google launched a new social effort today called Google Buzz. If you're immediate reaction is, "Wait, doesn't Yahoo! already have a product named Buzz?" Then you'd be correct. But Google didn't acquire Yahoo! Buzz. Nor has Yahoo! Buzz gone defunct...

Today's Legal Headline News... Toyota Motors recalls 8 million Prius cars over sticky gas pedals, Poker lobbyist want to legalize gambling int he US this year, Alan Greenspan says unemployment rates will remain high, Robert Matthews of Faegre & Benson died in a plane crash, Michael Jackson's d ...

CATHY YOUNG: A Rand Revival?

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 ...