Prepackaged Opinions.

It doesn’t surprise me anymore that a large number of people can express strong opinions on a topic like this when they haven’t heard any specific allegations, let alone a response, not to mention verified facts.

Ashcroft v. Iqbal and the Law of Unintended Consequences.

It is too early to speculate exactly how the Supreme Court will return to this issue, but it seems a good bet that it must. Cases are surging through the courts and the Circuits will be collecting them and probably “splitting” in the process. The Supreme Court will eventually be called upon for guidance and it will be a somewhat different Supreme Court.

From Russia, but Without Love.

Incidentally. If you would like to have your comment appear on this blog, don’t just say that you loved the post or read the blog all of the time. Don’t tell me that you are going to put it in your Google Reader or however you get your RSS. Yes, I appreciate comments like that from a sincere reader. But other readers don’t. If you want to see your comment posted, you must tell me more. What do you think about the topic discussed? What else would you like to know? Give me something that readers would like to see. I don’t care if you disagree. I’m a lawyer, we like a good debate.

1984? We Don’t Have a Record of any Book called 1984. You Must Have Imagined It.

We didn’t know when we bought our Kindles that Big Brother could read and access the books and periodicals on our personal machine. We assumed that such matters were private.

Why Blog? Here’s What a Veteran Law Blogger has to Say.

When “Jottings” first appeared, there were only about three employment law blogs in existence, Fox states. Today, there are at least 100. No wonder. Employment law has been exploding during that time and the exponential increase in blogs means only one thing. Al lot more people want to know a lot more information on the topic. “Jottings” appears to provide both good writing and an interesting perspective to boot.

My Walter Cronkite Memory.

The idea that the Troy of the Iliad may have been a real place and that it might be possible to dig it up, hit me like a thunderbolt from Olympus. The show went off the air when I was 10 years old. But over fifty years later, a spark struck by Walter Kronkite burns on in me, like the flames of Homer’s Troy.

Real Estate Lending: New Regs Require Greater Lender Compliance in Timing Preclosing Disclosures.

Posted by Cliff Tuttle (c) 2009 New Federal Regulations regarding, inter alia, the timing of pre-closing activity became effective for lenders on June 30. Wells Fargo provided a pamphlet on the subject for the retail and the wholesale departments of residential lenders. CLT

Good Lawyers Don’t Always Win; Bad Lawyers Don’t Always Lose.

Yet Burger lost cases, lots of them. But, it was not primarily because Mason was the better lawyer. That conclusion was probably true, but even world class lawyering, without more, wasn’t going to extract Mason’s client’s neck from the noose Ham Burger tied.

Back Talk Requested: “Obscenity Prosecution Tells a Sad Story” Draws Many Comments.

Today, a member of a social web site (Wolfbook) appears to have sent links to the story to his friends and some of them are sending me messages. Whereas, I had been deleting all comments, I’ve decided to start posting comments that are substantive and not selling something. Thank you, Wolfbook members, for the compliments on the post, but I’d really like to hear what you (or anyone else) thinks about the outcome of this case.

So, What’s Wrong with Lawyer Jokes?

Lawyer jokes are fine as long as they are not promoting an agenda of insulting and demeaning the legal profession in blank. Yes, there can be, and are, Mark Dreyers. But to assert, even deviously through a joke, that Dreyer is the norm, is just plain wrong.

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