Associate's Mind

  Here’s another video, this time dealing with claiming fifth amendment privilege in the face of being compelled to give up your passwords. Details on these cases can be found at these links. https://www.eff.org/cases/us-v-fricosu https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/OpinionDoe22312.pdf

In probably the most significant case thus far this century, “Obamacare” goes before SCOTUS in the form of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida. Oral arguments are set to begin soon, but what about the briefs? Solicitor General Don Verrilli recently told a group of lawyers that his opponent, Paul Clement, had written a “phenomenal [...]

I had enrolled in The School of Life, an academy of “self-help” on Bloomsbury’s Marchmont Street, co-founded by philosopher Alain de Botton. For about £30 per session, students can take classes with resident “fellows” of the school on subjects such as “How to fill the God-shaped hole” or “How to make love last”. Tuesday’s topic [...]

  I recently received an email from Lawyer Avenue, asking if I would like a review copy of  From Lemons to Lemonade in the New Legal Job Market by Richard L. Hermann. Hermann is a professor at Concord Law School and ran Attorneyjobs.com before it was sold to Thompson Reuters. The book sounded interesting so I told them [...]

  If you’re in law school or a new lawyer, you might not have heard the name Marc Randazza just yet…But if you stick around legal, copyright, or technology blogs long enough you will.   I don’t know Randazza personally, but I have long admired his work from afar. Mostly for his incredibly entertaining filings [...]

  It’s a little rough around the edges, but here is a video on encryption, US border crossings, and electronic devices. It’s based off of this post from about year ago about the USA v. Cotterman case. I put it together as an experiment as I think video probably has a larger reach than 3000 word breakdowns [...]

  Sometimes you just need to take a break. Unplug, desync, disconnect as I’ve said in the past. Blogging well takes effort. Sure you can crank out insipid, trite observations about marketing, technology, and other vaguely related legal topics like clockwork. But producing something that is self-satisfying and genuine takes time. Sometimes you have the [...]

Over the weekend, Scott Greenfield wrote about the trend in social media that one can be a mentor or be mentored via social media: There’s harm being done here, and that’s why it’s necessary to point this out.  The lawyer who has tried ten cases is being “mentored” by the twitter lawyer who has never [...]

  Normally I take my son to his early school in the suburbs during the week. But he’s been sick this weekend with a fever so I took him downtown to my wife’s hospital this morning to stay in their on-site ill child care. The traffic was incredibly light and there were not many cars [...]

  Compare: I’ll be arriving at John F Kennedy airport on Friday evening; please meet the British Airways Concorde flight. Arr JFK Fri pm, pls mt BA Cncrd flt At first blush, I imagine many will lament the latter as a denigration of speech by young people immersed in text messages and Twitter. It certainly [...]