Associate's Mind

“If a generation is going to arrive in the jury box that is totally unused to sitting and listening but is using technology to gain the information it needs to form a judgment, that changes the whole orality tradition with which we are familiar.” November 2008, Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain, Sir Igor Judge. So begins [...]

  A couple weeks ago, the Alabama Supreme Court adopted changes to the Rules of Civil Procedure and the Rules of Professional Conduct permitting “limited scope representation” (LSR) or “unbundled” legal services. There have also been a number of modifications to the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure new rules, but I wanted to break out [...]

  I recently got around to reading a whopper of an old law review article that I had been wanting to read for awhile entitled, “Inside the Judicial Mind.” From the introduction: …we conducted an empirical study to determine whether five common cognitive illusions would influence decision making of a sample of 167 federal magistrate [...]

  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 [...]

  It’s probably old hat to most people who spend any amount of time online at this point, but in case you weren’t aware, Congress is in the process of considering the PROTECT IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Like most bills in Congress, the name of the bill makes it sound like [...]

I came across a new law blog recently, entitled Circuit Splits, focused on splits in appellate courts sitting in different federal circuits. It’s a new blog, but it shows promise. In a recent post, they put up something I had been looking for in the past in and thought I would share: different ways to [...]

  Maybe others were aware of this, but I was not. Starting in 2007, the Law Library of Congress began archiving blawgs: The collection has grown to more than one hundred items covering a broad cross section of legal topics.  Blawgs can also be retrieved by keywords or browsed by subject, name, or title. I went [...]

  Over at r/law on Reddit, someone asked the question: “What are the most amazing Supreme Court oral arguments of the past few years?” The user had their own opinion: I discovered that the U.S. Supreme Court publishes audio of oral arguments online, which can be freely downloaded by anyone. I also discovered Oyez, which [...]

  Remember that party from college? That crazy time where we went and picked up the security guard from our apartment complex on the Strip at 2 am? And instead of picking him up, we ended up going out with him and walking down the Strip barefoot. Then the sorority! And what about when the [...]

  For the unaware, one of the greatest potential disruptors for entire swaths of the global economy over the next decade is 3D printing. From Wikipedia: 3D printing is a form of additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is created by laying down successive layers of material. 3D printers are generally faster, more [...]