Associate's Mind

  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 [...]

So, as I’m sure most of you probably already know, Joseph Rakofsky has once again emerged from the shadows to test the bounds of reason, good sense and the law by filing…whatever the hell this is. If you’re not familiar with Jo-Jo, you can read my initial accounting of the whole thing here. For an [...]

Someone, most likely Congressman Anthony Weiner, sent out a picture of a man’s genitalia to the wide world of Twitter. It has resulted in an explosion of coverage in the US media in the past few days. Congressman Weiner’s response to the picture was odd, in particular he said “the photograph does not look familiar to me…But [...]

They had been promised that they would be allowed safe passage through the city. But it was not to be. An angry white mob descended upon the Freedom Riders with baseball bats and iron pipes upon arrival in Montgomery, AL 50 years ago this past month. Upon arrival in Montgomery, the Highway Patrol abandoned them [...]

Why I’m Quitting Twitter (and you should to) was the title of a recent discussion on the Legal Blogging Group on Linkedin. I dip in on occasion to see what’s going on. Usually it’s a mess of rah-rah Web 2.0/SEO/social media marketing talk. But there is substantive discussion on occasion and a large number of [...]

Courtesy of SHG of Simple Justice, we have the amended complaint in Rakofsky v. the Internet TM. Yours truly still not a party.   Rakofsky v. Internet Amended

5/17/11 Update: Amended complaint now available. Older updates at bottom of post. In a follow up to my post, How Young Lawyers Should Conduct Themselves Online?, here we have how young lawyers should not conduct themselves online. In case you missed it, about a month ago a young lawyer by the name of Joseph Rakofsky, [...]

Adam Bryant, columinst at the NYT and author of the book, “The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons From CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed,” just put up an article titled: Distilling the Wisdom of C.E.O.’s (warning, will consume one of your free monthly NYT pageviews. Workarounds here), in which he puts forth the following scenario: IMAGINE 100 people working [...]

For the unaware, there is a lawyer-centric blogging platform/service called Lexblog, which is geared towards providing a turn-key solution to blogging/SEO/social media/etc . The CEO of the company is Kevin O’Keefe, and he maintains a blog called Real Lawyers Have Blogs. Yesterday, Kevin put up a post asking: Can blogging and other social media fill [...]

This isn’t legal related at all but I found it very compelling. A soldier, a Scotsman, who landed at Normandy on D-Day, armed with only his pipes: ANY reasonable observer might have thought Bill Millin was unarmed as he jumped off the landing ramp at Sword Beach, in Normandy, on June 6th 1944. Unlike his [...]