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Associate’s Mind was included in the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 today, a listing of the top 100 legal blogs of the year. Thanks to everyone who nominated the blog for inclusion.  It’s good company to be keep, with many great legal bloggers in there. Thanks to everyone else who continues to come back everyday and [...]

  “Inside baseball” refers to using jargon, specialized knowledge, acronyms, first names instead of full names, or other such things when speaking and writing. Using shorthand of this sort is simply more efficient when among friends, colleagues, or other “insiders.” But there’s a larger reason for inside references: They subtly increase the bond between the [...]

It’s Not China; It’s Efficiency That Is Killing Our Jobs | Dyske “Today the best ideas can efficiently and quickly propagate worldwide, and everyone can efficiently find them and buy them…When someone owns a means of production that is more efficient, it can eliminate a large number of jobs, and he stands to profit handsomely [...]

  My first computer was something of the the 386 variety. Actually, it was my father’s for work, but I remember spending countless hours  sitting in front of it learning DOS commands. A few years later I remember dialing into local BBSs when we got a 9600 baud modem. the thrill of seeing someone type [...]

Bad SEO Advice May Support Negligence Claim–D’Agostino v. Appliances Buy Phone | Technology & Marketing Law Blog Probably not good news for all those social media gurus out there. Gang Used 3D Printers for ATM Skimmers | KrebsonSecurity Interesting in light of yesterday’s post on 3D printing. Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build [...]

Law Geek: The Circular 230 Ward Against Evil | Defending People A deconstruction of the “IRS Circular 230 Notice” language you often see at the bottom of lawyers’ emails.   Anatomy of A Scam Investigation, Chapter Three | Popehat Attorney gets a fraudulent pseudo-invoice from a scammer and is personally offended. Begins full probe of [...]

  10 Monday Afternoon Reads | The Big Picture Just for this picture: Serial Killer | The Appellate Record On the importance of the serial or “Oxford” Comma. The Data Breach you may not have heard about, but should definitely care about | Massachusetts Data Privacy Law Blog  A brief discussion and example of spoofing [...]

I usually start off each day with a quick run through my RSS Reader for interesting stories to blog about. Sometimes I find something, sometimes I don’t. But I usually come across 5-6 interesting stories that I end up reading, but don’t actually discuss here on Associate’s Mind. As almost every other website does it, [...]

It’s that time of year again. The ABA Journal is soliciting input for inclusion into this year’s Blawg 100 – a list of the 100 best legal blogs in the US.  This is the first year Associate’s Mind is available for inclusion as they do not allow blawgs run by law students to be included in the [...]

Welcome to the new version of Associate’s Mind. It’s been quite a bit of work, but I greatly prefer it to the old digs – which honestly were getting rather stale. This new site and hosting provides me much greater room to move the site in new directions. A couple posts and some comments might [...]