When Strong Passwords Don’t Matter Part II
There is something compulsive about a telephone. The gadget-ridden man of our age loves it, loathes it, and is afraid of it. But he always treats it with respect, even when he is drunk. The telephone is a fetish. -Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1953) Now more...
Review: Solo By Choice
There’s a lot of noise being made about new lawyers going solo straight out of law school. Considering the dismal market for legal jobs, many new law grads are headed towards solo practice out of necessity. A large number of the people I graduated with...
Inside Baseball and Orwell’s 6 Rules for Clear Writing
“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...
What are the most amazing Supreme Court oral arguments of the past few years?
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,...
Is That A Docket in Your Pocket Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
A couple of weeks ago another new legal app was simultaneously launched on iOS and Android entitled Docket in Your Pocket (DYP). The brain child of Iowa attorney Mathew Haindfield, the app provides: Access to Pennsylvania court records, including criminal charges,...
Jante Law (Or 10 Rules For Dealing With People)
I had ended up on Wikipedia through a some link of some story that I was reading a couple days ago. Surfing, reading, clicking. I couldn’t even tell you what the original story I was reading. But I ended up on Janteloven, or Jante Law. Jante Law is: A pattern...
Combat Distraction
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Becoming A Good Lawyer Requires Failure
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...
11 Writing Blogs I Follow
A reader recently asked: You mentioned in your review of Point Made that there are a number of legal writing blogs you follow: what legal writing blogs do you follow? I thought I’d put it up for everyone to see. Note, I follow a number of writing blogs...Sidebar
