Your Laptop is NOT Private or Secure at US Customs
The Ninth Circuit has held that it is the right of the United States government to seize a digital device at a border crossing*, transport it to a secondary location, and retain the data from the device indefinitely until it can be accessed. It has been true...Then Again, Maybe Wikipedia IS a Proper Legal Authority
Surprise, surprise, Courts seem to be split on the issue of whether or not Wikipedia is a proper legal source. In the previous post, people were discussing this link on Wikipedia: Which is a listing of holdings from Courts that have cited Wikipedia in various...Reminder From Fed. Dist. Court: Wikipedia is Not a Proper Legal Authority
Just saw this over at Legal Writing Prof Blog. The court notes here that defense counsel appears to have cobbled much of his statement of the law governing ineffective assistance of counsel claims by cutting and pasting, without citation, from the Wikipedia web...Clausewitz and Machiavelli – On Litigation
Yesterday afternoon while I was lifting weights (yes, I have my iPhone at the gym. I check on Twitter while resting between sets), I saw a tweet from ElieNYC in regards to the United States’ third Middle Eastern adventure: Is it that the Powell Doctrine of...Grit and a Growth Mindset
There seems to be a general lament among the elder generation of lawyers in regards to the quality of new law school graduates. Simultaneously, there is also a cacophony of complaints from recent law school graduates about the general state of the legal profession and...
Peter Drucker’s 4 Universal Entrepreneurial Disciplines
Whenever I come across the writings of Peter Drucker, I’m never failed to be impressed by his insight. It’s no wonder he was one of the most influential and forward-thinking management theorists in the world (and continues to be). If you’re a lawyer or law...Need to Solve a Problem? Pretend You’re Someone Else.
When approaching a complex situation that requires a creative solution, some leading research points to a novel approach to problem solving. Don’t solve the problem based on how you would solve it, but instead pretend to be someone else and solve it from their...The Bar
…or rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. I apologize to all the readers out there for an extended item away from the blog, but once I began to prepare for the February Bar this past December, it became clear that it was going to require my full time...Email Privacy Protected by 4th Amendment
From the EFF Deeplinks blog, in the matter of US v. Warshak: As the Court held today, Given the fundamental similarities between email and traditional forms of communication [like postal mail and telephone calls], it would defy common sense to afford emails lesser...Sidebar
