Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:42 AM
Blawg's Sunday Paper, a quick spin through the blawgosphere and the week that was.
Yu-Sung Soh wrote about a case that went to the Supreme Court of Canada, Childs v. Desormeaux, in the post Childs v. Desormeaux: Does Anyone Have Insurance? at Canadian blawg The Court. In case you haven't yet read or heard about The Court, it is "[a]n initiative of Osgoode Hall Law School, The Court is a site where scholars, practitioners and other interested citizens can discuss the recent work of the Supreme Court of Canada. The Court is staffed by editors who are students at Ogoode Hall Law School working under the supervision of a faculty member." From what I have seen at the site, it is very well done.
Raymond Ward at the (new) legal writer, which offers "[a] collection of resources for lawyers, who write," gave notice of a Legal-writing symposium at Washburn Law School scheduled for March 9 & 10th.
If you’re going to be anywhere near Topeka, Kansas on March 9 or 10, then you may want to sign up for The Art of Advocacy: Writing to Win, a two-day legal-writing symposium sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Advocacy at Washburn University Law School.
The recently re-started Kierkegaard Lives, welcome back, by the way, also mentioned the symposium last week: Writing to Win Symposium at Washburn Law School, Topeka
Evan Brown at Internet Cases "spoke on the topic of YouTube and copyright at a conference on intellectual property law at Chicago's John Marshall Law School." He has made the materials from his speech available here: Materials from John Marshall presentation.
A Seton Hall law student going by the name N.J.L.S. wrote about Comment & Article Submissions at First Movers:
I am currently reviewing submissions for my journal, so I wanted to offer a tip to professors/students/practitioners who are considering submitting their pieces to journals. I find myself asking two questions whenever I read a submission, and the high quality articles invariably address them: Why now? So what?
In the same post, N.J.L.S. then proceeded to answer his/her own questions.
At Build a Solo Practice LLC, Susan Cartier Liebel wrote about a Washington Post article on newbie solo Stan Sporkin: "[h]aving practiced more than 50 years with a very distinguished professional history, Stan Sporkin is finally striking out on his own" [See her post First Time Solo Practitioner at 75 ].
Sumter Camp at Sixth Circuit Blog asked How Much Is Enough? The post starts with the question, "How much does a district court have to say when imposing a sentence in order to protect that sentence on appellate review?" and then explores the question via existing case law. Informative post.
Lou Hampton at Speak to Lead talked about the key principles for persuasive messages in his post Persuasive Messages: 7 Deadly Sins. "One of the things I've observed over the years is that communication failures are only rarely caused by some esoteric mistake. Rather the worst and most frequent failures are caused by breaking core principles." He then lists The 7 Deadly Sins of Persuasive Messaging in the post.
Brad Jenkins at Litigation Support News, reported Merrill Corporation Announces Acquisition of Lextranet. Lextranet is a leading provider of Web-based litigation support and case management systems.
Potential interns take notice, Professor Lawrence Lessig noted that Creative Commons is still accepting applications for summer interns. For details, check his post Intern at CC.
Jami Floyd at Court TV wrote at the Best Defense blog about a new book in her post Exonerated: Kerry Max Cook:
I'm sure my friends at the Innocence Project won't mind my featuring a man who came to my attention from a different source. His name is Kerry Max Cook and his new book, Chasing Justice hits book stores today. Chasing Justice is the page-turning account of Cook's harrowing journey for survival, justice and freedom. It deserves as much attention as John Grisham's The Innocent Man.
In a post culled directly from last week's headlines, guest blogger Kent Greenfield, a professor at Boston College Law School, wrote about market turmoil at the American Constitution Society's ACS Blog, Guest Blogger: A Note About the Tumble:
Last Tuesday, I returned from my 75-minute Corporations class to find that the stock market had plummeted by over 200 points while I was teaching. Its loss for the day was over 400 points, 3% of the market’s value.
In a lengthy post, Professor Greenfield proceeded to talk about how such volatility could in part be traced to the 'short-termism' forced upon corporate management:
This short-termism also makes it difficult to run a company with a long-term focus, paying attention to the company’s non-shareholder stakeholders. If there are short-term costs to such a managerial style, as there often are, the company instantly becomes a target for takeover. Companies with anything approaching a conscience are squeezed out of the market.
If I am right about all this, part of the problem is the underlying legal framework, which establishes the shareholders as the only stakeholder that matters, and which offers management incredible discretion in how to serve them. Management is not required to listen to anyone other than their shareholders. The other principal stakeholders – employees, creditors, and communities – are left to their own devices to protect themselves.
Read the above quotes in context, as well as Professor Greenfield's conclusions here: Guest Blogger: A Note About the Tumble.
Professor Mark A. Godsey at CrimProf Blog talked about Problems Prosecuting Diplomats With Immunity and Domestic Slavery.
Michael Sherman at Alabama Family Law Blog continued his series on preparing for a divorce with the posts: Divorce Preparation: Step 5 - Document & Safeguard Personal Property and Preparing for Divorce: Step 4 - Prepare a budget (or two). You can read all of his divorce prepration tips by starting at any of either of the above links.
The Mommy Blawg has been collecting information for a Midwifery Legislative Update and, after relating findings to this point, asked: Know of any legislation that I've missed? Shoot me a comment or an email.
Finally, thanks to John Mesirow's continually entertaining Legal Juice, I can point out a less serious post to end this week's edition: S-Bombs, F-Bombs, BS-Bombs. What's A Judge To Do? I'll let you explore the post on your own for details.
Have a great rest of the weekend.