California Blawging

The California Lawyer looks at legal weblogs in its June cover story by Susan E. Davis: Rants, Rulings, Recipes: Lawyers and other legal professionals speak their minds on the Web.
The California Lawyer looks at legal weblogs in its June cover story by Susan E. Davis: Rants, Rulings, Recipes: Lawyers and other legal professionals speak their minds on the Web.
Kevin Heller mined Craig's List and found a casting call for a "last lawyer standing" reality TV show à la The Apprentice. Turns out, as Kevin describes, both Fox and NBC have such shows in the works for fall. Truth is unquestionably stranger than fiction — let's just hope it's more entertaining, too.
The Gucci iPod Case. Wilde would love it.
In my comments, Westy, in addition to providing some great WEP and networking tips, points to a Slate article by Jack Shafer, E-mail Confidential, in which the author turns his "175-pound Samoan attorney" loose on the "extraordinary 114-word 'disclaimer' sloshing around at the bottom" of an email from a Time, Inc. journalist. Pithy observations abound, such as "[S]ending a confidential or valuable message via insecure e-mail is a funny way to preserve a secret," plus there are links to the disclaimers dubbed the longest, most PC, and most incomprehensible by the Register in 2001.
[Update:] Speaking of disclaimers—
Someone should do this with babies (hell yes there's a market; we play music for them in utero, for Pete's sake), and this with bloggers (wherein you could at least get a taste of the real OC).
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