D2D

D: All Things Digital, which kicks off next Tuesday, now is sold out. From the Web site:

This conference sold out quickly, but you can catch some of our guests on CNBC's "Power Lunch." Or get an executive summary when CNBC airs a special based on D on July 4, 5, 6 and 7.

Arrangements are being made to record D and make it available on a delayed webcast. Visit this site as the conference date approaches for more information.

(Links added.) I'm still kind of flabbergasted to be going. (Here's why. No, I don't really get the wine thing either.) Sadly, this means I won't personally be able to welcome our six Los Angeles summer associates when they start work next week, but I have the feeling we'll all recover.

Closer To Canned

Proposed California spam legislation that would allow the recovery of at least $500 per violation passed the state senate yesterday. In Washington, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law also approved a bill that would permanently extend the ban on Internet taxes scheduled to expire in November. (More.) [both via ILN]

"Hm, Upgrades."

you say they taught you how to read and write

they taught you how to count

i say they taught you how to buy and sell

your own body by the pound

(Everclear, Everything to Everyone)

That's really apropos of nothing except the song has been chorusing through my head since my drive in this morning. (Richard Sheridan would be proud...) It does however provide a germane backdrop against which to mention some ongoing research funded by the Law School Admission Council, and pursued by Boalt Hall professor Marjorie Shultz and others, aimed at going "beyond the LSAT and GPA to find additional ways of predicting who will become effective lawyers." Thus far the project has identified 26 Factors in Effective Lawyering, and Boalt alums are asked to take a survey to help the researchers measure performance on these effectiveness factors. (They left out the old familiar "grinding all obstacles into a chalky gray powder suitable for mixing with water and patching walls," but given the refined professionalism to which we all now adhere, this is hardly much of a surprise.)

We Hold ThisTruth To Be Self-Evident

That there is much to be learned from Ernie the Attorney. (Nicely done, Jerry!)

Resistance Is Futile, You Will Be Colonialized

From the PGA Tour:

TOURCast: Free Today. Golf history. Annika Sörenstam has teed off. Don't miss a single shot. Every player, every hole, every shot, FREE all day long on TOURCast.

TOURCast seems to be overwhelmed at the moment, but Annika has gone par-par-par on 10, 11 and 12.

And birdie 13!!