Between Lawyers

Headline Of The Day (Denise Howell)

2007-04-26T14:38:02-05:00

Courtesy of Marc Fisher at the Washington Post, Lawyer's Price For Missing Pants: $65 Million.

Julicial Eloquence (Denise Howell)

2006-10-16T18:27:55-05:00

Julie Hilden of FindLaw's Writ neatly pummels into dust any credible argument for regulating lawyer blogs as advertising: Are Lawyers' Blogs Protected by the First Amendment? Why State Bar Regulation of Law Blogs As "Advertising" Would Be Elitist and Reductive. "If we want the best arguments to win in court, why shouldn't we let the best bloggers win clients, too? State bars should affirmatively encourage legal blogs, rather than chilling them by regulating them as if they were no more significant than a banner on the back of a bus."

Online On The Front Lines (Denise Howell)

2006-08-27T10:00:20-05:00

It has been fascinating in the last several years to watch what has unfolded as the world's first online war. The fact that stories can be and are told and read globally by representatives of all of the parties involved — journalists, soldiers, natives to occupation zones — has fundamentally changed the way public opinion develops (and thus, at least to some extent, the way strategic policy is formed).

But for those in the military, as is true of so much they do, their online activities take place in an environment of uncertainty and danger. As the Jacksonville Daily News reports, though use of tools like MySpace is increasingly common, "DoD does not currently have a specific 'blogging' policy." This can leave soldiers like Matt Austin and his family and friends wondering what exactly has led to the curtailing of activities that provide a thin yet powerful lifeline home.

Is You Read One Post On NSA Surveillance . . . (Marty Schwimmer)

2005-12-20T10:25:03-05:00

. . . make it this one by Orin Kerr on Volokh.

or this one by Cass Sunstein.