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Courts and law classes are in recess in South Florida, as Hurricane Irma makes landfall in the Caribbean and turns toward the North American continent. The hurricane, a Category 5 storm with winds reaching 185 miles per hour, is the second strongest Atlantic storm in recorded history. Hurricane Allen was the strongest, peaking at 190 […]

Facebook gave us endless ‘friends,’ although most Facebook friends are fake. So in the evolution of social media, has networking turned into “fake-friending”? Or has it always been that way — “hello, I love you, won’t you tell me your name?” It is the networking game, and it’s understood that the relationships are first about […]Read More

A former cadet at West Point Academy, the nation’s premiere military academy, had her case, Doe v. USA, dismissed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The appellate court explained that a Bivens claim is unavailable for military cadets alleging a violation of their rights connected to their service. Significantly, the court found that cadets […]

With apologies to all those who have tried really hard to become judges, there are easier ways to do it. The reality is, the best law school grades, an illustrious trial practice, and a stellar reputation in the legal community alone won’t qualify you to be a judge. How else can you explain that the […]

When you think about how much your law partner’s new computer cost, you know instinctively that the bill is also your bill. It’s Partnership 101. But different rules apply with your “other partner.” We’re talking about when a spouse’s computer bills become yours — even if you are not in business together. That’s the problem […]Read More

If you are lucky enough to have Microsoft as a client, don’t complain that the company will not pay your hourly fees. The company has announced that it will no longer pay hourly attorney’s fees, opting for alternative billing arrangements with select law firms. It’s a two-year project, but the future is almost here. As […]Read More

After the president of the State Bar of Texas issued a call to action for Texas lawyers, the enormous response from the legal community did not end with just the law firms and lawyers responding to that call. Throughout the state of Texas, law students and faculty have also stepped up to provide what help […]

Venture capitalists — predominantly men — have been like the gorillas in the boardroom; they sit wherever they want. Women, on the other hand, have barely had a seat at the table. They’ve long suffered silently from sex discrimination and harassment in the tech industry, where startups often survive only as long as they get […]

Life can be a wonderful, albeit chaotic, and hopefully long and bounteous event for most attorneys. The chaos, though key to providing the variance that keeps life interesting, can sometimes raise the ire of court, like when you get a flat tire on the way there. When disaster strikes last minute, do you know what […]

Ulysses, fearing he would heed the tempting Siren’s song, ordered his men to lash him to the mast of his boat. Upland, fearing a prohibited tax aimed at marijuana businesses, kept it off the special election ballot. That’s a slight twist on the California Supreme Court’s mythical reference in California Cannabis Coalition v. City of […]Read More

Unfortunately for Jay Russell Shafer, a recent Ninth Circuit decision has turned his jury verdict awarding him six figures for enduring a constitutional violation into a loss. Shafer convinced a jury that when two city police officers knocked him to the ground, face first, for refusing to drop a water balloon, one of those officers […]

Now that smartphones have become the most distracting part of human anatomy, it seems like common sense that lawmakers would enact regulations to prohibit, or at least limit, their use while driving. In addition to lawmakers doing what they can to stop people from being distracted by their devices while driving, device makers are as […]