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Have all of your posts, comments and mentions on the Internet, especially in social media, become the dreaded “permanent record?” Is what people see in Google about you what you want them to”know” about you? As lawyers participate in social media - Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, just to name a few - there’s a growing sense that Internet presence is becoming online reputation. In this episode, co-hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell look at this important new phenomenon and suggest practical ways that you can find and manage your online reputation, while avoiding the most common pitfalls.

So today reports are surfacing that Bernard Madoff, the perpetrator of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, is dying of cancer in a North Carolina Federal Prison.
The 71-year-old is reportedly taking 20 pills a day to treat his cancer and has told other inmates that he does not have long to live.
“Lawyers for Madoff have [...]

I just received an email from Maria Otero, Director of the University of Puerto Rico Law Library. She shared with me the good news that Thomson Reuters has decided to reinstate support of standalone printing at law schools in Puerto Rico.

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A colleague alerted me to the email below, sent to Thomson Reuters on August 21 by a professor at University of Puerto Rico School:

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Lawyer, writer and blogger Nicole Black’s informed commentary reminds fellow professionals that technology and the Internet are here to stay.

There are important benefits for trial lawyers using a deferred compensation plan when it comes to their contingent fees. How does it work and are there any restrictions for plaintiff attorneys who want to structure their fees? Ringler Radio host, Larry Cohen is joined by co-host Doug Merritt and special guest, nationally recognized tax attorney Robert W. Wood from the firm of Wood & Porter in San Francisco, to discuss the requirements and answer the questions that could help trial lawyers manage their incomes.

Shannon Duffy, at Law.com reported on Aug. 19, that a settlement agreement in Klein v. Amtrak called for removing eight legally significant decisions from publication. Two trespassing teens were badly burned by electric catenary wires when they were horsing around on a parked train car. But the train was parked for quite a while and the owner of the train yard and the owner of the train car knew that there were frequent trespassers, so the situation was dangerous. They could have shut off the power to the catenary wire, or posted warning signs — but didn’t. A jury awarded large damages and huge punitives.

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Why retire? So says Attorney Jack Borden, who is in his law office at 6:30 every morning, doing what he loves - practicing law. Recently, Borden celebrated his 101st birthday, being named ‘America’s Outstanding Oldest Worker for 2009,’ by Experience Works. Now he is the special guest on this edition of Lawyer2Lawyer with co-hosts and attorneys, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi , who discuss the gamut with Borden, senior partner at Borden & Westhoff, LLP. Hear his vivid stories from the past century about the legal profession, tips for young lawyers and his secret to longevity.

A Connecticut Judge has dismissed all murder and rape charges against Kenneth Ireland, a man who spent more than 20 years behind bars for a crime that DNA evidence proves he didn’t commit.
“Ireland was 20 years old when he was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the 1986 rape and murder of Barbara [...]

Click here for Netchoice.org’s press release dated August 18, 2009, detailing the internet advocacy organization’s list of the ten worst internet laws . In part: Read the rest of this entry »