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Google+The New York Times has an excellent article in today’s paper, written by Eyal Press, dealing with a new perspective on “family values”: the importance of employees with family responsibilities to have flexibility, including leave, from their employers, and lawsuits … Continued
Monthly Archives: July 2007
5 Steps to Take After a Data Center Failure
In the aftermath of the 365Main data center power failure, it’s important to think about what steps customers (of any data center) ought to take now: Inform customers Check procedures and systems (Re-)consider redundancy and failover Review your SLAs and … Continued
Why are lawyers miserable: want a list? – Times Online
Why are lawyers miserable: want a list? – Times Online: the dehumanising hours. the yawning gap between their intelligence and the mind-numbing nature of their work. At least if you flipped burgers for a living you’d have the satisfaction of … Continued
Help the EFF analyze FBI documents
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation: We’ve already started scouring newly-released documents relating to the misuse of National Security Letters to collect Americans’ private information. But don’t let us have all fun — you, too, can dive into the docs and … Continued
Why Provide Free WiFi?
Why should hotels, cafes, and other service-oriented establishments offer free WiFi to their customers?
Reporting on the Supreme Court
SCOTUSblog has an interesting write-up about a C-SPAN program dealing with the challenges for reporters in covering the Supreme Court: With little need for anonymous sources and few opportunities to interview the main subjects of their stories, Supreme Court reporters … Continued
Res ipsa loquitur
If you’ve ever taken a Torts class, and wanted a better example of res ipsa loquitur (“the thing speaks for itself”) than a barrel falling out of a warehouse, how about this? A 1,500-pound wrecking ball broke free of a … Continued
My Top Ten General Legal Research Sites for U.S. Law
10. Wikipedia A collaborative electronic encyclopedia, editable (in theory) by anyone. Sounds like a recipe for disaster? Perhaps, but Wikipedia entries do an excellent job explaining many legal principles in an approachable way. Better for initial research to understand an … Continued
Is it OK to Share my WiFi? (Clearwire)
With the growth of wireless Internet and various sharing services, the question arises: is it OK to intentionally share your connection with other people? For more background, read the first post in this series about sharing WiFi, and covering Comcast. … Continued
6th Circuit Dismisses One Case Against NSA Surveillance
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals “ducks” the issues by dismissing on a technical ground (lack of standing) to avoid ruling on any substantive points: The majority in a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the … Continued
The Changing Role of Lawyers
In a post entitled “The new legal physics,” Susan Crawford writes: When I went to law school, I had the sense that we all pretty much knew what the role of lawyers was. This view was such an essential part … Continued
A Little Legal Humor
From Power of Attorneys: Civil law – Wikipedia Quirky American derivation of Roman law wherein lawyers and judges routinely manipulate a written collection of laws that apply to everyone but the lawyers and judges themselves, who are exempt from observance … Continued
The Start of Summer Law in Hawaii
Today was my first day of summer law classes in Hawaii: Professional Responsibility: ethics and rules for lawyers. Should be simple, but the rules are far from common sense. The simplest rule: never lie. The more complex areas appear to … Continued
13 Things I Learned in My First Year of Law School
13. This list is not exclusive. 12. Everyone talks about the “real world,” but no one can quite articulate what that means. 11. Everyone agrees that one exam at the end of a semester is pedagogically unsound, and bears little … Continued
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Hawaii
For my “professional responsibility” class here in Hawai’i during the summer, my class is reading Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, And Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust: the Bishop Estate in Hawai’i. So far, the book—jointly written by our professor, … Continued
