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9 Myths of Work/Life Balance in Law
PAR’s Mythbusters provides hard data to bust nine key myths about work/life balance in the legal profession: Myth 1: Work/life balance is a women’s issue. Myth 2: Law firms are trying hard, but the problems of retaining women and offering work/life balance are too intractable. Myth 3: Law firms lose money on part-timers. Myth 4: […]
August 2007 / 2 min.
Family-Leave Values
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 that are seeking to enforce this flexibility using a variety of legal approaches: Since the […]
July 2007 / 5 min.
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 contracts Learn 1. Keep your customers informed of any outages. Customers can be remarkably forgiving […]
July 2007 / 4 min.
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 youaEUR™d have the satisfaction of giving people momentary pleasure. the yawning gap between the ideals of those entering the profession […]
July 2007 / 2 min.
Why Provide Free WiFi?
Why should hotels, cafes, and other service-oriented establishments offer free WiFi to their customers?
July 2007 / 5 min.
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 crane and careened through downtown streets in Meadville on Monday, bouncing off cars before coming […]
July 2007 / 1 min.
My Top Ten General Legal Research Sites for U.S. Law
- 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 area of the law, rather than as an in-depth, reliable source. Personally, I would never […]
July 2007 / 3 min.
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. (Note: please do not rely on this for legal advice. I am a law student, […]
July 2007 / 4 min.
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 Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati, ruled on a narrow ground, saying the plaintiffs, including lawyers and […]
July 2007 / 1 min.
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 of the legal landscape that we took it for granted, much as we take for […]
July 2007 / 3 min.