Legal Blogs | Wednesday, March 10, 2010

• A Fish Story with Lessons for Lawyers. The way to learn patience is to be the recipient of it. Note to partners, general counsel and other supervising attorneys: Always being the teacher, never the student, wears you out. Go to Work Matters


• An Experiment…Are On-Line Legal Documents Worth the Money? A couple of weeks ago I was at a Minnesota bar association event. While there, the other attendees and I got into an interesting discussion about a topic that has many lawyers up in arms: on-line legal services like legalzoom.com. These sites offer legal documents like wills and trusts and partnership agreements for a low, fixed price. We agreed to do an experiment. Go to Luck of the Law


• Libel Reform Suddenly – Score One for the Blogosphere. With libel reform being sporadically debated for years, mostly with little expectation of action, justice secretary Jack Straw's announcement this week that the Government is to virtually abolish success fees for defamation cases has rather caught everyone on the hop. Go to Legal Week


• Reviewing My $69.00 Will. My LegalZoom Will has arrived, along with a very professional-looking packet of information. I have to admit that I’m initially and surprisingly impressed. The Will obviously captured what I had answered during my earlier online session with LegalZoom. Go to Practice Blawg


• The Death Penalty is Illegal! Oh, Wait, Lemme Double Check That. We wrote last week about the tatted-up Houston judge who recently boldly — rashly? — went where few judges have gone in the last quarter century: declaring the death penalty unconstitutional. Turns out, the judge — State District Judge Kevin Fine — has rescinded his ruling, deciding on Tuesday to schedule a hearing on the issue. Go to WSJ Blog


• More Evidence 'Best Attorneys' is Clueless about Attorneys. I wrote here last week about BestAttorneysOnline.com, the dubious new lawyer-rating site that can't seem to get lawyers' practice areas or even their locations straight, listing lawyers as among the top 10 in practices they have nothing to do with and in states in which they have no ties. I followed that with a second post about legal reporter Caryn Tamber's adventures with the site. Now, I have even more to report that only underscores the conclusion that the people behind this site are the gang that couldn't shoot straight of lawyer ratings. Go to LawSites


• Old Law Books Are Not Garbage, They're Art. With each passing year, the relevance and need for physical law books seems to diminish a bit more. I haven't spent enough time in law firms lately to know where we are in this slow spiral into obsolescence, but I know the day is coming and books are slowly being disposed of. Go to Legal Blog Watch

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