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April 2005
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A Library of Resources for using hyperlinked briefs
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Podcasting: Audio Blogging on the Go (3 Stories) |
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BlawgCast.com Offers One-Stop Browsing for Law-Related Podcasts
They are calling it TIVO for your iPod. Editor Kevin Heller and associate Evan Schaeffer say they will discuss all things podcast and cover all the latest news about judges, law professors, lawyers and law students who podcast.
Link: http://BlawgCast.com/
CLE Podcast Programs to Go
Want to earn MCLE self-study credit but don't have time for the extra reading? Then download the CLE to your iPod or MP3 ASAP. The Silicone Valley Bar Association offers credit while your run, drive or whatever.
Link:http://www.sccba.com/
Former MTV star shows you how to be an MP3 star
Link: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/curry.html
Adam Curry has created iPodder, a little application that he believes can challenge BIG commercial radio. iPodder combines the concept of blogging and the Apple MP3 player. Podcasting's got blog hype and iPod hip. Also see: http://www.ipodder.org
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Delaware federal court requires digital version of all filings |
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Link: http://contentcentricblog.typepad.com/
The U.S. District Court in Wilmington has now gone all digital. All civil and criminal paperwork must be filed electronically as mandated by all four U.S. District judges earlier this year. It should save the courts money and time, making life a whole lot easier for everybody involved.
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Study: Juries not listening or understanding instructions |
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Link: http://www.illinoistrialpractice.com/2005/03
The law firm of Quinn Emanual posts an interesting article on their web site: "How Juries Think About Punitive Damages - The Empirical Evidence." It contends that "Juries ignore their instructions. Juries don't understand their instructions. Juries can't remember their instructions even minutes after reaching a verdict." According to Quinn Emanual, there is a fundamental problem: "juries are given nothing but the vaguest instructions as to how to determine a specific dollar award for punitive damages." Their source: Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide, by Cass R. Sunstein, Reid Hastie, John W. Payne, David A. Schkade, and W. Kip Viscusi, published by the University of Chicago Press.
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Spamblocker sidetracks court's email notice |
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Link: http://news.findlaw.com/andrews/pl/med/20050223/20050223barnes.html
When's the last time you heard about technology working against you? A South Bend, Indiana plaintiffs' attorney in a wrongful-death lawsuit apparently missed a court date. The court's email notice was trashed as Spam. Luckily, the attorney has narrowly escaped being sanctioned for failing to appear at the scheduled status conference. When is the last time your firm checked it's spam-blocker settings?
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Free software to create PDF documents |
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Link: http://www.pdfforlawyers.com/2005/03/legal_services_.html
Here a nice little (FREE) tip from PDF for Lawyers. PDFCreator allows you to print PDFs from any document and choose this option like it was a network printer. Once set up, it apparently makes creating PDFs seamless and alleviates the need for a license for every desktop user.
Download PDFCreator
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Attorney accidently sues himself |
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Link: http://www.legalreader.com/archives/002363.html
Here is a textbook case of Murphy's law as seen in the lead sentence from a story in The Madison Record:
ALTON [IL] - Alton attorney Emert Wyss thought he could make money in a Madison County class action lawsuit, but he accidentally sued himself instead. Now he has four law firms after his money - and he hired all four.
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