Archive for February, 2007
An argument one would not anticipate having to make in one’s legal career
From the Bay City Times in Michigan, comes this jewel of a case:
Kuch’s defense attorney, Kathryn Fehrman, argued that Michigan’s statute on sodomy and bestiality is vague and does not outlaw sex with a dead dog.
Now there’s one to call home about. Though it beggars credulity, it does, in fact, get worse -
The alleged […]
The funniest line I’ve read in an opinion today…
From Syester v. Banta, 27 Iowa 613 (1965).
Plaintiff is a widow living alone. She has no family. Her exact age does not appear but a former employee of defendants and a favorite dancing instructor of plaintiff testified ‘that during the period from 1957 through the fall of 1960 she was 68 years old.’
More on the Fulbright & Jaworksi N-word incident
I posted my reaction to the n-word incident at Duke - Fulbright & Jaworski Partner Drops N-Word in Interview; Sky Falls - having only read the early reports based on Dean Bartlett’s interview. A big thanks to Hans Bader for alerting me to the more recent developments. His comment appears in full below my first […]
Houston Crime Lab Makes News Again; Impact on legal cases?
The Houston Crime Lab tends to make the news from time to time and almost never for anything good. In the latest debacle, an lab technician has been arrested for stealing cocaine processed in the lab over the last several years.
Houston Chronicle: Impact of cocaine thefts from DPS lab disputed
This is actually relatively benign after […]
Fulbright & Jaworski Partner Drops N-Word in Interview; Sky Falls
Apparently a Fulbright & Jaworski Partner on a recruiting trip to Duke let the dreaded N-word fly in a story he or she was telling to a student. As might be expected, except by the offending F&J Partner apparently, the shit has hit the proverbial fan.
Duke Law Dean Kate Barlett sent out a campus-wide e-mail […]
Easy Access, Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Online
If anyone else in my Contracts class is getting tired jumping around to the snippets of relevant U.C.C. provisions quoted in the book, Cornell has graciously put the whole of the Universal, United, Uniform Commercial Code Online.
Patently Obvious Legal Research Skill #1
Write down what you just sent to the printer if you want to come back with it. I speak from experience.
CLE Presentation: If Your Firm Doesn’t Have a Website, It Doesn’t Exist
I’m presenting with Debra Bruce at the Houston Bar Association, Law Practice Management Section on February 22, 2007.
Lawyer Coach Website: If Your Firm Doesn’t Have a Website, It Doesn’t Exist.
JD v. MBA: a picture comparison
When I finished my undergrad and began to look seriously at law school, I briefly contemplated going the MBA route as well. I mention that only because some days, in this case, this past saturday morning, I wonder how things would be different. I snapped these pix as trudged into the bowels of O’Quinn law […]
Leslie Griffin on the New Politics of Religion
Leslie Griffin, who holds the Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center and has just published a casebook on Law and Religion, has an interesting post on JusticeTalking.org - A New Politics of Religion? In it, she examines Senator (soon to be candidate) Barack Obama’s discussion of the influence religion […]