Archive for February 2006

First Washington D.C., now the Pennsylvania legal press are reporting on the increasing trend of Young Attorneys Who Go Solo (Hope Cantwell, The Legal Intelligencer February 6, 2006).  No more comment, except read and be inspired, again.

For most lawyers, what’s just as important as the billable hour is the non-billable hours, how we spend our time outside of the law, what makes us passionate or simply, what makes us laugh.  Mark and Lisa Solomon, the married lawyer duo behind the The Billable Hour get this – and they’re offering a free…

As an energy regulatory attorney who knew of Enron when it was just another IPP (independent power producer) pushing for deregulation, I’ve followed the company’s rise and fall, up through this last chapter, the Lay and Skilling Enron trials.  My favorite source of news and commentary is from the Houston Chronicle’s Enron Legal Commentary Blog. …

This article, New York State Bar Urges Attorney Ad Guidelines (John Caher, NYLJ, 2/2/06) reports on the New York State Bar Association’s House of Delegates’ report calling on the Administrative Board of the Courts to create statewide, uniform screening protocols for advertising.  Curiously, the campaign to re-visit regulation of attorney ads is lead by biglaw…

Jim Calloway has a terrific round up post on the ethics of lawyers accessing meta data. Jim starts by explaining what meta data is (it’s basically data about data, embedded in your documents) and how to access it.  He then cites the various views on meta data, on the one hand, the Florida Bar’s initial…