Category: Law
Law For Love, Not Money
While the costs of legal education continue to increase as employment prospects decrease, you could argue that a law degree does not have the same value it had in the past. Maybe it doesn’t, but a recent study out of New Jersey has found that a JD is valued at more than $1 million over […]
August 11, 2014
Well Written Judicial Opinions Can Sometimes Cross the Line
People who read a lot of written judicial opinions often rejoice when they come across one that is actually well written. So many of them are dry and confusing with overdone precision. However, some judges can go too far to keep their writing fresh and original. If there is a line, a Texas federal court […]
July 14, 2014
Jim Dwyer’s latest book False Conviction, Offers Gripping Insight into the Criminal Justice System
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jim Dwyer’s latest book, False Conviction, provides a disturbing yet necessary look at the flaws of the U.S. criminal justice system. His book is a technological as well as a journalistic masterpiece and is only available as an iBook. False Conviction takes complete advantage of the multimedia platform that internet books […]
June 30, 2014
What Do Supreme Court Arguments and Opera Have in Common?
During the course of their tenures on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justices Antonin Scalia and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg have engaged in many heated debates. But do they make good theater? Budding lawyer and musician Derrick Wang thinks so. He recently composed an opera entitled Scalia/Ginsburg, which features excerpts from the Supreme Court justices’ opinions […]
June 2, 2014
Boosting Enrollment in Law Schools Is Restoring To Drastic Measures
The legal profession doesn’t enjoy the same cachet it once held. The number of students enrolling in law school dropped 11 percent in 2013 and is down 24 percent from 2010 figures, according to the American Bar Association (ABA). This number is pretty shocking and many department heads are looking to into new ways of […]
May 19, 2014
Vermont Town Must Rescind Its Role in Patent History
The legend of a Vermont town being home to America’s first patent is no more. For decades, Pittsford, Vermont celebrated being the hometown of inventor Samuel Hopkins. On July 31, 1790, Hopkins received the first U.S. patent for an improvement in “the making of Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process.” […]
April 7, 2014
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Spilling a hot drink from Dunkin Donuts made a New Jersey resident a millionaire. New Jersey resident Jennifer Fragoso’s lawsuit comes 20 years after McDonald’s Restaurants was sued by a New Mexico woman who suffered third-degree burns after spilling a hot coffee in her lap. A jury awarded her $2.86 million in damages. However, the […]
March 10, 2014
Google Glass Legal Concerns
The much-hyped Google Glass may be banned before the general public ever gets to try them on. The revolutionary device is essentially a mobile computer with a head-mounted display. It functions much like a smart phone without having to use your hands; it can take pictures, film video and search the Internet. Many of the […]
February 24, 2014
Lawyer’s Super Bowl Commercial Goes Viral
While the Super Bowl may be over, talk about the advertisements is not. For the general viewer, favorites likely included Budweiser’s “Puppy Love” and Doritos’ “Cowboy Kid.” In the legal community, viewers were buzzing about the Super Bowl commercial produced by a personal injury lawyer in Savannah, Georgia. While the ad only aired on television […]
February 10, 2014
New York City Not Showing the Love For Local Coffee Shop
New York City does not show the love when it feels its “I ♥ NY” trademark is threatened, even if the potential offender has gone so far as to emblazon a similar phrase on his knuckles. Sam Penix , the co-owner of Everyman’s Espresso, a local coffee shop, has had “I [coffee cup] NY” tattooed […]
January 27, 2014