Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Electronic Discovery: Don't Get So Caught Up in the Form that You Neglect the Substance."

THROUGH THE YEARS AT LEGAL UNDERGROUND . . . Some posts from late-Mays-past--

May 31, 2004 "Note to Media: Tort Reformers Should Be Held Accountable for Their Claims"

May 23, 2005 "The Schoolhouse Rock Precedent"

May 22, 2006 "Guest Writers Welcome"

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Are Gadgets Replacing Oratory?"

The Weekly Law School Roundup #72

This Week: The Useful-Practicalities Edition, Part 2. It's a theme that works well. Here are some of the things you learned recently if you were keeping up with law-student weblogs--

• What you can learn about yourself in three years of law school. [Scoplaw]
• The ways in which unsolicited advice about law school is often wrong. [WonL]
• How legal ethics might apply to real life. [This is where the cowboy blogs away]
• Why preschool can break you. [Diary of a Law School Mom]
• How long is too long too wait for your law-school grades. [The Legal Scoop]
• One way that law school can win. [Traditional Notions]
• How to look like a lawyer. [Phocas and Francis]]
• Why flashcards can be life savers. [Becoming a Lawyer]
• When you shouldn't shop for groceries. [The Frugal Law Student]
• What more can be said about American Idol. [butterflyfish]
• What happens when you put a medium effort into law school. [in limine]
• Why you shouldn't attend your high-school reunion. [SoapBox Law]
• How the bar exam affects your heart. [Previously Unpublished]
• What one 1L learned in the 1L year. [Double Hoo]
• What you should know about flossing. [Legally Blonde]
• Why one law student has a weblog. [PT-LawMom]

Look for next week's roundup at divine angst then it's back here the week after that. You can find some other recent roundups in the "At the Law Schools 2" category, as well as sixty or so older roundups from 2004-2005 here. Finally, if you want to know how I choose posts to highlight, see "How I Write the Weekly Law School Roundup."

MAGAZINE READING . . . Still wasting time reading weblogs? If you're wedded to the Internet, why not spend some time reading magazines, for free?--

The Shadow Army Riding shotgun in Iraq with security contractors. [Mother Jones]

Buy It Cheap Investing in Columbia. [Business Week]

Ramping Up A Chinese business revolution. [Fast Company]

A Man Without a Dark Side The diaries of Ronald Reagan. [The New Yorker]

Boring What's wrong with the modern literary novel? [Prospect]

Shooting More Paint The economics of paintball. [Wired]

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBLOG . . . "Another Book to Think About: The Litigation Manual: First Supplement."

LAWYERS' VOICES ONLINE . . . Controversial, practical, or inane; always entertaining--

• "I do not want an American president who cannot restrain himself from shouting "F*** you!" at his peers." [Bill Dyer of BeldarBlog, explaining why he opposes John McCain's bid for the Republican nomination]
• "[W]hile this might strike a meaningful blow for reality, our job is not to right the wrongs of racial prejudice, but to represent our clients." [Scott H. Greenfield at Simple Justice, writing about cross-racial eyewitness IDs and his discussion with an audience member at a CLE]
• "[P]laintiff class attorneys must do a better job of representing their clients. The shift to federal court and the increased judicial scrutiny of class settlements mean that plaintiff class attorneys must raise their game." [Plaintiff lawyer Victor M. Diaz, Jr., writing about the Class Action Fairness Act two years after its passage in the Daily Business Review]
• "I talk to 3 or 4 lawyers a day about legal blogs. Most are scared to death of blogging on too focused of a topic. The fear is that by blogging on a niche, nobody will contact them on any other sort of work. Not true." [Kevin O'Keefe at the LexBlog Blog, writing about "the key to blogging success."]
• “At a presentation I recently gave to a room of 150 to 200 lawyers, almost every one raised his hand in response to my question: ‘How many of you have used PowerPoint or an electronic presentation program in a closing?’” [Illinois lawyer Todd Flaming, quoted in a Chicago Tribune article about legal technology] (link from Dennis Kennedy)
• "I don't know what it is, but I have this problem -- it started a year ago or so -- of sounding like I'm screaming when I sneeze. It's just absurd to suddenly and seemingly for no reason let out a blood-curdling shriek." [Ann Althouse at Althouse, writing on a slow news day]

If you have ideas for Lawyers' Voices Online, please send them to me, Evan Schaeffer, at LawyersVoicesOnline--at--gmail.com.

WEEKLY LAW SCHOOL (NON) ROUNDUP #71 . . . You'll find the Law School Non-Roundup #71 at divine angst. It is hard keeping up!

Check back here on Sunday for more law-school blogging fun.

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Listing the Chapters in My Deposition Book."

BLOGROLLING LEGAL UNDERGROUND . . . Thanks to the following weblogs and websites that have recently added permanent links to Legal Underground via their blogrolls*--

• Underdog Blog
• Fox Law
• Boston Immigration & Nationality Law
  
• Legal Antics
• Build a Solo Practice
  
• Human Wreckage
• IMPACT®
  
• Greensboro Personal Injury Lawyer
• on the Bankruptcy Soapbox
  

*Blogroll (1) n. A list of weblogs, typically found in a column on another weblog; (2) v. To add a weblog to a blogroll.