LAWYERS' VOICES ONLINE . . . Heart-rending, practical, or controversial; always entertaining--

• "Thanks for the kind words. I feel good now after the IV fluid. Hope things there are OK. . ." [U.S. Magistrate James G. Glazebrook in a BlackBerry message to his courtroom staff just hours before he died, as reported by the Orlando Sentinel]
• "In the future, it seems, anyone taking care of a child with Down syndrome will be viewed as a saint... or, perhaps, misguided and foolish." [Ann Althouse at Althouse on the New York Times article, "Prenatal Test Puts Down Syndrome in Hard Focus"]
• "He's a licensed attorney. He has an obligation to act professionally. Throwing documents -- throwing court documents doesn't sound professional." [New Jersey Superior Court Judge Paul Koenig Jr., as reported in New Jersey Law Journal, explaining his sanction of a lawyer for allegedly evading service of process]
• "We should be assisting our students both by explaining the law and by resisting the subpoenas that the RIAA serves upon us." [Harvard Law School's Charles Nesson, along with co-author Wendy Seltzer, urging the university to fight the RIAA in the Harvard Crimson]   
• "Given Professor Bainbridge's insight on SOX, any attorney or auditor providing advice to public companies on corporate governance or accounting issues would be well-advised to read this book and have it handy as a reference resource." [Tom Kirkendall at Houston's Clear Thinkers, commenting on Stephen Bainbridge's new book for the general reader, the Complete Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley]
• "No more is an interviewer's information about a job seeker limited to a résumé, cover letter and professional references. Now, it seems that Google can produce more information about a person than his or her FBI file."  [Michael D. Mann in his National Law Journal article titled "Some Job Hunters Are What They Post Prospective: Employers Are Increasingly Vetting Candidates' Web Pages"]
• "Given that the Judicial Conference program appeared to portray law blogs as rivals of the mainstream media, it is ironic that today The Associated Press published an article which prominently mentioned my blog post from last night stating that 'Justice Stevens' remarks at dinner demonstrated to me that he has no plans to depart from the Court any time soon.' [Howard Bashman, reporting at How Appealing about the Seventh Circuit's Judicial Conference, which included a panel discussion on law blogging]
• "Life's short. Get a divorce." [Text of a law firm's Chicago billboard, as reported at The Dirt Lawyer's Blog]

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