Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground

RANDOM NOTES . . . In no particular order--

--After adding the the Snap preview feature to this weblog about a week ago, I removed it today. It didn't work when I linked to old posts on this weblog. Maybe I'll put it back when that bug is fixed.

--Here's a diet tip for lawyers: Try cases. (Previous diet tips for lawyers here.)

--At the South Carolina Trial Law Blog, David Swanner points out that even lawyers with their own practices should have a family life. And he takes his own advice seriously, announcing in his next post a new additional to his family. Congratulations!

--Did you know there's a legal blog about brain injuries? At the New York Brain Injury Lawyer, Michael Kaplen is throwing down a challenge to the NFL: "let's debate the serious issue of concussions in the NFL and the way the NFL is dealing with the lifelong consequences of this injury and players who have sought disability benefits as a result of the repeated concussions." Interesting post.

BLAWG REVIEW #92 . . . It's Legal Andrew who doing hosting duties for the ninety-second edition of Blawg Review, Blawg Review #92. For instructions on how to participate in the weekly project, see the Blawg Review website.

The Weekly Law School Roundup #54

This Week: The Wisdom Edition. Wise and learned pontifications, as set down last week by law-student webloggers--

Being Happier Tomorrow And reading blogs today. [The Electric Commentary]

Proofreading Embarrassing errors that might matter. [Who Owns the Fox?]

Traveling What's happening in Tokyo. [Life, Far Away]

Critiquing the Problem with Legal Writing It's starts in law school. [Animus Revertendi]

Teaching Little Brothers That, plus a severed deer leg. [Naked Drinking Coffee]

Keeping Your Mouth Shut Sometimes it's hard to do. [Dagny's Law Blog]

Getting More Life from Your Batteries All you need to know in a single post. [Legal Andrew]

Fighting Ignorance Barack Obama and Bill O'Reilly. [Lag Liv]

Becoming a Consultant Pay off your student debt. [The Frugal Law Student]

Remembering a Life, Well-Lived Thoughts about a grandfather. [This is where the cowboy blogs away]

Describing Harsh Realities If you're unhappy, you have only yourself to blame. [PeteHoliday.com]

Analyzing Lineman A football post. [You Can't Get Arrested for Being Awesome]

Describing Annoying Law-School Types The bench-standers and the sage-nodders. [Previously Unpublished]

Happy Endings There are worse things than professors who laugh. [think like a woman. act like a man.]

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."

ADDED TO THE WEBLOG . . . I added the Snap Preview feature to this weblog. If you hover your mouse over a link, an image pops up showing you what the other site looks like. Here's an example: Wikipedia.

I suppose Snap doesn't work if you read this weblog in an RSS reader. Still, I like the feature. It was free and took only about two minutes to install. If you disagree--maybe you think the pop-ups get in the way of the text--now is your chance to complain.

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "When Are Leading Questions Permitted During Federal-Court Depositions?"

IN THE MAGAZINES . . . Who's still reading weblogs? The real beauty of the Internet is all those magazines you can read for free. Start with these--

Blowhard Books about Bill O'Reilly. [New York Times Book Review]

Problems in the Gut The story of food allergies. [American Scientist]

They're From Rolling Stone MTV's rock-based reality show. [The New Yorker]

All Publicity, All the Time Donald Trump's news-making machine. [Business Week]

The Sacred Flame of American Hypocrisy Why sex scandals are better in Britain. [Vanity Fair]

RANDOM NOTES . . . You can take them or leave them, but I'd take them--

--Boycotting law firms for their pro-bono representation of suspected terrorists? "Stupid and irresponsible," says Kevin Underhill at Lowering the Bar.

--Is it the end of the line for Maxim and Stuff? Find out here.

--Over the past week or so, I watched the 1971 movie Billy Jack on my computer, in an edition rented from Netflix. I was curious to see it because it was mentioned in a documentary I was watching about 1970s films, and I remember it as the first R-rated movie I ever saw, back in 1976 or so, when I was about 13 and somehow got into a theater to see it as a double feature with The Trial of Billy Jack. Do I need to say the movie, which now carries a PG rating, wasn't nearly as interesting as I remember? Or as racy? Even worse, it begins and ends with the song "One Tin Soldier," which despite its Wikipedia entry, is a pretty terrible way to begin and end a soundtrack. Hum it to yourself for awhile, get it stuck in your head, and experience the torture I'm experiencing right now. Even a two-hour deposition of a treating physician this morning didn't dislodge it.

--From Infamy or Praise, water intoxication from a legal point of view. (And much more from Bill Childs at the TortsProf Blog here and here and here.)

--At What About Clients?, Dan Hull wants you to think about loser-pays legal compensation.

--At Lagniappe, Ted Frank dissects his trip to Vegas. Continuing with my own unending period of heavy travel, I'm going to be in Las Vegas for a few days very soon, although exactly when, I'm not allowed to say. But I appreciated Ted's travel post, a genre of weblog entries I always enjoy reading.

. . . Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend, do it in the name of heaven, you can . . . arrrrgh!

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Obtaining Good Settlements: Tricks of the Trade."

POWER OUTAGE . . . Do I need to point out that the latest ice storm knocked out our power, and that's it's still out? I predicted it all last Friday. Now that I've checked out of the hotel, thinking that surely things will be back to normal today, the only warm place is the office. More incentive to work!

THE WEEKLY LAW SCHOOL ROUNDUP . . . The Weekly Law School Roundup alternates between Legal Underground and divine angst, where Kristine has posted this week's Weekly Law School Roundup #53. The next installment will appear here on Sunday, so be sure to check back.