Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground

MAGAZINE READING . . . Need something to help you make it through the long weekend? How about these articles, free from the magazines--

Searching for an Elusive Figure What you should know about Matt Drudge. [New York Magazine]

Spreading Democracy Patrick Buchanon questions a cherished assumption. [The American Conservative]

Debating an Athiest What Christopher Hitchens has learned since the publication of God Is Not Great. [Vanity Fair]

Loving Your Professors What's to like about "sex" on campus. [The American Scholar]

Designing a Sequel The importance of Halo 3. [Wired]

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Preparing Witnesses for Depositions: Here's a Step That's Often Forgotten."

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

• Wait a Second!
• Blondie at the Bar
• Law with Grace
• Fannie's Room
• Clearly Erroneous
• The Merits of the Case
• Random Esquire
• Law for Dummies
  

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

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Craft a Cross-Examination Using the Witness's Own Documents."

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 #84. The next installment will appear here in about a week, so be sure to check back.

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Communicating with Juries: Introduce Scientific Terms Slowly."

FEDERAL MDL PANEL: CHANGING OF THE GUARD . . . Find out what's new in federal Multi-District Litigation in this article from the Kentucky Courier-Journal: "Heyburn heads panel to consolidate, assign cases," by Andrew Wolfson.

While you're reading, don't miss the choice quotes from Legal Underground, which inspired Wolfson to ask the new MDL chief judge, John G. Heyburn II, whether he would bring the MDL panel to East St. Louis.

Predictably, his answer was "no."

Related post: "Yet Another Post About the Federal Judges of the MDL Panel."

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Jurors Who Lie During Voir Dire: Trips for Drawing Them Out."

BLAWG REVIEW #122 . . . Blawg Review #122, by David Gulbransen: is it a review of recent law-related weblog posts, or a course syllabus? And how was I promoted to professor? It's an edition of blawg review that raises many interesting issues . . .

OPPORTUNITY FOR LAW STUDENT-BLOGGERS . . . According to a post at his weblog, Kevin O'Keefe of LexBlog wants to "recruit to LexBlog a law student or two who sees the potential of blogs and citizen journalism." I don't know exactly what O'Keefe has in mind, but it can't hurt to ask him if you're interested . . .