Dinner guests from purgatory
Thanks to Zimbabwean lawyer and writer Petina Gappah for posting a link to South African writer and filmmaker Gillian Schutte’s account of a dinner party not quite from hell, but, perhaps, from...
View ArticleThursday Thanks: Adrian Mark Baron and The Nutmeg Lawyer
Today I’d like to thank Connecticut lawyer Adrian Mark Baron, who writes the outstanding Nutmeg Lawyer blog, for including this blog on his blogroll. As the name of Baron’s blog suggests, it’s a mite...
View ArticleMore on court opinions on the Internet
Yesterday I posted about the distinction that a decreasing number of jurisdictions, including Illinois and the federal courts, make between “precedential” and “nonprecedential” opinions, historically...
View ArticleCrime fiction, Giller Prize, CLE
Despite its popularity, crime fiction isn’t generally a genre that attracts me. Even though I’ve practiced only civil, not criminal, law, it’s just always seemed too much like reading about work in my...
View ArticleTo Tweet Or Not To Tweet? I’m TechnoLawyer’s Pick of the Week!
Wowie zowie–TechnoLawyer chose my cover story, “To Tweet Or Not To Tweet,” in the current issue (August 2011) of the Illinois Bar Journal, for BlawgWorld’s Pick Of The Week! BlawgWorld publishes...
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