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Fastcase Now Available to Wisconsin State Bar Members

Posted by: Elana Olson | October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Members of the Wisconsin State Bar now have access, at no additional cost, to Fastcase, the online legal database described earlier this month. The announcement from the State Bar provides more information about this new member benefit, including instructions for the simple process to access the database. Wisconsin Bar members select “Fastcase” from the drop [...]

Oct

31

Harvard Program Waiving Third-Year Tuition for Students Committing to Five-Year Public Interest Careers

Posted by: Jessica E. Slavin | October 31, 2008 | 4 Comments

From Clinicians with Not Enough to Do, this post discusses a new program at Harvard Law School, reported in the Harvard Crimson.  The graduating class of 2011 will be eligible for the program, and over 100 students expressed initial interest.  Students who commit to working for five years in the public interest would be eligible for [...]

Oct

31

Halloween Frights

Posted by: Judith G. McMullen | October 31, 2008 | 2 Comments

It’s Halloween, so children have dreams of scaring adults, and adults have nightmares about other adults harming children. Lawmakers in Missouri this year have been concerned about a particular kind of harm: sexual offenses against children. They passed a state law that prohibited convicted sexual offenders from having any “Halloween-related contact with children,” and required [...]

Oct

30

Mirror Neurons & Mediation Advice

Posted by: Andrea K. Schneider | October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment

At the Works-in-Progress conference this past week at Arizona State University (great job, Art!), I had the pleasure of hearing from Professor Scott Hughes on his latest work on mirror neurons.  I have blogged about mirror neurons before and their impact on people.  It explains things from why Harley rides are pleasurable to why Starbucks runs smoothly. 
Scott took the next step regarding [...]

Oct

30

Market Opportunity: Unforwardable Emails

Posted by: Bruce E. Boyden | October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I’ve seen a number of news items over the past few years in which internal firm or law school emails get leaked to online legal gossip sites, to the embarrassment of the originating institution. In my view, the frequency with which this occurs indicates a world in transition. Once, there were no online gossip sites [...]

Oct

30

Global Economic Crisis Having Impact on Pensions in Argentina

Posted by: Paul M. Secunda | October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment

We already know that the global economic crisis is having far-reaching effects in the United States on the 401(k) plans of individuals and may also mean that fewer employers are able to afford offering health plans. Now comes word from foreign countries that have national pension schemes that the economic impact of the collapse [...]

Oct

30

Kennedy ERISA Participants to Brief Plan Document Issue for Supreme Court

Posted by: Paul M. Secunda | October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This is not wholly unpredictable, but the Supreme Court in the ERISA case of Kennedy v. DuPont Savings Plan told the parties to brief an issue that pretty much dominated oral argument.
From SCOTUSBlog:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered lawyers to file new briefs by Nov. 10 on a new issue in a pending case [...]

Oct

30

More Employer Politicking?

Posted by: Paul M. Secunda | October 30, 2008 | 3 Comments

Wow. It looks like the big retailers are pulling out all stops to stop the Obama steamroller with captive audience meetings with their employees to engage in none-too-subtle office politicking (which JH has written about before).

Oct

29

Priorities for the Next President: Antitrust Law

Posted by: Michael P. Waxman | October 29, 2008 | 2 Comments

The priority of the new administration in the field of antitrust law will be to undo the damage wrought by Chicago School dogmatists. This does not mean that the economic theories that form the basis of Chicago School economics or its application are incorrect. But, the broad assault by academic, bureaucratic, and juristic theorists over [...]

Oct

29

What Is Not an Election Issue

Posted by: Richard M. Esenberg | October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment

Earlier this week, I gave an interview to a state reporter on the role of religion in this year’s election. When she asked what role it has played, I had to say “not much.” Mobilizing religious voters has generally required salient social issues. While its possible to imagine a religious left focused on economic issues [...]

Oct

29

Panel Discussion on the Fairness Doctrine, But Will It Matter?

Posted by: Richard M. Esenberg | October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment

I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussion on the potential for and desireability of a return of the Fairness Doctrine sponsored by the Marquette University Law School student chapter of the Federalist Society. The panelists were Chicago radio talk show host Guy Benson and local talk show host Charlie Sykes in “opposition” and Marquette [...]

Oct

29

Niger’s Failure to Protect Citizen from Enslavement Condemned by African Regional Court

Posted by: Jessica E. Slavin | October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment

As reported at IntLawGrrls, the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (the ECOWASCommunity Court of Justice) on Monday, October 27th, condemned member state Niger for its failure to protect its citizen Hadijatou Mani from enslavement.  Hadijatou Mani’s story is incredible, though unfortunately, probably not unusual.  At the age of 12, she was [...]

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