Articles Posted in June, 2004

The latest issue of the monthly newsletter The Neutral Corner is now available on the Web site of NASD Dispute Resolution, the arbitration and mediation arm of the National Association of Securities Dealers. As a member of the NASD’s securities arbitration panel, I find the newsletter to be a good way to…

Besides this bizdev/PR job’s location in the Cayman Islands, there is the travel to Walkers’ other offices in London, the British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong.…

Funny how many e-mails I received over the item about the Oklahoma judge. Of course, no sooner did I post it than I thought of headlines I should have used:

“Authorites pumped up over judge’s oily release program”

“For Oklahoma judge, time on bench is a vacuum waiting to be filled”

Others??…

This one from The Smoking Gun:

“While seated on the bench, an Oklahoma judge used a male enhancement pump, shaved and oiled his nether region, and pleasured himself, state officials charged yesterday in a petition to remove the jurist. “…

In Boston, U.S. District Judge William Young yesterday declared the federal sentencing guidelines unconstitutional, according to the Associated Press via the Boston Globe:

“In a scathing criticism of the current system for handing out punishment for defendants convicted of federal crimes, a judge on Monday declared the federal sentencing guidelines unconstitutional.

“In a series

Good Harbor Beach this morning, just down the road from where I live.

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From Mediabistro, this good article on blogs as “the best thing to hit public relations since the advent of the fax machine.”…

OK, I am going to give Gmail a whirl. It has some promising features, such as its focus on searching over sorting and its contextual grouping of messages, so that a message and all its follow-ups are displayed together. Send me a message, if you’d like, using my last name at gmail.com.…

Finally some rationality in the spate of DirecTV piracy suits:

“In a setback to DirecTV’s fight against satellite piracy, a federal appeals panel on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the company cannot sue people under a wiretapping law just because they possess cards allowing them to intercept its signal.”…

From 1850, Abraham Lincoln’s notes for a law lecture are timely today. Some excerpts:…

Having recently returned from the Indiana State Bar Association’s Solo and Small Firm Conference, I cannot urge you strongly enough, if you are anywhere in the vicinity of Oklahoma City on June 24 to 26, to attend the Oklahoma Bar Association Solo and Small Firm Conference. Jim Calloway has put together…

I/P Updates is a new blog from William F. Heinze of the Atlanta IP firm Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley. Bill provides news and information “for the sophisticated intellectual property practitioners.”

Bill’s firm is a member of the Association of Patent Law Firms, and he pointed me to another blog by…