Ran across Tamar Weinberg’s Techipedia via Simple Justice’s deconstruction of a comment on her post “The 7 Truths About Social Media Marketing”. SJ unfairly insists she is vapid, apparently missing out on gems like tip #4, “Social Media
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New Drug Testing Policy At TLOOJS?
My assistant just said, in a rather loud voice, “Hey, it’s 4:20 on 4/20 guys!” And I’m 99% sure she could pass a drug test. Hmmmmmm.
5th Anniversary: Marijuana Law For Musicians
Tonight! 8 p.m. Free. At the Mohawk: If you haven’t caught it the first four times, you’ll definitely want to go see Charlie Roadman’s Marijuana Law for Musicians. My excuse for the late posting is not that I’m…
Fees Paid To Informers
Tax day chatter from the NACDL listserv brought this item, from Page 1 of “Instructions for Form 1099-Misc,” to my attention:
Fees Paid to Informers. A payment made to an informer as an award, fee, or reward for…
Proof That Prosecutors Think Like We Do (Sometimes)
From D.A. Confidential: at least we aren’t civil lawyers.
The Crime of Meeting (On A Stated Day Before It Was Light)
Those who are interested in the history of law could do much worse than to read the letters of Pliny the Younger*. The second century Roman lawyer and magistrate’s letters are still preserved in near perfect form; the most famous…
The Suggestion Box: Art Not Science?
Amazon has an annoying (and highly profitable) habit of suggesting books I might like, based on my past searches and purchase history. Occasionally their software for figuring out what else they can sucker me into impulse buying goes horribly wrong,…
America: We’re Number One!
From The Tao Of Criminal Defense Trial Lawyering, No Balm In Gilead: Up through law school, we’re taught that the American criminal justice system is a wonderful thing. The organized bar—the ABA, local and state bar associations—pushes the same…
Zygosity Testing Results
I’ve always said that they’re either identicals with a few physical differences, or fraternals that look an awful lot alike. I’ll explain, perhaps, in a later post how it is that after more than three years we still weren’t sure,…
No “Life Plus Cancer” In The Federal System
What will they do to Ken Lay? Give him life plus cancer?
That’s from Jeralyn Merritt, on July 13, 2005, the first known use of the phrase “life plus cancer”*. Her question was not as macabre as it sounds…