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One of the great funny men of all time, in my opinion, was George Carlin — he’s famous for his Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television, the “hippie-dippie weatherman,” and many trenchant routines satirizing the powers that be.
Towards the end of his life he had a routine about being “a modern man, [...]
Court Records Denied: Victoria Reporters on the Job
A Times-Colonist report reveals the outdated, inconsistently applied, and sometimes mis-applied access to court records policy in a number of BC courts. It seems BC is way behind the curve on this, as compared to the rest of Canada. Today’s article is only the first of a four-part series. The article includes a link to [...]
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US Supremes Meet Nascar
The Tucson Citizen has published what they call a ‘wordless editorial’, which I’ll presume to be commentary on the US Supreme Court’s recent decision on corporate political spending.
The single image offered is replicated below:
Codification of Judicial Jurisdiction
I just read Ted Tjaden’s post about Ontario courts assuming jurisdiction over out-of-province defendants.
Professor Janet Walker, of Osgoode Hall Law School, is preparing a report on this issue. She undertook the project as the inaugural OHLS LCO Scholar in Residence at the Law Commission of Ontario. This is not officially an LCO project (it was [...]
Gift card judge censured
Last year a California class action suit resulted in a settlement where each class member received a $10 gift card from the defendant store. The settlement called for the plaintiff’s lawyer to get $175,000 125,000 (sorry -typo)
The judge who approved the settlement didn’t like it, and ordered the lawyer to also take payment in $10 [...]
Paragraph Justification
I would like to know why (some) Nova Scotia reasons for judgment reported on CanLII are “centre justified”. Do they come this way from the courts? They are much harder to read than fully justified paragraphs or ones left with a “ragged right”.
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Depression in the Legal Profession
Susan Cartier Liebel has written a thoughtful blog post on the high prevalence of depression in the legal profession.
The ABA reports that “about 19 percent of lawyers experience depression at any given time, compared with 6.7 percent of the general population. About 20 percent of lawyers have drinking problems, twice the rate of [...]
The Friday Fillip
This fillip revisits something I blogged about two years ago (Flogging). Microsoft researchers are working with computer scientist Gordon Bell to develop a system that will record, annotate, and make available to recall, nearly every aspect of his daily life. A number of videos describing the project and showing aspects of it have emerged since [...]
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Teaching by Showing – Using Image Editors to Explain Yourself
I realize we are not likely supposed to promote products here on SLAW but I really, really like both IrfanView and the Microsoft Snipping Tool as revolutionizing the ability to visually explain things in an HTML email (and I realize I am likely behind the curve on this one).
I am a visual learner and like [...]
Standing Out From the Crowd
Most law firms are telling the same story, according to this article, which makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish one from the other.
Developing a unique, identifiable and distinct voice is not easy, but it begins and ends with your ability to conceive and communicate a credible story that resonates at some level [...]
Detecting On-line Copying…
.♫ Copycat, copycat, copycat
copy copy copy everyone else….♫
Lyrics by Dolores O’Riordan and music by Noel Hogan and Dolores O’Riordan, recorded by The Cranberries.
Anyone who places content on the web should be concerned with detecting the unauthorized copying of their content. Certainly anyone with a blog would not want others taking their original content without [...]
Mind the gap
This past week, the Government of British Columbia announced that Information and Privacy Commissioner David Loukidelis would be leaving that post to take on the role of Deputy Attorney General of the province. The transition will be effective February 1, 2010 though his resignation as Commissioner [PDF] was effective immediately.
David was appointed Commissioner in [...]
Security Insecurity
A recent entry in the ongoing conversation about air travel security is this German TV show that demonstrates an utterly ineffectual body scanner. Some of the comments here and here provide useful links and partial translations of the proceedings (though some others tend to get ranty and off-colour).
One in particular caught my eye at [...]
The Friday Fillip
“. . . along came a spider and sat down beside her. . .” Which might give anyone pause, not only arachnophobes. These arthropods, which have two legs up on insects, don’t fuss me much — I was taught as a child never to harm a spider — something about bad luck — and so [...]
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Supporting Our Troops by Supporting Their Employers
Yesterday’s National Post contained an interesting story regarding government programs around the world targeted at employers of military reservists. In an effort to support troops overseas legislators in the U.K. and Australia have enhanced job protection laws while simultaneously creating compensation programs that pay employers of reservists a stipend to help offset the loss [...]
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