Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signs AB 1179 into law, Oct. 7, 2005. The bill restricts the sale and rental of violent video games to minors. (AP) The video game industry has a voluntary rating system that, among other things, assigns each game one of roughly thirty content descriptors, including...

In the case of U.S. v. Blagojevich, could it be Genson v. Fitzgerald after all? The NLJ reports that the former Illinois governor is trying to rehire spine-eating Eddie Genson (pictured), who reportedly quit working on the case last month because he disagreed with Blago’s media-blitz strategy....

Charles Ponzi, 1935 (AP) If Mr. Charles Ponzi were alive today, he might be quite proud. It seems that his eponymous scheme is seeing quite a renaissance. We began covering Madoff and Dreier extensively in December, and we hit the WexTrust case back in August — the alleged $255 million Ponzi s...

Photo Credit: Maki Galimberti Has the perception of law firms worsened over time? A look at the writings of John Grisham, over time, might indicate yes. In Grisham’s second novel, “The Firm,” Mitch McDeere is seduced by a small Memphis tax shop called Bendini, Lambert & Locke....

Remember that controversial Confederate flag case from Tennessee? The recap: A high school principal in Tennessee told students they couldn’t have “Rebel flags” or symbols of flags on their clothes. Three students, who felt that the policy unconstitutionally interfered with their a...

For those of you who thought Chicago was all about political corruption and spine-eating attorneys, today brings good news from the Windy City: The Cubbies, baseball’s lovable losers, have a new prospective owner, writes Matt Futterman, the Journal’s sports reporter. (Here’s more f...

We opined on Tuesday that the Bush Pardon Party had gone out with a whimper. The former Veep, it seems, agrees. Dick Cheney, right, and, from left, Washington attorneys I. Lewis Libby, Steve Hadley, and Cheney’s special assistant, Mary Cheney, watch television reports on the Florida vote recou...

Geoffrey Fieger, March 10, 2004. (AP/Jack Dempsey) When a lawyer openly criticizes a judge on, say, a radio show, how far is too far? A rather interesting 2-1 decision from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals addresses that issue head-on. The case concerns Michigan lawyer Geoffrey Fieger, whom many w...

Our profession is taking a pounding in The Current Cycle: Law-firm layoffs, once headline news on the legal beat, now merit only a mention. Budget shortfalls and over-burdened defenders are putting the 6th Amendment’s guarantee of counsel to the test. And Madoff-related losses have hamstrung m...

If the Law Blog had a contest for the Most Theatrical Trial of 2008, the bungled — though, at least for now, successful — prosecution of Alaska’s former Senator, Ted Stevens, would easily take the cake. (Sorry, Bratz and Barbie.) U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan during a cerem...