The hemorrhaging just won’t stop. When Black Thursday hit back in February, a very naive, hopeful part of us thought we’d seen the nadir (good Scrabble word, nadir). After all, it hardly seemed it could get worse: In the days leading up to and including Black Thursday (Feb. 12, 2009), we...

Before Maria Stengart quit her job, she was already making plans to sue her employer. She e-mailed her lawyer during business hours from her company-issued laptop, though she was circumspect enough to use her personal Web-based Yahoo e-mail account. It was not until discovery in the ensuing hostile-...

My seven-year-old son started playing in our town’s youth basketball league this year. I’m one of his coaches. Now, as any truthful observer of this kind of squad will admit, playing is a loose term. As the kids do their best to pass (we have a three-pass minimum), shoot and defend, ther...

The Bush administration lawyers who formulated and justified the worst abuses and excesses of the administration's war on terror conduct are having trouble finding work! They should be having trouble finding judges willing to hear their appeals, but no, instead they're all just bitching about how no...

With apologies to the many fine folks at law that visit these pages, and those of my colleagues here on RedState that ply the law, today I am going to act the vulgar Shakespearian and advocate to “first kill all the lawyers.” Well, if not kill them exactly, then at least put many of them...

The news shook us like a thunderclap: banking-lawyer-extraordinaire H. Rodgin Cohen is being considered for a high-ranking role in the Treasury Department. A move would likely mean a departure — at least for now — from Sullivan & Cromwell, where the legendary Cohen has hung his hat ...

The former head of Lambda Legal and a Supreme Court justice in the Sixth Judicial District were chosen late yesterday by Governor David A. Paterson to be the New York's first openly gay and lesbian appellate judges. Judge Rosalyn Richter and Judge Elizabeth A. Garry are were both chosen by Patt...

Let’s talk law-firm layoffs for a minute. Anyone who’s clicked onto this blog in the past six months knows that big law firms have taken a veritable hatchet to their rank-and-file, with support staff and associates taking the hardest hits. (Click here for American Lawyer’s list of ...

Fired by your lawyer? Seems like an odd concept. Won’t a lawyer take any client willing to pay? Indeed some will. The best ones will not. Life is simply too short. If you treat your lawyer like a commodity, you run the risk of losing the most important part of the attorney/client relationship....

BTW, why are the most viewed posts on the pm blog some of the least interesting? “One Happy Meal Hold the Contempt Finding” and “Client Relations Desert” were both posted quickly and tongue-in cheek: and have gotten the most traffic over the years. It’s hard to believe ...