Friday Links
Steven F. Coronado at the DRI Blog has this piece about the perils of jurors updating their Facebook statuses to reflect their thoughts on ongoing trials. If you’re on a juror, it’s probably best not to tweet that you can’t wait to render a guilty verdict.
Okay, now this is, well, awesome. Terry Tottenham, the President of the State Bar of Texas, quotes Bruce Springsteen lyrics not once, but twice, in his column this month in the Texas Bar Journal. Can you guess which two songs he quoted? See here for the column.
We welcome the newly launched South Carolina Tax Credit Blog to our state’s legal blogosphere. (Hat tip: South Carolina Business Law Blog).
We sometimes find ourselves nostalgic for law school, and then we realize what we must be thinking. A former teacher and now a brand new law school student, the author of the blog Tanny’s News recounts what happened last week to a student who was late to class: “One of my esteemed colleagues was late the second day of class, didn’t know the answers when called on the third day of class, and was late again the fourth day of class. In real life, our clients suffer the consequences of our mistakes. So, our whole class, except this student, has to spend the weekend writing a 5-6 page memo on the consequences of lawyers being late to court. As a teacher, I marvel at the brilliance of this plan. I used to do similar things to my students when 2/3 of them were involved in something and I couldn’t pick out which ones were innocent. I always felt badly for the innocent ones, but now I can truly understand how they must have felt.”
After a 21 month absence from the blogosphere, the South Carolina Bid Protests Blog triumphantly returns with a new post. Welcome back!
The Mac Lawyer has this post entitled “5 Essential iPad Apps for Students.” This makes us feel very old, as our only study aids were dusty old copies of Emmanuel outlines.
Here’s the first paragraph of the abstract from Lucille A. Jewel’s article, “I Can Has Lawyer? The Conflict Between the Participatory Culture of the Internet and the Legal Profession,” which is thought provoking: “The Internet allows citizens to comment on public affairs with an amplified and unfiltered voice, creating an open, community-based culture where robust debate flourishes. However, many of the ideals and practices of participatory culture clash with the traditional legal culture as it exists in the United States. This cultural conflict can be seen in emerging narratives, in the form of web blogs and lawyer emails that go “viral,” in which lawyers comment on the lack of humanism within big law firm hiring and firing practices; expose the alienating work environments experienced by low-level contract attorneys; or criticize judges who show hostility toward criminal defense attorneys. ” (Hat tip: Media Law Prof Blog).
We couldn’t resist sharing this gem at the My Legal Fiction blog, entitled “Woody Allen Jokes As Applied To Law School.” (Hat Tip: Legal Underground).