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Buying presents — for myself

I do 99 percent of my Xmas shopping online. In fact, once Thanksgiving arrives, I make a concerted effort to steer clear of any shopping area unless absolutely unavoidable. And, of course, given my tendencies and my family’s interests, I tend to do that online shopping at places that also happen to sell books.

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Change of venue motion “incredibly asinine” and “professionally insulting”

At various times in their careers, lawyers see motions or other pleadings that, for one reason or another, strike them perhaps beyond unmeritorious. Whether because of boundless judicial restraint or other reasons, even when judges deny those motions they don’t say much. Based on what someone passed along to me today, though, Iowa District Court […]

Weekend Edition: 12-5

Bulletin Board

Although it’s been part of my Reader Pledge for a long time, I loved the FTC disclosures for bloggers Louis Gray came up with so much I’ve added one to the right sidebar.

Remember the documentary No Impact Man is showing Tuesday at Augie’s Gilbert Science Center, Room 100, at 7 pm. […]

Friday Follies 1.23

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia: Constitution does not ban “stupid laws.”

Here’s another of those legal ethics matters that would seem to be a no-brainer. A “couch of restitution” is not an acceptable method of collecting fees for legal services.

ATL gives lawyers and legal wannabees a chance to evaluate a job offer to Sarah […]

What does Sprint do more than 20,000 times a day?

You know those annoying Alltel “My Circle” ads? Today I’m wondering why the chubby guy who represents Sprint in the ads hasn’t lost a ton of weight. The question arises because evidently he and his friends at Sprint have been pretty busy. “Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers’ (GPS) location information over […]