Why people hate us lawyers: Jennifer Walzer was charged $6,000 for a review of a sublease. The bill included a $60 charge for responding to a courtesy e-mail she sent that she would review the lawyer’s comments when she returned to the office. Billed as taking 12 minutes, the response said, “I hope everything is […]
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Tim April 30th, 2010 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law, Linkage | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed |  Print This Post |  Email This PostGod* comes to you and tells you that, from this day forward, you may only read ONE type of book–one genre–period, but you get to choose what it is. Classics, Science-Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Cookbooks, History, Business … you can choose, but you only get ONE. What genre do you pick, and why? *Whether […] Tim April 29th, 2010 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday, Books | Category: Book Memes | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostApril isn’t ending well for a couple of historians. Orlando Figes, a University of London professor who specializes in Russian history, was identified as the author of some scathing reviews of other historians’ books on Amazon. Figes originally claimed his wife wrote the the reviews but now has ‘fessed up. But that does not […] Tim April 28th, 2010 | Tags: Books, history | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostWhether violence is a functional equivalent of obscenity may be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Yesterday, the Court agreed to rule on the constitutionality of a California law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, a law predicated in part on the Court’s obscenity jurisprudence. The California statute defines a […] Tim April 27th, 2010 | Tags: First Amendment, Law, U.S. Supreme Court | Category: Law | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostRebecca asks: With yesterday being Anzac Day, I thought I’d ask a theme question this week. Are you a reader of war books? And if so, do you have any favourites? I decided to respond to this meme in large part because I just finished Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl […] Tim April 26th, 2010 | Tags: Books, Musing Mondays | Category: Book Memes | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostBulletin Board Boycott Arizona. David Laskin, author of The Long Way Home (which I reviewed earlier this month) will present a program based on the book and do a book signing at the Old Courthouse Museum this Tuesday at 7 p.m. He will also speak and sign books at the Freeman Public Library in […] Tim April 24th, 2010 | Tags: Linkage, Weekend Edition | Category: Miscellany/Linkage | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This Post |
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