Law blog round-up
July 21, 2008
Good morning! Here are some legal links for your rather warm Monday. Dontcha just love Maryland in July?
- For big firms, the question of whether or not to represent clients suing banks is getting more complicated.
- A law firm recruiter says it’s a bad idea for 2Ls to split their summer between two firms. If you already have, she has a few tips for making the most of the situation.
- Blonde Justice blogs about how criminal defendants’ online musings can come back to bite them in the buttocks. She links to this story (written by an old colleague of mine at our college paper) about a DUI defendant who, while the woman he hit struggled to recover, dressed as an inmate for Halloween. A photo wound up on Facebook and the prosecutor used it to portray the defendant as unremorseful.
- This Legal Antics post on what not to say after a car accident reminds me of the guy who rear-ended my husband and me a couple of years ago on the JFX. The first things out of his mouth were, “It’s all my fault. I only had a couple of beers. I was on my cell phone.”
- The Philadelphia Inquirer writes about law firms getting bigger and bigger. One executive partner says, “When I got out of law school [in 1978], it soon became apparent that the 50-lawyer all-purpose firm could not survive, then it became the 100-lawyer firm, and at this point it is very hard for the 200- to 300-lawyer firm to prosper.” Hat tip: Above the Law.
CARYN TAMBER, Legal Affairs Writer
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