Murray Newman posts about Pat Lykos's terrific success utter and complete failure in making the Harris County District Attorney's Office more diverse. Not only are there not more non-white lawyers there than there were before Lykos came along, but there will also be fewer non-white lawyers in the Office a week from Friday. My only complaint about Murray's post is that he throws away fodder for a

The ordinarily-effete Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct, faced with bad press and public outcry (including a complaint from HCCLA), has grown some backbone and initiated formal public proceedings against Sharon Keller. Here is the pleading. The "official woman" of the title is not Keller, who is accused of ignoring the court's standing procedures to kill Michael Richard, but to Marty, who blindly followed Keller's instructions to cause

Should I add these permanently to the blog somewhere?:

Via Norm Kent (The Broward Law Blog), a prosecutor loses his cool during cross-examination: Stacey Castor questioned about day her daughter fell ill

You're going to the law bookstore looking for some interesting reads. You browse the spines of the books, pick one, and pull it down off the shelf. It's three hundred pages; every page ends with a call to action -- "if you've been injured, call me." Skimming the text, you notice that the words "truck accident," "lawyer," "attorney," and a few others are mentioned over and over

This Week, in 2009 and in History February 9th was the 100th anniversary of the federal “war on drugs”, writes WindyPundit in 100 Years of FAIL. This week South Carolina cops did their part to expose the WOD for a pathetic farce. Radley Balkoff (The Agitator) writes in The Michael Phelps Witch Hunt Gets Surreal: Richland County, South Carolina Sheriff’s Department went out and arrested eight people

Well, Blake Nordstrom hasn't yet responded to my letter of the 11th, but, as Marc Randazza notes, his company's VP of Corporate Communications, Brooke White,  sent an email to InformationWeek's Global CIO Weblog, which broke the story of Nordstrom bullying a small company over a trademark, "Beckons," that the small company clearly had a right to use:A customer of ours e-mailed us a copy of your story

In WWDYT: The ethics of the post-trial jury reveal — Public Defender Stuff ambimb asks:Is it ethical for a prosecutor to reveal to a jury after that the person they just convicted or acquitted had prior criminal convictions that were excluded from evidence?Okay, listen up, Harris County prosecutors, because one of you is going to find that this is your ticket to a grievance. (Actually, it's a

        11 February 2009 Blake NordstromPresidentNordstrom1700 Seventh Avenue, Suite 300Seattle, WA 98101 Dear Mr. Nordstrom: I’m not a PR expert, but I suspect that your company’s efforts to crush the owners of the trademark “Beckons” are not winning you any friends — nobody likes a bully. I hope you’ll agree with me from the outset that, while it might be an amusing name for a line,

National Academy of Sciences: Long-Term Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury.A few findings:Sufficient evidence of an association between (among other things):Moderate to severe TBI and long-term adverse social-function outcomes, particularly unemployment and diminished social relationships.TBI and depression. TBI and aggressive behaviors. TBI and postconcussion symptoms (such as memory problems, dizziness, and irritability). Limited but suggestive evidence of a link between (among other things):Moderate or severe TBI and psychosis.TBI