I finally got around to looking at the anonymous Lawyers on Strike blog, which Scott Greenfield, Jeff Gamso, and Mike at Crime & Federalism wrote about last week. The anonymous blogger’s bright idea: “I will use this blog to call for a ‘strike’:  that is, to call upon all attorneys in the geographic area to refuse to appear in front of that judge.”My immediate reaction: “what?” Let’s

Why does it cost more to hire me as the second lawyer on your case? Because the first lawyer was probably this guy: (H/T D.A. Confidential, who says, "This is how it works. For real." DAC is a Travis County prosecutor; 'nuff said.)

The researchers supplied people with Sobe Adrenaline Rush, an “energy” drink that was supposed to make them feel more alert and energetic. (The drink contained a potent brew of sugar and caffeine which, the bottle promised, would impart “superior functionality”). Some participants paid full price for the drinks, while others were offered a discount. The participants were then asked to solve a series of word puzzles. To

FindLaw’s latest marketing gambit: “blogs” for lawyers, using lightly-reworked (as in, “paraphrased so that a particularly stupid high school freshman might turn it in as original work and then be surprised to get an F”) news stories, published “on behalf” of the lawyers paying for the marketing. A few examples (if the link doesn’t work, go to blogsearch.google.com and search for “on behalf of” criminal defense or

Here are the rules—by court order and coerced "agreement"—by which a Texas sex offender has to live for the rest of his life, even after he has served his entire prison sentences, if some hack psychologist doesn't want him in his neighborhood and so testified, because of consequential ethics, that the offender is likely to engage in a predatory act of sexual violence:Texas Sexually Violent Predator Civil

Greenfield wrote about some of the travails of Kansas City lawyer Carlos Romious. But if we are to view Romious' behavior as an indication that this is a seriously unstable individual, then what is he doing practicing law in this condition? Rather than being held in contempt, he should be held for a psych evaluation. While the WSJ categorized this story under "lawyers behaving badly," I think

Because one of my readers might not have seen it yet: (H/T Chandler criminal defense lawyer Matt Brown.)

I wanted to defend Christine O’Donnell.I read reports of the Delaware Senatorial candidate’s debate against Chris Coons, in which she questioned whether the U.S. Constitution demands separation of church and state, mindful of Mike’s (Crime and Federalism) suggestion that power elites control public perception of candidates, like O’Donnell, who were not born into the right social class.The derisive reaction (see, e.g., Political Ticker, Huffington Post) to O’Donnell’s

. . . to vote for the blind. There are great Republican candidates for Harris County criminal benches in next month’s elections: Vanessa Velasquez, Marc Carter, Mike McSpadden, Larry Standley. A straight-ticket sweep either way would be about equally bad, but an honest man familiar with the Harris County courthouse could, with a straight face, call for Republican voters to vote straight-ticket to keep these incumbents in

Robert S. Bennett . . . has a problem. The Houston consumer lawyer (who . . . “does some criminal work”—records show him as counsel of record on a grand total of nine federal criminal cases in the Southern District of Texas, and no state criminal cases in Harris County) took on representation of R. Allen Stanford in March, after Stanford had been represented by “lawyers with