Source: Profiles In Law Edward McGlone graduated from Indiana State University in 1986 with his Bachelor’s degree. Directly after his graduation, he enrolled at the Indiana University School of Law where he spent three years earning his Juris Doctor Degree. In 1989 he graduated and soon after became a member of the State Bar of… [Continue Reading]

Source: Federal Employment Law Articles Almost every business today relies on the Internet to help improve its operations. Social networking sites are playing an increasingly important role in how companies communicate with their customers and other interested parties. Social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are rapidly gaining new users. Read the rest… [Continue Reading]

Source: Law.com – Newswire In the first appellate ruling on a cutting-edge privacy issue, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has declared that cell phone location data may trigger Fourth Amendment concerns and that prosecutors demanding access to such records may be required at times to satisfy a probable cause standard. The ruling is… [Continue Reading]

Source: Law.com – Newswire A study of more than $4 billion worth of law firm time sheets submitted by 90,000 people at 3,500 firms portrays an industry fraught with inconsistency. About 85 percent of the lawyers charge clients different rates for the same work. The location of the biller and the size of the biller’s… [Continue Reading]

Source: Law.com – Newswire Hewlett-Packard’s legal team will have a hard time persuading a judge to stop former CEO Mark Hurd from becoming president of Oracle Corp., employment law experts say. HP sued Hurd on Tuesday, claiming that he violated a confidentiality provision of his severance agreement by accepting the post at Oracle. Without explicitly… [Continue Reading]

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories Business bankruptcies are down 4 percent in the first six months of the year, and that’s translating to a bit of a slowdown for law firms once inundated with restructuring work during the height of the economic meltdown. Most partners interviewed by the New York Law Journal said they have… [Continue Reading]

Source: Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog Kristin Scheuereman’s thoughtful post on legal education mirrors a debate that has broken out on the law blogs on the nature of legal education and its relationship to what lawyers really do. The critical stance is represented by a forthcoming piece in the South Carolina Law Review entitled Preaching What They… [Continue Reading]

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com Just because you graduate first in your law school class doesn’t necessarily mean you have to go work at BigLaw or head back to the academy. If you’re Edward Swartz, who died Friday at age 76, you devote your life to making the nation’s toys safer for children (and… [Continue Reading]

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories A federal appeals court has ruled that judges have statutory authority to demand a showing of probable cause when the government seeks cell phone location data to track criminal suspects. The Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a Justice Department argument that judges are required to issue orders… [Continue Reading]

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com According to a new study by test-prepper Kaplan, one thing aspiring law students should not do is ask a college professor who doesn’t like you to write a letter on your behalf. Read the rest of the story…

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com Technology has made it increasingly easy for the government to track an individual’s whereabouts. But on Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit ratcheted back the government’s surveillance power. Read the rest of the story…

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories Most law firms cut equity partners the first half of 2010, but the bloodletting may not be over. A new survey of 187 law firms by Citi Private Bank shows flat revenues in the first six months of the year and slightly lower demand, according to a summary in the… [Continue Reading]

Source: Federal Employment Law Articles When an employee remains absent even after her doctor provides a medical certification confirming that she can return to work, it might seem reasonable for an employer to deny the employee any further FMLA leave and, if the employee fails to return, to terminate her employment. However, if the employer… [Continue Reading]

Source: Federal Employment Law Articles The U.S. Supreme Court continues to issue rulings favorable to arbitration agreements in the employment setting. Employers who have arbitration agreements with their employees, or those considering putting such agreements in place, should make sure their agreements are drafted and updated to take full advantage of developing Supreme Court precedent…. [Continue Reading]

Source: California Employment Law Articles The California Supreme Court recently issued a unanimous decision that could make it more difficult for employers to win summary judgment in certain discrimination cases involving potentially discriminatory comments. In Reid v. Google, Inc., the Court declined to adopt the “stray remarks doctrine,” under which some courts have deemed irrelevant… [Continue Reading]

Source: Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog This semester, the law school is hosting another highly-esteemed  professor as a Robert E. Boden Visiting Professor of Law:  Mary Beth Beazley.  Professor Beazley is Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Writing at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.  She has taught at Ohio… [Continue Reading]

Source: Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog A punctuation debate made the National Law Journal this week.  The current Supreme Court reporter of decisions, Frank Wagner, is retiring at the end of this month.  His NLJ interview included the following discussion of differences of opinion among Supreme Court Justices regarding the use of apostrophes with… [Continue Reading]

Source: Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog On August 26, MULS welcomed the Class of 2013, hosting a welcome mixer in the atrium of Eckstein Hall, the new home of the law school.  During this event, Dean Joseph Kearney unveiled a portrait of Abraham Lincoln created by visual artist Don Pollack.  A few days later,… [Continue Reading]

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories A Tennessee serviceman in a years-long battle over custody of his teen daughter took his frustrations to the Internet, posting a YouTube rap that brought charges of threatening a judge. In his rap, U.S. Army Sgt. Franklin Delano Jeffries II mentions a judge but doesn’t give a name, the Knoxville… [Continue Reading]

Source: Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog For me, there’s a very bright light at the end of this tunnel. I graduate from law school in December and then it’s out into the real world. My experience at Marquette, in the classroom, has been an exceptional one; but until I spent a summer surrounded by… [Continue Reading]

Source: China Law Blog Call me weird, but I have always been fascinated by the pricing of goods and, in particular, price elasticity. The following two examples have always fascinated me: 1. My old law firm represented a surgeon whose income fell in one year from around $450,000 to around $40,000 after an industry-wide change… [Continue Reading]

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com In recent weeks, there’s been a lot of talk about this outfit called Righthaven, a sort of online copyright enforcer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The enterprise won a key ruling in a Nevada federal court on Thursday. Read the rest of the story…

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com If you break laws at Burning Man, there’s one guy to call. Read the rest of the story…

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com In a decision that could affect the financial relationships between record labels and performers, a federal appeals court in San Francisco on Friday ruled that songs downloaded from Apple’s iTunes store are not actually purchased, but are rather “licensed” by the ostensible buyer. Read the rest of the story…

Source: China Law Blog I have had the blog iLook China on my blogroll for the last few months and I have to say that I only read its frequent postings maybe half the time. It is often too intellectual, too historical, too tangential, and, most importantly, too pro-China for me. But it just occurred… [Continue Reading]

Source: China Law Blog This post is part 3 of a three part series by Robert Walsh, the founder of Samsara Biopharma Consulting, and his colleagues, Jennie Shi, Wendy Zheng, and Zhou Tong. It is a follow up to “The Basics on China Pharma” and “The Basics On China Pharma, Part 2: Getting Into China… [Continue Reading]

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com In a decision that could affect the financial relationships between record labels and performers, a federal appeals court in San Francisco on Friday ruled that songs downloaded from Apple’s iTunes store are not actually purchased, but are rather “licensed” by the ostensible buyer. Read the rest of the story…

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com If you break laws at Burning Man, there’s one guy to call. Read the rest of the story…

Source: Law.com – Newswire The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly employment report for August was released Friday and the news was still a bit glum overall — the U.S. economy lost a total of 54,000 jobs. But the news for lawyers and legal industry employees was a bit brighter. The legal sector handed out 1,000… [Continue Reading]

Source: Law.com – Newswire The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s new power to take over and liquidate nonbank companies whose failure would jeopardize the financial system is intended as a “third way” between bankruptcy and bailout. But the prospect of a new regime for dissolving megacompanies — one with almost no judicial oversight and in which… [Continue Reading]