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Published: March 1,2013
I have just read the column entitled “Speaking ill of the departed” in the February 18 edition of Lawyers Weekly. It contains two mistakes that, in my opinion, are critical.
By Gary Gosselin
Published: March 1,2013
DETROIT -- Maybe it’s just my old-fashioned sensibility (I did hit the double nickel, after all), but a web post touting “XOXO” as a sign off on email hit me as odd (ball). Author Barbara Bogaev writes in the Marketplace Tech area of American Public Media online, that the use of XOXO — hugs and kisses — is becoming a more commonplace email signoff among women.
By Alex Philipson
Published: February 22,2013
More than 75 years after Thurgood Marshall’s victory in the landmark desegregation case that, in 1935, opened the doors of the University of Maryland School of Law to African-Americans, law professor Larry S. Gibson has published a biographic sketch of the civil rights trailblazer, “Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice.”
By Nicole Black, Dolan Media Newswires
Published: February 15,2013
At the end of January, I attended LegalTech 2013, a legal technology conference sponsored every year by American Lawyer Media. This conference is attended by thousands of legal and IT professionals seeking to learn about the latest legal technologies and innovations. If nothing else, this conference is oftentimes a convergence of some of the most innovative and influential people and companies in the legal technology space, and this year was no exception.
By North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff
Published: February 15,2013
The New York Times reported extensively in recent weeks on the impending crisis facing all but the most elite of U.S. law schools and the measures some institutions are taking to counteract it. But more is needed.
By Matthew R. Salzwedel
Published: February 14,2013
A recent article on FindLaw.com called “Five Ways Attorneys Waste Money” claimed that attorneys can cut clients’ costs by avoiding needless motions; staffing cases leanly; focusing on the important issues; avoiding petty spats with the opposition; and being smart about when to settle. But the article ignored the most important way attorneys can save money for their firms and clients: by learning how to write in plain English.
By Harvey Silverglate
Published: February 1,2013
Some lawyers are joking when they refer to the Moakley Courthouse as “the House of Pain.” I’m not. The ill-considered prosecution leading to the suicide of computer prodigy Aaron Swartz is the most recent in a long line of abusive prosecutions coming out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, representing a disastrous culture shift. It sadly reflects what’s happened to the federal criminal courts, not only in Massachusetts but across the country.
By Rich Meneghello
Published: January 18,2013
The good news is that the Mayans got it wrong. The bad news may be that you’ve delayed dealing with all of those labor and employment problems in the hopes that the world would have ended by now.
By Aaron Graf
Published: January 14,2013
A friend recently shared with me that she was “afraid to care” when it came to the subordinates she encounters on a daily basis. Especially during this past holiday season, it struck me as a sad commentary on what the exponential growth of lawsuits has done to important interpersonal and professional relationships in the workplace.
By Ed Poll, Special To Lawyers Weekly
Published: January 4,2013
The legal profession seems obsessed with how it rates. From the long-established Martindale-Hubbell two-letter code ranking of lawyers and the listings in The Best Lawyers in America, to more recent authorities like Chambers USA and SuperLawyers, to the host of online services led by Avvo.com, ranking lawyers is a cottage industry.
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State v. Bean Although the state elicited evidence that defendant exercised her right to remain silent, given the other evidence of defendant’s guilt – her own admissions to a nurse, “I killed my husband just because I finally had enough of him” and “I’m guilty” and the victim’s fear that defendant would kill him – the prosecutor’s comments and questions regarding whether defendant mentioned self-defense prior to trial had little bearing on the jury finding defendant guilty.
State v. Primus Even though the list of the elements of attempted felonious larceny set out in State v. Weaver, 123 N.C. App. 276, 473 S.E.2d 362 (1996), included “falling short of the completed offense,” and even though the state proved that defendant completed the offense of felonious larceny, this does not require the conclusion that proof of the completed offense disproves the attempt to commit. The completed commission of a crime must of necessity include an attempt to commit the crime.
State v. Ingram though one of the eyewitnesses was only 10 years old at the time of the shooting, the credibility of the witness’s identification of defendant was a question for the jury.
