» Free Phones Cost You Plenty
24/11/09 09:42 from Caveat Emptor
Most cell phone service providers offer a “free” phone when you sign up for a two-year contract. The phones are not free, of course, you just pay for them over time. How much? Nobody knows, but T-Mobile just gave a clue. T-Mobi..

» Triathlon Lessons: Don't Count on the Magic Bullet
24/11/09 08:00 from Coach Shaun's Top of Mind
This is part of my series on life and business lessons I pulled out of my first Triathlon experience. Don't Count on the Magic Bullet You might think this is comical, but I shaved off a bunch of hair to swim faster with less resistance. Gra..

» Writin’ Tips’re Easy
23/11/09 18:56 from practiceblawg
Our weekly writing tip is designed to make you a better writer, one step at a time. Take two minutes to improve your writing skills and read this tip. It’s time to follow last week’s inaugural Off the Clock writing tip with a new drafting t..

» Rand v. Moua: The Other Shoe Drops
23/11/09 13:46 from MINNESOTA LITIGATOR
In a Truth-in-Lending Act (TILA) case covered previously on this blog, the lender lost on a TILA rescission claim before the 8th Circuit  (which had reversed the District Court (D. Minn.)). Pursuant to the Eighth Circuit’s mandate, lat..

» Fair Isaac: Now it is on to the appeal....
21/11/09 07:19 from MINNESOTA LITIGATOR
In a large lawsuit covered in this blog previously here (discovery deadline dispute), here (technology in the courtroom), and here (rejected evidence of document destruction), the jury has returned a defense verdict . The jury also reported..

» Creating Rules in Outlook
20/11/09 11:04 from practiceblawg
E-mail dogs me, and I suspect it dogs many attorneys. For me, it means an unorganized e-mail inbox that often piles up into an unmanageable level, despite getting near daily warnings from our IT folks that my inbox is over its allowed size...

» Boylan Order on ESI and Native Production
19/11/09 10:11 from MINNESOTA LITIGATOR
Electronic discovery ("ESI"= electronically stored information) is a fact of life for almost all civil litigation but there are forces at work (technologically ignorant litigators and unbelievable potential expense for "full-scale" electron..

» FBA Luncheon: Mag. Judge Janie Mayeron's 20/20 Hindsight on Private Practice
18/11/09 16:53 from MINNESOTA LITIGATOR
The Federal Bar Association November lunch today featured the Honorable Janie S. Mayeron (U.S. Mag. Judge, D. Minn.): “What I Know Now That I Should Have Known (a/k/a Wished I Had Known) Then: The Judge’s Observations (with 20/20 Hindsight)..

» Is there a right to cheap cheese?
18/11/09 11:16 from MINNESOTA LITIGATOR
Is there a federal right to cheap cheese? The Dairy Farmers of America might like that formulation of the legal issues in the case brought against it by Killer Whale Holdings, LLC and others. Surely the plaintiffs in this case of alleged ma..

» Google Adds Searchable Legal Opinions
18/11/09 11:02 from practiceblawg
In big news for Google and lawyers worldwide, Google announced yesterday that it has added legal opinions and legal journals to its huge Google Scholar database. Twitter and other legal blogs are already buzzing with the news, and there is ..