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Welcoming Dany Horovitz and Darcy Ammerman

November 22, 2008 03:30

Law is Cool is forever growing and expanding. We welcome our two newest contributors, Dany Horovitz of the University of Western Ontario, and Darcy Ammerman of the University of Ottawa. Dany Horovitz is in his second year in the J.D./M.B.A. program at UWO.  He writes for the Financial Post ...

ABA Journal Survey on the Economy

November 18, 2008 19:55

The ABA Journal asked us to post a survey on the state of the economy and the current job market for lawyers. The results will be posted in their January issue. You can help them out here. The ABA Journal asked us to post a survey on the state of the economy and the current job market for lawyers....

Mister Thorne on How Lawyers Write

November 10, 2008 01:47

One of our readers, Mister Thorne, wrote in to us about a recent legal writing cartoon we posted earlier this week (the (new) legal writer also picked up on it). He pointed out an article from his site today that addresses lawyers as authors and law firms as publishers. Lawyers rarely know how to...

Obama's Hardest Promise: Protecting Workers Who Blow The Whistle

Marshall Chriswell
November 05, 2008 18:07

Senator Barack Obama won the presidential election this week running as the candidate for change. The change he promised included bringing transparency and accountability back into the federal government. During the past year, we have watched President-Elect Obama use his persuasive oratory to...

Closure to the Free Speech Debate?

October 29, 2008 02:41

We are fairly confident that many of our readers are well aware that the CIC v. Maclean’s case has been officially closed (at least at this point in time; an appeal is still a legal possibility). Just in case you didn’t hear - Maclean’s won! A Political No-Brainer Does this come as a sur...