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Texas Home Equity Issue Certified to SCOTX
July 13, 2015
Garofolo paid off her home equity note, but did not then receive the cancelled promissory note and a release of lien from the servicer, as required by the Texas Constitution, and the terms of the note. She sued for forfeiture of principal and all interest paid under the Constitution; the servicer admitted not having sent the papers, but contended that having the provision in the note was sufficient to comply with the Constitutional requirement. The Fifth Circuit certified this issue to the Texas...
July 13, 2015
Garofolo paid off her home equity note, but did not then receive the cancelled promissory note and a release of lien from the servicer, as required by the Texas Constitution, and the terms of the note. She sued for forfeiture of principal and all interest paid under the Constitution; the servicer admitted not having sent the papers, but contended that having the provision in the note was sufficient to comply with the Constitutional requirement. The Fifth Circuit certified this issue to the Texas...
Does 111 Million Wearable Computing Units By 2018 Sound Like A Fad?
July 12, 2015
7 Challenges Involved In The Wearable App Development | Credencys. By now, I am pretty certain that many of the naysayers have realized that wearable computing is going to last, and will become the biggest part of the computing market in coming years. Development opportunities abound in the field, and, while, as this article points out, there are challenges, 111 million units can't be a fad. The primary challenges are security, user interface on a small screen, and the fact that today's wearables...
July 12, 2015
7 Challenges Involved In The Wearable App Development | Credencys. By now, I am pretty certain that many of the naysayers have realized that wearable computing is going to last, and will become the biggest part of the computing market in coming years. Development opportunities abound in the field, and, while, as this article points out, there are challenges, 111 million units can't be a fad. The primary challenges are security, user interface on a small screen, and the fact that today's wearables...
Law School Applications Fall 5%
July 12, 2015
As the cost of law school rises and the number of entry-level legal jobs stagnates, the number of law-school applicants continues to fall. According to the latest numbers from the Law School Admission Council, 50,269 people submitted applications to nationally accredited law schools as of last week, down 2.5% from the same time last year. Those would-be lawyers applied to an average of more than six schools per person, and the total volume of applications was down 4.6% from 2014. At this point...
July 12, 2015
As the cost of law school rises and the number of entry-level legal jobs stagnates, the number of law-school applicants continues to fall. According to the latest numbers from the Law School Admission Council, 50,269 people submitted applications to nationally accredited law schools as of last week, down 2.5% from the same time last year. Those would-be lawyers applied to an average of more than six schools per person, and the total volume of applications was down 4.6% from 2014. At this point...
Technology Is Necessary to Serve Client Needs
July 12, 2015
Technology can be the key, but lawyers need to see it as an important part of solving the client's issue. Luckily, there is a lot of promise in the marketplace. When I speak to companies and law firms that deal with large amounts of litigation, many of them understand that technology has a role to play and is critical to transforming e-discovery at their company or firm. The idea that the combination of smart people with smart technology can completely change the game often resonates with the general...
July 12, 2015
Technology can be the key, but lawyers need to see it as an important part of solving the client's issue. Luckily, there is a lot of promise in the marketplace. When I speak to companies and law firms that deal with large amounts of litigation, many of them understand that technology has a role to play and is critical to transforming e-discovery at their company or firm. The idea that the combination of smart people with smart technology can completely change the game often resonates with the general...
LegalZoom Accuses State Bar of Illegally Squelching Competition
July 11, 2015
The long-running feud between LegalZoom.com Inc. and the North Carolina State Bar has escalated. In the latest development,...
July 11, 2015
The long-running feud between LegalZoom.com Inc. and the North Carolina State Bar has escalated. In the latest development,...
LegalZoom Sees Supreme Court Ruling As Tool To Challenge N.C. Bar
July 11, 2015
LegalZoom has filed a $10.5 million antitrust suit against the North Carolina State Bar, seizing upon a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision involving that state’s dental-licensing board to challenge the bar’s ability to deny LegalZoom permission to sell legal services in the state. LegalZoom has been waging a quiet battle with North Carolina bar officials for years, as the organization that licenses and disciplines attorneys has repeatedly investigated it for the unauthorized practice of law....
July 11, 2015
LegalZoom has filed a $10.5 million antitrust suit against the North Carolina State Bar, seizing upon a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision involving that state’s dental-licensing board to challenge the bar’s ability to deny LegalZoom permission to sell legal services in the state. LegalZoom has been waging a quiet battle with North Carolina bar officials for years, as the organization that licenses and disciplines attorneys has repeatedly investigated it for the unauthorized practice of law....
Do State Bar Associations Have Antitrust Risk?
July 11, 2015
It was only a matter of time after the Supreme Court’s decision in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal...
July 11, 2015
It was only a matter of time after the Supreme Court’s decision in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal...
Internet Research Tips and Resources for Lawyers
July 10, 2015
Internet Research Tips and Resources for Lawyers. We don't do research in books anymore. We don't even use CDs. Today's lawyer, and anyone else who needs information, does it on the Internet. This article highlights some of the better research tips and resources available to lawyers and other researchers. My favorite is the "filetype: pdf" search term to be used on a website. All of the pdf documents available will pop up. Of course, learning to use connectors like the AROUND operator always pulls...
July 10, 2015
Internet Research Tips and Resources for Lawyers. We don't do research in books anymore. We don't even use CDs. Today's lawyer, and anyone else who needs information, does it on the Internet. This article highlights some of the better research tips and resources available to lawyers and other researchers. My favorite is the "filetype: pdf" search term to be used on a website. All of the pdf documents available will pop up. Of course, learning to use connectors like the AROUND operator always pulls...
Thermostats That Testify—Who Knew?
July 10, 2015
Instead of the usual carping about how we’ve lost all our privacy, let’s talk about all of the new data available to the knowledgeable litigator in discovery as a result of this very same loss. I’m going to limit it to data that allow you to physically track someone’s whereabouts—an electronic private investigator, as it were. First, let me paraphrase a newspaper item that caught my eye several years ago: A Contra Costa police detective moonlighting as a private investigator was found...
July 10, 2015
Instead of the usual carping about how we’ve lost all our privacy, let’s talk about all of the new data available to the knowledgeable litigator in discovery as a result of this very same loss. I’m going to limit it to data that allow you to physically track someone’s whereabouts—an electronic private investigator, as it were. First, let me paraphrase a newspaper item that caught my eye several years ago: A Contra Costa police detective moonlighting as a private investigator was found...
Lawyer Malpractice Insurance Data
July 10, 2015
Much of the empirical work exploring the relation between professional malpractice and insurance focuses on the medical context. Emerging research expands this focus to include lawyers' professional liability claims. In Liability Insurer Data as a Window on Lawyers’ Professional Liability, Tom Baker (Penn) and Rick Swedloff (Rutgers-Camden) exploits the "best publicly available data" and finds: "remarkable stability over thirty years in the distribution of claims by area of practice among both...
July 10, 2015
Much of the empirical work exploring the relation between professional malpractice and insurance focuses on the medical context. Emerging research expands this focus to include lawyers' professional liability claims. In Liability Insurer Data as a Window on Lawyers’ Professional Liability, Tom Baker (Penn) and Rick Swedloff (Rutgers-Camden) exploits the "best publicly available data" and finds: "remarkable stability over thirty years in the distribution of claims by area of practice among both...
