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Texas Lawyer

Building Business at SXSW: Festival-Going Lawyers Mix and Mingle With People in Tech and Entertainment Biz

Festival-going lawyers share how to build business at Austin's entertainment and technology extravaganza.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Target Of Judge Judy Lawsuit Calls Suit Misunderstanding

A Hartford lawyer who is being sued in federal court for allegedly using the likeness of daytime TV's "Judge Judy" in an ad for his law firm says the whole thing is a "misunderstanding."
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

'Judge Judy' Files Suit, Says Conn. Law Firm Used Her Picture In Ads

Judith Sheindlin, presiding judge on the daytime television series "Judge Judy," has filed a lawsuit against a Connecticut law firm, claiming the firm has unlawfully used her image in the firm's television and internet advertising.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

SXSW: More Than Free Booze and Debauchery

By | March 12, 2014
As tons of music, film and technology enthusiasts crowd Austin for the 2014 SXSW Festival, Texas Lawyer asked attorneys-attendees of the March 7-16 extravaganza for tips about how lawyers can get the most professionally from SXSW.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

You Can Give Michael Jordan Kudos, But Skip the Logo

The Seventh Circuit says an ad congratulating Michael Jordan on his Basketball Hall of Fame induction was commercial speech.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

High Court Declines Request to Hear Bracelet Ban Case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Pennsylvania school district that tried to ban students from wearing "I (heart) Boobies!" bracelets to promote breast cancer awareness, ending a case that began more than three years ago with the suspension of two middle-school girls who refused a principal's order to take off the bracelets.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Retired NFL Players Ask Court to Revive Licensing Suits

A class of retired NFL players who claim they were wrongfully denied licensing revenues should be allowed to pursue common claims based on their membership in the players union, their lawyer argued on Tuesday before a federal appeals panel.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Emory Law Team Wins Mock Baseball Arbitration

Baseball websites last month reported that the Kansas City Royals had sidestepped arbitration with first baseman Eric Hosmer when he accepted a one-year contract for $3.6 million.
2 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Poker Players Ask Justices: Is it Gambling?

The late Chief Justice William Rehnquist ran a monthly poker game. Chief Justice and President William Howard Taft was an avid poker player, as were justices Robert Jackson and William Douglas. And Justice Antonin Scalia in a recent New York Magazine interview said, "I'm a damn good poker player." Poker is back in the U.S. Supreme Court, but not in the way those famous aficionados knew it.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Seahawks GC Jumps Ship, Joins Huskies

After a mind-blowing Super Bowl victory, the Seattle Seahawks' top lawyer goes collegiate.
2 minute read

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