I think you’d have a hard time finding any attorney who enjoys the process of written discovery. The process is unpleasant, especially when dealing with a stubborn party or counsel. The costs can be staggering. It gets even more unpleasant when disputes arise. Depositions (as opposed to written discovery) can be fun, but the fun goes away once a dispute arises. You may be able to ease the pain somewhat by consulting the Resolving Discovery Disputes blog run by Foster City attorney Katherine Gallo. I ran across it the other day and, after reading the post I had found in my internet search, kept reading post after post, finding them…
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New blog to cover California Supreme Court
I received an invitation yesterday afternoon to attend a reception to celebrate the launch of a new blog “focused on providing substantive coverage of issues concerning the Supreme Court of California,” and billed as a joint project of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law and the Hastings Law Journal: SCOCAblog. I don’t know if I was randomly chosen for an invitation or I was invited because I am a blogger on appellate issues. It’s nice to think it is the latter, and to think that maybe if I throw a link or two to SCOCAblog from time to time, the bloggers there might return the favor. Oddly, yesterday I…
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Blogroll Addition: California Attorney’s Fees
Regular readers know I am fond of covering attorney’s fee cases. Now there’s a blog about nothing but California attorney’s fees, and it’s called, oddly enough, California Attorney’s Fees. Started less than a month ago, California Attorney’s Fees is a comprehensive blog that reports on both published and unpublished cases and includes several categories related to the appeal of fee awards, including appealability, appeal sanctions, and deadlines. And, they invite you to help add more. California Attorney’s Fees demonstrates that it is not only newer lawyers who are blogging. The junior of the two contributors, Marc Alexander, has 25 years of law practice under his belt, and his co-blogger, Mike…
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Sad to Go with Happy – “Decision of the Day” is No More
I almost feel a little guilty celebrating my blogging anniversary today reading that Robert Loblaw at Decision of the Day is hanging up his keyboard. His announcement says he is saying “farewell to the frenzy” and describes the history of his blog. Many law bloggers, including yours truly, will miss his writing, which I once described as “Gold . . . Pure Gold.” He’s done a stellar job for years, If I tried to keep up the pace he did, I probably would have been beaten into the ground long ago. When I put his blog in my top 10, I wrote, “I still can’t figure out how Loblaw gets…
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Blogroll Addition: Judgment Day
I discovered the new blog Judgment Day a couple of weeks ago, when my stats page showed that it linked to The California Blog of Appeal. The blogger there is an anonymous attorney who dies work as appointed counsel on criminal appeals in New York and goes by the nom de blog (or is that nom de blogue?) Blakely, after Blakely v. Washington (2004) 542 U.S. 296 . Notwithstanding his (or her) New York home base, Blakely has already had a number of posts relevant to California practice. Welcome aboard, Blakely. And congratulations on the second-best blog name ever (according to me, that is).
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Blogroll Addition: Have Opinion, Will Travel
When I started this blog nearly a year ago, I wanted my blogroll to include blogs written by judges. I searched high and low for them, with very few results. Not too long ago, I ran across Have Opinion, Will Travel, a blog by an anonymous appellate judge of unknown jurisdiction. The judge’s blogging goes beyond law, but the legal issues discussed are often interesting. The blogger provides a particularly interesting view on the role of the appellate judge, posted prominently at the top of the blog: Appellate judges sit above the fray as the battle unfolds beneath and when the smoke clears and the dust settles, they descend from…
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New Blogroll Listing: The Complex Litigator
Image via Wikipedia I’ve added The Complex Litigator, a very young blog, to my blogroll under the “Blogs – 9th Circuit State – California” category. Its subtitle: A California-centric collection of comments and resources concerning the practice and procedures that make complex litigation and class actions uniquely challenging. Every time you think all the legal niches are taken, a new law blog comes along to surprise you. And it starts with one of the best first posts of all time, which may actually describe what a lot of us law bloggers felt when we started blogging. Finally, you gotta love the double meaning in the name. When I read it,…
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Law Blog Directories
Sorry for the lack of posting recently. I got laid low by a virus that kept me working part time, at best, the first half of last week and at home on Thursday and Friday. So I’m easing my way back in with this easy post. I’ve added five law blog directories to the blogroll under the clever category heading of “Law Blog Directories.” Might be helpful if you’re looking for something specific in the law blogosphere.
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Appellate Powerhouse Launches Punitive Damages Blog
New to the blogroll is the California Punitive Damages blog, launched recently by appellate powerhouse Horvitz & Levy. I’m told by Curt Cutting, one of the regular contributors at the new blog (and, I’m pleased to say, a regular reader of The California Blog of Appeal), that besides covering appellate decisions on the topic, the blog will cover “proposed legislation, academic commentary, significant decisions from other jurisdictions, and anything else that relates to California punitive damages litigation.” Congratulations to you and your fellow contributors on your launch, Curt!
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New Links in Sidebar
I’ve added RSS feeds to the right sidebar, below the category listing, with the self-explanatory headings of “Blogosphere Coverage of California Appeals” and “Blogosphere Coverage of the Ninth Circuit.” These feeds are of search results from Google Blog Search for keywords designed to return results in line with these topics. Two things I am still experimenting with. First, I haven’t figured out a way to exclude links to my own posts, so some of the titles will look familiar. Second, I may be tweaking the search terms in the next few days if I don’t see the content changing much from day to day. Give it some time if the…
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Legal Humor Blogs Added to Blogroll
Check the left sidebar for the Legal Humor blogroll I promised a few days ago. Since Legal Antics’ “top ten” nominations are still being accepted, there should be quite a few to add here later.
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Return of “Underneath Their Robes” Blog?
Yesterday, the irreverent blog about the federal judiciary, “Underneath their Robes,” had its first new post in nearly nine months. The sole commenter takes the blogger, David Lat, to task, complaining that the self-congratulatory post referencing Lat’s article in the New York Times was an inappropriate way to end the blog’s 9-month silence. I’m surprised there are not more comments regarding the absence. Perhaps people aren’t bothering to check UTR any more. Could this new post mean it is coming back, or does it mean instead that we’ll get a new post only when Lat wants to plug one of his articles?
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Military Additions to the Blogroll
Let me join Appellate Law & Practice in welcoming the Military Justice Blog to the legal blogosphere. According to the blog’s subheading, the Military Jusice Blog will include miltary appellate issues. It appears to be an anonymous blog with the profile name “Sacramentum,” which, according to the profile, “was an oath taken by all Roman legionaries on entering the Roman army and was the foundation of military discipline.” AL & P’s post also referenced CAAFlog, a well-established blog by seven contibutors following developments in the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF). I remember reading while I was a Marine Corps officer (in fact, it might have…