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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ABA Journal Blawg 100 Voting
The ABA Journal’s December 2007 issue announces the “ABA Journal Blawg 100,” which it describes as “the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.” The list includes three of the blogs that made my top 10 list in this meme about two months ago: WSJ.com Law Blog, Legal Pad, and Wayne Schiess’s legal-writing blog. California lawyer blogs on the list include Pamela Fasick’s California Civil Litigation Quote of the Week and Denise Howell’s Bag and Baggage. I don’t mind telling you I’m jealous as . . . heck. There may be other California lawyer blogs on the list, but I…
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The Evidence Prof Blog Arrives
The Evidence Prof Blog is a new blog in the Law Professor Blogs Network. I only discovered them last Friday, though the blog has been up since October 2. They recently posted regarding Rhoades v. Avon Products, Inc., case no. 05-56047 (9th Cir. Oct. 15, 2007), which applied Federal Rule of Evidence 408 in a trademark declaratory relief action. Issue: Whether a letter from counsel proposing settlement of a trademark dispute (and containing threats of litigation absent settlement) can be admitted to establish that a plaintiff seeking a declaratory judgment of non-infringement of the sender’s trademark has the requisite “real and reasonable apprehension that it would be subject to liability”…
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“Roundtable Weighs In on Legal Blogs”
Kimberly Kralowek at The UCL Practitioner posts “Roundtable Weighs In on Legal Blogs,” with excerpts from, and a link to, a piece in the National Law Journal last week reporting on a roundtable discussion called “Blogging, Scholarship and the Bench and Bar.” She excerpts some comments from the Ninth Circuit’s Judge Hawkins regarding law bloggers.
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A Light Posting Week
This week is likely to be light on posts, as I will be very busy on a couple of cases. I am trying to get as many posts up this weekend as I can and set them for publication over the course of the week. That means nothing especially current after Monday or Tuesday, probably. Any case law I post about will probably be no newer than Oct. 12. If I unexpectedly find time to post on something new, I’ll do it.
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The Week in a Graph
As you get ready to enjoy your weekend, I thought I’d offer this picture of the last week of blog traffic. Believe it or not, there are some interesting things here. The first thing I noticed was the near perfect symmetry in the weekday points. (The first two data points are Saturday and Sunday, the last five are Monday through Friday). Too bad it looks like a dunce cap. Then I thought, wow, this really does describe some weeks. A slight uptick in productivity on Monday as we get back from the weekend, ramping up to its midweek peak, then declining again toward Friday. I’ve heard you should try never…
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Gold . . . Pure Gold
I post a lot about legal writing, usually with reference to briefs or judicial opinions. But what about blogs? If you saw my Simply the Best Law Blogs post, you know that Decision of the Day is among those I listed. Yes, the analysis is good, the posts are extraordinarily timely, and the Ninth Circuit gets its fair share of coverage . . . but I also keep reading it because of writing like this (my emphasis): This Ninth Circuit criminal appeal is a cautionary tale about why you should do background checks on employees before you hire them – especially the white collar ones. The defendant was hired as…