I was interviewed in Phil Harvey’s “On the Phone” column, in the latest issue of Light Reading, “The Global Site for Optical Networking.” Go figure.
Update: Also discussed in Kinsella for Judge.
Free the Baby Lawyers!: Deprogramming the associates at Clifford Chance, by Dahlia Lithwick, Slate, October 29, 2002. Good article on the confusion and warped values of associates and partners at large law firms.
Patent Absurdity: Ending a drug company scam, by Ronald Bailey (ReasonOnline, October 23, 2002) describes the clever manipulation of the patent and federal drug regulatory system by drug manufacturers to fend off competition from manufactuers of generics.
1. GoToMyPC.com: lets you access your home (or work) PC from any other PC having an internet connection; works very well, and is faster than PCAnywhere. About $20/month.
2. mail2web.com: A great (and free) way to access your email on the road. Again, all you need is Internet access, your email address, and your email password. Mail2web figures out the POP3 etc. stuff.
3. j2.com: For emailable/web-accessible faxing. You can get a free fax number on which to receive faxes (which are then instantly emailed to you as an attachement). The free service gives you an out-of-area-code fax number, but who cares? If you pay about $13/month for j2Premiere service, you can get a local area code fax number, and send faxes from email, from the web, or from the “print” function of most applications. It’s great.
Steve Gillmor’s latest InfoWorld “Ahead of the Curve” column, We the People …, contains some provocative thoughts on the legitimacy of intellectual property–comparing it, in some ways, to Prohibition.
There’s No Stopping Them: Perpetual motion is alive and well at the U.S. patent office, October 2002 Scientific American.
Gradually bridging the gap from the paper age to the web era, I’ve recently posted an e-version of my 1994 Louisiana Law Review article A Civil Law to Common Law Dictionary. For more theoretical discussion of civil law and common law, see my Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society, from the Summer 1995 issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies.
Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker (US employment law firm–coolest jingle of all; click the “INTRO TO WEMED” link); Studio Legale Sutti (Italy); and Becerril, Coca & Becerril (Mexico).
The WEMED one is the coolest one by far. There was another Italian firm I saw a few months ago, that had a “disco/modeling runway” type theme (naturally), but now I can’t find the link. If you know others, let me know.
From FindLaw: “Three bungling crooks spent hours prying a cash machine loose and then stealing it, only to realize later that it had been out of order for two years. The thieves’ efforts to steal the ATM machine from L and G restaurant [in Chicago] early Aug. 22 were met with little resistance from the restaurant owner and employees who had long been trying to get rid of the machine.”
The Harder They Fall: Fascinating profile, in The American Lawyer, of the decline of high-tech-boom firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, and its relationship with former chairman, Tower Snow.
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