Blawg Ring

JCA has set up a Blawg Ring! Three members and growing. This should make the B(lawg) P(atrol)'s work a piece of cake. They've been admirably diligent lately, so stay tuned for lots of blawg updates here soon (this weekend). Dave Winer likes where this is going, and so do I:

It seems we're just about at the tipping point for lawyer-bloggers. I'm getting a sense that if we have a legal question that's appropriate to ask in public, it's likely one of the lawyers will answer it, at weblog-speed, which is fast. They also write well. Here's an example [Bill Altreuter]. "The Bronx is where I spent a great deal of the formative years in my professional life; it is a place apart in a lot of ways, a little banana republic in New York City." He tells a good story. I feel a kinship with the kind of lawyer who writes in public.

Real And Make Believe

Coming soon to Orange County, CA: Pretend City, a Children's Museum where kids run the commerce, transportation and press. Spotted this morning in Orange County, CA: Ralphs grocery store offers scaled-down, child-sized shopping carts. The kids need no longer sneak the Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch into your cart; they've got their own.

100 Aker Royalty

Amy Wallace has a wonderful article in this month's Los Angeles Magazine, titled Lawyers, Tiggers & Bears, Oh My! It chronicles the royalty battle between Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, who owns the U.S. and Canadian merchandising, radio and television rights to Winnie-the-Pooh, and Disney, and it does so in a style that would make A.A. Milne proud: "The Thistly Thicket in which Woozles who practice entertainment law reside is even smaller and more insular than Pooh Corner." A worthy expotition.

Stupid Link Tricks

Don't Link To Us highlights Web sites with less than progressive linking policies: "The Linking Policy for Don't Link to Us! precludes us from requesting permission to link to a site, and compels us to link directly to the targeted page (i.e., a 'deep link') rather than to a site's home page." [Via Daypop Top 40]

Discrimination Settlement

A case I have been working on for some time, together with Jim Martin and George Schiavelli of my office, has recently settled. Our client was Jeff Abraham, who through his company Technical Resources provides professional placement services for individuals and businesses in the semiconductor industry. Jeff has fought a long battle that centered on his submission of employment candidates for a semiconductor plant in Eugene, Oregon. More about Jeff, his case and its resolution is reported here in Eugene's Register-Guard.