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Via Eloquation, an apology from LogoMaid.
In name of Vilords media I need to apologize for the inconvenience caused. I feel really sorry that we didn’t remove the logotype rightaway…and let this situation ascalate. It took us too long to understand the designer we worked with for over 3 years obviously did copy the main shape [...]

One of the most persistent myths in the area of copyright law is the notion that wrapping something in an envelope, mailing it to yourself, and then holding onto the delivered envelope somehow helps you protect your legal rights as the creator of a work. The “envelope method” not only doesn’t work, using it [...]

As Dan originally noted, and as Jon Gruber has reported in more detail, some shabby logo mill has ripped off the SimpleBits logo to re-package and sell for their own profit.
The Flickr thread is lengthy, and much of the amateur legal analysis on both sides is quite simply wrong. But it’s very [...]

Wild Bill at the Passionate America blog got an email from attorney Stephen Jones, on behalf of former Congressional Page and infamous prankster Jordan Edmund. While this may be an “Oh, crap!” moment for Bill and his family, it’s a chance for me to engage in a little translation of lawyer-speak to ordinary English:

Dear [...]

Those of you in the Tampa Bay TV market may want to tune in to Channel 8 for tonight’s Five O’Clock News. I’ll be talking briefly about one of the proposed amendments to the Florida Constitution - specifically, proposal No. 3, “Requiring Broader Public Support for Constitutional Amendments or Revisions.”
Anchor and reporter Josh Thomas [...]

Ricardo & Wasylik to Move Offices to Historic Train Depot
Law Firm’s Growth Drives Relocation
Dade City, Florida (July 12, 2006) - Ricardo & Wasylik, PL, a
law firm based in Dade City, announced today plans to move its offices to
the Historic Train Depot at Meridian Avenue and the Highway 98 Bypass.
We need to move because [...]

Several months ago, I noted that the Florida Bar had decided to burn witches - urm, prohibit the mining of metadata.
Doing some metadata research today, I finally found the real reason the Bar acted so strongly - one of the members of the Board of Governors got suckered.
One Florida lawyer was quite upset when he [...]

This is a little inside baseball, but a federal judge in Arkansas has ruled that the federal Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 does not apply to cases that have NOT been filed under Federal Rule 23 (governing class actions) or state law equivalent, even if the relief asked for is essentially identical.

The motion sought [...]

In this day and age, many courts issue their orders electronically, and most lawyers have access to the online public records, which means that when a judge does something unusual, the e-mail chain spreads it quickly. This one just landed in my email box.
Wednesday, a federal judge in Orlando, Gregory Presnell, ordered the lawyers [...]

Apple periodically likes to pay lip service to the idea that some law firms use Macs instead of Windows-based systems. Their recent highlight of an Atlanta firm underscores why more attorneys have resisted switching:
…the firm administrator at Gaslowitz Frankel (and Adam and Michael’s sister) collects attorneys’ billable hours and, without leaving her iMac G5, [...]

This issue may not interest anyone but those of us corrupted by a legal education, but Evan Schaeffer’s Illinois Trial Practice Weblog has a link to a delicious legal nugget: a scholarly article concluding that summary judgment procedure, in which a court effectively picks a winner of the court case based on the law [...]

Not that anyone’s surprised, but there’s another major e-mail faux pas making the rounds. (Hm. I originally typed “e-mal” by mistake - perhaps a better term for this.) Again, not that anyone’s surprised, but this one comes from a recent Boston-area law school grad tanking her job interview. Here’s the [...]

If he grew long hair, got a few tattoos, and played a little guitar, my good friend and Florida legislator Adam Hasner would look very much like former Creed frontman and current solo artist Scott Stapp.
I’m sure each of them is tanking their lucky stars that they didn’t choose the other’s path.

Capitol Police have apologized for ejecting Cindy Sheehan and, um, Mrs. Young - did she keep her first name when she got married, or is that where C.W. “Bill” Young got the extra one from? I never saw it reported - from the STFU SOTU address this week.
“Neither guest should have been confronted about [...]

Last night was President Bush’s State of the Union Address. Since, like Peggy Noonan, I find these speeches soulless and boring to the point of physical pain, counpounded by the Repetitive Wince Syndrome induced by the President’s repeated mangling of simple words - such as “nuclear,” “Congress” or “ranch” - I thought last night [...]

Samuel ALito was confirmed today to replace Sandar Day O’Connor as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The 58 - 42 vote was almost pureply a party-line vote, with Republican Senator Chafee the only GOP “No” vote and Democratic Senators Byrd, Conrad, Johnson, and Nelson (Nebraska) voting yes.
It was the most partisan [...]

Recall my post the other day about “ink by the barrel“?
That post was more prescient than my football picks. Tiff’s story got picked up by the Consumerist, Instapundit, and Doc Searls.
She’s gotten more eyeballs in three days than I’ve gotten total since I started blogging more than six years ago. And 90% of [...]

There is unmistakable irony in having Samuel Alito’s views on racial and gender equality questioned by a group as diverse as the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Thanks to Jon Stewart for reminding me of the Committee’s commitment to a diverse America.

I got my Florida Bar News yesterday and while flipping through it this morning I have discovered that the Bar’s Board of Governors has voted to condemn the practice of viewing metadata in electronic files even though it does not fully understand exactly what that means.
If you’re unfamiliar with metadata, you are not alone. Several [...]

Not satisfied with the ever-multiplying panoply of ways a citizen can fall afoul of federal criminal laws, Congress has now seen fit to make it a Federal crime to post anonymous flames on the Internet. Those convicted may face up to two years of prison.
This new law, which extends existing law against telephone [...]