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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Department of Justice Changes Its Tune on D.C. Voting Rights

Department of Justice Changes Its Tune on D.C. Voting Rights

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation's top lawyer, overruled the opinions of his own lawyers within the Office of Legal Counsel on the question of the constitutionality of giving the District of Columbia voting rights in the House of Representatives, reports The Washington Post. Like the Bush Administration's lawyers two years back, lawyers in Obama's OLC agreed that giving the District voting rights is unconstitutional because the it is not a state. The United States Constitution provides that members of the House must be chosen "by the people of several states," which disqualifies the District.

Holder disagrees, so he sought opinions from other lawyers within the Justice Department, as well as legal scholars. The Solicitor's Office assured Holder that it could defend the constitutionality of a voting rights proposal before the Supreme Court, which convinced him that a voting rights bill would pass constitutional muster. Holder is not alone. Other leaders in the legal community -- including the American Bar Association, former federal appellate judge Kenneth W. Starr and former Justice Department lawyer Viet D. Dinh -- support the bill.

The bill could reach the full House for a vote by May.

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Posted by Carolyn Elefant on April 1, 2009

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Like 'Craigslist for Lawyers'

Like 'Craigslist for Lawyers'

The American Lawyer interviews Laurel Edgeworth, a lawyer and creator of a new Web site that's bound to be a hit with recently unemployed lawyers as well as new grads who can't find jobs: Law Clerk Connection. Working as a law clerk at a small firm during law school, Edgeworth noticed that her firm would sporadically need to staff up for document review within a tight time frame. Enter Law Clerk Connection, where unemployed lawyers and law students pay a small membership fee to upload a profile to the site and view jobs posted by potential employers. Participants can bid on a project, offering a price and time frame for completion.

The Law Clerk Connection site is intended to allow for placement of short-term, discrete tasks like drafting, document production and legal research. The site will also provide networking opportunities for participants. Edgeworth explains that two factors set her site apart from other placement or contract sites. First, Legal Clerk Connection is an entirely on-shore operation; projects are not sent overseas. Second, Law Clerk Connection seems aimed at smaller projects rather than large document review matters.

Right now, the site generates revenue through membership fees for law clerks. But ultimately the company intends to charge fees based on a small percentage of each project from the lawyers' side.

As a small-firm lawyer myself, I can't say whether I'd use the Law Clerk Connection site, though it sounds like a good idea. But typically, when I have small projects to outsource I'll go to Craigslist, while for more serious matters that demand top skills, I prefer personal referrals. The Law Clerk Connection site might be useful for situations where I can't find referrals, particularly if it incorporated a rating system that allowed hiring lawyers to comment on the quality of the work product provided.

Is this a service that you would use? Post your comments below.

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Posted by Carolyn Elefant on April 1, 2009

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April Fools' -- Not a Great Day for Serious Blogging

April Fools' -- Not a Great Day for Serious Blogging

As you know, my colleague Bob Ambrogi and I alternate days for posting here at Legal Blog Watch. So I was dismayed to see that once again, I'd drawn April 1, or April Fools' Day. Let's just say it's a scary day to be blogging.

Last year, April Fools' Day brought this classic: Eric Turkewitz's fantasy baseball prank, where Turkewitz wrote about how three Supreme Court justices recused themselves from review of a case involving Fantasy Baseball because of the justices' personal participation in a rotisserie baseball league. I remember reading the post late at night and searching for other corroborating news coverage. When I couldn't find any, I looked at the date of the post and realized what Turkewitz was up to. Of course, I'd already weeded through dozens of prank posts anyway, so I had my guard up. Others, however, weren't so fortunate; The ABA Journal listed some of the major blog sites that fell for the joke.

So readers, be forewarned. April Fools' is a dangerous day to be out and about in the blogosphere if you're looking for substantive news. If you don't have an enormous amount of patience and a great sense of humor, you may want to turn your news feeds off just for today. And that is no joke!

Of course, just to show that I do enjoy a prank every now and then, feel free to post links below to the most outstanding April Fools' Day joke in the legal blogosphere in 2009. (Sadly, the 3,500 lawyer layoffs for the month of March -- more than for all of 2008 -- is no joke.) Here's a start:

Fool in the Forest hosts a special edition of an April Fools' Blawg Review
Eric Turkewitz is at it again, this time putting his blog up for sale for $1 million (want to bet he has takers?)
Kelly Erb, aka Tax Girl, reports that Congress is ready to tax music downloads
Wired GC covers the bailout plan for failing law firms

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Posted by Carolyn Elefant on April 1, 2009

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