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April 20, 2012 § 7 Comments
- Some helpful ideas to consider when designing or revamping your law firm web site.
- Speaking of which, here’s a link to a web site that focuses on strategies for using the internet to promote your law firm and improve your practice.
- Using LinkedIn to help market your law practice — seven tips.
- Like or Unlike. Facebook will have a billion users by the summer. Robert Lane Greene expounds on how FB is changing us and how the internet operates. All I can tell you about this is that 99% of communications I receive on FB are game requests (I don’t play so I don’t respond) and 80% of posts are tiresome rants about President Obama.
- I don’t get why Florida Circuit Judge Jessica Recksiedler has recused herself from the Zimmerman case involving the death of teenager Trayvon Martin. Of course, all I have to go on is news reports, which can be relied upon to omit important details, but I understand that she recused herself because Zimmerman contacted another member of her husband’s law firm to inquire about representation, and the member turned the case down. That does not sound like a basis for recusal to me, but maybe it was all about an appearance of impropriety in a nationally sensitive case. Until I see the court order, I’ll stay puzzled.
- The ratio of lawyers to the general population in the US is now 1 to 257, according to this article in the ABA Journal online. The piece questions whether the legal profession is due for a shakeout.
- Clichés in your legal draftsmanship should be as unwelcome as a skunk at a lawn party and as rare as hen’s teeth, but, unfortunately, they’re a dime a dozen. The cliché site can at least tell you what that hackneyed phrase really means, so maybe you can find a more original way to say it.
- “We’re from the government and we’re here to help.” <Sigh> TSA extends its protective activities to a city bus stop.
Potential terrorists awaiting strip search by TSA
The Better Chancery Practice Blog 
I couldn’t find any reference to her husband having said or done anything about this case. His law partner, Nejane, has been hired by CNN as an analyst and was approached by Zimmerman to represent him, but he passed it on to O’Mara.
“Recksiedler announced her recusal in a three-page order that said O’Mara’s two undisclosed legal arguments to remove her were individually insufficient but together formed a compelling case.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0418/Why-Trayvon-Martin-judge-is-stepping-down-already
Did you see where the fella in California after metal detector screening and patdown frisk took all his clothes off when TSA pulled him out for “further investigation”? They arrested him for lewd behavior. His explanationwas that was the only way to satisfy them. Sounds like a good defense to me! We used to be they land of the free because we were the home of the brave. Now we are neither. Sad.
Stewart … remind me not to fly on the same itinerary as you any time soon!
The poor guy was just getting ready for the application of the Florence v. Board of Freeholders decision.
What I thought I saw about the judge was that her husband had given CNN some comments about the case.
Ah, I didn’t catch that. That would be enough for me to recuse.
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