According to reports today (Deadspin and Rolling Stone, for example), the ad embedded below ran in Savannah, Georgia, during the Super Bowl. (Thanks, Jessica and James, among others.) The lawyer responsible for it reportedly bought the entire two minutes of local airtime for…
I was on the Huffington Post just now as part of a panel discussing topics including (1) the Virginia AG's decision not to enforce the state constitution's ban on gay marriage, (2) the Florida candidate who unironically suggested that President…
When was the last time you saw somebody do that? This time I did it as part of a "Legalese It" segment on Huffington Post Live, hosted by Mike Sacks. Also talking were Jessica Mederson, who writes E-Discovery Matters and Elie Mystal of Above…
Okay, yes, I can see without even starting the video that it's going to be based on an offensive racial stereotype. That is true. The attire, the coolie hat, and—wow—the glasses with fake squinty eyes painted on the lenses, do…
This was Stephen Colbert's take on the hearing where Rep. Mike Rogers insisted that your privacy isn't violated if you never find out about it (see "If They Violate Your Privacy in the Woods, Do You Make a Sound?" (Oct. 30,…
Not if you don't know about it, according to Rep. Mike Rogers, who, incredibly, is the chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Mike Masnick writes at techdirt about an amazing exchange between Rogers and Prof. Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at…
I will concede I've never personally run for office, but it strikes me that yelling at voters may not be the most effective strategy, at least if your goal is to get them to vote for you. It continually astounds…
I have no idea what the underlying issue was here—apparently some kind of traffic violation—but the clip is well worth watching because you just don't get that many chances to see an attorney and a witness repeatedly flip each other…
Because it appears that detectives are getting really high-quality undercover video these days. You'll want to be presentable when the jury sees it. I found this interesting because I had not yet had the opportunity to see a 21-year-old woman…
Not for slapping his attorney's butt, after slapping it, in sort of an NFL-style congratulatory buttslap for having just gotten him a deal that would have resulted in no jail time. Doing this in view of the judge and spectators turns out to…