Pageflakes is down…

Yet again Pageflakes is down, and has been since yesterday.  Some say it will come back.  I hope so. I have, however, re-done (and expanded considerably) the page for UK legal news and Law Blogs using Netvibes, which I prefer.  I will gradually replace the US, Canadian, Australian and other Pageflake pages I did.  Unfortunately, [...]

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Podcast 94: US lawyer Victoria Pynchon on ADR, mediation and settlement in the USA

Today I am talking to Victoria Pynchon, a US lawyer based in Los Angeles, California. She was a commercial litigator and trial attorney for 24 years before shifting her practice from representing clients in court to helping lawyers settle lawsuits hat involve greater risk, expense or time than their clients wish to expend.  She this [...]

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30th January: Daily legal news and podcast

Daily Legal News and podcast up on Insite Law 1st Email Newswire from Insite If you would like to receive the weekly newswire email – have a look at the first issue and sign up here.

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Professor R.D. Charon guests…

I despair of my brother Charon QC sometimes. I sit down to a glass of vodka and lime the other morning to read The Lawyer online and find that he is wasting yet more time (quite apart from the time he wastes on Twitter) by writing asinine captions to a picture of fellow academic, Peter [...]

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29th January: Daily Legal news podcast

The daily legal news and news podcast is now up on Insite Law FREE NEWSWIRE FROM INSITE LAW. I am planning to write a weekly newswire covering legal news, interesting posts from law blogs, podcasts, law reports and other useful information for lawyers each weekend covering the events of the preceding week.  It will be [...]

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Weekly email newswire from Insite Law – short, sharp and to the point.

I am planning to write a weekly newswire covering legal news, interesting posts from law blogs, podcasts, law reports and other useful information for lawyers each weekend covering the events of the preceding week.  It will be short, sharp and to the point – no frills, no pics… just hard, useful information. This will, I [...]

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Podcast 93: US District Judge, John L. Kane on The War on Drugs

Today I am talking to John L. Kane , a senior District Judge in Denver, Colorado, United States.  John has very robust views on the War on drugs and the antiquated Rules of Civil Procedure and the extent to which judges have stopped adjudicating in courts in order to meet the Tsunami of data generated [...]

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Podcast 92: The Rt Hon Lord Hunt of Wirral – Call for Evidence

The Law Society of England & Wales has decided to initiate an  independent Review of the regulation of lawyers and law firms. Today I am talking to The Rt Hon Lord Hunt of Wirral who has been invited to head the review. Lord Hunt is calling for evidence from the entire legal profession as part [...]

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Podcast 91: City Unslicker on the current financial crisis…

Today I am talking to one of the authors of the influential Captalists@Work blog. There are three contributors. City Unslicker, Nick Drew and Bill Quango MP.  This blog is, in my view, a must read for any lawyer who is interested in the City and who works in the corporate-commerical sector.  In fact.. I would [...]

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I’ve been *Podcasted*…!

Rather like TV crews waiting for events to happen who start interviewing each other… tonight I was the first guest on John Bolch’s (Family Lore)  new series of Podcasts. While John plans to focus on Family Law and related matters, he asked me (given that he has been a guest on my podcasts on many [...]

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Charon reports from The House of Lords: Lord a leaping….

I report tonight, from outside the House of Lords, the upper chamber of Parliament to a nation with a long, proud, but not always entirely honourable history.   The Sunday Times claimed yesterday that four Labour peers, including Lord Taylor of Blackburn, were prepared to change the law for cash. In a statement to the House [...]

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Blawg Review #196 up… as is news on Insite Law

Insite Law magazine now updated with major news/UK blogs update – also Law Society/Bar Council news. Blawg Review #196 is up   – written by Peter Black of Freedom to Differ, celebrating Australia Day.

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Snapshots 25th January: Lords and Commons in the shit and talking it?….

Sunday 25th January Lord and Commons in the shit and talking it?…. Another interesting week in the law, quite apart from the Inauguration of President Obama, with a few constitutional issues thrown in. Gordon Brown has yet to be invited to visit the new President but may already have had an opportunity to tell Obama [...]

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So… where does one start?…

After the BBC broke the news about the separation of Prince Harry and Chelsy to a distraught and credit-crunch battered nation last night, The News of The Screws reported, without the crass solemnity of the BBC:  “Harry, 24, is believed to have told his father about the split a few days ago. Both Charles and [...]

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Brigadier Grappa returns….

It is some time since I have been on the internet in this alter ego, but there was a time when I was a regular poster on RollonFriday;  wasting industrial amounts of time along with City lawyers, many of whom were senior associates (with a sprinkling of partners)  – and generally enjoying the pleasures of [...]

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NEWSFLASH…

We interrupt your lives to announce that Prince Harry and his girlfriend Chelsy Davy have ended their relationship. The BBC, having run out of Labour politicans to kowtow to, has rekindled its interest in The Monarch and matters Royal. Clarence House has not made any official comment other than to say …”Bugger Orf!” *** BBC [...]

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Podcast 90: Mark Bennett, a criminal defense lawyer from Texas on the jury and the art of advocacy

Today I am talking to Mark Bennett, a lawyer from Houston, Texas who specializes in Criminal defense work. Mark is also the author of the  Defending People blog – the art and science of criminal defense trial lawyering. His blog won the ABA Journal best criminal blog award in a hard won fight with Scott [...]

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Snapshot 23 January: To err is human and other matters….

Charon Reports Podcast version: To err is human and other matters There is a certain irony that two men holding high political office, one from the UK and one from the US, should suffer from  minor memory loss. The Independent reports this morning: “Mr Straw came in for criticism for failing to declare a £3,000 [...]

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Podcast 89: In conversation with US attorney Cathy Gellis…

Today I’m talking to Cathy Gellis,  a US attorney from California, author of the Statements of Interest blog and who is also exploring the delights of twitter. Who is Cathy Gellis? Well…. I quote from her website … She’s a lawyer licensed in New York, New Jersey, and California … She graduated from Boston University [...]

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Latest news and a news podcast up on Insite Law – 22 January

Each day, as dawn breaks over London, I read all the major news sources for legal stories, including newspapers and our revered Ministry of Justice.  I then go to my Pageflakes page for UK Blawgs and root out the latest stories from the blawgs. My news and blog selections are then carefully inserted onto the [...]

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