Entries for 2008 Duhaime's LawMag Monitoring and deciphering legal and justice system news and providing honest, candid commentary thereon. Subscribe Today 15 Dec 2008 Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers, Litigation 0 Comments The Drama Of Life, aka Your Local Courthouse For the voyeurs of everyday life, there is only the courthouse. » Continue Reading 19 Nov 2008 Categories: Current Events, Litigation 0 Comments Legal Advice to Mark Cuban: Ferme Ta Geule. Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks, like any client that talks to the press, helps himself hurt himself. » Continue Reading 08 Nov 2008 Categories: Human Rights, Legal History 0 Comments Sisters In Law Not so long ago, those with legal power (men) thought that giving women license to practice law would harm the 'natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex'. » Continue Reading 24 Oct 2008 Categories: Human Rights, International Law, Internet Law 0 Comments Blogging To Death In The Name of Almighty God In some Muslim countries, law blogging is a hazardous occupation. » Continue Reading 23 Sep 2008 Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers 1 Comments It’s War: British Columbia Lawyers Take on the Judges and the AG The PR tanks are rolling out in British Columbia as lawyers take up arms against a fundamental rule change proposal. » Continue Reading 08 Sep 2008 Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers, Litigation 2 Comments The Art Of Trial: Private and Confidential! Trial, for the layperson (read "non-lawyer") is a source of tremendous stress and nervousness. You rarely see standing-room only line-ups at the public galleries of the Courthouse. But for lawyers, they are masochistic labours of love; a chunk of time where the stress is through the roof but so, too, is the intensity. » Continue Reading 05 Aug 2008 Categories: Human Rights, International Law 1 Comments China Politburo - Take A $%##@!@@ Hike A lone student stands-down a row of four communist tanks and still, 19 years later, lawyers and international law experts with far less courage, ... tremble and wait. Technorati Profile » Continue Reading 22 Jul 2008 Categories: Current Events, Personal Injury and Tort Law 8 Comments Banning the Use of Hand-Held Cell Phones While Driving What is with banning hand-held cell phone use while driving that's so difficult for law-makers? Maybe this will help: The Emperor has no clothes! The Emperor has no clothes! » Continue Reading 16 Jul 2008 Categories: Access to Justice and Legal Information, Law Fun 0 Comments Birthday Legal Information Ramblings It only takes two psychiatrists to lock someone away. Birthday or not, here's enough to find ten. » Continue Reading 08 Jul 2008 Categories: Current Events, Law Makers, Politicians 0 Comments Politically-Correct Is Dead! Long Live The Truth! We speaketh prematurely but the lovely knoll of ditching political correctness- sweeter sounding still as it rings from the home of the common law - has been heard and struck a beacon of light upon the shadow of law which naively wants to be all things to all cultures. » Continue Reading Page 1 of 3First Previous [1] 2 3 Next Last