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Legal Ethics
Lawyers Sanctioned for E-Mail Insults, Including 'Scum Sucking Loser' Comment
Jan 3, 2011, 06:00 am CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/lawyers_sanctioned_for_e-mail_insults_including_scum_sucking_loser_comment?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
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Criminal Justice
Body of Murdered Ex-GOP Official, a Yale Law Grad, Is Found in Del. Landfill
Jan 3, 2011, 03:12 pm CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/body_of_murdered_ex-gop_official_a_yale_law_grad_is_found_in_delaware_landf?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Plus: Mystery Deepens re Ex-GOP Aide Yale Law Grad, Disoriented and Coatless Before Murder
Jan 5, 2011, 05:49 pm CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/mystery_deepens_re_ex-gop_aide_and_yale_law_grad_seen_disoriented_and_coatl?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Careers
Paralegal Is Better Job than Lawyer, Ranking Says
Jan 6, 2011, 06:20 am CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/paralegal_is_better_job_than_lawyer_ranking_says?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Plus: Law Grad in 'Severe Financial Distress' Seeks $200K for Law Degree on eBay
Jan 6, 2011, 07:09 am CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/law_grad_in_severe_financial_distress_seeks_200k_for_law_degree_on_ebay?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Plus: Lawyer Creates Special Underwear for Modest Airline Passengers
Jan 4, 2011, 06:34 am CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/lawyer_creates_special_underwear_for_modest_airline_passengers?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Outsourcing
What Today's Outsourcing Boom Means for Legal Practice (Podcast)
Jan 3, 2011, 08:37 am CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/podcast_monthly_episode_10?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Law Schools
Female Law Students More Likely than Males to Cite Fear Factor as Motivator
Jan 5, 2011, 10:19 am CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/female_law_students_more_likely_than_males_to_cite_fear_factor_as_motivator?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Plus: Cooley Is Latest Law School Taking a Blog Battering
Jan 4, 2011, 10:16 am CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/cooley_is_latest_law_school_taking_a_blog_battering?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
U.S. Supreme Court
Scalia Confounded by Prevalence of F-Word, Clear on Lack of Protection for Gays, Women
Jan 4, 2011, 06:59 am CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/scalia_confounded_by_prevalence_of_f-word_clear_on_lack_of_protection_for_g?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Plus: Scalia Accepts Invite of Tea Party Leader, Criticized for 'Exceedingly Poor Judgment'
Jan 5, 2011, 06:42 am CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/scalia_accepts_invite_of_tea_party_leader_law_prof_hits_exceedingly_poor_ju?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
The New Normal
Lawyers: Make Finding Your Mojo Your 2011 New Year's Resolution
Jan 4, 2011, 08:29 am CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/new_normal_lawyers_make_finding_your_mojo_your_2011_new_years_resolution?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Legal Ethics
Controversial Civil Rights Lawyer, Fearless Critic of Federal Judges, Is Disbarred After Convictions
Jan 4, 2011, 06:14 pm CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/controversial_civil_rights_lawyer_fearless_critic_of_federal_judges_is_disb?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Criminal Justice
Armed with Glock, Minn. Judge Holds 3 a.m. Home Intruder at Bay
Jan 4, 2011, 12:33 pm CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/armed_with_glock_minn._judge_holds_3_a.m._home_intruder_at_bay?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
ABA Journal
4th Annual Blawg 100 Popular Voting Results Are Online
Jan 3, 2011, 11:13 am CST
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/4th_annual_blawg_100_popular_voting_results_are_online?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
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Question of the Week
Do You Engage in Any Good-Luck Rituals?
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/do_you_engage_in_any_good-luck_rituals?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=default_email
This week, we noted a report that some New Yorkers -- lawyers included -- employ "smudgers" to clear their homes of the negative energy they feel has been left behind by prior owners or tenants through ritual acts such as burning sage inside the space.
Lawyer Ziporah Reich hired a smudger because she wanted to wipe out bad memories of delays and problems with her recent apartment renovation. Reich told the New York Times that she's always been interested in good-luck rituals. "While growing up in Brooklyn, she watched how neighbors and friends brought bread and salt as housewarming gifts, a tradition among Jews, Russians and others," the Times wrote. "While living in Japan, she noticed that car dealers blessed cars before buyers started driving them."
This made us wonder about your rituals involving work.
So tell us ...
Do you engage in any good-luck rituals before trials, depositions or important client meetings? If so, what is your ritual? And does it always seem to work for you?
Answer in the comments.
Read the answer to last week's question: What Are Three Things You Resolve to Do to Improve Your Law Practice in 2011?"
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/what_are_three_things_you_resolve_to_do_to_improve_your_law_practice_in_201/
Featured answer:
Posted by Jick:
"Get along better with opposing counsel.
"Write the brief, say everything, sleep on it, then rewrite with a more serene perspective.
"Lower my expectations and increase my empathy for everyone and everything everywhere."
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