Year: 2011
On the Blogging Gender Gap Kerfuffle
So a few days ago Mike Cernovich at Crime & Federalism addressed the (apparently common) question of why women are underrepresented in the legal blogosphere. Everyone gets very concerned for women, who apparently are being prevented from blogging. Who is preventing women from blogging? No one says. Well, it’s “men,” we are told. Mike calls… Read more
A Long Post About Flat-Fee Lawyering
I don’t know what Houston criminal defense lawyer Mark Bennett’s politics are, but over the past couple of months he’s been experiencing a classic example of the sort of thing that turns people into libertarians: Out of the blue, the government–in the form of the State Bar of Texas–wants to outlaw his business model. He usually… Read more
The Chicago Code – First Thoughts
I took a look at the pilot episode of The Chicago Code last night and…didn’t hate it. It’s got some of potential. Minor spoilers follow. (As I write this, you can watch the pilot episode for free here.) It’s not what I was hoping for. That’s because what I was hoping for was The Wire:… Read more
Cleaning Up the Snow
Chicago got hit by a pretty big snowstorm this week. I suppose I’d know just how big if I’d been paying attention to the news, but those people drive me crazy. What are they calling it? “Snowmaggedon”? “Snowpocalypse”? “Snowlocaust”? Bah. Look, it’s not that this wasn’t a big snowstorm. It was huge. It’s got to… Read more
Oh My God, Chicago Has a Criminal Defense Blogger!
Back in July of 2009, I declared myself the Greatest Criminal Defense Blogger in Chicago. This was not a boast, it was a lament. I am not a lawyer, and most of my posts have nothing to do with criminal defense. Yet I seemed to be blogging more about criminal defense than any actual Chicago… Read more