Jeff Gamso has a fascinating post about the probabilities behind a DNA match. If you do felony criminal law (from either side of the aisle) and I tell you the number is 6.17 quadrillion, you probably assume that I'm talking about DNA. The number will reflect just how unlikely it is that the DNA in the whatever left at the scene could have come from anyone other than the … [Read more...] about The METDI Defense
What’s Wrong With Selling Internships?
Some of the lawyers on my blogroll have been poking fun at a guy named Jack Marshall. He calls himself an "ethicist," runs a consulting firm called ProEthics, and has a blog called Ethics Alarms. I don't really know anything about him, but I thought his blog might make a good source of stuff for me to write about. For the most part, his blog turns out to be about ethical … [Read more...] about What’s Wrong With Selling Internships?
Scott Greenfield Wants a Better SER
Scott Greenfield wants to improve his search engine results, so I'm writing this post to improve Scott Greenfield's search engine results. If you want to know why Scott Greenfield would like a better search engine result, you can read the explanation from Scott Greenfield himself. … [Read more...] about Scott Greenfield Wants a Better SER
Bummer
Some of you may have noticed that Windypundit was unavailable for parts of Saturday. It turns out that my hosting provider migrated Windypundit to a new server sometime in the last week or so. Normally, they'd also change the entries in the nameserver, which is the server that provides the link between the "windypundit.com" domain name and the IP address of the server that … [Read more...] about Bummer
Met Some Nice Folks Today
I stopped by the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Chicago after the InsideCounsel Superconference today and finally met the man, Scott Greenfield, who's a lot friendlier in person than you might think. The young lady with him is Chicago Twitter sensation Amy Derby. That's probably not how she'd like to be introduced, but I don't know much about her other than that she has almost … [Read more...] about Met Some Nice Folks Today