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I just found this great post by Vicky Pynchon,  at her www.negotiationlawblog.com blog on a judge who ordered counsel to have lunch (with thanks to Roger Wood, at Association Law Blog). 

The judge's tongue in cheek order shows a great sense of humor.  It also cleverly demonstrates just how ridiculous judges belive attorneys are when they behave like idiots.   

This one goes in my "it's about your credibility column."  The attorneys involved will never live this one down.

 

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Just last week a speaker at the American Continuing Legal Education Association's mid-year conference in Orlando stated that he thought attorneys over a "Certain Age" (capitals intended!) were not using social networking as a means of communication, networking or finding out about legal community events, such as continuing legal education programs.

What? Are you kidding me? 

OK, I'm thinking to myself, I'm probably on the (much) lower end of his Certain Age scale (if I'm on it at all) so I probably don't count.  So, just for fun, I took a casual poll (a very scientific casual poll, I promise) of my attorney friends via Twitter and Facebook and, go figure, they disagreed.

I know, skewed poll, they're using social networking.

Need to poll folks the old fashioned way, by email.  But still, many of my friends who pipped up said they were of a Certain Age and they couldn't imagine business or personal life without social networking.

Where am I going with this? 

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I'm excited to announce that I have recently added Finz Advance Tapes to the Pincus CLE line up. 

Brought to you by Pincus Legal Education, Inc., I will continue to deliver the excellent, informative and fun audio summaries and analysis of Torts and Civ Pro/Evidence cases in CA that Professor Steven Finz was known for these past 18 years.

In the tradition of Professor Steven Finz, Professor Pat Cain and other well respected law professors will continue to analyze and summarize the latest case law in CA related to the two available series topics: Torts and Civ Pro/Evidence.  

I have already listened to one of Pat's Cd's and her humor and tone is as charming and easy to listen to as Steve's was.  The next monthly CD release will include Professor John Diamond from UC Hastings and Professor Pat Cain discussing the latest torts cases.

We will announce the Civil Procedure/Evidence professors to take over in a bit.

Please see www.advancecollege.org or www.pincuslegaled.com for more information.

 

 

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