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| New Attorney Ad Rules for La. Lawyers as of Dec. 1 | New advertising standards for Louisiana lawyers are slated to go into effect on December 1, but some practitioners feel they could still using a bit of tweaking.
For the first time, the new rules approved by the Louisiana Supreme Court will require prior approval of lawyer advertising, by a Louisiana state bar committee, if lawyers want to be protected against possible disciplinary action. However, that isn't what is troubling those who see issues in the new advertising standards, reports the Times-Picayune.
Instead, some lawyers are concerned about the extent to which standards seemingly could be extended beyond misleading ads to apply to questions of personal taste and free speech. "Background sounds," for instance, are reportedly banned under the new rules.
Morris Bart, a New Orleans personal injury lawyer known for his "One Call, That's All" slogan, is among those troubled by the new rules.
"While I and every other attorney would agree that commercials can't be false, deceptive and misleading, the difficulty comes in that you can't regulate the style of ads; that gets into a matter of taste, a very subjective issue," he says. |
| Hawaii’s Fix for the Crime Problem: Flash Incarceration | Hawaii has developed an innovative probation program that seems to be significantly more effective than the standard approach in scaring offenders straight.
Dubbed "flash incarceration," it focuses on immediate, short-term punishment--in the form of a brief jail term--for virtually any probation violation. Once offenders begin following the rules regularly, supervisors ease up a bit, reports the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.). The approach is known as HOPE--Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement.
"The million-dollar question," says Honolulu prosecuting attorney Peter Carlisle is whether HOPE reduces recidivism by probationers. "Intuitively I would believe that it does," he says, "but you've got to show me."
Statistics intended to answer that question are expected later this year. |
Law.com News
| | Thelen Reid Hit With Malpractice Suit for Allegedly Mishandling IP | A former client of Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner has filed a malpractice complaint against the firm and one of its partners, contending the firm concealed that it was simultaneously working for a key competitor. IVI Smart Technologies and two subsidiaries claim that Thelen, led by California partner David Ritchie, "actively assisted" the competitor in the repeated theft of intellectual property resulting in an alleged drop in the companies' market capitalization from $200 million to $20 million. |
| Spitzer Figures Violated Law, Says Integrity Commission | Four top figures in former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's administration broke the law by enlisting or allowing the State Police to gather records designed to tarnish Spitzer's chief political foe, a state commission has ruled. Spitzer himself was not charged. While the commission said it recognizes that politicians and their staffs routinely seek to provide to the press "negative ... information about their opponents," the use of the police to do so elevated the former officials' actions into violations. |
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| | Senegal adopts constitutional amendment to allow trial of former Chad dictator | [JURIST] Senegal [JURIST news archive] has formally adopted a constitutional amendment giving the nation's courts jurisdiction over the trial of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre [HRW materials; JURIST news archive], according to a Thursday statement [text] by Human Rights Watch (HRW) |
| New UN human rights commissioner appointed | [JURIST] UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon announced Thursday that he had appointed South African judge Navanethem Pillay [ICC profile] as the new UN high commissioner for human rights, replacing departing commissioner Louis Arbour [JURIST report]. Pillay, a former judge of the International |
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| | Iraqi Presidential Council Rejects Provincial Elections Law - Voice of America | |
| CORRECTION: New York state passes video game labeling law - Reuters | |
Yahoo law
| | CORRECTION: New York state passes video game labeling law (Reuters via Yahoo! News) | (Corrects NYCLU position to it considering a legal challenge to the law instead of planning a legal challenge) |
| Veteran NYTimes reporter calls for US shield law (AFP via Yahoo! News) | Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller on Thursday called on the US Congress to enact a federal shield law that would protect journalists from being forced to disclose their sources. |
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| | Justice Advised CIA in '02 About Legal Waterboarding - Washington Post | |
| The Philosophical and Legal Debate of Labeling Genetically ... - MarketWatch | |
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| | Qualcomm, Nokia Settle Legal Battle (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News) | After a nearly three-year legal battle, Qualcomm and Nokia on Wednesday reached a 15-year deal regarding Qualcomm patents. |
| Qualcomm, Nokia deal ends long legal battle (Reuters via Yahoo! News) | Qualcomm Inc and Nokia (NOK1V.HE) late on Wednesday settled a 3-year, three-continent legal battle over patent licenses and royalties for the next 15 years. |
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