There is a “punk,” “anarchist” attorney in Idaho somewhere.  I believe this because of this brand new website and its accompanying blog.

This blog first went silent because I was relocating across the 49th parallel.  It then went silent because I foolishly neglected to renew my domain’s registration on time, mostly due to the distraction of moving.  I plan to write about the relocation.  I do not plan to write about the foolishness.

Do you want a quick, concise backgrounder on the Legal Services Corporation, America’s largest funder of civil legal aid? The Congressional Research Service has just produced one, RL34016, and it’s available on one of my most favorite sites in the world, OpenCRS.

I’ve been surprised how hard it’s been to find some at-a-glance figures on where judges practiced before they became judges. I still haven’t found what I’m looking for, and I’m going to quit trying for the moment. These ABA stats on diversity in state courts are curious though: while the percentage of non-white […]

This week, the Michigan Law Review published a symposium on televising the U.S. Supreme Court. (For those who care a little, but not a lot, Ben Winograd has summarized the seven-essay, 27-page symposium on SCOTUSBlog.) Currently, nobody’s allowed to film, videotape, or televise the Court Chamber, where oral arguments are heard. Ever. […]

Right this time of year, thousands of freshly graduated JDs are getting their first taste of Bar/Bri, a bar exam prep course provider that nearly every law student scares themselves into signing up for—for $2000+ in many cases. A class action against Bar/Bri and Kaplan, alleging antitrust violations (basically, that they divvied up the […]

Today is May Day, International Workers’ Day, and a day of massive demonstrations in U.S. cities (for the second year in a row) in support of immigrant rights. Throughout the United States, it is also Law Day. The New York Times today ran the best editorial on Law Day that I’ve ever seen […]

It almost seems like spring is trying to come to Edmonton. It hasn’t snowed in over a week, and the temperature has creeped above freezing for long enough that I even opened my windows today. Still there’s something not quite right about it—I’ve been saying to myself, “why does this feel like fall?” […]

Junior Iowa Senator Tom Harkin (a Democrat) has introduced S. 1167 (”the Civil Legal Assistance Attorney Loan Repayment Act”) [GovTrack | OpenCongress | Thomas], which would create a $10 million loan repayment assistance program for legal aid attorneys. The bill text tracks the current prosecutor/public defender LRAP bills (S. 442 and H.R. 916) pretty […]

Earlier this week, S. 442 (the “John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007″) [GovTrack | OpenCongress | Thomas] made it out of the Judiciary Committee and is bound for the Senate floor. This bill would fund a $25 million federal loan repayment assistance program (LRAP) for new lawyers working in prosecutors’ […]