From 50,000 Feet

When Sen. Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, stepped down from that role (but didn’t really go anywhere) because the PR firm he chairs, Burson-Marsteller, brought him to a meeting with its client, the Colombian government, the news analysis focused strictly on how Penn’s actions affected Clinton. 
Politics is the screen through which we tend to […]

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If you’re in the US, you can no longer look at wikileaks.org, the wiki site where whistleblowers could post leaked documents, after a California court ruled in favor of a Swiss bank accused of money-laundering. The court ruled in spite of the fact that Wikileaks did not attend the hearing due to […]

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A week has passed since we posted this item about Axium International, a payroll firm that suddenly closed its doors and went bankrupt. Since then, the firm’s primary financier has sued two principles, John Visconti and Ronald Garber, and has made a number of stunning allegations. Many details are at the […]

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Here’s a roundup of some of our recent stories…
Wisconsin Law Journal blogger Anne Reed supplements her blogging fortune working as a jury consultant. She came across a consumer-research study, cited in an article about losing weight, to come up with a tactic to keep jurors engaged in a complex case without repeating the same […]

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You might think you’re entitled to 50 percent of marital community property if your divorce. Not always. Not if you’re a really bad husband. From The VLW Blog:
After Carey and Dean Roberts’ 24-year marriage ended, Accomack County Circuit Judge Glen Tyler awarded the wife 95 percent of the marital property. The Court […]

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Let’s check in on some of the stories being told on the Dolan Media network at the turn of the year….
LIBizBlog, affiliated with the Long Island Business News, posts about a lunch-bucket economic indicator: Share prices of convenience food companies. A Deutsche Bank analyst says “weather issues and consumer pressures” will add up […]

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Before you break out your favorite Christmas movies, here’s a delectable selection of news morsels from around Dolan Media….
Shell Oil Company wants to extract oil from the Green River Formation, which contains one of the largest oil shale deposits in the world. According to the Colorado Springs Business Journal’s Amy Gillentine, the government’s […]

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Here’s something I didn’t know:
Copyfraud is everywhere. False copyright notices appear on modern reprints of Shakespeare’s plays, Beethoven’s piano scores, greeting card versions of Monet’s Water Lilies, and even the U.S. Constitution. Archives claim blanket copyright in everything in their collections. Vendors of microfilmed versions of historical newspapers assert copyright ownership. These false copyright claims, […]

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Our roster of Dolan Media blogs is growing. Today, I’m pleased to point you to The Wisconsin Law Journal Blogs. What you get here are the thoughts of several area legal scholars and legal affairs reporters writing mostly, but not entirely, about matters of law in their home state.
So, for example:
Tony Anderson writes […]

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Well, it happened. Rachel Paulose, the controversial young U.S. Attorney for Minneapolis, has left the frozen north and will return to Washington DC. Minnesota Lawyer Blog’s Mark Cohen has been getting a lot of eyes on his insightful farewell-to-Paulose post:
I believe that Paulose made the right choice in opting to end her often […]

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