Monday law blog round-up

- Jessamy challenger Gregg Bernstein tells Investigative Voice that his opponent doesn’t have a good relationship with police and hasn’t insisted that her prosecutors come to court prepared for trial. Bernstein also criticizes Jessamy’s practice of barring prosecutors from calling certain officers as witnesses because of perceived integrity issues.
- “Obviously, he wants to be LeBron James’ father,” Ron Miller writes of the Washington lawyer who is claiming paternity of LeBron James. “Let’s say he is the father. Is it worth admitting you committed statutory rape and that you were basically a deadbeat dad until your kid became an NBA mega star?”
- Why are college graduates applying to and choosing to attend law school in such great numbers, even as the legal sector shrinks?
- John Stossel is ridiculously out of touch on products liability issues, writes The Pop Tort.
- “Pill mills,” in which “drug dealer[s] with… white coat[s] on” prescribe pain meds to addicts and dealers with abandon, are a scourge in South Florida.
- Please do yourself a favor and watch this collection of the worst lawyer ads out there. Watch this one too, which Walter Olson at Overlawyered feels was wrongly left out.











