- The Faculty Lounge: A call for papers related to Batson v. Kentucky.
- ABA Journal: JP Morgan decides to go slow on foreclosures until the issue of potentially false documents and court filings can be sorted out.
- Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP v. Givaudan Flavors Corp: The Supreme Court of Ohio recognizes and enforces the "self-protective exception" to attorney client privilege, by which a lawyer's testimony can be taken in suits over fees or legal malpractice.
- Jonathan Arons, a noted legal ethicist from San Francisco, has been hired by Mel Gibson's ex-significant-other, to analyze whether a settlement agreement that included destruction of taped conversations would be lawful. (Disclaimer: I know and respect Arons. And this is a serious legal ethics issue, even if Mel Gibson's involved.)