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- Law.com: The percentage of women partners and associates working at NLJ 250 law firms hits 5-year low.
- Legal Theory Blog: Larry Solum notes that Nelson Lund has posted his article "May Lawyers be Given the Power to Elect Those Who Choose Our Judges? Merit Selection and Constitutional Law" on SSRN.
- DailyComet: Kentucky Bar Association is looking to regulate lawyers' comments on Facebook.
- ABA Journal: Have law firm structural changes have created pink ghettos? Debra Cassens Weiss asks this question and discusses a recent survey by the National Association of Women Lawyers and the NAWL Foundation.
- NYT: Adam Liptak observes that Justice Kagan's seat has been empty in 15 of 25 cases heard this term, and cites LEF contributor Steven Lubet's article in the Syracuse Law Review arguing that the full Court should hear recusal motions.
- SCOTUSblog: Recap of Cullen v. Pinholster, an ineffective assistance of counsel case argued last week.
- Lots of folks are weighing in on the recent NYT article about alternative litigation financing (LEF covered it yesterday here and here). See Forbes Full Disclosure, Overlawyered, Mass Torts: State of the Art, Civil Procedure and Federal Courts Blog. For an April 2010 LEF post on litigation funding in Australia, see here.