Podcast Ipsa Loquitur

Podcast Ipsa Loquitur: Oral Arguments, Bluebook Online, and Finals

Josh Camson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:56:45 +0000

Oral Argument
-Huma rocked her first oral argument…allegedly
-Write all over your brief to make it feel like your own and stay comfortable at the podium
-Unless you’re Josh, then just take up two pages of notes with your arguments on them
-Tip of the week: KNOW THE RECORD!

Bluebook Online
-Blue tips features FAQs for Bluebook citations.
-Down side: the links to Bluebook rules are behind a registration wall.
-What about the physical Bluebook? Josh’s fell apart within a semester. Huma doesn’t use the Bluebook so she can’t relate very well.
-Do you know somebody who can spot an italicized period from a mile away? Josh does.

Legal Tweeter of the Month: @WorstLawStudent
-140 characters of hilarity

Religion Has A Place on Podcast Ipsa Loquitur
-Huma tells us all about slaughtering animals in the streets
-Passover falls during finals every year, and it sucks!

Final Exam Preparation
-Clean room, clean minds. Huma cleans before studying, Josh cleans instead of studying.
-Libraries are depressing and stressful, stay away from them.
-Get plenty of sleep
-Making your outline is studying
-Studying in different places can help you recall what you were studying

Podcast Ipsa Loquitur: Who to Blame for Tuition Hikes, the Facebook alibi, and Six Cardinal Rules for Social Media

Josh Camson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:45:39 +0000

New Federal Rules of Evidence
Is Josh the only one that got excited about the proposed revisions to the Federal Rules of Evidence?
-Probably.

Who is to blame for law school tuition hikes?>
-Is there really a gap between the cost of public and private law school?

Facebook Status Update as an Alibi
-Huma can’t believe this worked. She doesn’t trust the Facebook.
-Would a jury buy a Facebook alibi?
-Will
-Podcast Ipsa Loquitur Tip of the Week: Don’t update your Facebook status while committing a burglary

Six Cardinal Rules for Lawyers
-What does it mean to “interact” with a website?
-Grey areas are the best part of the law.

Non-sequitur
-Huma has ~~swine flu~~ H1N1*, and she infected her whole school.
-Josh thinks people should not be going to school while sick. Huma agrees, but did it anyway.
-Do law schools lie about the attendance policy set by the ABA?

*Social Media Law Student supports political correctness. And Miss Piggy.

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Podcast Ipsa Loquitur: Featured Legal Tweeter, Halloween Costumes, Social Media Use Gone Awry

Josh Camson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:00:48 +0000

Legal Tweeter of the Week
-Dennis Jansen is our Legal Tweeter of the Week this week. It’s because he is pretty bad ass and got shot his 1L year. We also enjoy some of the cases he tweets about.

Halloween
-Huma doesn’t dress up for Halloween? That’s interesting. On the other hand, Josh is dressing up as Captain Hammer.

-One of the big costumes this year will be Balloon Boy. Lady Gaga will also make a large splash.

Social Media Use Gone Awry
-Josh has only heard of one person losing their job because of social media. Huma knows about an attorney that got fired for writing an online erotic novel.
-Are lawyers being reprimanded for violating the duty of confidentiality on Twitter and Facebook? Josh and Huma haven’t heard about any cases. But they’re not omniscient.
-Are new ethical rules necessary to battle this problem?
-In South Carolina, some new rules are already taking shape.

Questions
-What are Josh and Huma’s favorite cases?
-Would Huma or Josh ever hang out a shingle and kick it solo?
-What is the dress code at Bar Review?

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Podcast Ipsa Loquitur: Ethical Attorneys, Hugh Laurie, Cleavage in Court

Josh Camson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:41:41 +0000

Check out show notes after the jump!

Career Services Offices & Social Media (apologies for the sound issues right here)

Huma’s school touched on social media very briefly and told them to get rid of anything inappropriate. Employers may have people friend you on Facebook to find out more about you. At Josh’s orientation, a professor gave a talk telling people to take inappropriate things off Facebook. Downplaying the role of social media to students is a disservice, according to Huma

Josh calls shenanigans on Twitter:

Huma and Josh both found lots of lawyers and law students to follow from JDSupra.

Huma teaches a federal judge how to tweet.

[We will have better sound quality in the future, we promise!]

Ethical Attorneys

There are difficult ethical concerns for lawyers. However, an easy one: if you are disbarred, stop practicing law. This has happened in Nebraska and Pennsylvania.

In Florida, an attorney served on a jury and changed his vote because he was tired of losing money on jury duty.

Law professor serves on jury. His misconduct results in a reversal.

Philadelphia Bar Association says you can’t sneakily friend an adverse witness.

Things Really Go Off the Tracks

First dates are just like job interviews…you’re getting Googled afterwards.

Is it worth protecting your tweets? Huma and Josh don’t think so. But apparently they both Google themselves a lot.

Gist allows you to keep track of things happening with your online contacts.

Huma has a gigantic crush on Hugh Laurie…and his 1L counterpart

One of Josh’s articles was discussed by a rabbi. The original posting was actually on Legalgeekery.com. Whoops.

Is men’s fashion worth talking about? Huma doesn’t think so, but Josh disagrees.

Go watch Arrested Development right now.

Josh’s male professor awkwardly explained to the class that they shouldn’t reveal cleavage in court. Awkwardness ensued.

Follow Josh and Huma on Twitter

Read Huma and Josh’s blogs

Advertise With Yodle?

Rex Gradeless — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:12:25 +0000

Promoting your legal blog can be a daunting task. You’re already blogging, Tweeting, friending, and following. Sometimes you feel like no one is really listening. In order to combat these feelings of loneliness (or just wanting to recoup on your investment) people sometimes hire advertising agencies to promote their blog.

There are a number of places you can go to advertise your blog without going to an advertising agency (and for free). Here’s a short list:

Blog Directories

Social Media Sites: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn

Google Adsense

Creating good content that people want to read (ding ding ding we have a winner!)

Do these advertising agencies really work?

One such advertising agency, Yodle, promises to help lawyers create a localized campaign to target their audience.

This company seems dubious at best when many states have ethical rules that preclude lawyers from advertising and solicitation of any kind. Other jurisdictions require disclaimers on every advertisement. These disclaimers can be lengthy and not aesthetically pleasing in an Internet advertisement.

Moreover, how can they target your audience when a legal claim has yet come to fruition? This is as if they claim to be able to target an audience that does not even exist yet!

Yodle promises to analyze your site and develop a marketing campaign based on your site’s content. This sounds like what search engines (i.e. Google) do for free?

According to TechCrunch:

The company, which started out in 2005, reports a whopping 700 % increase in annual revenue compared to its 2007 income. Of course, expressing growth in percentages is meaningless without actual figures, so we poked around a bit and got CEO Court Cunningham to at least share the run rate for last quarter (Q4 2008), which amounts up to $30 million. Also telling is the reported growth in employee count and signed customers: Yodle had 9 people on the payroll in 2006, it now has about 250, and the company now boasts 5,000+ customers which is up from 125 in 2006. Yodle expects to turn a profit in about six months.

In essence, Yodle is a lead generation company focused on aiding small businesses advertise their wares in search results for all major search engines. If customers have a website, the ad will point directly to it and Yodle will track and optimize actions starting from clickthrough to phone calls, etc. If there’s no web presence yet, the small business can opt to work with Yodle to create a custom so-called AdverSite which acts as a basic call-to-action website or landing page for the advertisers. Pricing for Yodle’s suite of services includes keyword bid management and optimization, website / landing page creation, and analytics ranges from under $1000 for small local business owners to over $5000 for larger businesses.

Here’s a “success story” from Yodle for legal services:

Have you used an online advertiser such as Yodle? Was it worth it? Do companies like this really work or are they just yodeling all the way to the bank?

This guy seems to be convinced:

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