This morning I woke up to news about a Tampa, Florida judge ordering that Sharia law be used to arbitrate a dispute between a Mosque and ex-trustees of the Mosque who believe they were wrongfully ousted in 2002. As many of you know, there has been a great deal of animosity towards the American-Muslim population, to the …
No matter how you spin it or view it, there is no doubt that part of reason why we are in this economic mess is the deregulation of banks in the United States. Enter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created by Congress in July 2010 and set to go into effect July 21, 2011. …
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As a Muslim, I’ve chosen to abide by the ‘halal’ food rules. ‘Halal’ in Arabic literally means permissible and in the context food, usually refers to meat. It’s the equivalent of kosher for Jews. Our livestock must be treated and slaughtered in a certain way, namely that it must slaughtered by the jugular vein and …
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A study on international corruption in the legal systems around the world found that corruption is alive and well. Some findings: Nearly half of all respondents stated corruption was an issue in the legal profession in their own jurisdiction. The proportion was even higher – over 70 per cent – in the following regions: CIS, …
One of the leading thinkers in Cyber Law, Lawrence Lessig, reviews The Social Network on The New Republic. Check it out. Here’s an excerpt: Did Zuckerberg breach his contract? Maybe, for which the damages are more like $650, not $65 million. Did he steal a trade secret? Absolutely not. Did he steal any other “property”? Absolutely not—the code …
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Like Lexis Nexus? Like Westlaw? What if you could combine the two… for free? Well, they are not being combined really, but Google is introducing Wexis, an upcoming new FREE online data base of caselaw. Many of us are already familiar with Google Scholar (which I love and use regularly when I want to view …
Yes, it’s true. The Illinois Supreme Court has (finally) officially approved its Rules of Evidence. I remember my first encounter with the Illinois Rules of Evidence. Although I practice in Illinois, most of my legal education was in Florida. Overall, where you get your legal education doesn’t matter, but when I moved here, I just thought all …
What’s truly the difference between an ‘elite’ school and a ‘third tier’ school? Who is smarter? A cum laude graduate of said third tier school or a Harvard Law graduate who barely made it? Professors from UCLA and Brooklyn Law Schools have analyzed data from studies and concluding that yes, law school grades are more of an …
When you read the words ‘Board of Bar Examiners,’ what comes to your mind? For me, it’s a bunch of old, white (mostly bald, some overweight) men wearing grey suits sitting at a long oval table in leather chairs with mean, scary looks. I picture them trying to come up with various ways to torture …
