February 3, 2009

• Audacious: Stimulus bill would let state AGs file HIPAA damage suits using private contingency-fee lawyers [Chamber ILR]
• Hemline effect? Periods of intensive empirical research at law schools said to correlate with stock market booms [Prawfsblawg, ConcurOp]
  
• If "Human Rights Watch" wants to nose into U.S. domestic labor law, could it at least do so on the right side? [Carter at ShopFloor]
• Canada said to have too few lawyers, a sentiment open to doubt [Maclean's]
• Connecticut experiments with group voir dire, Norm Pattis comments [Connecticut Trial Lawyer] Best blogs and feeds about juries, by Anne Reed who is too modest to note that hers is in fact best [Deliberations]
• Julian Sanchez on Cass Sunstein appointment [Ars Technica; earlier]