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It’s one of the oldest tenets of common law: He who streams son’s birth live on social media forfeits any subsequent copyright claims to such video. Maybe not, but we can’t be so sure that U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan didn’t rely on that exact principle when he dismissed Kali Kanongataa’s copyright lawsuit against ABC and Yahoo after media companies aired segments of his Facebook Live stream of his son’s birth....

Dallas Green, former manager of the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees, suffered a more personal loss then he ever did on the baseball diamond in the Arizona shooting. “I can’t believe my princess is gone,” Green told Phillies’ general manager Ruben Amaro Jr., the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Baseball seems to run in the family. Christina’s father, John Green is a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers, according to the Washington Post....

So you’re not that good at Sudoku. Maybe you can’t spell it, or even know what it is. No worries. It’s not as bad as you think, especially if you are an aging lawyer trying to train your brain with games and puzzles. (Sudoku, if you were wondering, is one of the most popular puzzles in the mobile world today.) Brain training, it turns out, might not be such a good idea after all because getting older is getting better....

It should come as no surprise that law school is expensive. There’s pretty much no way anyone can sign up for a J.D. these days without hearing plenty of horror stories about student debt in advance. But, it turns out that if you want more than just a degree, you’ll have to start paying up even more. A new look at ABA numbers shows that schools with the highest bar passage rates and best employment numbers command a hefty premium, charging about 20 percent more in tuition....

How does one become a rainmaker? Because let’s not kid ourselves, some of us went to law school with only one goal in mind: to make it rain. Of course not all of us did, but for those of you who are upfront about your desires to practice law while raking in the dough, remember that it still takes work. So with that said, here are five truths about being a successful rainmaker:...

It’s hard to tell who to trust when accused criminals turn on each other. Is the jailhouse informant singing a false song in order to get a lighter sentence? Isn’t it curious how the accomplice claims the other guy took the lead in everything? By the very nature of it, informants are usually self-interested, leading to serious credibility issues. For this reason, California requires corroboration for the testimony of an accomplice and an in-custody informant....

In a patent infringement case involving an apparatus for reading optical discs in a computer that reduces the role of magnetic disc drives, summary judgment of non-infringement in favor of defendants is affirmed as plaintiff has not proffered enough evidence to permit a reasonable juror to conclude that the accused devices contain a “data transmitting means”, and without clear identification of the claimed structure or its equivalent in the accused devices, plaintiff cannot survive summary judgment....

I’m representing a famous former NLF player, accused of domestic assault. I’m concerned that my client won’t pass a drug test, so I send a quick text message: “Heaven help us if one of the conditions is to pee in a bottle.” Except I don’t send it to co-counsel, as I thought. I send it to the M-F’ing Associated Press. Who am I? If you guessed fired, you’re close! If you also guess Robert Hinton, ex-attorney for Johnny Manziel, the (in)famous former Brown’s quarterback, you’re right!...

We’ve all had that moment, right? Just after a heated exchange we think of the exact right thing to say. Well what if it doesn’t hit you until 30 years later? Is that too late to pick up the argument again? One man in Kentucky didn’t think so, and his effort to win an argument with his deceased father landed him in jail. I Know You Are But What Am I?...

Law school enrollments reached a 42-year low this year, while more women now attend law school than ever. According to data released by the American Bar Association, 50.32 percent of the law students in ABA-accredited schools are women. It is the first time in the history of the ABA’s annual reports. While it is good news for gender equality in legal education, the report holds bad news for law schools in general....

A 29-year-old has been charged with aggravated assault and false imprisonment for holding his mother hostage at gunpoint for refusing iron his clothes. Robert Edward Tyrrell Jr. allegedly pulled out a gun on his mother, took her keys and cell phone and refused to let her leave for at least six hours, the Associated Press reports. According to officials, the man may be ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. He told his mother ‘“Ironing is woman’s work....

Confirming what had widely been speculated for months, the NBA is relocating the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, North Carolina because of recent state legislation removing discrimination protections for gay, lesbian, and transgender citizens. Known as HB2, that law also barred transgender people from using bathrooms with gender designations different from those on their birth certificates, and has garnered nation-wide criticism and DOJ lawsuits. So gone are the game and the attendant week’s worth of festivities....

Guess who is a fan of Michael Vick? If you read the title, you already know the answer: President Barack Obama. Don’t count conservative bow tie wearer Tucker Carlson as a Vick follower, though. The Commander in Chief called Jeffrey Lurie, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, to praise the organization for giving quarterback Michael Vick a second chance, Peter King of Sports Illustrated reports. The compliment comes while Vick is in the midst of a Pro Bowl and potential MVP season for the Eagles, with 20 touchdown passes and 8 rushing touchdowns....

It’s no R2-D2, but the Knightscope Autonomous Data Machine is a pretty cool droid. According to its manufacturer and this dubstep-soundtracked trailer, the K5 can use 360-degree video, thermal imaging sensors, a laser range finder and radar, and even air quality sensors to detect and prevent crime. The K5 can contact law enforcement and even scare off sexual predators prowling around your Tesla in the parking lot. But the K5 has one apparent vulnerability: 40-something drunk dudes in Silicon Valley shopping mall parking lots....

Sunday night, a brawl erupted at Florida’s Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport at the Spirit Airlines ticket counter. Three passengers, all from New York, whose flights were cancelled, were arrested during the incident. While Spirit has issued an official apology, the brawl has brought the airline’s situation under much more public scrutiny due to the rash of recent airline public relations disasters. Videos posted to social media sites have gained viral status....

One of the first principles of law most of us learn, even if we never go to law school, is that stealing is wrong, even if you’re hungry. The concept goes so far to prohibit cannibalism, even if you’re lost at sea for 14 months, and prohibit giving out free school lunch, even to starving students. But Italy’s highest court might be pushing back against that idea. The country’s Supreme Court of Cassation recently overturned the conviction of a man who didn’t pay for $4....

Student debt isn’t just for your 20s anymore. With more than $1.3 trillion dollars in outstanding student loan debt in the United States, more and more students are taking decades to pay off their loans. Some student borrowers, according to the New York Times, are saddled with debt well into retirement. And almost 40 percent of those retirement-age student debtors see a portion of their Social Security checks garnished for student loan payments, even when those payments push them into poverty....

New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman said he would make pro bono a requirement and as of Thursday that’s the law of the land in the Empire State. The rule makes aspiring New York lawyers complete 50 hours of pro bono work before they can be admitted to the New York State Bar Association. That’s of course in addition to graduating from an accredited law school, passing the bar exam, the MPRE, and showing ‘good moral character....

Buffalo Bills safety Donte Whitner has been charged with “aggravated disorderly conduct and resisting arrest for his role in an altercation outside a Cleveland nightclub early Saturday”, according to the AP. ESPN described the circumstances of Whitner’s arrest indicating that Whitner visited the House of Blues in Cleveland (apparently, to celebrate Miami Dolphins’ WR Ted Ginn Jr.’s birthday), and ended up in a “near riot”. ESPN noted a police statement describing the not-so-festive scene:...

Another week, another comic lost. This time it was Joan Rivers, who died Thursday following complications from a minor medical procedure that left her in cardiac arrest. Rivers was 81. Joan Rivers was a trailblazer, starting out as a female comic in an era where everyone else – except maybe Phyllis Diller – was a man. Because she had to wade through a lot on the road to stardom, Joan Rivers can offer some lessons for lawyers when it comes to perseverance and humor....