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By most accounts, ESPN’s ‘30 for 30’ documentary series has been a hit with fans, providing a deeper perspective into some of the most important recent sports stories from the past three decades. One such entry, It’s Time, featured the tale of Chucky Mullins, an Ole Miss football player who was paralyzed in a 1989 game against Vanderbilt and passed away two years later. The only problem was that another Mullins documentary, Undefeated, already existed....

How much do Houston cops like pot brownies? Apparently, a lot. Three police officers are accused of eating a tray of pot brownies confiscated during a May marijuana bust. The trio found the illicit treats in the home of Nicholas Hill, and supposedly ate them prior to his arrest. Hill alleges that he was then taken to a patrol car, where the on-duty officers prattled about munchies and drove to the station while high....

It’s all about perspective. As comedian Bill Hicks famously noted, if you watch the Rodney King attack video in reverse, you see police help him up and send him on his way. The effectiveness of your company’s employee ethics training depends entirely on your perspective and how you measure effectiveness. After you know what really matters to the company, you can design your ethics training to fit your specific needs. After all, the cost benefit analysis is going to shake out differently depending on the type, structure, and size of a business....

Without question, “Ask Siri” is one of the more popular features of the new iPhone4S. But hold the phone – while Siri may be able to find directions to the courthouse or the nearest Starbucks, she doesn’t always have the answers that attorneys really want to hear. You know, like “What else can I do with a law degree?” Or “Can you die from sleep deprivation?” We called Siri to the stand and posed a series of questions that lawyers might ask....

It’s not often that courts provide us with insight into sexual intercourse. But yesterday, the Florida Supreme Court shed some much-needed light on that topic. If you’re looking for some tips into the arts erotic, though, this isn’t the case to turn to. (I don’t believe such a case exists, but correct me if I’m wrong.) Rather, this is a case of statutory interpretation, one that forced the court to decide whether “sexual intercourse” was limited to good ol’ penile-vaginal fornication or covered the gay kind of lovemaking as well....

Make some space at the lunch table, Stephanie Meyers and JK Rowlings, there’s a new tween writer on the scene. That’s right, John Grisham his casting his legal fiction genre to adolescent light. As reported by the ABA Journal, the series’ protagonist will be a 13-year old son of two lawyers. The first book, “Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer” will be published by Penguin. Related Resources: John Grisham to Pen Children’s Books (New York Times)From the Superbowl Saints’ Playbook: 3 Tips for New Associates & Solo Practitioners (FindLaw’s Greedy Associates)Required Reading?...

It’s a bit early to fill Christmas stockings, but since Greedy is our name, what the heck. Reports out last week say that as one additional associate bonus, BigLaw firm Proskauer Rose is gifting its own with iPads as one potential work computing option. Yes, the greedy and non-greedy associates at Proskauer will have the choice between an iPad and a desktop PC or a free laptop with docking station, reports Above the Law....

Recent law grads filing for bankruptcy seems to make sense. After all, look at the high six-figure cost of law school. Then just read some news about the dismal state of the economy. Unless you managed to snag a BigLaw job – or any job, really – you might be out of luck. Diana Valle, 26, graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law. She incurred more than $150,000 in student loan debt....

Kent and Jill Easter attempted to frame a school volunteer by planting drugs in her car, but the joke’s on the two California attorneys instead. The Easter’s didn’t like the way Kelli Peters supervised their son so they made a plan to get her fired by planting drugs in her car. The Easter’s provided an anonymous tip to police that Peters’ had drugs in her car, but the facts didn’t add up....

Anna Marie Hernandez has been elected president of the Cuban American Bar Association (CABA) and will be leading the organization throughout 2016. Ms. Hernandez’s nomination and eventual election is no surprise. She has previously served on CABA’s board for the last ten years. She is a partner at the Miami firm Holland & Knight and litigates complex real estate and commercial real estate matters and was elected Tuesday this week to succeed Manuel Crespo Jr....

A federal appeals court has vacated a patent board’s finding that a patent for treating penile fibrosis was invalid, reviving a dispute over the erectile dysfunction drug “Cialis.” Remanding the case to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals said the board must reconsider the obviousness of the method for “arresting or regressing” penile fibrosis. In Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute v. Eli Lilly and Company, the research firm alleged the pharmaceutical company induced patent infringement through repeated treatments of Cialis....

It should be no surprise that the California is spearheading that movement to get self-driving cars street legal. After all, Google’s self-driving cars are being tested here and they’re frequently seen driving themselves on Silicon Valley streets. But is it as easy as just simply making these things and sticking them on the road? Not quite … but you already knew that. ABA and Local Government Recently, the ABA sponsored a program that went over the state and local government laws in San Diego, California....

Do you know some of the things that are illegal on planes - or that can get you summarily kicked off a plane? There are actually a lot of weird things (and also some not-so-weird things) that can get you in trouble with an airline. Here is a list of 5 things that have been proven from past passengers to get you kicked off a plane: Do not masturbate on the plane....

Ranking the ‘best’ law schools depends on who you ask. For example, if you ask U.S. News & World Report, the top law schools are Yale, Stanford, and Harvard. That’s based on 12 “measures of quality,” including peer assessment, GPA, LSAT, etc. But if you ask Above the Law, you’ll get a very different answer because they rank by job placement. It’s a simpler approach, if you can sort out the skunks in the litter....

Remember Lt. John Pike? Back in 2011, when he was still employed by the University of California at Davis, he turned a bottle of non-sanctioned pepper spray on a group of peacefully-protesting students who were blocking the sidewalk in the middle of campus’s large, grassy quad, and ordered a second officer to join the fun, reports the Davis Enterprise. Now, he’s going to cash a massive settlement check, and receive retirement benefits from the university due to the “trauma” he suffered after traumatizing a dozen or so students....

A wedding guest arrested last Saturday clearly wasn’t feeling the love and celebration in the air. Jennifer Ann Martz, 40, of Chicora, Pennsylvania, was caught allegedly trying to sneak away with cash and checks – wedding gifts meant for the newlyweds – by stuffing them into her bra. Guests at the wedding noticed that 11 cards were missing from a gift table. They also noticed Martz quickly making her way to a restroom, the Associated Press reports....

The hashtag #26Acts has been trending on Twitter this week – a call to action to perform 26 acts of kindness in honor of the Connecticut school shooting victims. Lawyers would do well to join the cause, especially today, the one week anniversary of the tragedy. The #26Acts idea came from NBC News correspondent Ann Curry, who posted it on Facebook and Twitter last weekend. Within days, hundreds of thousands were tagging social-media posts with #26Acts to share the good deeds they’d performed all around the world, NBC News reports....

Ron Klain has served as Chief of Staff to two Vice Presidents: Al Gore and Joseph Biden. He’s a Democratic Party bigwig. Heck, he was even a Supreme Court clerk once upon a time. Now? Klain just been appointed to the position of Ebola “czar” (formally known as the one-man “response coordinator”). He’s set to begin his new duties Wednesday, CNN reports. Here are a few fun facts about the guy with the worst title in the entire Obama administration, courtesy of the questionable source that is Wikipedia:...

The end of the year can be rather chaotic. In addition to making sure you’ve met your billable requirement for the year, you also have to put in some face-time at holiday parties and networking events, and some of us will have to do some last minute CLEs too. Keeping up with work during the end of the year is made even more difficult due to family pressures, holiday shopping, and travel plans....

Venue shopping, much like eBay shopping, requires a buyer beware mindset. No one should appreciate that more than an eBay vendor. So it’s slightly ironic that Corri McFadden, proprietress of eDrop-Off, (a high-end eBay consignment store that doesn’t accept returns or exchanges), is looking to take back her lawsuit from a California federal court, so she can bring it in an Illinois federal court instead. Why the sudden change of heart venue?...