Children

Some people -- even lawyers -- actually like kids. Some people -- even lawyers -- have kids.

I heard she tried to give the Garratt v. Dailey kid 25 to life.

Paralegaling and babysitting... together at last in one underpaying job!

* Even if you are trying to be ethical, you just might fall into one of these pitfalls. [United States Law Week / Bloomberg BNA]

* Chief Justice John Roberts unloaded some Microsoft stock so he can hear the Xbox 360 case. [Associated Press]

* Sex toys really can bring us closer together: longtime rivals reach agreement over sex toy patent. [Law360]

* The U.S. may be “importing a recession,” but at least bankruptcy lawyers will make out. [Law and More]

* Unable to attend this year’s Legaltech conference? Here’s what you missed. [Business of Law Blog]

* You shouldn’t feel bad about offending some people. [Associate’s Mind]

* Leaving Biglaw once you have kids — but not in order to play with the baby 24/7. [Hire an Esquire]

* Check out the latest podcasts on Legaltech 2016. [CodeX]

Even kids have rights.

The country has some really messed-up priorities when it comes to kids.

Parents make a little boy's dream come true by throwing a lawyer party. Wait, what?

We talk with Matthew Dowd who represents the Meitiv family about Free Range Children.

What, you think you should bring a clown to a teen birthday party?

Do pro-lifers care about orphans, or just the unborn?

Working and having a baby means you're probably working for free.

The senior senator from MA is fighting Wall Street, and the junior one is fighting Mickey Mouse.

How did Jerry Sandusky's attorney spend the night before his client's sentencing? Out drinking with Penn State students, of course.

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced today. How much prison time did he get?

Judge is charged with misdemeanor larceny for not having all the pieces to her used baby thingy...

The ACLU is defending three teenage girls who were expelled for saying on Facebook that they wanted to kill people. Here's why they shouldn't have been expelled…

There may be a case, which is for a court of law to decide, but that’s a made-up number. — Kate O’Brien Ahlers, a spokesperson for the New York City Law Department, commenting on the $900 trillion lawsuit filed against the city by Fausat Ogunbayo, a mother whose children were placed in foster care in […]

In late 2011, television viewers expressed outrage over the pageant industry's tendency to sexualize children. After all, with mothers dressing their daughters like surgically-enhanced country singers, fake breasts and all, or hookers with hearts of gold, how could viewers be anything but horrified? In all honesty, some of these little girls look like complete prosti-tots. This backdrop brings us to today's Lawsuit of the Day, where the mother of one of these tiara-toting toddlers alleges that a well-known celebrity gossip site had a hand in scandalizing her daughter....

We know that the movie Idiocracy stars Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph. But if you are at all concerned with the future of humanity, you really need to watch it. The premise of the movie is that smart people have fewer kids than dumb people. And so, over time, humanity gets dumber. THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING. And, sorry to say, but the women of Biglaw are partially to blame. WE NEED YOUR SMART BABIES....

I already mentioned this in Morning Docket, but the issue deserves a full post. A little girl of 4-years-old barreled her bike into an old lady on a Manhattan sidewalk. The 87-year-old woman broke her hip, and subsequently died. Despite being just four-years-old at the time of the accident, State Supreme Court judge Paul Wooten […]