Saw this chuckleworthy piece over at Overlawyered:

A team of researchers led by Richard Gun, visiting research fellow at Adelaide University, ‘has found patients who engage a lawyer after receiving their injury are five times less likely ever to return to work.’ They also appear to suffer more pain and for longer periods than accident victims who do not have lawyers.  Read more »

An attorney is gathering information on epileptic seizures related to video games. Can a lawsuit be far behind?

Originally by Ars Technica, 1:51 PM

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Two recent news stories highlight the development of French internet policy. France is traditionally billed as the ‘safe haven’ of P2P users — portrayed as having a liberal, permissive copyright regime and consumer-friendly anti-circumvention laws.  Read more »

'Two law firms that allegedly surreptitiously accessed an expert witness's password-protected Web site to show a judge that the witness violated a gag order cannot be held liable under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, ruled a federal judge who dismissed the suit. The occupational illness expert had accused Keller & Heckman and its attorney Douglas Behr of hacking into his site by acquiring a password and sharing it with Jones Day lawyers in the midst of a landmark toxics trial.'  Read more »

'As the [American] National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health develops guidelines for working with nanomaterials, experts say the nanotechnology sector is ahead of the curve when it comes to understanding job-related risks, and is doing far more early research than other industries. One expert says the asbestos industry, which doled out staggering sums of money for liability lawsuits, paid the price for a failure to fully understand the product's dangers before putting it on the market.'  Read more »

The New South Wales Department of Lands has announced that its transition to an electronic register of land titles will be complete by December 2006. The transition is a massive undertaking, involving the digitisation of some 66 000 paper certificates of title and issuance of transaction access credentials to several thousand conveyancers and legal professionals.  Read more »

Ebay is facing legal action for allegedly "aiding and abetting" the sale of contact lenses via its website without the involvement of a qualified optician.…

Originally by The Register - Internet and Law: eCommerce, 9:51 PM

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Lawsuits over who can profit from ideas are increasingly a foundation of the technology industry, touching off a race to assemble teams of expert witnesses.

Originally by NYT > Technology, 9:27 PM

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See here for a particularly egregious example of a court filing that has not been properly proofread. Compare, in particular, the phrase ‘disc herniation’ on p 2 with its corresponding incarnation on p 1. Whether malapropism, typographical error, or simply the joke of a bored clerk, the attorneys concerned must be considerably embarrassed.  Read more »

The Australian is reporting that a complaint has been received about three Clayton Utz lawyers involved in the Sharman License Holdings trial, acting for the developer of the popular KaZaa file-sharing software. According to the complaint, the lawyers are alleged to have influenced the testimony of an expert witness, Professor Keith Ross.  Read more »