Ian Wright

The Supreme Court hears arguments today in McDonald v. Chicago. Will citizens in Chicago be given the same rights granted in the 2008 Heller SCOTUS decision striking down the D.C. gun ban?
This Wall Street Journal article sent me reaching for my iPhone Constitution. Better bone up on your 14th Amendment.
This New York Times article voices [...]

I hadn’t heard of Gloria Allred before I read this article on PR.com.
I’m inspired by Allred’s work for the civil rights of women, and I’m amused by the author’s assertion that civil rights are, “…something that I feel I already have in spades.”
Make sure to read all the discussion about the court of public opinion [...]

The legal odyssey of Nano Maldonado – a Redwood City man who argued that California’s Outdoor Advertising Act is unconstitutional – ended in defeat this week at the U.S. Supreme Court.
The nation’s high court declined to hear Maldonado’s case, leaving in place lower federal court rulings that sided with the California Department of Transportation.
Maldonado has [...]

It’s hard to imagine a worse response to a media inquiry than, “No comment.” But apparently many in the legal profession haven’t gotten up to speed on this basic rule of PR. Try this instead: I’m not sure, let me look into that and get back to you. Or: I don’t have all the facts [...]

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This is huge. I have been loving Lala this semester. I’m excited to see what happens next.

By ETHAN SMITH and YUKARI IWATANI KANE
Apple Inc., the company that restructured the music industry around its iTunes service, is exploring an overhaul of the way it sells and stores music that is aimed at extending its influence to [...]

Sometimes, it’s better to look good than to be “right.”
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By Jeffry Bartash, MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Sometimes it’s better to fight your battles in the court of public opinion than in the courtroom.
That’s what AT&T Inc. decided to do after setbacks in its legal effort to force Verizon Wireless to [...]

Well lookie here. The COPO. With a quote by Haggerty. Litigation communications is going mainstream baby!

By Ashby Jones
Question: When should a big, publicly-traded company refrain from filing a lawsuit? Answer: possibly when the public-relations blowback does more damage than the behavior complained about in the lawsuit.
This truism has come up across the pundit-o-sphere in the [...]

This map is amazing. Painstakingly constructed, it shows every ABA law school in the country. I’ve been planning my law school options using this as my starting point for each location.

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By Ashby Jones
Did Northwestern journalism-school students improve their grades by landing information that helped to exonerate a man convicted of fatally shooting a security guard in 1978? Prosecutors in Chicago are trying to find out, and have subpoenaed the grades, grading criteria, class syllabus, and email messages of the students. Click here for the recent [...]