Articles Posted in March, 2011

Another Attempt at a Reverse Auction for Legal Services

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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” the philosopher George Santayana once remarked.

With its launch today, will Shpoonkle, the latest reverse-auction site for legal services, find itself suffering the same fate as its forerunners? Or is the time finally right for such a site?

Shpoonkle’s shtick is to provide a…

Podcast: No More Defense for the Defense of Marriage Act

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On Feb. 23, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama administration would no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act in cases pending in federal court.  On this week’s Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the implications of this announcement. Helping us do that are two guests who fall on opposite sides…