Author: Josh King
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Hyperbole and Confirmation Bias
So the other day I saw this tweet from Melinda Gates: This struck me as an extraordinary claim. Not because I don’t believe that gender-blind applications might make a difference in tech job callback rates,…
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October 2016 Notes: Is There a Ray of Light in the Attorney Regulation Darkness?
Florida Institutionalizes “Access to Justice” Efforts. In recent years, many states have implemented commissions to try and find solutions to the “access to justice” crisis. In Florida, after several years of work, the state…
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Intermediate Scrutiny for Professional Speech Regulation?
To what extent should the government be able to regulate what doctors and lawyers say? Sure, the focus of this blog is commercial speech, and that question is relatively settled (at least as far as…
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The First Amendment in the Courtroom
In there a tension between the First Amendment and a judge’s right to control the courtroom? Nah. The right of a judge to control the courtroom pretty much slices through any such tension. Courtrooms…
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Florida’s Misguided Attempt to Modify its Lawyer Referral Service Rules
Last Friday, Avvo submitted comments to the Florida Supreme Court in response to the Florida Bar’s proposed changes to the state’s Lawyer Referral Service Rules. You can read our submission here, but here’s the backstory…
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California Issues Broad Opinion on Lawyer Confidentiality
As someone who has been hiring lawyers for over 20 years, I love the idea of lawyerly confidentiality. I don’t want my lawyers talking about my cases unless they’ve got my permission to do…
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On Information Bubbles
I went to college, in the 1980’s, at the University of Oregon. The campus stood out, even among generally-left-wing institutions of higher learning, as a very, very liberal place. And unsurprisingly, I held a…