My iPhone App Can Beat Up Your iPhone App!

We've highlighted a few before, but this one tells you that screwed up with some local rule or professional rule of conduct -- and you can use it while you're in court about to be sanctioned!

The application features Southern District guidelines and local bar rules for Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Duval counties. And since Hopkins updates it regularly, he’d like to eventually add local bar rules from other parts of the state.

“You used to see a lot of lawyers using BlackBerries at the courthouse, but now it’s moved more toward iPhones,” Hopkins says. “You can get e-mails and read documents very easily.

“And with the popularity of iPhone apps, having access to rules of civil procedure, rules of evidence, those types of things, right on your phone — as opposed to walking around with a book — makes a lot of sense. The first thing that came to mind was doing something that had the rules of professional conduct.”

Actually, when I think of potential apps, that was not the first thing that came to my mind (but I may be a special case).

Still, I thought you were not supposed to be texting or surfing the web while in the courtroom?

So, to summarize, you can use Chris' neat app to learn that you are at that moment inappropriately using his app.

How meta!

On an unrelated note -- thanks IPKat for linking to one of my dumb posts in this week's Blawg Review -- you all did a great job!

Blawg Review #253

Well it's always Spring Break in sunny South Florida, where some of our lawyers "loan" each other $18 million because that's just how we do things down here.

But let's get ready to welcome our sunburned visitors!

Although there have been many Spring Break movies set on our lovely beaches, none sum it up better than the simple "rich man/poor man/Oil man/water ski instructor" premise of Elvis' 1967 classic Clambake -- I mean where else can you see Elvis sing an entire song about a miracle polymer and also see Bill Bixby employing karate moves in a super tight Speedo?

(I told you things can get a little weird down here.)

But Spring Break is also about music, so here's some downloading advice from people who know about such things.

(And here's a person who does not know about such things).

And of course, you still need health care especially if you're rocking that Bixby bathing suit.

Has anyone considered the legal implications of our recent Florida killer whale incident -- of course ATL has.

(Longtime readers, don't worry -- I'm well aware that it was a young Bo Derek whose leg gets munched on by that strangely anthropomorphic beast in the Jaws ripoff Orca).

Is it snowing in other parts of the country? Seriously?

I totally forgot, but apparently it is.

Speaking of snow, Vancouver was pretty neat (and not just because of the Double McTwist 1260).

BTW, if you can trademark a snowboard move, I've got dibs on "fall repeatedly down the mountain like a ragdoll." Use that in your next job interview.

And of course that leads us to PI lawyers, including the masterful Eric Turkewitz who always beats the pants off me in that ABA Blawg competition.

Is there a good reason to blawg anonymously?

Maybe it's this:

Sometimes it is cowardice or fear of the consequences; sometimes it is a juvenile love of mystery.

Ouch, this is supposed to be fun, but then privacy just ain't what it used to be:

What of the leaders of the companies harvesting our online footprints, and sharing the data with the world for profit? What do they have to say about how their efforts affect our personal lives and our privacy? “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said.

That's comforting (not).

Maybe I should go back to a lighter subject.

Like this?

Naah, that's not our style (that reminds me, whatever happened to Greenberg Girl)?

It's South Florida, it's Spring Break, it's Blawg Review -- now let's apply that Goop!

Blawg Review has information about next week's host, and instructions on how to get your blawg posts reviewed in upcoming issues.

Brent Buckman And His Old Pants.

Sheesh, does anyone have any news of any interest?

Does it count that I saw Ervin rockin' some hard-core aviators outside the courthouse on Flagler this morning?

I even saw Frank Angones!

Hey, I see that my friends over at China Law Blog (they're the guys who pretty much beat the crap out of me for the ABA's Best Regional Blawg last year) have included yours truly in the latest Blawg Review.

Check it out, it's excellent.

A friend passed along this website for Nova grad and St. Lucie County attorney Brent Buckman. I think it speaks for itself.

Brent, this is what happens when you let Rumpy design your website.