The Personal Injury Law Round-Up is up at TortsProf, this week by Christopher Robinette. So folks like me that have been out of the loop for a week now have an easy way to play catch up;

FindLaw gets busted trying to game the Google rankings by selling links for $12,000 per year. They had a Pagerank of 7. Now they have a 5. Will they be sued if they don’t refund the money? (Kevin O’Keefe @ Real Lawyers Have Blogs and Oilman);

And whether one agrees with Justice Scalia’s politics or not, there is one thing almost every agrees on: That guy can write. Lisa Solomon attended a talk of his on the subject, Scalia’s Remarks About Legal Writing. Solomon also has a picture of herself with the Justice at her site.

Sometimes the comments can be great. If only you find them. So here you go….After I posted about my tort “reform” op-ed in a local paper serving the million or so people in the commuter counties north of NYC, Ted Frank came in with a minor correction at Overlawyered. Then deep into the comments, a long discussion/debate on medical malpractice and academic studies broke out between Frank and Professor Richard Wright. So check out the terrific discussion starting at comment 16.

Blawg Review #171 is like a virgin. Why? If I told you, you wouldn’t go to the link.

TortsProf Sheila Scheuerman takes her first swing at the Personal Injury Law Round-Up, and knocks the ball out of the park with a broad array of links.

Max Kennerly takes on an anti-class action piece in the WSJ regarding the constitutionality of cy pres distributions by George Krueger and Judd Serotta, picking apart some bad legal arguments that he sees.

And a giant table computer from Microsoft that has nothing whatsoever to do with personal injury law. But the commercial is funny as hell.

Since my picture has never before graced the pages of Wired Magazine (and likely never will again), I’ll start with this link to their article on the NASA program. Gracing the top of their electronic page is my family watching Apollo 15 blast off to the moon on July 26, 1971. Two of my three brothers are on the roof of the old Vista Cruiser that we drove down from New York. I’m on the far left. (Photo credit: Dad).

Anne Reed (of Deliberations fame) finds her way to the pages of Trial Magazine for a story on what to expect (and not expect) of mock juries;

The Tennessee Supreme Court upholds a $13M punitive damage award against Chrysler;

Massachusetts adopts the “loss of chance” doctrine (via Walter Olson @ Overlawyered);

Google finds one trillion unique URLs (Macworld);

And most importantly, Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice meets the expectations of the masses with a great job hosting Blawg Review #170, honoring the 14th Amendment by looking at equal protection issues wherever he finds them. Which is to say, everywhere.

A medical liability round-up, from the other side of the courtroom well (Walter Olson @ Overlawyered);

A study of doctor blogs shows that many of them are revealing patient information (Ed Silverman @ Pharmalot)

Psssst….Blawg Review #169 is up at Whisper, and marketing is the theme.

And next week’s Blawg Review will be hosted by none other than Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice. To say the blawgosphere is expecting great things from Greenfield is a significant understatement. An extraordinarily prolific blogger (120 posts in June, none of them short), Greenfield hasn’t met a challenge yet in the blawgosphere that he’s backed down from. Despite the bar being set so high for him, there is little doubt he will exceed it.

When defendants do it, it isn’t called “forum shopping.” (Justinian Lane @ TortDeform). Which, he points out, is just a tad different than judge shopping;

Things to do while waiting for a verdict, in Texas (You-won’t-believe-this edition) (Scott Greenfield @ Simple Justice, and Jamie Spencer at Austin DWI Lawyer);

Hmmmm….beer-sicles (Walter Olson @ Overlawyered)

And a more serious Walter Olson on the politicization of judicial selection with elections, and how campaign dollars contribute to tort “reform” (Olson @ Point of Law) which stirs up much reaction);

New York has higher hospital infection rates that the national average, and that ain’t good (Jim Reed @ Zifflaw)

Church Answers Lawsuit of Fallen Man (Kevin Underhill @ Lowering the Bar)

Is that a rat in my entree? (Dustin @ Quizlaw)

What the hell was Joe Cocker singing? (We get a little help from our friend David Giacalone @ f/k/a with this short, must-see video)