Double amputee Oscar Pistorius of South Africa can compete in the Olympics with prosthetic legs, according to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (ABAJournal and JammieWearingFool, with video);

New York lawyers sue attorney general over pension probe (Adjunct Law Professor Blog);

A study debunks the medical malpractice crisis (Ambrogi @ Legal Blog Watch);

Lawyers average salaries place them on 17th on list (Elefant @ Legal Blog Watch;

The whistle gets blown at Blawg Review #159;

Brooks Schuelke brings us Personal Injury Law Round-Up #62;

Senator Russ Feingold has an op-ed on arbitration clauses (TortDeform);

An incoming law student learns how easy it is to trash your internet reputation (Above the Law); and

Live-blogging U.S. v. Feiger, to watch Gerry Spence in action (Norm Pattis)

From a family doctor at Musings of a Dinosaur, comes this worthwhile read: Managing Risk:

“Despite its bad rap, the legal system really does work more often than it doesn’t”

The Mommy Blawg hosts Blawg Review #158;

John Guyette from the Center for Justice and Democracy gets the call for jury duty, which he recounts at The PopTort; and

Brooks Schuelke puts up Personal Injury Law Round-Up #61, that includes among its nuggets this medical malpractice story of a screwdriver being substituted for a titanium rod in back surgery.

Michelangelo’s David returns to Florence badly damaged after a short stay in the U.S.;

Kevin, M.D. on what makes a good medical blog (DocBlog?), all of which pertains equally to law blogs;

Brooks Schuelke puts up Personal Injury Law Round-Up #60;

Blawg Review #157 is up at Labour Law;

And Medical Humanities puts up Health Wonk Review, referring to this blog as “a general must-read on tort law and medicine.” Yeah, that gets a link.

Brooks Schuelke comes out with Personal Injury Law Round-Up #59;

Kevin Pho of Kevin, M.D. fame has an op-ed in USA Today regarding “defensive medicine” costs that he claims is due to overordering tests out of concern for malpractice. Doctors and hospitals, of course, get paid to do extra tests, but his column doesn’t address that as a contributing factor. There are loads of comments at his blog on the piece he wrote;

Anne Reed at Deliberations on why your theory of the case might be crap; and

Virtually Blind steps out of this world and into the virtual one with Blawg Review #156.

Blawg Review #155 is up, in poetic fashion, at the California Blog of Appeal. Poetic? Well, kinda, sorta;

Last week’s Personal Injury Round Up #57 came out this week, because it’s being done by an actual working lawyer, not an academic (Hey profs! Just kiddin’!). OK, maybe Brooks Schuelke spent part of the time at Disney World. But trust me, getting a round-up out every week like clockwork is no easy feat. And now Brooks is back today with Personal Injury Round-Up #58, chock full of links to stories, many of which I hadn’t seen;

There’s Health Wonk Review up at Health Beat which mixes medicine, law and policy;

Walter Olson notes at Overlawyered that Fen-Phen plaintiffs’ lawyers received $982/hour from the court. Given that the attorneys bore the risks and costs involved in a complex case for nine years, was that appropriate? You can find the judge’s math in calculating the award at The American Lawyer and reach your own conclusion;

Mary Whisner at Trial Ad Notes reports on the first study done on so-called health courts, with the author concluding, “that the modest benefits likely to be produced by the current health court proposal are more than matched by the risks of bias and overreaching that these courts would also present.

And Dick Cheney is a romantic. Who knew?