By: Caryn Tamber

Welcome back from the long weekend. Since we didn’t have a Monday workday this week, here’s your special Tuesday edition of the law blog round-up:

• On his Art of Advocacy blog, Paul Mark Sandler reprints an article he and Judge Lynne Battaglia wrote about why Maryland needs mandatory continuing legal education. The state is totally out of step in its lack of a CLE requirement, the authors write.
• Gross revenue takes a dive at Ballard Spahr, Saul Ewing and most of the other firms in AmLaw’s Second Hundred.
• Lois FInkelstein at the Maryland Divorce Legal Crier continues her saga about hiring a lawyer, and I really want to believe that this is a work of fiction: “As I looked at the detail of this bill more carefully, I saw something that left me flabbergasted. Alan had billed me a tenth of an hour for e-mailing me birthday wishes!”
• Why your law firm’s website isn’t very good.
• Use pink ink, bind your pages with a rubber band, use lots of foreign words, employ the phrase “in cahoots,” and other tips on writing a terrible brief. HT: Above the Law.