From today's Chicago Tribune: "The marketing potential, whether explicit or not, of law-related blogs--or 'blawgs' as some attorneys have come to call their online journals--is raising some tricky ethical questions for the profession, which regulates lawy
With major upgrades released for Internet Explorer and Firefox, which should get your vote this election day? I offer my opinion in an article today on Law.com's Legal Technology Center, Cast Your Browser Vote: Firefox 2.0 or IE 7?
In August, Tom Mighell wrote on his blog, Inter Alia, about a free utility, called Restoration, that can restore deleted files on your computer. As Tom explained: "It searches your hard drive for sectors containing files marked for deletion and
CNET News.com has prepared the Technology Voter Guide 2006 , ranking every member of Congress on how they've voted on technology-related issues. Read the analysis by Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache, then head over to the map to find out
This is an experiment that I hope will allow me to tap into the collective wisdom of my readers. My RSS reader is flooded with law blogs. Every day, I discover more great law blogs. They provide me great information
On Dec. 1, electronic-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will take effect and change forever how civil cases are litigated. In this week's legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast , we discuss the new rules and their impact
The Boston-based law firm Bingham McCutchen today announced the creation of Bingham Sports Consulting , an offshoot created to provide management, business and legal consulting to professional sports teams. Joining the consulting practice as a principal is John L. Harrington,
An online calendar launched in beta this week is unique in that it works offline as well. Called Scrybe , it operates in your browser even when you are offline and synchronizes when you reconnect. This makes it immediately more
Here is a clever idea: Tailor your cellphone voicemail greeting to the caller, based on caller ID. You can do it with YouMail . The service has other nice features as well, including enabling you to check voice messages via
Finding that the town of Westborough, Mass., violated the open meeting law when it brought forth only one candidate from a field of 24 to be the new town attorney, a judge ordered the town to consider three finalists in
Could the protection lines of the First Amendment be any blurrier? Consider these two examples:In Albuquerque, N.M., a federal judge has ruled that five police officers and one firefighter have a First Amendment right to fight in a charity boxing
A program designed to prepare future journalists to cover legal affairs has launched a Web site and companion blog. The Carnegie Legal Reporting Program @ Newhouse is a program launched this year with a grant from the Carnegie Journalism Initiative.
A program designed to prepare future journalists to cover legal affairs has launched a Web site and companion blog. The Carnegie Legal Reporting Program @ Newhouse is a program launched this year with a grant from the Carnegie Journalism Initiative
From Associated Press, via The Boston Globe : "The lawyer who divulged President Bush's drunken-driving arrest days before the 2000 election was arrested at gunpoint yesterday after he was seen on a highway construction site carrying a toy gun while
With election day looming, a key resource for legal professionals is Election Law @ Moritz , a comprehensive resource covering the laws governing federal, state and local elections. Created by Moritz College of Law , the site reports new legal
Vox Bibliothecae is a blog covering news and research related to social justice. It is written collaboratively by five librarians at the Zimmerman Law Library of the University of Dayton School of Law . Why devote their blog to social
If you are a blogger planning to cover the Nov. 7 elections, you may have questions about how election laws may restrict your reporting. Stanford University Law School's Center for Internet and Society and the Center for Citizen Media at
Massachusetts' highest court has approved a pilot project starting Nov. 1 under which lawyers may provide limited assistance to pro se clients without obligating themselves to take on the clients' full representation. The project, recommended by the Supreme Judicial Court's
