Articles Posted in 2010

It may be the worst environmental disaster ever. As oil continues to flow into the Gulf, we consider the legal implications on this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Joining me to discuss this issue are Rhon E. Jones, manager of the toxic torts practice at the law…

You might say that Judgepedia is the Wikipedia of the judiciary. It strives to be a comprehensive encyclopedic reference about America’s courts and judges. Like Wikipedia, its users are also its editors — anyone can register and then edit any article. “By helping to edit, add information, any fix any mistakes you see,…

When his lawyer could not readily provide an update on the status of service of a lawsuit, software entrepreneur Robert J. Daino decided to do something about it. In March, after two years of development, Daino launched ServeCentral, a Web-based tool designed to help legal professionals manage the process of…

In January, I wrote a post about BarMax CA, a full-fledged preparation course for the California bar exam, delivered entirely on the iPhone. Today, an Ohio company, Supreme Bar Review, announced a series of iPhone apps designed to help law school graduates prepare for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE).

The…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the Supreme Court’s May 24 opinion in American Needle v. NFL, which some are calling the most important legal ruling in sports. Joining us to flesh out the significance of this unanimous ruling are Marc Edelman, a sports lawyer and professor of sports…

Law.com today published my Law Technology News review of Solo Practice University, a website that offers a mix of practical legal-education courses and professional networking targeted at solo and small-firm lawyers. Here’s the summary of my opinion:

Overall, I was impressed. SPU offers a varied selection of practical courses taught by an accomplished

Fast Company has published its list of the 100 most creative people in business. One of those 100 people is Lisa Stone, who gave up writing a legal blog to found and run BlogHer, thereby earning her place on this list.

BlogHer is a publishing and events network for women…

Until yesterday, the URL www.electronicdiscoveryblog.com led to a blog on e-discovery law written by lawyer W. Lawrence Wescott II. Today, that blog is gone. Wescott took it down after a lawyer from LexisNexis threatened legal action over a claimed unauthorized use of LexisNexis cases. The blog was among the…

It now seems almost ludicrous. But until fairly recently, legal publishing giant West claimed that it owned the copyright to federal court decisions. I’m not talking about the headnotes West writes or the key numbering it adds, I’m talking about basic information such as the name of the case, the date of the case, the…

I am a bit behind the curve in writing about The Law Street Journal, a Web site and blog created for law students by law students. Launched in January, the site aims to be a comprehensive resource for current and prospective law students.

This website is geared towards the questions that can only

Now intellectual property lawyers can search and file patents and trademarks, research IP law, and follow IP blogs, all from their iPhone. The new app, Apptorney: IP, released this week, is designed to provide easy access to a range of Internet resources commonly used by IP lawyers.

The app collects and organizes links…

Here is the perfect app for the mobile Supreme Court scholar or for any student of constitutional law: PocketJustice. The app turns your iPhone into a portable repository of Supreme Court jurisprudence, with details about its decisions and its justices and even the audio of oral arguments.

The free version of the app…