Articles Posted in 2010

Two years ago in a post here, I bemoaned the shuttering of The Virtual Chase, a website devoted to enhancing the research skills of legal professionals. Founded in 1995 by Genie Tyburski, a law librarian at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia, the site was a top destination for legal researchers, until Genie announced…

I’ll admit it: I’m a sucker for a clever pun or play on words.  Among legal blogs, there’s been a minor run on clever names lately, with several new blogs carrying clever turns of phrases as their names.

Clever names are nothing new for legal blogs, of course. I think one of the oldest legal…

Both the president and Congress are often criticized for moving too slowly to fill federal judicial vacancies. But where are these vacancies and what has been done to fill them? The answers to these and other questions can be found at  JudicialNominations.org, a website published by the American Constitution Society.

The site features…

The Defense Research Institute, an international association of civil defense attorneys and corporate counsel, has launched DRI Today, which it describes as “a one-stop online information portal for the legal community.”

So far, it is nowhere near being a one-stop information source. Its directory of blawgs, for example, barely scratches the surface, especially…

Well, maybe not everything. But on this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the newest member of the Supreme Court and the impact she might ultimately have there.

Joining us are two experts on the court:…

I wrote last May about Apptorney IP, an app that facilitated patent and trademark searching on an iPhone by providing direct links to the appropriate sections of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website. Now comes an app that takes that to the next level, enabling more seamless searching of patents and…

In a landmark decision last week, U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker in San Francisco struck down California’s controversial and highly debated Proposition 8. Approved by the state’s voters in November 2008, Prop 8 overturned a state supreme court ruling that resulted in the legalization of same-sex marriage.

This week on the legal-affairs podcast…

Several legal blogs of note have launched recently:…

Law Technology News has my latest column, Crowdsourcing the Law, in which I review innovative new legal websites that rely on the legal community to help gather and refine expertise.

Sites I review are:

When applied to human beings, “legendary” is a word best reserved for outlaws and truly accomplished people such as Carol Burnett and Daniel Schorr. Thus, I am particularly grateful to Gina Roers (a/k/a CLE Gina) for her very kind review of my recent talk at the ACLEA annual meeting.

As she notes,…

Looking for a lawyer in Latvia? Need an accountant in Australia? Well, you guessed it, there’s an app for that.

The MSI Global Alliance, an international association of 250 independent law and accounting firms in 105 countries, yesterday released Advisors2Go, an iPhone app that provides a directory of its member firms and of…

Interesting to see, via Romenesko, that Thomson Reuters has hired Eric Effron as editor for law of the new Thomson Reuters Professional News Center. Effron is the former editor and publisher of Legal Times, the former ALM-owned Washington, D.C., legal newspaper that ALM recently folded into its national legal newspaper, The National…