Robert Ambrogi

Is a Massachusetts lawyer, writer and media consultant. He also writes the blog Media Law and cohosts the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer

Lawyer2Lawyer: Transparency in Congressional Travel

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Members of Congress and their staffers who travel at the expense of private organizations must follow a long list of legal restrictions and requirements.  However, a little-known law, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, allows the same federal employees to travel with virtually no accountability and very little transparency.

In his recent report,…

JuraLaw to Offer National Docket and Rules Management

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I’ve been so swamped since ABA Techshow that I have not had much time to write about what I saw there. Many of the product announcements at the show involved upgrades or new versions of existing products. But there was one major new product unveiled at Techshow that is worth noting: JuraLaw, a cloud-based…

‘TheFormTool’: Smart, Simple Document Assembly

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Wandering through the exhibition hall at ABA Techshow last week,  I’d ask friends I bumped into whether they’d seen any new products that interested them. Time and again, it seemed, the answer was the same: TheFormTool. TheFormTool is an add-in to Microsoft Word (2007 and later versions) that makes it extremely easy…

LexisNexis Acquires Legal News Site Law360

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LexisNexis said today that it has acquired Portfolio Media, the company that runs Law360, a subscription website that provides legal news and analysis targeted at business lawyers.

Law360 covers legal news on its website and in e-newsletters. News is organized according to some 30 practice areas, industries and regions. According to…