A Massachusetts’ judge’s release of Daniel Tavares become part of the national political debate after Tavares allegedly shot and killed a newlywed couple in Washington state and Republican presidential hopeful and former Bay State Gov. Mitt Romney called on the judge — his own appointee — to resign. On the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer…
ABA Journal Names LawSites Top 100 Blawg
Editors of the ABA Journal today announced they have selected this blog as one of the Blawg 100, the 100 best Web sites by lawyers for lawyers. Now the ABA Journal is inviting lawyers to vote for their favorites in each of the Blawg 100’s 12 categories. To vote, go to http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs/blawg100.…
Google Desktop Broken in Firefox
At first I thought it was just my computer, but it turns out that something is broken in the latest version of Google Desktop that can disable its desktop search function for Firefox users. Try to perform a desktop search and instead of results, Firefox displays the error message, “The connection was reset.” The…
In Praise of the Samsung BlackJack
Gizmodo is reporting that Samsung is denying rumors of a recall of its BlackJack phone due to antenna problems causing poor reception. For me, this is ironic. Just last week, I was on a conference call via my BlackJack, and someone on the other end commented that I…
Keeping Up With EDD Blogs and Tools
Law.com today features the second installment in my two-part column on useful e-discovery sites and resources. The second part, Keeping Up With EDD Blogs and Tools, focuses, as the title suggests, on EDD blogs and also on vendor sites with useful information. The first part, EDD Bytes to Feed Your Firm, looked…
The One Law Blog on Kindle
Amazon is calling Kindle a revolutionary wireless reading device with a high-resolution “electronic-paper” display “that looks and reads like real paper.” Purchasers can use it to buy and read books and subscribe to top newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the
Lawyer2Lawyer: Vioxx Lawyers Discuss Settlement
On Nov. 9, Merck & Co., after long insisting it would never settle the 27,000 Vioxx cases filed against it, turned an about face and agreed to a global settlement in which it will pay $4.85 billion to resolve the bulk of these cases. Two of the lawyers who were instrumental in bringing this about…
Whistleblower Protection Blog
Earlier today at Legal Blog Watch, I wrote about yesterday’s joint investigative report by 60 Minutes and The Washington Post revealing the injustice to hundreds of defendants who remain in prison based at least in part on a discredited FBI forensic tool known as comparative bullet-lead analysis. As the Washington Post piece…
Lawyer2Lawyer: The RIAA vs. File Sharers
This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the ongoing litigation by the Recording Industry Association of America against college students, soccer moms and others accused of illegally sharing and downloading music. Our guests for this program are two experts on the issue:…
Shake Up of Labor Agencies in Mass.
As of Wednesday, Nov. 14, a new labor-relations agency replaces and consolidates three long-standing agencies overseeing labor-management relations in Massachusetts. The new Division of Labor Relations came into existence as the result of legislation merging the Labor Relations Commission (where I was a staff counsel in the 1980s), the Board of Conciliation and…
Womble Carlyle’s New Ad Campaign
The law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice is introducing a new tagline, “Innovators at Law,” and releasing four animated videos that illustrate the theme using the firm’s mascot, Winston the bulldog. In the first video of the series, titled “Zip Past…