Sullr is a new reverse telephone directory that — like other reverse look-up tools — allows you to enter a phone number and find the name and address of its owner. But this one adds an extra ingredient: a Google map showing the location of the phone number. So far, it covers five countries…
Manage Contracts Throughout Their Life Cycle
A new Web service, still in beta testing, promises to help users manage contracts throughout their life cycle, from negotiation and execution all the way to dispute resolution. Called Tractis, the site is being developed by a Spanish company Negonation. It provides a library of contract templates that parties to a negotiation can…
ACS Unveils Lawyer/Student Research Service
The American Constitution Society this week launched ACS ResearchLink, a project that links the research needs of legal practitioners with law students who perform the research for credit. The idea is that practitioners submit topics they need researched, law students select from among those topics to perform the research under faculty supervision for…
Lawyer2Lawyer: Baseball and the Law
Steroid scandals, home-run balls, libel lawsuits — baseball is becoming a hotbed of legal activity. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer 2 Lawyer, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I discuss the legal issues emerging in the wake of Barry Bonds’ new home-run…
Federal Courts Post Audio Online
Two federal courts began posting audio recordings of courtroom proceedings online earlier this month and three others will soon follow suit, according to an announcement from the Administrative Office of the Courts. Audio recordings of proceedings in the U.S. District Court in Nebraska and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of North…
GAO Revamps its Web Site
The U.S. Government Accountability Office unveiled a major redesign of its Web site Monday. According to the announcement, the redesign is intended to make the agency’s work easier to find and better understood. A highlight is the three front-page tabs for quickly finding recently issued reports and testimony, legal decisions and opinions, and…
Mass. Publishes Proposed Evidence Rules
Unlike the federal courts and most states, Massachusetts state courts have no rules of evidence. Last year, the Supreme Judicial Court appointed an advisory committee to draft a guide to evidence law, directing the committee “to assemble the current law in one easily usable document, along the lines of the Federal Rules of Evidence.”…
National Lawyers Guild Launches Blog
The National Lawyers Guild, the organization of politically progressive lawyers, law students and others in the legal field, has launched a new Web site and with it a new NLG Press Blog. The blog is intended to make it easier for members of the media and anyone else interested in the NLG to…
Choate Recruits With Sense of Humor
No sooner do I publish my review of the best law firm recruiting sites than comes another highly creative recruiting site, this one from the Boston firm Choate Hall & Stewart. (My article looked only at AmLaw 100 firms; Choate is in the second hundred.) Choate announced the site July 25, and…
‘Lawyers Wall’ Now Up for Sale
Earlier this week, I wrote a review here of The Lawyers Wall, concluding, “As a medium for lawyer marketing, this one seems to hit a brick wall.” That brought a response from the site’s founder, Jeffrey D. Brown, on his blog, The LW Blog. Now, Brown has deleted his response from his…