Robert Ambrogi

As I mentioned in this 2005 article, The Power of RSS, Cornell’s Legal Information Institute has two RSS feeds for Supreme Court decisions, one for today’s decisions and another for recent decisions. But if you are using the RSS version 0.91 feed I linked to in that article, you’ll need to update your…

More YouTube surfing: A video montage of high-profile lawyers in high-profile cases.
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No ID is given, but this YouTube video purports to show a lawyer being questioned about — and skillfully sidestepping — the meaning of truth.
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OK, not brand new — looks like it started in October, but I just discovered this blog, Law People, which describes itself as covering “better law practice through better people management.” The author is Ronda Muir, a lawyer and consultant at the New Jersey consulting firm Robin Rolfe Resources, where she focuses…

Today is the 131st anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell’s historic first telephone call to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, during which he uttered the famous words, “Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you.” It is interesting to note that just three days earlier, on March…

Via Information Week comes this interesting item: A Massachusetts man was sentenced in Florida this week for hacking into the Accurint public-records database owned by LexisNexis. According to the U.S. attorney’s statement, the man will spend a year in prison and must pay restitution of $100,000 to LexisNexis and the Port…

Judges were once practicing lawyers, so what, if anything, changes for them once they go on the bench? And how do they view the lawyers who now appear before them? We discuss these and other questions with a panel of three judges on this week’s legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Our guests for this episode:…

Hugh Calkins, director of research and development for Pine Tree Legal Assistance in Maine and a long-time innovator in the use of technology to deliver legal services and information, has launched a blog, called hugh’s blog, as part of the Web site of the Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project. In addition…

A newly launched Web site, LegalForce, offers an online “marketplace” for buying, selling and licensing patents. Through July, listing patents for sale costs nothing. Interested buyers can view listings and post bids, which are non-binding as serve as invitations to negotiate. The site also provides a networking forum for inventors, attorneys and IP professionals,…

Via Recording Industry vs The People comes word that the transcript of the deposition of RIAA’s expert, Dr. Doug Jacobson of Iowa State University, is now available online, courtesy of Pike & Fischer Internet Law & Regulation. Deposition exhibits are also available.…

With gay marriage comes gay divorce. With emerging technologies comes virtual visitation. With fractured families comes grandparent visitation. These are just some of the current issues in family law that we discuss this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me to discuss the latest developments in…

A new Web site, OpenCongress, draws on a variety of sources — from official government sites to blogs — to provide an in-depth view of “the real story behind what’s happening in Congress.” A joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation, the site allows you to track official…