Robert Ambrogi

My older son nearly died this week, all from an unlabeled peanut butter cookie. We’ve known of his peanut allergy since he was an infant and thought we had it pretty well in hand. But one taste of an unmarked cookie from his school cafeteria sent him into critical anaphylactic shock and required him to…

One of the nice features of the Firefox browser is the ability to customize its search bar with search plug-ins for a variety of sites. Now, Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute offers a selection of five LII Search plugins. Of the five, one allows you to search the entire LII…

As I mentioned Friday, as part of Cyberweek 2006, I will be participating in an online panel today at 4 p.m. Eastern on Mediation Excellence in Cyberspace. Participation is free and can be via either phone or Skype. Included on the panel of ADR and ODR professionals will be two other bloggers,…

When Boston lawyer Edward A. Prisby was rear-ended by a Cambridge city councilor, he wrote an angry rant about it on his blog, Prizblog. Later, when Prisby was called as a witness at a hearing to determine whether there was sufficient evidence to charge the city councilor with DUI, the councilor’s lawyers…

The annual, all-online and entirely free Cyberweek conference starts Monday, focused on the future of online dispute resolution and online justice. The conference is organized by the University of Massachusetts Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution and InternetBar.org. Here is the nutshell description:

Cyberweek consists of many different kinds of activities

In a significant development for anyone who conducts historical research, the New York Times announced today that its online archive of news stories now includes all articles back to Sept. 18, 1851, the day the paper started publishing. Until now, the archives went back only to 1981. Searches for pre-1981 articles produce PDF files…

Since it emerged earlier this year that the backdating of stock options was widespread within the high-techology industry, the scandal has grown larger by the day. The SEC said last week that it has more than 100 active investigations into backdating practices, criminal charges have been filed against one company and the U.S. attorney in…

Say you can’t listen to podcasts because you’re always on the run. Strap on one of these and you have no more excuse.…

David Fish posts at Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Blog about a class action on behalf of restaurant owners to recover the cost of spinach they trashed in the wake of the recent e-coli outbreak. David has details and the complaint is here.

A quick search of Google News shows this is not the first…

My postings today at Legal Blog Watch:

Meyers Nave, a California law firm that concentrates in representing cities and towns, has launched California Public Law, a blog focused on public agency law in the state. The blog will track and analyze legal developments in areas such as eminent domain, land use, labor and employment, public contracts, environmental regulations, elections and…

I am on the faculty of a Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education seminar, Public Records and Open Meeting Laws, which is tomorrow, Sept. 21, 9 a.m. to noon, at the MCLE conference center, 10 Winter Place, Boston.

Chair of the seminar is Kimberly Keyes, a lawyer at Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye. Other faculty…