David C. Harlow, a Massachusetts health-care lawyer and consultant, has launched HealthBlawg, a blog covering federal and state health care law. Harlow’s firm, The Harlow Group LLC, provides legal, legislative and consulting services to clients in a range of health-related fields.…
College guide names the ‘New Ivies’
The 2007 Kaplan/Newsweek “How to Get ito College Guide” was announced today, and introduces the “New Ivies” — colleges whose academic programs and numbers of top students “have fueled their rise in stature and favor … edging them to a competitive status rivaling the Ivy League.” The list covers undergraduate programs, not…
50 coolest Web sites
Or at least so says Time magazine. And not a legal site among them!…
Podcast: Blawgs and large law firms
Three eminent law bloggers join us to discuss Blawgging at Big Law Firms on this week’s legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast. Our guests, as they say, need no introductions:
Denise Howell of Bag and Baggage. Ernest Svenson of Ernie the Attorney. Howard Bashman of How Appealing.Listen to the program:…
More on the widget
My post yesterday about the JuristBlogger widget brought an e-mail this morning from company founder Josh Morgan. He writes:
…“First, thank you for the feedback. User feedback always proves to be invaluable.
“We certainly do not want to mislead any users and I should have been more clear. To answer your question about
Great headline re ATLA’s new name
I wrote recently at LegalBlogWatch that ATLA’s new name, American Association for Justice, creates a cumbersome acronym. I wrote: “‘ATLA’ is a phonetically pleasing acronym that is easy to say and easy to remember. ‘AAJ’ sounds like the beginning of a sneeze.”
Now Walter Olson at Overlawyered has penned the headline I wish I’d…
Blawg directory comes with a widget
I suspect I’m not the only blogger to have received an invitation from Josh Morgan to review his new directory of legal blogs, JuristBlogger. He is actively encouraging bloggers to add themselves to his directory, which now has more than 100 members. This is not the first such directory — there is Blawg.org…
Site, blog study court innovation
The Center for Court Innovation, an independent research arm of the New York court system, has relaunched its Web site with a new design and new features and launched a blog tracking one of its key projects.
The center’s goal is to make courts and justice systems more responsive to litigants, victims and…
Interview with a leftie lawyer
This June 11 video interviews Stanley Cohen, a lawyer who has represented Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, the Mohawks of Kanesatake and people accused of terrorism. For a 2002 Washington Post profile of Cohen, see Unorthodox Attorney.…
An ABA first: annual meeting podcasts
I have more in a post today at Legal Blog Watch.…
Mass. raises lawyer registration fees
The Supreme Judicial Court announced today that it has raised the annual registration fees for Massachusetts lawyers effective Sept. 1. For lawyers practicing less than five years, the fee goes from $165 to $220; for those practicing five to 50 years, the fee goes from $220 to $300. The text of the court’s order…
Law student buys New York newspaper
Jared Kushner, a 25-year-old student entering his third year at New York University School of Law, has paid $10 million to buy a majority stake in The New York Observer, according to a report in the New York Times. Kushner is the son of a wealthy New Jersey developer who was sentenced…