Robert Ambrogi

Is a Massachusetts lawyer, writer and media consultant. He also writes the blog Media Law and cohosts the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer

Webby Awards honor best law sites

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Awards for the best law sites along with awards for sites in 69 business, consumer and culture categories were announced today with the release of the 10th annual Webby Awards.

The award for best law site went to Justice Learning, a civics-education site devoted to helping students and teachers understand law and…

Wiki-Law: The ‘Wikipedia’ of law

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I’ve become a big fan and regular user of Wikipedia, the free, user-edited encyclopedia. Last fall, Cornell’s Legal Information Institute launched the legal dictionary and encyclopedia Wex, which, like Wikipedia, is collaboratively written and edited by users. Now, another legal wiki has launched, Wiki-Law, and its co-founder says its mission “is to…

A forum for finding public records

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A new Web site, DetectiveForums.com, provides links to public records resources on the Web together with free bulletin boards where users can share resources and post questions on public records. The site so far has links in only seven categories, but says it will soon have more than 75 categories. In numbers of links,…