Robert Ambrogi

At 11 a.m. ET today, C-SPAN will stream the oral arguments in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic & Institutional Rights, involving the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment, requiring universities to allow military recruiters on campus or lose federal funds.…

I wrote last week about BlawgWorld 2006, the TechnoLawyer e-book featuring representative posts from 51 “of the most influential” law-related blogs. Since then, I have found it interesting to read some of the reviews and comments posted around the blogosphere. While many had praise and kind words for the effort, others were…

Law.com today features my latest Web Watch column: 2005: Year of the Podcast.…

In the days leading up to his wife’s murder, Robert James Petrick used Google to search the terms “body decomposition,” “rigor mortis,” “neck” and “break.” He also went online to research the depth, currents and underwater topography of the lake in which his wife’s body was found. This evidence helped lead to Petrick’s conviction in…

Next fall, a new law school will make its debut in Greensboro, N.C., with a charter class of 100 students. Recently, the new law school launched its new Web site, Elon University School of Law. The new school also announced that the American Judicature Society will open a new Institute of Forensic…

Shortly after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood, we recorded the Coast to Coast program, Supreme Court and the Abortion Issue. Our guests to discuss the case and its implications were Neil S. Siegel, associate professor of law at Duke Law and former law clerk to…

TechnoLawyer today released BlawgWorld 2006: Capital of Big Ideas, an e-book featuring representative posts from 51 “of the most influential” law-related blogs. Not sure I’d describe my blog as influential, but I’m included nonetheless.

The book is free to download — with a hitch. It is free to TechnoLawyer members, and TechnoLawyer…

C-SPAN has announced that it will broadcast audio recordings of today’s oral arguments in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. The arguments will be broadcast through www.c-span.org as well as over C-SPAN cable and radio. The broadcast will begin today at approximately 12:15 p.m. ET or as soon as the Supreme…

Since J. Craig Williams and I launched our weekly legal news podcast Coast to Coast, I have not noticed any uptick in my standard of living. In fact, the only rewards I’ve derived from podcasting are purely of the nonpecuniary sort. Not so others, according to The Mercury News, which reports that

Anyone who prepares presentations, whether for the courtroom or a seminar, knows that adding a movie clip can help bring it to life. Unfortunately, it isn’t easy to do. Here is a useful article that tells you how to capture movie clips on the fly.…

I am proud to announce that my other blog, Media Law, today becomes a member of the newly launched Corante Media Hub, part of a new direction from Corante that has it partnering with independent bloggers on specific topics and aggregating, distilling and synthesizing their writings in topic-specific sections, or “hubs.” Other…

New York lawyer Lawrence Savell has released his latest CD of holiday songs for lawyers, “You Don’t Wanna Cross Santa.” This is Savell’s third compilation of humorous, holiday rock-and-roll songs, all composed, performed and produced by him. You can find them all through his Web site, LawTunes. …