By way of Evan Schaeffer’s Legal Underground comes a link to the very funny animated film, Lawyer, Lawyer, by Kahye Hwang of the Vancouver Film School.
Mass. city and town ordinances
Links to bylaws and ordinances from more than 100 Massachusetts cities and towns are available through the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries. [Via Massachusetts Law Updates.]…
Blawg Review #34 is up
The folks at phosita bring you Blawg Review #34 — the tryptophan overdose edition.…
Mass. courts to evaluate judges via Web
For the first time in Massachusetts, the court system will use the Web to evaluate judges, it announced yesterday. The Supreme Judicial Court’s Judicial Performance Evaluation Committee is embarking on a round of evaluations of judges in Suffolk County, where Boston is located. The committee has already sent print evaluation questionnaires to lawyers…
Top 10 Supreme Court patent cases
Bill Heinze reports on Harold C. Wegner’s latest list of the top 10 patent cases likely to come before the Supreme Court. The entire paper is available through IPcentral.info.…
15 countries named ‘enemies of the Internet’
Reporters Without Borders marks the World Summit on the Information Society by presenting 15 countries that are “enemies of the Internet” — “the countries that crack down hardest on Internet use, censoring news sites and opposition publications, monitoring the Web to stifle dissident voices, and harassing, intimidating and sometimes imprisoning Internet users and…
‘Best of the Blogs’ winners announced
Winners have been announced for The BOBs – Best of the Blogs, the 2005 Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards. Selected as overall best blog was A Little Respect, I’m Your Mother, a “blognovel” of more than 200 chapters. We of the Law.com blog network are proud to boast that our own
Mass. progressive bloggers set conference
In a first-of-its-kind event, liberal bloggers from throughout Massachusetts will meet Dec. 10 for a forum being called BlogLeft Massachusetts. The event will be held at Tatnuck Bookseller & Cafe in Worcester from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Speakers will include pioneering political blogger Stirling Newberry of…
New IP blogs
Dennis Crouch rounds them up.…
New look, new features for THOMAS
The congressional research site THOMAS has a new look and several new features. According to this Library of Congress announcement Friday, new features include:…
LawSites turns three years old today
Time flies when you’re having fun. Today marks the third anniversary of the launch of this blog. Here was my first post. Since then, I’ve launched a second blog, Media Law, a podcast, Coast to Coast, and become part of the Law.com blog network. Most importantly, through my blog, I’ve made…
C2C Podcast: The Patriot Act and national security letters
With key provisions of the Patriot Act due to sunset Dec. 31 and in the wake of a frightening report by The Washington Post about the FBI’s excessive use of national security letters, this week’s Coast to Coast podcast focuses on The Patriot Act. Joining cohost J. Craig Williams and me to…