Robert Ambrogi

Launched in 2003, eDICTA is the “mega site” of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association. Part e-zine, part portal, it is a comprehensive and broad-ranging guide to resources on the TIPS Web site and elsewhere on the Internet. It features an extensive collection of legal links, direct…

Recently I signed up with Blogads, a service that sells advertising space on blogs. Not long afterwards, I received my first ad, as you can see to the right. Call me commercial, but I believe Blogads may be just the ticket to the future of blawging.

The more I see of blogging, the more…

Justice Information Center. This site of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, the clearinghouse for the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of National Drug Control Policy, lives up to its claim to be “one of the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the world.” The site’s materials…

And no sooner do I publish my column on IP blogs than a new one comes along: Patent Pending. Its author, patent attorney Robert Shaver, says it is more entertainment for inventor and technology fans than it is legal postings. “I post what I am interested in,” he says, “which is old patents,…

My Web Watch column surveying intellectual-property blogs is available at Law Technology News. (Free registration is required to view LTN content.)…

DivorceNet started out in 1995 as a means of showcasing the Newton, Massachusetts, family law practice of Sharyn T. Sooho. It quickly grew into one of the most comprehensive family law sites on the Web and remains so today. Its popularity came in large part from its early incorporation of an “interactive bulletin board,”…

Operated by Stanford Law School, the Securities Class Action Clearinghouse provides detailed and timely information about securities fraud litigation for use by the legal community, investors and the media. The Clearinghouse publishes or links to the full text of more than 2,000 complaints, motions, judicial opinions, and other major class action filings and organizes…

The Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations is the nation’s only institution of higher education offering a full four year undergraduate program in industrial and labor relations, as well as various advanced degree programs. For practitioners, the most useful part of its Web site comes from its Catherwood Library. Its fully searchable…

Its author lays claims to being the first legal blog in Maine, and its name lays down a challenge to the clever catchiness previously staked out by Ernie the Attorney. What I’m talking about is Al Nye The Lawyer Guy, a new blog from Portland, Maine, lawyer Alan R. Nye. Those of…

Odd, but when I snapped the photo posted below of the Chicago Sun-Times building, I had no idea I was memorializing the end of an era in newspaper history.…

ODR.info, launched in November 2003, is the newest Web home of the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The center exists to explore the use of technology and the Internet in dispute resolution. Directed by UMass Professors Ethan Katsh and Janet Rifkin, the center has been an…

Until the Internet came along, I sometimes thought mine was the only family in the world with the last name Ambrogi. I now know there are other Ambrogis all over the world, and occasionally I exchange e-mails with some of them. But it was a particular pleasure yesterday to actually meet another Ambrogi — and…