For the first time in its 126-year history, the American Bar Association is publishing a work of fiction, Shadow of Justice, written by Miami criminal-defense lawyer Milton Hirsch. Due for release Sept. 30, the novel is the first in a new series from ABA Publishing, “Great Stories by Great Lawyers,” according to…
Today’s five-star site: Avalon Project
Yale Law School’s Avalon Project publishes on the Web historical documents from the fields of law, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Materials span ancient Greece to contemporary times, and include such pre-Eighteenth Century documents as the Athenian Constitution by Aristotle, the Code of Hammurabi and the Magna Carta. Documents are organized by century, as…
DUI lawyer’s blog takes on ‘true believers’
Following a trackback to a recent post of mine, I discovered a blog I had not known about before, but wish I had — True Believer. Subtitled, “A Santa Barbara lawyer dares to explore the madd, madd world of DUI,” it is written by Lee A. McCoy, a lawyer who defends people…
Today’s five-star site: TRIALSmith
The largest deposition bank on the Internet, TRIALSmith archives more than 150,000 deposition transcripts of experts, doctors and corporate representatives. Access is exclusively restricted to plaintiffs’ lawyers, who also use it to exchange documents, tips and investigative tools. Search for an expert by name or keyword, and view any available deposition immediately online or…
Today’s five-star site: Center for Law and Social Policy
Part think tank, part advocacy group, the Center for Law and Social Policy is a national nonprofit organization with expertise in both law and policy affecting the poor. Through education, policy research and advocacy, CLASP seeks to improve the economic security of low income families with children and secure access to our civil justice…
Today’s five-star site: Lex Mundi Guides to Doing Business
Lex Mundi Guides to Doing Business. Members of the Lex Mundi international law firm network contributed these comprehensive and frequently updated guides to doing business in more than 100 countries, the European Union, and various U.S. states. Each guide is a detailed discussion of the jurisdiction’s government and commerce, its investment framework, its rules…
Three new IP-related blawgs
The Trademark Blog notes the launches of three IP law blogs:
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A roadmap for jury instructions
From the ABA Section of Litigation, a good article: “Jury Instructions: A Roadmap for Trial Counsel”.…
Today’s five-star site: The Virtual Chase
In July 1995, the American Association of Law Libraries’ annual meeting was the venue for the launch of my former newsletter, legal.online, the first periodical to cover the Internet for lawyers. One of the very first people to come by my booth and subscribe was Genie Tyburski, a law librarian at Ballard Spahr Andrews &…
Blogs for law firm CIOs
Via Jeff Beard’s blog, I came to read Ed Schembor’s useful posting, Blogs and the Law Office IT Director: 21 Blogs of Interest for a Law Firm CIO/IT Director. Schembor, founder of Easy Access Software, lists blogs that he finds “ideally suited to the knowledge needs of a senior project manager, director of…
Dennis Kennedy on bloggers and the curse of the new
Dennis Kennedy manages today to both honor me and make me feel like an old geezer with his post The Curse of the New in the Blogging World. His comments about me aside, Dennis makes a thoughtful and all-too-accurate point, which I will paraphrase this way: In our rush to blog (and to out-blog…
Lawyers Weekly bought by Dolan Media
The Boston Business Journal reports that Minneapolis-based Dolan Media has purchased Boston-based Lawyers Weekly Publications, a chain that includes Lawyers Weekly USA and state legal newspapers in Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Virginia.…