The Register reports that a California patent lawyer sued Network Solutions and Register.com yesterday, claiming that issuance of “.name” domains violates his patent. If his claim is allowed, The Register says, it would effectively give him rights to the entire Internet domain naming system.…
Federal court transcripts online
The Virtual Chase reports: “The Federal Judiciary announced a pilot program involving seven federal district courts. The courts for the Southern District of Alabama, District of Columbia, District of Kansas, District of Maine, Eastern District of Missouri, District of Nebraska and the Eastern District of New York will make transcripts of courtroom proceedings…
PR-savvy stars navigate the courtroom
An interesting article, PR-savvy stars navigate the courtroom, from the Christian Science Monitor, talks about the role of public relations in celebrity trials, and the ability of celebrities to influence trials by hiring elite teams of lawyers and jury consultants.…
Federal district judge cites to blog
Is this a first? In Massachusetts, U.S. District Chief Judge William G. Young cites to a blog in an opinion issued Jan. 7. Addressing his own fallibility as a judge, Judge Young quotes the lyrics to the satirical song “Appointed Forever,” by the Bar and Grill Singers, and as authority for his quotation cites…
Littler lists its new lawyers, but Bingham, Choate unchanged
Littler Mendelson now lists the attorneys in its new Boston office (although the page caption that shows in the browser bar says “Atlanta Attorneys”). It does not yet have their bios on its list of shareholders. Meanwhile, two of the attorneys listed here continue to appear on their former firm’s sites,
No change on the Bingham, Choate, Littler Web site watch
Status quo today in the wake of four lawyers leaving three Boston firms to start a new Boston office for San Francisco-based Littler Mendelson. While Bingham McCutchen yesterday removed partner David C. Casey’s name from its Web site, it retains the name of associate Suzanne Suppa Sullivan. And Choate…
New ABA home page promises easier navigation
The American Bar Association’s new home page is designed to offer easier navigation into the ABA’s dense Web site. Unfortunately, what had been a sharp and stylish front page now looks somewhat scattered. The ABA is to be commended for trying to make its site easier to use, but my experience was that it…
A blog about legal style and ethics
beSpacific offers this report on the launch of BlogBook, a guide to legal blogging that hosts an ongoing discussion of style, ethics and technical issues associated with blawgs. The site’s design resembles that of the Bluebook, A Uniform System of Citation, and its three authors are attorneys who are also writers…
Bingham half updates its site, but neither Choate nor Littler
As of yesterday, neither Bingham McCutchen nor Choate Hall & Stewart had removed from their Web sites the bios of the lawyers who jumped ship to Littler Mendelson, although Hale and Dorr had.
Today, Bingham has removed partner David C. Casey, but, mysteriously, still lists departing associate Suzanne Suppa…
Of legal ethics and haiku
Blog land seems quiet —
Muteness of ethicalEsq.
No more! David’s back.
… And he’s added haiku.
Yes, I know he’s been back for a month from his self-imposed exile from blogging, but I’ve been off in my own exile, finishing my book, and never got around to mentioning the return of this…
Firms slow to update Web sites when partners jump firms
How quickly should a firm update its Web site when a lawyer jumps ship? The Boston Globe reports this morning, in a story titled Top lawyers jump ship for Littler, that four lawyers from three Boston firms are jumping ship to join the new Boston office of Littler Mendelson, a San Francisco-based firm…