Robert Ambrogi

The Boston Globe rolls out a new design for its Web site. Boston Phoenix media critic Dan Kennedy doesn’t like it.…

Speaking of the Net-Lawyers blog, note that moderator John DeBruyn has added an RSS feed.…

John DeBruyn reports on the innovative work he is doing, with the help of German lawyer Rainer Langenhan and others, to build a bridge between European lawyers and U.S. lawyers who participate in the Network-Lawyers discussion group. Visiting Langenhan’s German-language blawg, Handakte WebLAWg, DeBruyn found a link to the German legal wiki…

On the Docket, a project of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, offers a journalist’s perspective on the Supreme Court. The site lists pending and prior-term cases, with a story on each case, additional feature stories on selected cases, links to Web sites relevant to the cases, information provided by attorneys and parties…

In response to a series of corporate scandals in recent years, the American Bar Association House of Delegates yesterday adopted new lawyer conduct rules based on three proposals submitted by the ABA Task Force on Corporate Responsibility.

The first amended Rule 1.6 of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct to permit a lawyer to…

Finally I am able to publish after not having been able to for almost a week. Blogger Pro just could not manage the FTP connection to my ISP. Despite various messages back and forth with support people at both Blogger and my ISP, no one seemed able to identify anything wrong. Then, miraculously, it started…

Ernie the Attorney notes the launch of “a bevy of blogs,” as he put it, by lawyer Robert Unterberger, who will be keeping himself busy with Law Student Writing Blog, Delaware Personal Injury Lawyer Blog, New Jersey Personal Injury Lawyer Blog, and Pennsylvannia Personal Injury Blog. A former practicing lawyer…

Law firm Web sites have come a long way in what they tell you about a firm’s lawyers and practice areas. But many still tell you absolutely nothing about the firm’s business and support staff. Why is this?

Say you want to find the name of a firm’s administrator or chief operating officer. Very few…

Thanks to The Scout Report for pointing out the Corporate Crime Reporter, a legal newsletter that highlights recent news items about ongoing corporate crime prosecutions. The site includes full transcripts of interviews with prominent lawyers and full-text documents from cases in the news.…

The National Law Journal reports that, after six years of work, the California court system has rewritten more than 800 civil jury instructions in plain English. Their use will be allowed as of Sept. 1. Criminal jury instructions are being rewritten as well and are expected to be ready by September 2005. The court’s…

The Harvard Law School Library has launched Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection, a Web site devoted to analysis and digitization of documents relating to the Nuremberg Trials. The project is devoted to preserving and expanding access to the library’s 1 million pages of documents relating to the trials of Nazi Germany’s military…

The nation’s 100 best-paid chief legal officers saw their incomes increase an average of 9 percent in 2002, with the average combined salary and bonus surpassing $1 million, according to The 2003 GC Compensation Survey conducted by Corporate Counsel magazine.…