Law.com has an interesting article today from Philadelphia’s Legal Intelligencer,
Attorney Clears Hurdle in Defamation Action Against ABA. It reports that Philadelphia attorney Richard A. Sprague “has cleared another significant hurdle in his defamation lawsuit against the American Bar Association and its monthly magazine, the ABA Journal, now that a federal…
The Hub of Lobbying
Somewhat off topic for this blog, but Influence today published a story I wrote, The Hub of Lobbying, which describes how Massachusetts—13th among the states in population—ranks third in spending on lobbyists, behind California and New York. Total lobbying-related spending in Massachusetts in 2002 was almost $54 million. Of that, $34.6 million went…
FindLaw co-founder helps overhaul Stanford fair use site
The Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Web site today announced a complete redesign and update, overseen by Timothy Stanley, who earlier this year left FindLaw, the company he co-founded. The redesign adds new content, including fair-use overview materials from Nolo, and a new site search powered by Google.
Stanley has now…
Law review publishes overview of blawgs
The spring 2003 Journal of Appellate Practice and Process has published an informative overview of legal Web logs, Legal and Appellate Weblogs: What They Are, Why You Should Read Them, and Why You Should Consider Starting Your Own. The piece was written by two well-known bloggers, Gary O’Connor of Statutory Construction Zone…
Lycos gives ‘second opinion’ on search results
Searchday reports today on the new Lycos “second opinion” search utility that automatically displays Lycos search results in a side panel next to search results from Google, Yahoo or most of the other major services. Called Sidesearch, it is a browser plug in for Internet Explorer that runs whenever you…
Texas lawyer launches elder law blawg
Houston lawyer Jeanne Pi recently launched Jeanne Pi’s Texas Elder Law Blawg. She created it to serve as a portal to federal, state and local Web information, resources and services related to Texas elder law. She hopes it will serve as a forum for lawyers and other professionals involved in serving elderly Texans to…
Vault.com ranks Wachtell ‘most prestigious’ law firm
In the six years that Vault.com has surveyed the nation’s most prestigious law firms, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz has been the perennial also-ran, ranking second each year to first-place finisher Cravath, Swaine & Moore. This year, that changed, with Wachtell nudging Cravath out of first place.
Based on a survey of…
AltaVista claims its multimedia index is world’s largest
Search engine AltaVista last month unveiled what it claimed to be the world’s largest multimedia index, cataloging more than 540 million image files and 11 million video and audio files, including MP3s and MPEG videos. The index also includes professional image content from providers such as Corbis. To access the multimedia index, users can…
The risky business of law
Whether or not you are a solo lawyer, take the time to read the April/May 2003 GPSOLO magazine. It features nine articles that collectively offer a creative look at the risks of practicing law. It avoids the predictable “traps for the unwary” in favor of articles that examine such subjects as the risks of…
I’ve added commenting
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Daubert Tracker to unveil major enhancements this week
In a review I wrote last February (Daubert Tool Lets Lawyers Track Expert’s History, I recommended lawyers try The Daubert Tracker, an expert-witness service whose central feature is a database of all reported decisions interpreting and applying Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals and Kumho Tire v. Carmichael, backed up when available…
Debevoise associate proves herself a Supreme predicter
FantasyCourt.Com — the Web site where lawyers compete to predict the outcome of Supreme Court cases — today announced the winner of its 2002-2003 challenge. Kristin Kiehn, an associate with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York, will receive $2,500 for coming in first out of 516 participants. She correctly predicted the outcome in…