Robert Ambrogi

Is a Massachusetts lawyer, writer and media consultant. He also writes the blog Media Law and cohosts the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer
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Google’s New Viewer

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Search engine Google’s latest innovation is The Google Viewer, which displays the pages found as a result of your search as a continuous scrolling slide show. This lets you view search results without using a keyboard or mouse. A control bar lets you adjust the speed or stop the display altogether. A short description…

Workers’ Rights

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Workplace Fairness is the new Web site from the organization of the same name, devoted to providing information, education and assistance to individual workers and their advocates nationwide. It is affiliated with the National Employment Lawyers Association, a national organization of lawyers who represent employees in cases involving employment discrimination, wrongful termination, employee…

More on LeapLaw

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Yesterday’s report about LeapLaw noted that the basic subscription is $35 per inquiry and $15 per form. A subsequent note from CEO Denise Annunciata confirmed that an “inquiry” is the same as a search, meaning that each search results in a charge. She noted, however, that a single search can result in a lot…

Legal Services Links

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Maine’s Pine Tree Legal Assistance recently revamped its entire site, incorporating a more stylish design and new features, while retaining many of the outstanding features it already had. For lawyers, whether in Maine or not, PTLA’s site is most useful for its collection of links to legal services, legal aid, pro bono and public-interest…

New Corporate Law Resource

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After several months of beta testing, LeapLaw, a subscription “knowledge base” targeted at corporate associates, in-house counsel and small law firms, introduced its final version Nov. 21. Spearheaded by CEO Denise Annunciata, a former corporate paralegal in Massachusetts, LeapLaw positions itself as a sort of virtual paralegal, providing access to tools and information that…

Hotels with high-speed Internet

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A recent issue of SearchDay points to a resource sure to prove useful to lawyers who travel frequently — the Geektels directory. A “geektel” is a hotel with high-speed Internet access. This directory lists more than 2,300 of them, in locations throughout the world. Browse by country and city to find a hotel…

Judicial Clerkships

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For law students, a judicial clerkship is the Holy Grail. A recently redesigned Web site, Judicial Clerkships.com, aims to help law students “successfully navigate the maze of courts and clerkship opportunities.” Thanks to this site, I now know that the federal judiciary maintains a site exclusively for law clerks, the Federal Law Clerk…

Election Law

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Like lots of lawyers, Edward Still of Birmingham, Ala., put up a Web site to promote his law practice. But this one appears to be unique — it may be the only one devoted to the topic of voting law. Called Votelaw.com, the site covers elections, voting rights, campaign finance and other topics. Sections…

Secret Court

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The nation’s only court that operates in secrecy, the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, may not have a Web site of its own, like other federal appeals courts, but its decision this week affirming the government’s broad power to investigate suspected spies and terrorists made it onto the Web. The complete text of…

Redesigned VersusLaw

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Not long after its 1995 launch, Web research service VersusLaw adopted the slogan, “Revolutionizing the way America does law.” This was no exaggerated boast. In an era when online legal research still required expensive and cumbersome dial-up access to Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis, VersusLaw pioneered use of the Web to offer lawyers an…