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Yesterday’s decision in United States v. Booker is a dramatic reminder to lawyers of the importance of staying current with the Supreme Court. Since 1993, one of the best ways to keep on top of the court’s opinions has been the liibulletin, a Legal Information Institute e-mail service distributing syllabi of Supreme…

I am proud to announce that I have joined the Law.com Blog Network. I look forward to participating in what is certain to become a vital component of Law.com.…

Information is good. More information is better. But when it comes to searching for information on the Internet, the outcome is often too much of a good thing. Search Google for “employment discrimination,” for example, and it returns 8.25 million results.

I have written before about Vivisimo, a search company that…

In my Media Law blog, I often write about public officials’ attempts to block public access to information. In Ohio, Medina County Common Pleas Judge James L. Kimbler is doing just the opposite. He is using the Internet to enhance public access to his courtroom.

Several months ago, Kimbler began videotaping the sentencing proceedings…

A new Web site and a roundtable today in New York marked the launch of The Electronic Communications Compliance Council, an industry group that describes itself as dedicated to providing best practices and resources to companies grappling with e-mail and instant messaging policies and compliance. To mark its launch, TE3C, as the group calls…

Thanks to Kevin J. Heller for his comment noting Evan Schaeffer’s MP3 … umm, broadcast? (Without the RSS feed, it doesn’t really qualify as a podcast, does it?) Evan reads from Blacks Law Dictionary, to drums and guitar. Next week: Gregory Corso read to bongos.…

The Thomson Corporation today named Mike Wilens, president and CEO of Thomson West, to be president and CEO of its newly created Thomson Legal & Regulatory North American Legal organization, PR Newswire reports. He will oversee Thomson West, Thomson Elite and Thomson FindLaw.…

I notice that EDGAR Online has discontinued its more feature-modest cousin, FreeEDGAR. Here is what a notice on the FreeEDGAR site says:

Since 1995, FreeEDGAR has provided millions of SEC filings to individual investors, professionals, students and journalists. As a service of EDGAR Online, Inc., FreeEDGAR’s basic functionality allowed our visitors to

Speaking of podcasts, the two guys at TheCommute.org drive to and from work together. They record their conversations each way, and then podcast them. They call themselves Voice one and Voice two. Voice one explains the concept:

Most days I get a lift to work with Voice two. We talk in a way that

Of course, half of four is only two. But yesterday, Denise Howell, the Newport Beach, Calif., lawyer who blogs at the site Bag and Baggage, debuted her first podcast. By my count, that brings the number of lawyers who podcast to four — two of them from Newport Beach. The other three:…

Over at The Common Scold, Monica Bay has added a nifty little sidebar, called Blog Bytes. (And yes, that deranged-looking guy is me.) She also sent along some references to setting up a sideblog in TypePad or using the service Sideblog. For someone who just started blogging in November, Monica has hit…

A flushable toilet brush that warns users, “Do not use for personal hygiene,” is the nation’s wackiest warning label, according to the annual Wacky Warning Labels contest conducted by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch. M-LAW created the contest eight years ago to show how concern about lawsuits has created a need for common sense warnings…