Articles Posted in July, 2003

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…

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…

The Oyez Project has provided streaming audio of Supreme Court arguments since 1996, but it recently took a leap forward by adding Supreme Court audio in MP3 format. The first set of releases, which can be found here, includes 51 cases. They are release under a Creative Commons license that allows listeners…

According to the NITLE Weblog Census — an attempt to find as many active Web logs as possible across all languages — it has so far found 629,083, of which 320,634 “seem to be in English.” [via net.law.blog.]…

Interesting trivia: If you Google the query, “free legal software,” my site comes up second, right after Nolo. (Thanks to a reader who followed this route to my site for letting me know this.)

This made me wonder: Where would I end up with the query, “free beer.” The answer is here.…

For those whose interests straddle law and journalism, Steven Brill is a man of rather epic reputation. The cigar-chomping, ever-suspendered founder of American Lawyer magazine, Court TV, Counsel Connect (one of the first online services for lawyers) and Brill’s Content, he recently published the book, After: The Rebuilding and Defending of America in the…

After posting my article yesterday, A Brief Summary: Free Briefs on the Web, I received an e-mail from M. Sean Fosmire, developer of the preeminent online court directory, Courts.Net, pointing out that I missed one state court that provides briefs on its Web site, Michigan. I have now added it to the…

I have posted two recent columns devoted to new and newly discovered Web sites of interest to lawyers, A Hodgepodge of Newly Launched Sites and A Round-up of New and Interesting Sites.…

I have posted my recent column, Managing Knowledge Management Via the Web, a guide to Web resources on legal knowledge management.…

I have posted my June column, A Brief Summary: Free Briefs on the Web.…

I do not know how I missed this, because I am a frequent user of the map sites MapQuest and MapBlast!, but I see that MapBlast! is now owned by Microsoft and has been merged into MSN Maps & Directions . This came about after Microsoft acquired Vicinity Corporation, owner of MapBlast!.…

Something about this makes me want to say, “Duh-uh.” A survey conducted by the International Bar Association and sponsored by LexisNexis concluded that 8 of 10 U.S. lawyers believe the legal profession would benefit from the convergence of laws across international borders. The survey of 700 IBA members in eight countries found that the areas…