Robert Ambrogi BlogThe Web site of the National Law Journal has a new look, but with the redesign comes a subscription wall blocking access to all but one main story a week. The design is more graphically striking than before (and I say that having helped design the prior site) and provides easier navigation to NLJ…
Autopsy blog not for the squeamish
Shootings, stabbings, overdoses, kids hit by cars. Autopsy Report, the blog of a medical examiner intern, is not for the squeamish. But lawyers with an interest in forensic medicine may find they learn something here.…
Chicago Tribune launches its first Web log
Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn has launched the newspaper’s first Web log, Breaking Views. The blog, in Zorn’s own words, is “a frequently updated journal containing observations, reports, tips, referrals, tirades and whatever else happens to be in my notebook. My goal is to make Breaking Views useful, provocative and amusing, sometimes all…
Awards honor top 10 court Web sites
Rory Perry reports: “A good sampling of judicial approaches to e-government are included in this year’s top ten court website awards by Justice Served. Taking top honors this year is the Superior Court of Santa Clara County California.”…
A standards war over Web log syndication?
News.com reports on the Battle of the blog, pitting Dave Winer and RSS against a project to develop an alternative syndication format.…
Uncle Sam’s reference shelf
The County and City Data Book compiles official population and housing data from the 2000 census plus business and other data for all U.S. counties, all U.S. cities with populations of 25,000 or more, and all places with at least 2,500 residents. The online version is in PDF format.…
Christopher Lydon Interviews Glenn Reynolds
Listen to Christopher Lydon’s interview with law-professor-turned-Instapundit Glenn Reynolds.…
Boston Globe rolls out new Web design
The Boston Globe rolls out a new design for its Web site. Boston Phoenix media critic Dan Kennedy doesn’t like it.…
Net-Lawyers adds RSS feed
Speaking of the Net-Lawyers blog, note that moderator John DeBruyn has added an RSS feed.…
Breaking down language barriers between European, U.S. lawyers
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…
Medill site offers journalist’s view of Supreme Court
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…
Site details new model rules on corporate responsibility
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…