Articles Posted in January, 2005

Blogger and Louisiana lawyer A.J. Levy explains.…

Sabrina has the scoop: The federal government is readying enhancements to Regulations.gov. According to GovExec.com, the Office of Management and Budget is working with an interagency project office to launch the new and improved site. “For the first time,” the report says, “citizens will be able not only to comment on proposed…

Indiana’s Most Wanted, a Web site that seeks to assist law enforcement by displaying photographs and descriptions of suspects wanted for arrest, is sponsored by the Fort Wayne criminal defense firm Miller & Arnold Law Offices. Guess that makes it Indiana’s most wanted criminal defense firm.…

CrossingtheBar.Com, a Web site devoted to providing information and commentary on the multijurisdictional practice of law, has ceased to operate. On the site’s homepage, George Riemer, president of Ethics Northwest Inc., posts the following message:

“Having put in over five years of effort into providing information and commentary on the multijurisdictional practice of law,

Of interest to lawyers in Texas, the Brownsville Herald reports that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality now publishes public and legal notices directly on its Web site, where they are also fully searchable.

The Herald also reports on what it says is the first Texas lawmaker to have a blog. State Rep.…

Here is an easy way to keep current with the most recent articles published in law journals. John Doyle, librarian at Washington and Lee School of Law, has compiled a list of RSS feeds for the tables of contents of 132 law journals and loaded them into an OPML file. Import…

For any legal professional who wants to keep current with new developments on the Web, Cornell Law Library’s electronic newsletter InSITE is a must-have (and free) subscription. On this Martin Luther King day, the current issue offers a pointer to Reporting Civil Rights, online companion to the Library of America’s two-volume

Geoffrey G. Gussis, an associate with Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, Morristown, N.J., has launched InhouseBlog, a blog targeted at inhouse lawyers. He knows of what he blogs — he is former general counsel to a dot-com marketing and advertising services firm.…

He was admitted to the bar in 1765 and went on to shape a nation’s laws as no other lawyer before him or since. Thomas Jefferson the statesman is well known, but Jefferson the lawyer is abundantly evident in The Thomas Jefferson Papers, a collection of some 27,000 original Jefferson documents published online through…

If you are thinking of attending ABA TechShow March 31 to April 2, you can keep up with conference announcements and planning via the newly launched ABA TechShow.blog. ABA TECHSHOW.blog. Better yet, it has an RSS feed.

Along with Jim Calloway and Jeff Flax, I’ll be putting on the 60 Sites…

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.…