Articles Posted in March, 2005

This Sunday, news organizations across America will participate in Sunshine Sunday — kick off to Sunshine Week — by running stories supporting access to government information. Not wanting bloggers to be excluded, FreeCulture.org is organizing Blogshine Sunday, to encourgage bloggers across the U.S. and beyond to write about the need for…

The Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law recently launched GlobalLex, a Web-based legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research.

Editor Mirela Roznovschi, reference librarian for international and foreign law at NYU, writes, “GlobaLex is committed to the dissemination of high-level international, foreign, and comparative…

On March 30, the eve of ABA TechShow, legal bloggers are gathering to eat, drink and make merry, thanks to the organizing efforts of blawgers Tom Mighell and Dennis Kennedy. The evening promises, Dennis says, to be the largest gathering of legal bloggers ever brought together under one roof. (The question is,…

At the IP blawg Phosita, contributor Douglas Sorocco offers a simple but compelling demonstration of screencasting. The technology combines audio — a la podcasting — with a recording of the broadcaster’s computer screen. Sorocco uses a software program called Camtasia Studio, which is available for a free trial download or to…

Most lawyers who suffer depression or go through midlife crises keep it close to the vest. Chicago lawyer Steve Imparl has taken a different tack.

Having dealt with depression of his own and having seen its impact on his personal and professional lives, Imparl in 2002 launched the Web site MaleDepression.com, with…

Walter Olson at Overlawyered takes issue with my assertion that the family of the electrocuted dog would donate “most of” the money it sought to charity. Olson writes:

“I wonder how you reach the conclusion that the family ‘would donate most of the $750,000’ ($740,000 per the Globe) to animal charities. At the

Overlawyered has the story that has Massachusetts lawyers abuzz. As reported in today’s Boston Globe, a family whose dog was killed by leaking electricity from an old NStar Electric lamppost site has turned down NStar’s offer of $200,000 in “comfort money” and says it will sue unless it receives $740,000 from the utility…

Dennis Kennedy reports availability of the first two in a series of e-discovery webinars he is producing for the Merrill Corporation. The webinars run 10 to 15 minutes and cover specific areas of electronic discovery. Available so far are:…

Imagine if, at the click of a mouse, young lawyers could receive mentoring from some of the legal profession’s most highly regarded practitioners. Now they can, thanks to Ten Minute Mentor, a free series of Web lectures launched March 1 by the Texas Young Lawyers Association, which describes them as “Concise. Practical. Free.”…

Joel H. Seachrist, a partner with Beckman & Seachrist in Westfield, N.Y., has launched a blog he calls Small Town Lawyer. Here is why: “That name has a dual meaning in that, while I practice in a small town, the bulk of my practice is representing several small, mostly rural towns.”

One intended audience…

Barry D. Bayer, a practicing lawyer in Chicago who has been writing prolifically and insightfully about technology for law offices since 1987, has launched a blog, Law Tech Review. His column, Law Office Technology Review, appears in a variety of legal periodicals throughout the United States.

Bayer will use the blog to supplement…

Google today announced the formal launch of Google Desktop Search, a free application that allows users to search for information on their own computers.

First offered last year in a beta version, today’s version 1.0 release adds search over the full text of PDFs and the meta-information stored with music, image…