Articles Posted in August, 2005

If you needed any evidence that the once simple business of court reporting has grown to mega-scale, the Boston Business Journal reports today that the Boston-based court-reporting and litigation-support firm LegaLink has secured $20 million in venture funding to finance future acquisitions and growth. Would take a lot of depositions to pay that…

In this time of blogs and instant messaging, we tend to forget the once-critical role played by e-mail discussion lists (often referred to by the trademarked name Listserv) in allowing legal professionals to discuss and share ideas. In the mid-1990s, for instance, the net-lawyers list was a virtual town square for lawyers on the Internet,…

I find myself quoted in a Chicago Tribune article on the downsides of blogging. Of interest, the story focuses on marketing consultant Kirsten Osolind’s decision to discontinue her blog. (Many legal bloggers met Kirsten at BlawgConnect in Chicago last March — and I have the photos to prove it.) Kirsten, who runs

Of 154 nominations to the Supreme Court between 1789 and 2004, 34 did not win Senate confirmation, according to a March 21 report, Supreme Court Nominations Not Confirmed, 1789-2004, written by Congressional Research Service analyst Henry B. Hogue. The 34 nominations represent 29 individuals — some nominated more than once. Of those 29, five…

LexisNexis will provide searching and viewing of TV news programs by summer’s end, it announced. It has teamed with Critical Mention, a Web-based TV search and broadcast monitoring service, to provide the feature.

According to the announcement, it will deliver searchable video and print news clips together through its pay-as-you-go research service,…

Is blogosphere real estate a sound investment? Just ask Donald Trump.

“If Donald Trump is blogging, then blogging is about as mainstream as it gets,” Michael Gartenberg, Jupitermedia VP, tells TechWeb.…

As reported yesterday by ZDNet, the U.S. Copyright Office is seeking comments on a new Web filing system that would require use of Internet Explorer versions 5.1 and higher. Users of alternative browsers, such as Netscape, Firefox and Mozilla, would experience problems using the system.

The system relates to preregistration of eligible copyright…

Salt Lake Tribune:

“You might think a judge would appreciate some plain talk as a break from legal jargon and esoteric arguments. But court filings have gotten so foul in one Utah dispute that a federal judge is calling a timeout.”…

I have enormous respect for the opinions of Carolyn Elefant, but I am at a loss to understand her taking aim at the American Bar Association (Can We Lawyers Please Stop Patting Ourselves on The Back?) for its first-ever national survey of lawyers’ pro bono activity. (See my earlier post about the survey.)…

From the Aug. 5 Boston Business Journal article, The lawyer hunt: In the legal industry, competition heats up for lateral hires:

“The lateral hiring sprees at national firms that have colonized Boston in recent years and the growing embrace of businesslike practices and cultures have spurred a bare-knuckled fight for talent. The competition

From the Boston Business Journal:

“Ilene Robinson Sunshine is a top-notch attorney. But she’s the first to admit that for some time, drumming up legal business didn’t come naturally to her. …

“Sunshine, currently the co-chairwoman of Sullivan & Worcester LLP’s labor and employment law group, found selling her services distasteful — that is,

Law.com blog network compatriot J. Craig Williams today unveiled a major redesign of his blog, May it Please the Court. Turn your sound on and run your cursor over the old English judge for a surprise.

While you’re there, visit the rest of Craig’s law firm site. He’s done an…