Articles Posted in August, 2005

Get fired from your job, and your first instinct may be to call a lawyer. But wait, there could be a Caribbean cruise in it for you. Mark Jen, who made headlines earlier this year after Google fired him for blogging, has teamed up with the job site SimplyHired to launch SimplyFired. Visitors…

If his investment portfolio is any indication, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts may turn out to be the most media savvy justice on the Supreme Court, according to Broadcasting & Cable, which reports that media companies make up 15 to 40 percent of his $3 million in stock investments.

“A review of Roberts’

Why turn a dynamic RSS feed into a static PDF file? Not sure the answer, but if you ever feel the need, here’s the tool to use: RSS 2 PDF .

[Via ResearchBuzz]…

It’s the blawgers’ version of inside baseball. Monica Bay wraps up the week’s runs, hits and errors in Blawg Review #18.…

One in six people in the United States visited blogs in the first quarter of 2005, MarketWatch reports. Blogspot.com had 19 million unique visitors, more than NYTimes.com, USAToday.com and WashingtonPost.com.…

In An ‘unprecedented’ push for diversity, Boston Globe reporter Diane E. Lewis reports on Mintz Levin:

“A prominent Boston law firm has hired 11 minority attorneys to staff an employment law practice in Washington, D.C., and it is planning to add more to work in Boston, New York, and Washington in a

Some call lawyers sharks, but they seem harmless compared to the sharks tracked at the International Shark Attack File, a site that compiles all known shark attacks. Then again, the site does say, “The shark’s reputation is far worse than his bite.”…

ResearchBuzz reports that LexisNexis now offers RSS feeds for its news releases. There are four feeds: All News, Business News, Legal News and Risk Management News.…

The Scout Report reports on Patent Room:

“Intended as a showplace for interesting examples of industrial design, the site brings together patents from the 1920s to the 1950s. The patents can be browsed by type as well, including architectural renderings, illustrations of proposed cars, toys, and numerous others.”…

Law.com today has my article: What RSS Can Do for Lawyers.…

The folks from the Section of Litigation are blogging highlights from the ABA annual meeting this week.…

Because comments to older posts sometimes get overlooked, allow me to point out this comment posted today by lawyer and consultant Craig D. Ball. A sample:

“If I could buy back FindLaw and hand it over to the originators, I’d do it in a flash.”…