Articles Posted in October, 2005

This week, our weekly legal news podcast Coast to Coast looks at the Vioxx trial underway in Atlantic City, N.J. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and I earlier today to record a discussion of this issue were: …

Yahoo! today introduced Yahoo! Podcasts, a beta tool for helping users find, listen to and record podcasts. It allows users to search for podcasts by keywords, by categories and by tags. It also has tutorials on how to listen to podcasts and how to record them.…

The folks who bring you the magazines Law Technology News, Small Firm Business and Law Firm Inc. have not one but two contests to recognize innovation and best practices in the legal field, and both have entry deadlines that are fast approaching.…

The Delaware Supreme Court yesterday handed down an important ruling that protects anonymous bloggers from attempts to unnmask them through libel lawsuits. This is the first ruling by a state supreme court on this matter. The court said that, if an elected official claims he has been defamed by an anonymous posting on a blog,…

This week’s Coast to Coast looks at the issue of diversity among legal bloggers. My cohost J. Craig Williams and I were joined to discuss this issue earlier today by:…

Working to facilitate the fair distribution of disaster benefits to New Orleans victims of Hurricane Katrina is the goal of The New Orleans Coalition for Legal Aid and Disaster Relief. The coalition, developed through the efforts of Tulane Law School faculty, students and alumni, seeks to bring together resources from all parts of the…

Yesterday marked the first Monday in October, and you know what that means — Blawg Review #26, Supreme Court edition, by Tom Mighell.

Why not Tom for the Supreme Court? He has the key qualifications — he’s a lawyer and he’s from Texas. The court could use a justice with some Web savvy.…

Congress scrapped the open-source, open-edit, online version of the Constitution Monday, only two months after it went live. For more details, see The Onion.…

Thanks to beSpacific for the pointer to John W. Dean’s FindLaw column, Doing Legal, Political and Historical Research on the Internet. The former counsel to President Nixon discusses how he uses blogs and wikis to conduct legal, political and historical research.…

A team of attorneys and staff from the IP litigation practice at Boston’s Palmer & Dodge will move to Goodwin Procter later this month, the Boston Business Journal reports. The announcement comes less than a week after Palmer & Dodge announced its merger with Edwards & Angell.…

A report in The Boston Globe discusses the case scheduled to be argued today before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that centers on a plan by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner to try to get more African-Americans on the jury that will decide the federal death penalty case against two…

As attention turns today to Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, The Boston Globe has an interesting interview with Justice Stephen Breyer, who talks about his new book, “Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution.”…