Articles Posted in February, 2006

Michael Wilens, president and CEO of Thompson Legal & Regulatory’s North American group, which includes Thomson West, Elite and FindLaw, has been named vice president, corporate chief technology and operations officer for the entire Thomson Corporation, it was announced yesterday. Over more than a decade at West, Wilens earned respect among many in the…

The law library at my alma mater, Boston College Law School, has launched a blog, Reference Question of the Week. Written by Legal Information Librarian Joan Shear, the blog features questions posed to the law library’s reference staff together with their answers. Writes Shear:

“We thought other members of the law library

I recently noted that Ken Lay’s defense team had launched a Web site. Now another Ken in Texas has followed suit, launching a Web site as part of his defense strategy, the Houston Chronicle reports. This Ken is Kenneth Cuadra, a school district official accused of tampering with government records.…

The Web site of the Bad Credit B Gone Law Firm assured visitors it was a real law firm, “supervised by directing attorney James Brennan.” But federal postal inspectors say the site had no lawyer behind it, and instead was run by a fugitive with a history of bad debts and minor criminal charges, the…

I wrote on Jan. 21 about a way to search anonymously on Google and Yahoo. Since then, I’ve come across two articles that provide much greater depth and detail on searching and surfing anonymously. They are:…

Our legal news podcast Coast to Coast this week takes on the topic of tort reform in 2006. Joining us to discuss some of the critical issues in tort reform this year are Laurie Beacham, communications director for the Center for Justice and Democracy, and Tiger Joyce, president of the American Tort…