Articles Posted in May, 2006

A man who, while still in his 20s, commanded a South African infantry regiment and then managed 425 acres of African game preserve certainly knows something of adventure. And one who started his own consulting firm and oversaw its growth to 67 employees probably knows something of strategy. Rob Millard is both those men, and…

A new Web resource, Congresspedia, is using the wiki model to create a tool for citizens to research and share information about members of Congress. In the same way that Wikipedia is a collaboratively written encyclopedia, Congresspedia is a collaboratively written encyclopedia of Congress. It launched in April with 539 articles, one for…

Awards for the best law sites along with awards for sites in 69 business, consumer and culture categories were announced today with the release of the 10th annual Webby Awards.

The award for best law site went to Justice Learning, a civics-education site devoted to helping students and teachers understand law and…

I just wrote about a site that aims to be the Wikipedia of the legal world. Now here is a site that aspires to become the MySpace of the legal world. It is called Lawbby.

If MySpace is where teens and college students meet and mingle, Lawbby says it is…

Somehow I neglected to mention my own podcast last week, in which we focused on e-discovery. We had two great guests and experts in the field, Eric Meyer from Dilworth Paxon in Philadelphia and Stephen Prignano from Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge in Providence, R.I.

Coast to Coast is the weekly…

I’ve become a big fan and regular user of Wikipedia, the free, user-edited encyclopedia. Last fall, Cornell’s Legal Information Institute launched the legal dictionary and encyclopedia Wex, which, like Wikipedia, is collaboratively written and edited by users. Now, another legal wiki has launched, Wiki-Law, and its co-founder says its mission “is to…

I’ve been trying on and off since September to keep a list of lawyer-written blogs in Massachusetts. Here is my list as it stands so far. Please let me know of missing links. Leave me a comment or write me at ambrogi-at-gmail.com.…

A new Web site, DetectiveForums.com, provides links to public records resources on the Web together with free bulletin boards where users can share resources and post questions on public records. The site so far has links in only seven categories, but says it will soon have more than 75 categories. In numbers of links,…

Some lawyers defend the forgotten and won’t tolerate injustice. Here is one of them, courtesy of the New York Times.…

Thanks to beSpacific for pointing out that the Wall Street Journal Online is offering 10 days of free access to mark its 10th anniversary on the Web. Here is the link to use.…

I just happened across Massachusetts DUI Podcast, a short series of podcasts for lawyers about defending drunk-driving cases in the state. They are recorded by lawyer Russell Matson.…

Two new legal podcasts: