Articles Posted in October, 2006

Feeling unsure of yourself? Try the Automatic Flatterer.…

With election day looming, a key resource for legal professionals is Election Law @ Moritz, a comprehensive resource covering the laws governing federal, state and local elections. Created by Moritz College of Law, the site reports new legal developments in the field and tracks election law litigation. A weekly teleconference provides…

Vox Bibliothecae is a blog covering news and research related to social justice. It is written collaboratively by five librarians at the Zimmerman Law Library of the University of Dayton School of Law.

Why devote their blog to social justice? They explain:

“The University of Dayton is a Catholic University founded

Massachusetts’ highest court has approved a pilot project starting Nov. 1 under which lawyers may provide limited assistance to pro se clients without obligating themselves to take on the clients’ full representation. The project, recommended by the Supreme Judicial Court’s Steering Committee on Self-Represented Litigants, will run for 18 months in the Probate and Family…

Bloggers’ questions about election laws that may restrict their reporting on election day are being compiled for a forthcoming bloggers’ election day legal guide. I have details at my Media Law blog.…

Zillow.com, the real-estate valuations site I wrote about last April (An essential site for real estate lawyers), is the target of a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission. According to Ars Technica, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition alleges that Zillow is “intentionally misleading customers and real estate professionals to…

As I noted earlier this week at Legal Blog Watch, the tally of Vioxx-related lawsuits filed against Merck is now at 23,800 and rising. Yet Merck maintains it will continue its litigation strategy of examining each case on its own merits. Is Merck’s strategy viable for the long haul? What do a recent jury…

You’ve heard of fantasy football leagues. You’ve heard of fantasy baseball leagues. You may even have heard of the Fantasy Supreme Court league. Now add to the fantasy roster Fantasy Congress: Where People Play Politics.

Create a team of 16 members of Congress. To keep it interesting, you are required to have…

eWeek has this review of newly released Firefox 2.0. Bottom line: eWeek says the latest version of Firefox has “the greatest out-of-the-box usability of any Web browser that we have tested (and that’s a lot of Web browsers).”…

Law Technology News has published the final installment of my three-part Web Watch series on Web 2.0 applications for the law office. The latest is available here: Part 3.0 of Web 2.0. (Free registration required.)

The earlier two installments were:…

The California law firm Wallin, Kress, Reisman & Kranitz has created a new Web site, CityAttorney.us, that provides an index of links to California municipal and state law resources. Among the resources it indexes are city and county codes and city political and demographic information. It also provides overviews and analyses of the…

In an interesting case involving the use of an expert witness in antitrust litigation, the 10th Circuit recently excluded an economics expert who failed to explain how he reached his analysis of one market using data from another. I discuss the case in the article, Market Expert Blocked in Antitrust Case, which I wrote…