Global business has raised the importance of employment law on an international level. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I discuss this topic with a global array of guests from the U.S., the U.K., Germany and France. Our guests are Nicholas Connon, partner in…
Use this desktop search tool in e-discovery
Electronic discovery. This was the use that kept coming to my mind as I tested dtSearch, an immensely fast and powerful desktop and enterprise search tool. Its marketing tagline is, “Instantly search terabytes of text.” I can’t vouch for terabytes, but after testing it on a single laptop, I can say it is the…
New Portal Tames Patent Caselaw
Some patent lawyers might consider the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to be a circus, but a new Web site aims to tame the lion of patent caselaw. Called FedCirc.us, the site is the latest and most ambitious project of the folks behind rethink(ip), patent attorneys and bloggers J. Matthew Buchanan,…
As a blogger, don’t box me in
In my experience, the most interesting blogs are often the most difficult to categorize. The authors feel free to write about what they fancy. A lawyer may blog about a current trial, a favorite movie, a good band. An obvious example is popular blogger Ernie the Attorney. He writes about law, technology, music, spirituality,…