Articles Posted in May, 2010

The law firm Crowell & Moring has launched Government Contracts Legal Forum, a blog providing news and commentary on legal issues relating to government contracts. The blog has nearly a dozen contributors from the firm’s Government Contracts Group. It will cover such issues as the False Claims Act, cost accounting, public-private partnerships and…

The Federal Judiciary unveiled a significantly redesigned Web site this week at U.S. Courts.gov. The redesign is intended to make the site more attractive, accessible and useful, an announcement said. In the process, it added new Web 2.0 features such as RSS feeds, podcasts and multimedia. In fact, the Federal Judiciary now…

Anyone who has ever shopped at a warehouse discount store knows that buying in bulk can save you money. A new Web site extends that concept to lawyers, enabling even solo attorneys to buy goods and services at bulk discounts. And to help build up the critical mass of buyers needed to achieve those discounts,…

Here’s a story that has all the elements: a crusading solo, a muckraking lawyer-turned-journalist, an FBI cover-up, and even a tie-in to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

Victor J. Garo is the kind of lawyer the rest of us only hope to be. This Medford, Mass., solo devoted some 30 years of his career, without…

I posted here a couple days ago about the new survey of compensation paid to law firm media professionals. It found salaries ranging from $50,000 to $375,000. That prompted a follow-up post from Mike Mintz at the Martindale.com Blog and an invitation from Mike to post about it in the Legal Management forum…

A just-published compensation survey of law firm media professionals offers an inside look not only at what these professionals earn, but also at their firms’ use of social media. The survey was conducted by the organization Law Firm Media Professionals in conjunction with Hellerman Baretz Communications.

Three-quarters of the 116 people…

Shortly after Solo Practice University celebrated its first-year of operation in March, I spent a few days touring its virtual campus and sitting in on some of its classes. I’ve written a full review that will appear in next month’s Law Technology News. Out of fairness to my editors, I won’t…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we take on the legal issues surrounding the lost iPhone 4G prototype that ended up in the hands of an editor at Gizmodo.com. Helping us sort through the legal issues in the case are this week’s guests Sam Bayard, assistant director…

A new blog, suitably called LobbyBlog.com, targets Washington, D.C., lobbyists, providing news and information on ethics, campaign finance, pay to play, and other lobbying issues. The blog is published by Lobbyists.info, a Web site with various resources related to federal lobbying and lobbying compliance. …

Legal Current, a blog published by Thomson Reuters, today added a new feature, the Legal Current podcast. The podcast will feature “information and commentary on the global business and practice of law.”

Today’s first episode covers several topics in the news — the Arizona immigration law, the Supreme Court’s animal…

A new digital-only legal magazine covering Florida lawyers and courts published its first issue yesterday. The magazine, The Florida Law Journal, says it will cover legal trends, cases and issues for legal professionals in the Sunshine State.

Notably, given the magazine’s locale, is that two of its owners are prominent California personal-injury attorneys,…

Winners were announced today of the 2010 Webby Awards, honoring excellence in Web sites in more than 100 categories. In the law category, the Webby Award winner is Bitter Lawyer, the blog that aims to be “an engaging, insightful entertainment destination for lawyers.” Winner of the People’s Voice award — decided by…