Articles Posted in May, 2010

Last November in a post at Legal Blog Watch, I wrote about the theatrical release of the film, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe. I was not able to see the film then, but I have seen it now, thanks to its recent release on DVD. I'm no film critic, but I highly recommend it, not only for its fascinating portrayal of the man the New York Times once called, "The most hated and most loved lawyer in America," but also for its intimate look of the toll a high-profile legal career can take on a lawyer's family…

On Tuesday, May 11, from 8 to 9:30 a.m., I will be speaking at the monthly meeting of the Boston chapter of Law Firm Media Professionals. I will be part of a panel discussion of blogging in the legal industry. Also on the panel will be Robert M. Buchanan Jr., partner at Choate…

Back in January, I had the first pre-launch review of WestlawNext, West’s next-generation version of its legal-research service. Via a tweet today from Ron Coleman, I learned of an April 23 review posted at AALL Spectrum by Ryan Harrington, reference librarian at Yale Law School. Harrington’s bottom line:…