Articles Posted in August, 2010

I wrote last May about Apptorney IP, an app that facilitated patent and trademark searching on an iPhone by providing direct links to the appropriate sections of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website. Now comes an app that takes that to the next level, enabling more seamless searching of patents and…

In a landmark decision last week, U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker in San Francisco struck down California’s controversial and highly debated Proposition 8. Approved by the state’s voters in November 2008, Prop 8 overturned a state supreme court ruling that resulted in the legalization of same-sex marriage.

This week on the legal-affairs podcast…

Several legal blogs of note have launched recently:…

Law Technology News has my latest column, Crowdsourcing the Law, in which I review innovative new legal websites that rely on the legal community to help gather and refine expertise.

Sites I review are:

When applied to human beings, “legendary” is a word best reserved for outlaws and truly accomplished people such as Carol Burnett and Daniel Schorr. Thus, I am particularly grateful to Gina Roers (a/k/a CLE Gina) for her very kind review of my recent talk at the ACLEA annual meeting.

As she notes,…

Looking for a lawyer in Latvia? Need an accountant in Australia? Well, you guessed it, there’s an app for that.

The MSI Global Alliance, an international association of 250 independent law and accounting firms in 105 countries, yesterday released Advisors2Go, an iPhone app that provides a directory of its member firms and of…

Interesting to see, via Romenesko, that Thomson Reuters has hired Eric Effron as editor for law of the new Thomson Reuters Professional News Center. Effron is the former editor and publisher of Legal Times, the former ALM-owned Washington, D.C., legal newspaper that ALM recently folded into its national legal newspaper, The National…