Robert Ambrogi BlogIn First, Mass. Adds ‘Access to Justice’ to Bar Exam
Starting in July 2016, prospective lawyers taking the Massachusetts bar exam will be tested not just on traditional topics such as constitutional law, torts and property, but also on access to justice. On April 25, the state's Supreme Judicial Court approved a rule adding access to justice to the exam and indicating that applicants will be expected to be familiar with the topic. The rule makes Massachusetts the first state to add this topic to the bar exam.
Bryan Garner Discusses the Latest Edition of Black’s Law Dictionary
Here is an interesting factoid for you: David Lat, editor of the blog Above the Law, is credited with coining three of the 7,500 new terms in the latest edition of Black’s Law Dictionary.
Due out Friday in its 10th edition from Thomson Reuters,…
Exclusive: Bankruptcy Docket-Search Site Inforuptcy to Add District Court Dockets
In March in my ABA Journal column, I reviewed PacerPro, a free service for searching the federal courts' Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. Inforuptcy is a similar sort of service, except that, whereas PacerPro searches only district court dockets and excludes bankruptcy courts, Inforuptcy does just the opposite, searching only bankruptcy courts and excluding district courts. That, however, is about to change. Later this year, Inforuptcy will be expanding to add district court dockets. Read on for more…
Sony Digital Paper: A One-Trick Pony – But It’s a Great Trick
I do not remember ever being so conflicted in my opinion of a device as I am about the new Sony Digital Paper, which just went on sale this week exclusively through Worldox and is targeted at the legal market. I posted a brief note and video about it a week and a half ago and have been using one ever since. The DP is a remarkably thin and light tablet-like device for keeping all your digital documents and notes. A stylus enables handwriting, either to mark up and annotate documents or to take handwritten notes.…
