LexisNexis said today that it has acquired Portfolio Media, the company that runs Law360, a subscription website that provides legal news and analysis targeted at business lawyers.
Law360 covers legal news on its website and in e-newsletters. News is organized according to some 30 practice areas, industries and regions. According to…
What if you could have a law job that let you wear pajamas at noon, take extended trips to visit family and friends, and burn the midnight oil because that is when a great idea hits you? If that strikes a chord for you, then don’t even finish reading this post. Just head over and…
I’ve written at least a couple times before about websites created in order to allow lawyers to share legal forms and documents. Now there is another one.
First, a recap. I wrote last June about Standardforms.org, a legal wiki intended to serve…
If fear of missed deadlines keeps you awake at night, you might want to try DocketLaw , a new app for iPhone and iPad that lets you calculate court deadlines based on jurisdiction-specific rules. The app can perform calculations based on the rules of more than 300 federal and state courts.
The two main…
Whether you are about to retain an expert witness or about to cross-examine one, you want to learn everything you can about the expert’s experience and background. A new service, Expert Witness Profiler, helps you do exactly that. It provides you with a dossier that covers everything from the expert’s…
The U.S. District Court in Massachusetts is among 14 federal courts participating in a pilot project allowing cameras in the courtroom. I am moderating a panel this week that will look at this pilot project, and also contrast it with the experimental OpenCourt digital-access project under way in Quincy District Court. Also on…
Almost a year ago, I wrote here about the major upgrade in the works for the Casemaker legal research service. At the time, I was given a demonstration that previewed the new interface but I was not then able to…
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today announced approval of a new SJC Rule 1:19 governing Electronic Access to the Courts. The new rule replaces the former rule, which governed cameras in the courts, and extends it to recognize changes in technology and journalism since the original rule was promulgated. Notably, the rule is designed to…
[Note: Since March 1995, I have written a syndicated column, legal.online, that has run in various legal and bar periodicals. After 17 years, I’m calling it quits. Below is my final column, which I sent to editors last month. Many of the columns are archived here. I will continue to write my bimonthly…
Judge William G. Young
At the recent annual meeting of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, U.S. District Judge William G. Young, in accepting the Great Friend of Justice Award, delivered a thoughtful and impassioned speech decrying the decrease in jury trials in the federal courts. Trial by…
International law firm Duane Morris had a problem. Some of its key staff were not very good at presenting, either internally or to clients. One was told that her speaking “needed to be more fluid and less analytical.” Another experienced “extreme anxiety at the thought of presenting her ideas to the…
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