Patently Odd is my June Web Watch column for Law Technology News (free registration required). It is a guide to sites that compile offbeat patents. Here is the first graf:
…“Necessity, it is said, is the mother of invention. Sometimes, however, invention appears to come first. How else do you explain U.S. patent
My post last week, Blogging’s contrarians, drew several comments and a number of e-mails. I wrote it, in part, in response to a TechnoLawyer feature by California lawyer Joe Hartley. Now TechnoLawyer Publisher Neil Squillante offers his thoughts on the topic. “My quick take on legal blogs as a marketing tool is…
A Web site unveiled today, Open CRS, provides public access to reports of the Congressional Research Service. The CRS, an arm of the Library of Congress devoted to performing research and analysis for members of Congress, does not make its reports available to the public. CRS reports become public only when members of Congress…
For small to midsized companies, the average cost of being public increased 33 percent last year, thanks largely to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, according to a new survey conducted by the law firm Foley & Lardner. Audit fees accounted for the largest out-of-pocket cost increases, the survey said, with audit fees for public companies with…
The Native American Rights Fund recently unveiled a complete redesign of its Web site, undertaken to improve its organization, accessibility, navigation and design. The site is home to the online version of the National Indian Law Library, a public law library devoted to federal Indian and tribal law. Its Tribal Law Gateway…
Final results are out for the 2005 TechnoLawyer @ Awards. Congratulations to all the award winners and finalists.…
As sure as thesis breeds antithesis, blogging’s popularity within the legal profession is drawing some to question its value, mostly with regard to marketing.
Last week, Dale Tincher, president of the Web development company Consultwebs, published a thoughtful piece, Law Firm Blogs – Hip or Hype?, in which he said that the majority…
At yesterday’s seminar, I learned from Kathie J. Sullivan, a law librarian and principal of Sullivan Information Management Services in Burlington, Vt., about two sites that are useful in several ways, but in particular for allowing searching of employer tax identification numbers, or EINs:…
I was one of three panelists yesterday for a full-day seminar in Concord, N.H., titled “Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Advanced Internet Strategies for the New Hampshire Legal Professional.” I’ve been putting on Internet seminars for lawyers for well over a decade now, and while my goal is always to pass on…
I saw so many news reports and blog posts earlier this week about the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s new Legal Guide for Bloggers that I thought I’d skip mentioning it here. Then today I read through it. I was impressed. It covers a broad-enough range of issues to make it a useful resource not…
One of the most consistently informative, insightful and opinionated legal blogs, TalkLeft, marks its third birthday today. Its creator, Denver criminal defense attorney Jeralyn Merritt, observes:
…“With 6.5 million visits, almost 11 million page views and three Koufax awards for Best Single Issues blog, I’m proud to say the site is still going
About 220 miles high up, that is. As space law blogger Jesse Londin notes, the U.S. Congress reached a stellar milestone this week, hearing testimony for the first time from an astronaut in orbit.…
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