Robert Ambrogi

Is a Massachusetts lawyer, writer and media consultant. He also writes the blog Media Law and cohosts the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer

Free Ben Cowgill …

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… so that he may continue to blog for free.

At issue, as Ben explains in this post, is a rule in Ben’s home state of Kentucky that could require lawyers who blog to pay $50 every time they post. Kentucky lawyers must submit a copy of any advertising — broadly defined to include…

Lawyer-written bios? A scary thought

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Catching up on some blog reading this morning, I almost choked on my coffee when I read this from Denise Howell:

“What I really want to see though is a firm using technology that lets lawyers (all and sundry, of course) readily customize their bios at will, on the fly, with information that really

A guide to law library blogs

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University of Wisconsin law librarian and blogger Bonnie Shucha has compiled a list of law library blogs. She includes on the list only professional blogs targeted toward the legal community — blogs affiliated with a law library, blogs written by individual law librarians and blogs of law librarian associations.…

Thomson West acquires CourtEXPRESS

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Thomson West today announced its acquisition of CourtEXPRESS, a company that provides online docket research and retrieval from U.S. and international courts. An announcement says:

“The acquisition is part of Thomson West’s broader strategy to provide reliable, authoritative docket, trial court document and court information solutions to legal professionals. The company’s products

How Deep Throat helped send me to law school

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Deep Throat’s self-outing has me thinking today about how he – and Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate reporting – helped send me to law school.

The Watergate break-in took place on the very day I turned 18, a summer away from starting college and pursuing my goal of becoming a newspaper reporter. At the end of…