Robert Ambrogi Blog
The Tax Court has ruled that taxpayer is not allowed to deduct business-related travel expenses because his business requires him to travel constantly. Makes sense? No. But so reports Decnavda’s Dialectic, a new blawg devoted to tracking the Tax Court from California lawyer Tim Carter.…
Robert Ambrogi
Is a Massachusetts lawyer, writer and media consultant. He also writes the blog Media Law and cohosts the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer
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Blawgers discussing blawgers?
Here is a forum to discuss blawging, although there has been only one posting so far. My question: Are not blawgs forum enough?…
AlltheWeb drops banner ads, adds URL tool
Search site AlltheWeb.com introduced a new design today that eliminates banner ads and offers a gallery of skins so users can customize its look.
Along with new new design comes a new tool, URL Investigator. Type a URL in the search box and obtain detailed information about the site — who owns the…
NASD publishes ADR statistics
The most common type of securities controversy that comes to arbitration under the National Association of Securities Dealers is breach of fiduciary duty. Common stocks are the most common type of security in NASD arbitrations. The total amount arbitrators awarded in customer claims last year was $139 million, of which $23 million was in…
Christian Science Monitor offers RSS feeds
The Christian Science Monitor is providing RSS files of its content, so the paper can be read in news aggregators. Different sections — Top Stories, Commentary, Work & Money, Sci/Tech, etc. — each have their own feed, and there is one for the complete paper.…
New Homeland Security site a confusing maze
March 1 was the day 22 federal agencies found a new home under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But try to use that site to figure out precisely where the duties these agencies performed now fall. It is a challenge. Take the former Immigration and Naturalization Service. It is no…
One for the tobacco lawyers
Anyone who believes tobacco got its bad name only in the latter part of the 20th century should visit Coffin Nails: The Tobacco Controversy in the 19th Century, a fascinating history of the tobacco controversy drawn from the pages of Harper’s Weekly from 1857 to 1912. It shows that, as early as 1862, tobacco…
Sites offer access to uniform and model laws
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws is single minded in its purpose – to study and review state law to determine which areas of law should be uniform, and then, having targeted a topic, to draft and propose specific statutes. The conference can only propose, of course – no uniform law…
Cambloggers put their lenses where their words were
Combine a blogger with a cell-phone camera and you get a camblogger. But is there a camblawger?…
Company readies launch of searchable trial transcripts
A former Delaware trial lawyer is preparing to launch a Web-based service that will search trial transcripts the way other research sites search court opinions. Although not ready for full launch, the service, SocraticLaw, has opened a Web site and is expected to be ready for a partial launch soon.
SocraticLaw will use databases…
Site critiques Hollywood’s handling of lawyers
Do movies and television strengthen the public’s understanding of law and justice? Picturing Justice is a Web site devoted to discussing that question. It does so by publishing commentaries that focus on how law, lawyers and legal issues are treated in movies, on television and even in computer programs. Commentaries are written by staff…
A central source for child-support guidelines, cases
Support Guidelines.com offers a vehicle for researching child support laws nationwide. Its highlight is access to the full text of the child-support guidelines for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It includes links to other Web resources for family law research, as well as to child support calculators available online. The site…