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I picked up the Boston Globe this morning and found the obituary of Dan Sharp, a friend, a lawyer and a former colleague when he and I worked together at Lawyers Weekly in the early 1990s. Seeing that his funeral was this morning,…

The law firm McDermott Will & Emery has launched Legal Crisis Strategies, a blog devoted to legal crisis management. The blog will provide advice on “preventing, managing and ending a crisis while protecting a company’s reputation and limiting its legal liability.”

Notably for those in Massachusetts, one contributor to the blog is

The Supreme Judicial Court has posted the 2010 edition of the Massachusetts Guide to Evidence. In the absence of formal rules of evidence in Mass., this is the closest the state comes to a document akin to the Federal Rules of Evidence.

The guide is compiled by a committee appointed by the SJC and…

Law.com now has my extended review of Bloomberg Law, the new legal research service that aims to muscle in on the turf now occupied by Westlaw and LexisNexis.

(Also see my post earlier this week about the Bloomberg Law biometric doohickey.)

(Note: The Law.com version is now behind a paywall. You can…

A new Web site launched today, Courtroom Insight, that provides lawyer reviews of expert witnesses, mediators, arbitrators and litigation consultants. The site is a simple-to-search directory of experts, neutrals and consultants. For anyone listed in the directory, registered users can submit ratings and reviews of their services.…

During the recent LegalTech in New York, I sat down for an interview with John Gilman, president and founder of LegalRelay.com, a new Web site that features user reviews of legal software.

Listen to the interview with LegalRelay.…

Last November, I published my review of Bloomberg Law, the recently launched legal research service from business news giant Bloomberg. One aspect of the service I did not mention in my review is the odd piece of hardware required to log-in. Whereas other legal research services rely on usernames and passwords, Bloomberg…

[I came across the following chronology among some old files. I originally compiled it in 1995 in conjunction with a magazine article I wrote.]

The fax machine is invented by a Scottish physicist. Images were sent by wire and the receiving machine recorded the images on damp electrolytic paper.

The typewriter becomes available.…

The murder of a young woman in Massachusetts raises new questions about the laws and the legal system in cases involving abusive relationships. Nineteen-year old Allison Myrick was stabbed to death, her ex-boyfriend charged with murder. Could the legal system have done more to prevent this tragedy? What can lawyers, judges and other legal professionals…

The Judiciary/Media Committee of the Supreme Judicial Court is considering revisions to the Guidelines on the Public’s Right of Access to Judicial Proceedings and Records. In order to evaluate whether the guidelines should be amended or expanded and what other initiatives the committee might wish to pursue, the committee is asking members…

During LegalTech, I recorded this conversation with the founders of Rocket Matter, Larry Port and Ariel Jatib. Rocket Matter is a Web-based practice management and time-and-billing application. They talk about their product, the cloud, social media and the cow in their…

Last week here, I reported on an iPhone evidence app that was missing one of the federal rules. The company that created the app, Tekk Innovations, contacted me to say that it has now updated the app’s description to say, “Current as…