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Trivia question: Who was the only U.S. president to hold a patent?

Find the answer at eWeek’s countdown of the 10 Most Techie Presidents.…

LexisNexis today unveiled a new version of its consumer legal portal lawyers.com. An announcement said the site now has a more robust search engine for conducting searches for attorneys listed in the Martindale-Hubbell database. The new search tools include a “free text” query that allows more flexible searching by keywords, a “pick list”…

In the days before the Internet, I used to like to head over to Out of Town News, a news stand in Harvard Square, Cambridge, for its selection of newspapers and magazines from throughout the world. Here is the Internet version of that, PDF-Mags.com. It links to PDF versions of magazines from throughout the…

The First Amendment and freedom of the press are front and center in the trial of Scooter Libby. This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer (formerly Coast to Coast), we discuss the trial, shield laws and judicial attitutes towards free speech and a free press. My cohost J. Craig Williams and I…

Way back in July and August 2005, I wrote a series of posts here about what I called the aging core of FindLaw. In the first post of the series, I started with this:

“FindLaw’s core is showing its age. Started in 1994 as an index of legal resources on the Internet,

Posting today at Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch:

I was posting today at Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch:

A new podcast series of short videos portray the History of Animation in Court. The series is produced by the trial-graphics company Z-Axis Corporation and is less a history of animation than a history of the company’s role in animation. Nevertheless, the company has been involved in creating computer animations for several landmark…

My posts today at Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch:…

Worcester Magazine writer Scott Zoback has a great cover story on politicians’ noncompliance with the Massachusetts open meeting law. Zoback includes several quotes from his interview with me about trends throughout the state. More at my blog Media Law.…

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The O’Quinn Law Library at the University of Houston Law Center has launched a new Web site, Anglo-American Legal Tradition, that provides access to nearly half a million images of U.K. court documents covering roughly four centuries from 1272 to 1650.

The images are of documents on file with the National…