Robert Ambrogi BlogA service launched this week enables patent professionals to create watchlists for patent searches and monitor them through RSS feeds. Called PatentMojo, its users are able to create watchlists using any search criteria. The service searches the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office data daily and delivers updates via RSS. A seven-day free trial…
Russian lawyer sues government for not having Web sites
Perhaps it is a sign of how far we have come in the information age. A Russian lawyer has filed suit against several Russian governmental bodies for not having Web sites, asserting that not having a public site is a violation of the human right for information.
According to a report by Mosnews.com ,…
Court: In sex, no duty of reasonable care
An interesting case from the Massachusetts Appeals Court on an issue of first impression in the state, ruling that there is no legal duty of reasonable care owed by a defendant to a plaintiff who was injured during their consensual sexual conduct. John Doe vs. Mary Moe. The court said:
…“There are no
Media Law: Press, public differ on 1st Amendment
Only 14 percent of Americans and 57 percent of newspaper and TV journalists can name “freedom of the press” as a right that is guaranteed by the First Amendment, according to a University of Connecticut study released today. I have more about the survey at my Media Law blog.…
Full-text of disbarment recommendation
By way of update to this morning’s post, In Boston, a tale worthy of Grisham, you can find the full text of the hearing officer’s report here. Be forewarned: It is 229-page PDF file.…
A library of government RSS feeds
The U.S. Government RSS Library, part of the FirstGov portal, provides links to RSS feeds from U.S. government sources. Feeds are indexed by topics, which include agriculture, consumer, data and statistics, health, international relations and others.…
In Boston, a tale worthy of Grisham
A hearing officer for the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers has recommended disbarment for three well-known lawyers accused of orchestrating an elaborate scheme to discredit a former Superior Court judge, the Boston Globe reports today.
As the Globe article reports, the three were accused of breaching ethical rules by luring the judge’s law clerk…
Nationwide public records databases
Bonnie Shucha at WisBlawg writes about BRB Publications, which has compiled a fairly comprehensive, state-by-state list of free public records sites, as well as an index of national sites and another for Canada and U.S. territories.
Bonnie discovered BRB’s site through Genie Tyburski’s article, Tools for Finding Public Records,…
Learning to listen to your clients
The most valuable skill I use as a lawyer came not from law school, but from mediation training. It is “active listening” — the art (and it is an art) of focusing on the person speaking in order to be able to understand what he or she is saying and repeat it back in your…
Poll: Mass. voters support death penalty bill
As one who can see no basis in law, reason or morality for a death penalty, I was disheartened to see today’s State House News Poll finding that almost two-thirds of Massachusetts residents, 65 percent, support Gov. Romney’s death penalty bill, filed last month, which would reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts for specific…
U.S. Copyright Office offers news via RSS
Steve Cohen at Library Stuff reports that the U.S. Copyright Office has launched four RSS feeds:…
Reed Smith launches regulatory compliance tool
By way of Denise Howell comes word of the launch today by her law firm Reed Smith, in conjunction with DolphinSearch, of ComplianSeek, described as “a first-of-its-kind integration of law and technology designed specifically to help meet the regulatory compliance needs of investment advisers within the financial services community.” According to the…