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The U.S. today launched Regulations.gov, a Web site intended to make it easier for the public to participate in federal rulemaking. The site allows users to search for, review and comment on proposed rules that have been published in the Federal Register. Users can search for proposed regulations by keyword or by agency name.…

Another report of errant transmissions from wireless keyboards raises the question of whether lawyers dealing with confidential information should ever use them. Gleason Sackmann’s Net-Happenings mailing list relays a report from Norway’s Aftenposten that a rampant cordless keyboard has struck again. According to the report, Hewlett-Packard Norway will no longer guarantee the security…

I note that Homeland Security is now The Department of Homeland Security, with a Web page all its own.…

To serve process upon a company, you first must identify its resident agent — the entity it has designated as its representative in the state. Most states now have Web sites where you can search for resident agents, but finding these sites can be a chore in itself. Resident Agent Information, from Maryland lawyer…

If I had a mantra of Internet legal research, it would be that a good search engine is a lawyer’s most useful Internet tool. While Google reigns supreme, I wrote last May about several upstarts challenging its dominance, most notably Teoma, launched April 2, 2002. Today, Teoma launches its version 2.0,…

The highlight of the Web site of the National Organization of Bar Counsel has long been its semi-annual compilation of new court cases and ethics opinions involving attorney discipline. While NOBC made these summaries available to anyone who visited its site, it recently restricted access only to its members. The only explanation is…

In the course of updating an article I wrote last year about legal-ethics resources on the Web, I came across Ethics and Lawyering Today, a monthly electronic newsletter highlighting important new cases, ethics opinions, and other developments, often with links to full text documents. It is edited by attorneys William Freivogel, a consultant…

Law Technology News has an article I wrote on the growing popularity of online legal compliance training in the wake of Sarbanes-Oxley. The article also appears in the January issue of Corporate Counsel.…

Boston law librarian David Goldman launched kfsource.com, a blog for law librarians, legal researchers and other information professionals. While focusing primarily on law, research and technology, David also reports on search engine news, online free speech issues and decisions of note. A nice touch is his use of graphical icons to show the topic…

Since 1997, lawyer Neil J. Squillante has been helping inform legal professionals about technology through The TechnoLawyer Community, a series of free electronic newsletters. What makes the TechnoLawyer newsletters unique is their commitment to “peer-written content,” meaning that they consist almost entirely of contributions written by their subscribers. The idea, as Squillante puts it,…

Think you can predict how the Supreme Court will decide the cases that come before it this term? If so, go for the $2,500 grand prize at FantasyCourt.Com. Compete against lawyers from across the U.S. to predict the outcome of the court’s cases this term. The lawyer with the most points when the Supreme…

Peter wants you to sue spammers, so much so that he has set up a Web site to help, called, of course, Sue Spammers. He won a judgment for $580 against Printpal.com, the “80% off Inkjet Cartridges” spammer. (Although Printpal’s lawyers say they will attack the judgment.) Peter tells you step-by-step how…