Barack Obama owes a big debt of gratitude to the legal web portal Justia. Without it, he might not be president today. You see, sometime around the time of the 2008 presidential election, Justia founder Tim Stanley “surgically scrubbed” some two dozen Supreme Court cases to remove references to Minor v. Happersett,…

I wrote in September about Anusia Hirsch, the Boston College Law School student who was doing something most legal bloggers know better not to do, blogging about her clients (2L Tests Ethical Limits by Blogging About Client).

Now, the Boston College faculty newspaper,

Horace F. Hunter

No doubt you’ve heard by now about Horace F. Hunter, the Richmond, Va., attorney who was hit with disciplinary charges by the Virginia State Bar over the criminal law blog where he writes about cases he has handled as well as other criminal-law issues. Two weeks…

The Association of Corporate Counsel annual meeting in Denver last week was notable on a number of counts, not least of which was a vibrant exhibition hall teeming with exhibitors and attendees. Many of the exhibitors were law firms hoping to snag some new business from the more than…

I will be attending the Association of Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting in Denver Oct. 23-26. If you plan to attend, let me know so we can say hello.

It looks like a great line-up of sessions. For those who are not attending, several of the…

A company run by a Texas criminal lawyer has introduced a mobile app designed to enable attorneys to quickly access statutes and case law from the courtroom, the boardroom or wherever they may be. The app, PUSH Legal, enables lawyers to load up their mobile devices with a library of annotated deskbooks covering a…

I will be speaking in Denver at the National Solo & Small Firm Conference sponsored by the American Bar Association’s General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Division. My program is Social Networking for Lawyers 201, which I am presenting together with Alan Klevan, a Wellesley, Mass., lawyer who…

This press release caught my attention: Lady DUI Welcomes Lady Divorce to Connecticut. Was this some sort of renaissance fair for legal problems? Would Sir Suesalot also make an appearance in the Nutmeg State?

Turns out LadyDivorce and LadyDUI are two halves of the dynamic marketing duo 

The ABA Law Practice Management Section is holding its fall meeting this week on beautiful Cape Cod. I am speaking Friday at 9:15 a.m. on the topic, “Web Site 201: Ditch the Tired (and Ineffective) Old Web Site.” Friday features a line-up of…

[Update: The example links below no longer work because the site removed my content as I requested that they do. ]

I wrote a few days ago about having discovered that a lawyer was grabbing all my blog posts and republishing them wholesale on his website. He was also doing this to several…

Copyright law 101: If you make a wholesale copy of someone else’s entire blog post and publish it on your blog without permission, you are violating that person’s copyright. It’s not fair use. There’s no implied license. It’s simply wrong.

Imagine my surprise earlier this week when I discovered that a lawyer — a lawyer…

The Department of Defense has launched a website, Military Commissions, devoted to coverage of trials by the military courts in operation at Guantanamo to try accused terrorists. Notably, the site allows users to view and download documents and court filings from the commission cases against specific individuals and to obtain summaries of the charges…