Had an e-mail this morning from someone trying to find out whether an attorney had ever been disbarred or disciplined. I knew that most states, including mine, now publish this information on the Web. But finding it isn’t always easy.

Thus, I was happy to come across this FindLaw page, Researching Attorney Discipline. It…

As I said here last week, Fastcase is preparing to launch an iPad version of its popular iPhone app. The iPhone app, which I first previewed in January, last week was named 2010 New Product of the Year by the American Association of Law Libraries.

Meanwhile, the iPad version of…

Our town’s bonfire just off the beach is even more spectacular than fireworks. (Click to open in larger window.)…

In 1886, the Supreme Judicial of Massachusetts ruled that, because every citizen is presumed to know the law, then every citizen should have free access to court opinions. See Massachusetts Law Updates for more.…

When I traveled to Russia in 2007 and met with court officials there, some courts were experimenting with posting their decisions on the Web. Beginning this week, what was formerly the exception will become the rule, as most Russian court rulings will be published online in their entirety, The Moscow Times reports.

The change is…

Bloggers rely heavily on maintstream news sources for topics. What obligation does a blogger have to give attribution to an original source? To what extent can a blogger use the content of a news story?

We explore these and related issues with New York Times sports reporter Alan Schwarz this week on the…

At least I can claim you read about it here first. The Fastcase iPhone app has been selected by the American Association of Law Libraries as 2010 New Product of the Year.  This is the app that lets you do full case law and statute research for free on your phone.

The…

The Phoenix is out today with media critic Dan Kennedy’s 13th Annual Muzzle Awards, honoring New England’s enemies of free speech and personal liberty. I’m honored that Dan credited me as a source. I want to point out, however, that he mistakenly says that my Media Law blog merged into this LawSites blog. My…

Here is a presentation I gave in April to the Law Librarians of New England, How Social Media Powers Legal Research. Clicking on the link will open an SWF file in a new window. Click the arrows or your mouse to move through the slides.…

Following on the heels of Morrison & Foerster and its launch of an iPhone app in March, the Boston-based AmLaw 200 firm Goulston & Storrs this week came out with an iPhone app of its own. While the MoFo app had the clever name, MoFo2Go, the G&S app is rather…

Follow-ups on a couple of items I previously blogged about:

MoFo2Go. In March, I wrote about law firm Morrison & Foerster’s launch of its own iPhone app, called MoFo2Go. “This app will be most useful to lawyers, clients and others who regularly do business with MoFo,” I wrote at the time. Now, the…

A courtroom in Quincy, Mass., will become a test kitchen for using new media to cover legal proceedings, thanks to a $250,000 Knight News Challenge grant announced today. The grant will go to Order in the Court 2.0, a project spearheaded by John Davidow, executive editor of new media at WBUR in Boston.…