Last November in a post at Legal Blog Watch, I wrote about the theatrical release of the film, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe. I was not able to see the film then, but I have seen it now, thanks to its recent release on DVD. I'm no film critic, but I highly recommend it, not only for its fascinating portrayal of the man the New York Times once called, "The most hated and most loved lawyer in America," but also for its intimate look of the toll a high-profile legal career can take on a lawyer's family…

On Tuesday, May 11, from 8 to 9:30 a.m., I will be speaking at the monthly meeting of the Boston chapter of Law Firm Media Professionals. I will be part of a panel discussion of blogging in the legal industry. Also on the panel will be Robert M. Buchanan Jr., partner at Choate…

Back in January, I had the first pre-launch review of WestlawNext, West’s next-generation version of its legal-research service. Via a tweet today from Ron Coleman, I learned of an April 23 review posted at AALL Spectrum by Ryan Harrington, reference librarian at Yale Law School. Harrington’s bottom line:…

E-discovery in cases under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act can raise many hurdles. Documents are likely to be in multiple languages. The quantity of data is likely to be huge. And the data is apt to be housed with multiple custodians in any number of global locations and in any variety of formats.

Along with…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss Arizona’s controversial immigration law. Joining us to discuss the law and its constitutionality are Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, and Paul Bender, professor of law…

I am thrilled to announce that LawSites is moving. The new address for the blog is https://www.lawnext.com and the new RSS feed is https://www.lawnext.com/feed. I hope you will check out the new site.

I am particularly thrilled with the new design, which was done for me by the good folks at Justia.…

Litéra, a company that markets a suite of “document lifecycle management” products popular among many larger law firms, today is launching a cloud-based version, Litéra Live. The software-as-a-service allows users to:…

Two major law firms launched blogs this week devoted to tracking developments in labor and employment law.

From McKenna Long & Aldridge comes Labor Relations Today. Led by MLA partners Richard B. Hankins and Seth H. Borden, the blog is devoted to providing analysis, resources and commentary regarding current and emerging…

Paper.li is a site that creates a daily newspaper from the stream of any Twitter user, updated every 24 hours. Below is a screen cap of one created using my Twitter stream. To see the full page, go to my Daily on Twitter. [A nod to Clarinette for tipping me off…

Recently, President Obama caused a stir when he used his recess-appointment authority to name two union lawyers, Craig Becker and Mark Pearce, to the National Labor Relations Board. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court recently heard arguments in a case that questions whether nearly two years’ worth of decisions by the two sitting members constituted a…

If you live in Eastern Massachusetts, you have extra time to file and pay your taxes this year. Because of the recent severe storms and flooding in the region, both the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the Mass. Department of Revenue have extended the April 15 deadline to May 11.

The extension applies to…

Given that it was announced April 8, not April 1, this appears not to be an April Fool’s hoax, even though it might sound like one.

A Texas law firm has launched a site that offers to fix your traffic ticket for just $45…