It now seems almost ludicrous. But until fairly recently, legal publishing giant West claimed that it owned the copyright to federal court decisions. I’m not talking about the headnotes West writes or the key numbering it adds, I’m talking about basic information such as the name of the case, the date of the case, the…

I am a bit behind the curve in writing about The Law Street Journal, a Web site and blog created for law students by law students. Launched in January, the site aims to be a comprehensive resource for current and prospective law students.

This website is geared towards the questions that can only

Now intellectual property lawyers can search and file patents and trademarks, research IP law, and follow IP blogs, all from their iPhone. The new app, Apptorney: IP, released this week, is designed to provide easy access to a range of Internet resources commonly used by IP lawyers.

The app collects and organizes links…

Here is the perfect app for the mobile Supreme Court scholar or for any student of constitutional law: PocketJustice. The app turns your iPhone into a portable repository of Supreme Court jurisprudence, with details about its decisions and its justices and even the audio of oral arguments.

The free version of the app…

I attended last night’s blogger meet-up at Lucky’s Lounge in Boston, held in conjunction with the INTA annual meeting currently underway here in Bean Town. John Welch posted a couple pictures of the event at The TTABlog. In the top photo, over on the left, I’m the guy with the silver hair.

It…

With the International Trademark Association convening its annual meeting this week in Boston, what better time than now to launch a trademarks blog? The new blog is called Trademarks + Brands and it is being launched by the trademark research company CT Corsearch.

The blog is intended to be a resource…

Winners have been announced of the 2010 Burton Awards for legal writing. Given annually by The Burton Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress, the awards honor lawyers and law students “who use plain, clear and concise language and avoid archaic, stilted legalese.”

Unfortunately, lawyers qualify for the awards only if they are…

The North Carolina State Bar recently published for comment a proposed legal ethics opinion approving lawyers’  use of cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service. In this week’s edition of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the ethics of cloud computing with two guests:…

Martindale-Hubbell Connected's new front page.

One year after its official launch, the professional-networking site Martindale-Hubbell Connected is preparing to roll out a relaunch, with a new design, new features and enhanced functionality. Well before its official launch, I posted one of the first reviews of the beta site.…

The organization OpenTheGovernment.org has launched a blog, Evaluating Open Gov, as part of its larger effort to track and evaluate the federal government’s progress towards fulfilling President Obama’s commitment to “creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.”

Under the administration’s Open Government Directive, agencies were required to file…

The law firm Crowell & Moring has launched Government Contracts Legal Forum, a blog providing news and commentary on legal issues relating to government contracts. The blog has nearly a dozen contributors from the firm’s Government Contracts Group. It will cover such issues as the False Claims Act, cost accounting, public-private partnerships and…

The Federal Judiciary unveiled a significantly redesigned Web site this week at U.S. Courts.gov. The redesign is intended to make the site more attractive, accessible and useful, an announcement said. In the process, it added new Web 2.0 features such as RSS feeds, podcasts and multimedia. In fact, the Federal Judiciary now…