Caryn Tamber at The Daily Record in Baltimore picked up on my post yesterday, Beware New ‘Best Attorneys’ Site, and did some digging of her own. Like me, she found lawyers ranked as best in practice areas that they have nothing to do with. As one of those lawyers remarked, it would all…

The Shorty Awards have been announced. They honor the best Twitter-ers. Awards are given in a number of official categories. Users can also create their own award categories. Of those 2,714 user-created categories, there is one for law.

For the winners in the law category, the achievement is somewhat dubious. Of the…

With all the lawyer-ranking sites already out there, I wasn’t surprised to see yet another one make its debut. But as I looked under the skin of this latest entrant, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Launched March 1, the new site is called BestAttorneysOnline.com. A press release described it as…

The former founder and CEO of a biotechnology company who was indicted and convicted of federal criminal charges has written a 640-page guidebook to help others who face federal criminal charges. The book, The Federal Criminal Defendant’s Guide, is billed as “a blueprint to guide you throughout the entire process from indictment to probable…

Imagine this scenario: You are a motor vehicle accident lawyer. You have a conference tomorrow involving an accident that took place at an intersection clear across the state. You realize you need photos of the intersection. What can you do?

One option is to…

An interesting job opportunity has been posted by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: executive director of the Board of Bar Examiners. This, of course, is the board that is responsible for conducting the bar exam and reviewing the qualifications of bar applicants.

The executive director provides management and support for all aspects of the…

A blog launched this month by a Michigan law firm may be the first devoted exclusively to the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, a 2000 law designed to prevent local governments from making land-use decisions that disfavor religious groups, which are exempt from paying property taxes.

The RLUIPA Blog…

Here are some of the events at which I will be speaking in the coming months:…

A new legal blog, Mass. Appellate Briefs, provides an advance look at cases accepted for argument by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. “The goal,” says author Jack Cushman, “is to tell you not just what the court is doing, but what it will be doing, while there’s still time to respond — whether…

[The following column originally appeared in print in January 2010. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…

[The following column originally appeared in print in December 2009. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…

[The following column originally appeared in print in September 2009. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…