Robert Ambrogi BlogBack 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:…
White Paper Discusses E-Discovery in FCPA Cases
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…
Lawyer2Lawyer: The Arizona Immigration Law
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…
This Blog is Moving: New URL and New RSS Feed
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.…
‘Document Lifecycle’ Site Launches in the Cloud
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 New Blogs Track Labor and Employment Law
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…
Create a Daily ‘Newspaper’ From a Twitter Stream
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…
Podcast: Upheaval at the NLRB
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…
Tax Deadline Extended for Eastern Mass.
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…
‘The eminence grise of the law/media/technology space’
That’s what Nick Montgomery, editor of myCorporateResource.com, calls me in a piece he wrote about my blogging, The Site Stuff. You don’t have to read the piece, but you must check out the photo.…
Even More on ‘Best Attorneys’
Remember BestAttorneysOnline.com, the site that describes itself as “an independent authority on the best attorneys at law.” As I wrote about it on March 4 and again on March 5, the site says it uses an “experienced research team” to pick the best lawyers in various fields. Yet many of the lawyers…