[Update 11/28/10: In a tragic turn of events, the sheriff who was the subject of the story I wrote about below was found dead of an apparent suicide over the weekend. Read more from The Boston Globe.]
For those of you in Massachusetts, you can skip this post, because you probably know the…
This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we uncover the revealing facts about full-body scans and do a full pat-down of the legal issues surrounding the TSA’s controversial screening practices.
Joining us to discuss this issue are Patrick Smith, the airline pilot and author who writes the Salon.com column, Ask the Pilot and…
I launched this blog on Nov. 19, 2002.
That was 2,375 posts ago, or about 297 posts a year. Not a huge output compared to some. Still, during these years, I also wrote roughly 1,700 posts for Legal Blog Watch, 562 posts for my Media Law blog and roughly 90 monthly columns…
The Order in the Court 2.0 project will turn a Massachusetts courtroom into a test lab for how courts deal with social media, electronic journalism and digital technology. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss this pioneering project with John Davidow, the WBUR.org executive editor who helped WBUR win a…
In a post two years ago at Legal Blog Watch, I reported the murder of Gabriel Lerner, a 27-year-old Georgetown University Law School graduate who worked in the U.S. Virgin Islands as a law clerk to a Superior Court judge. Lerner was murdered on his way to bible study by two hitchhikers he picked…
A family law judge in Ontario has launched an online video talk show to teach the public about family law issues. In the show, Family Matters, Judge Harvey Brownstone acts as host and interviews guests from various sectors of the legal community, including lawyers, mediators and social workers.
“This is a new…
The website that posts opinions of Massachusetts appellate courts was shut down this morning because no one renewed the site’s domain name. The domain name for the site, massreports.com, expired Nov. 8, reports The Boston Globe.
The site is jointly operated by the state and West legal publishing. It provides access to opinions of…
Legal media company ALM has rather quietly launched a new Web resource for litigators, Smart Litigator. The site is intended for litigators in New York state but will become the template for the eventual roll-out of similar sites in other states where ALM has offices.
ALM will formally unveil Smart Litigator in late…
ABA President Stephen N. Zack is our guest this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Amid controversy among legal bloggers over the ABA’s recent issues paper on lawyers’ use of the Internet, I ask Zack for his perspective on the issue. Zack also discusses his initiative to enhance civics education in…
Did not take long after the election for Gov. Patrick to name his nominee to succeed Margaret Marshall as chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. Today he announced that he is nominating Justice Roderick L. Ireland. Ireland is an associate justice of the SJC and a former Appeal Court and Juvenile Court judge.
Ireland…
The legal news and information site Law.com got a major facelift this week, and the new look is more than skin deep. In addition to a cleaner and more consistent design throughout, the revamped Law.com features a broader array of news and voices, from both within and without the network of ALM, Law.com’s parent company.…
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