The Wikimedia Foundation, the San Francisco-based, nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and a variety of related projects all built using the MediaWiki software, has started a search for a new general counsel.
The search raises the question of what happened to Mike Godwin, Wikimedia’s GC since 2007. Wikimedia Executive Director
From the Canadian firm Heenan Blakie, Entertainment & Media Law Signal is a recently launched blog that provides information and observations on the newest developments in entertainment and media law. Two members of the firm’s Entertainment Law Group, Bob Tarantino and Paul Chodirker, serve as its editors and several others are contributors.
“Though…
A new website, launched in a beta version last month, seeks to democratize access to source materials of the Constitution so that anyone can more easily research and learn from the history that led to its creation, ratification and amendments. The site, ConSource. represents a major redesign and relaunch of the site of the…
On Friday, the Harvard Law School Library and Duke Law School’s J. Michael Goodson Law Library and Center for the Public Domain will present a day-long workshop, Implementing the Durham Statement: Best Practices for Open Access Law Journals. The event is live, with most of it taking place at Duke and a wrap-up session…
This should be interesting: Lou Andreozzi, the former president and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, has been named chairman of Bloomberg Law, the company announced this morning. Also, Larry D. Thompson, the former VP of business development, strategy and marketing and global chief marketing officer for LexisNexis, has joined Bloomberg Law as COO.…
The U.S. legal portal Justia has launched a legal portal for Mexico, Justia Mexico. As Justia does for the U.S., Justia Mexico does for that country, providing legal information and resources for lawyers and consumers, all without cost.
The Justia Mexico site provides access to Mexican federal and state constitutions, laws, codes and…
In 1884, two Portuguese men who could not speak a word of English wrote a guide to conversational English, English as She is Spoke. The result was so hilariously absurd that Mark Twain said of it, “Its immortality is secure.”
The blog Legal As She Is…
In the film Conviction, which opens today, Hilary Swank plays Betty Anne Waters, a wife and mother of two who put herself through high school, college and ultimately law school, in an 18-year-long crusade to prove her brother Kenny’s innocence after he is convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole. The…
Mary Mack, longtime corporate technology counsel to e-discovery company Fios and author of its featured blog, Sound Evidence, is leaving that company to join another e-discovery company, ZyLAB, as enterprise technology counsel and part of the leadership team charged with developing its North American business.
“It is with mixed emotions that I…
In a post two weeks ago about Clio, the cloud-based law practice management application, I said the company had a major enhancement in the works. Well, here it is. Today, Clio and Google announced Clio’s integration with Google Apps, Google’s cloud-based suite of office tools for…
A busy schedule has kept me from reviewing Lexis Advance for Solos, the new LexisNexis legal research platform for one- and two-lawyer firms that LexisNexis released earlier this week. Today, I finally had a chance to sit down (in the virtual sense) with Lexis executives for a tour.
There have already been several thoughtful…
“The very definition of insanity,” Albert Einstein said, is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” If so, then, for the legal profession, it is time to stop the insanity.
That, in short, is the idea of the upcoming 2010 Futures Conference and Symposium (PDF) of the
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