I will be participating tomorrow in Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education’s 6th Annual Municipal Law Conference. I am on a panel beginning at 11:15, “Open Government Issues: Public Records and Open Meeting Law,” together with Assistant Attorney Generals Lorraine A. Goldenberg-Tarrow and Robert W. Ritchie, director of the AG’s Municipal Law Unit.…

A recent decision of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opened with these words: “With disturbing frequency, this Court encounters evidence of ineffective representation by attorneys retained by immigrants seeking legal status in this country.” This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I explore the…

I first wrote in August about the planned launch of JD Supra and then told you in November that it had scheduled its launch for December. Now word comes from founder Aviva Cuyler that tomorrow, Feb. 26, will be the official launch, and this time it looks as if all systems are…

I recently wrote an article and also a blog post about Chicago plaintiffs’ lawyer Raymond P. Niro’s efforts to unmask the anonymous author of the Patent Troll Tracker blog with his offer of a $10,000 reward. Well, it worked. On Saturday, the blog’s author unmasked himself as Rick Frenkel, a lawyer who…

With the Democratic race for president down to two lawyers, how well did the legal careers of Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton prepare them to become our nation’s chief executive. That is the topic this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, as my cohost J. Craig Williams and I are joined by:…

Legal supplies and services company BlumbergExcelsior today announced the launch of Law Site Builder, a low-cost Web site development and hosting service for small- and medium-sized firms. Using a selection of pre-designed templates, Blumberg will create a Web site of up to 10 pages for a flat fee of $350 and then host…

At the recent LegalTech New York, I played roving reporter and, armed with a Zoom H2 stereo MP3 recorder, walked around the show interviewing exhibitors, attendees and show organizers. For this week’s episode of the weekly legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my cohost J. Craig Williams and…

Paul Walsh, the former law clerk who was the target of the bizarre scheme that led to last week’s disbarment of two prominent Boston lawyers, breaks his silence about the case in a post yesterday at Boston Magazine’s Boston Daily Blog. Now working for an international law firm in Hong Kong, Walsh said…

Via ResearchBuzz comes word that Connecticut now has an online database of criminal convictions, even including motor vehicle infractions.…

There’s something happening here. Just two days after Public.Research.Org published 1.8 million pages of copyright-free federal case law online (see my post), the company that provided it with those cases, Fastcase, unveiled an even larger free library of cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and legal forms. Called The Public Library of…

The good news: Starbucks is dropping its Wi-Fi partnership with T-Mobile, which charges $9.99 for 24 hours access, and switching to an AT&T; plan that will give Starbucks card holders two hours free a day and AT&T; broadband customers unlimited free access. The bad news: Other customers will still have to pay for Wi-Fi, but…

The LexisNexis-owned Martindale-Hubbell law directory announced this week that it is adding law firm videos to its martindale.com online legal directory and its lawyers.com legal-consumer site. One of the first examples is featured on the lawyers.com listing for the Newtown, Penn., firm Kardos, Rickles, Bidlingmaier…