My posts today at Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch:…
ALM goes up for sale
Rumors have been circulating for weeks and now it is official: ALM — the parent company of Law.com, The American Lawyer, the National Law Journal, and a host of other national and regional legal periodicals — is for sale.
Here is the company’s announcement, and here is a report from…
Food Allergies and the Law
[Note: The following column originally appeared elsewhere in print. Response was so strong that I decided to republish it here. -RJA]
One recent day, an unlabeled peanut-butter cookie nearly killed my teenaged son. We’ve known of his peanut allergy since he was an infant and thought we had it pretty well in hand.…
Now on Martindale: Top 10 Lists
Martindale-Hubbell’s legal directory site Martindale.com today announced an interesting new feature — top 10 law firm lists. They rank the top law firms in three categories: top 10 peer-review rated, which ranks the firms with the highest number of peer-review-rated lawyers; top 10 by activity, which ranks firms in different subject…
Lawyer2Lawyer: Constitutions and Counter-terrorism
On our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer this week, we have a fascinating show looking at international constitutional law and its relation to global counter-terrorism efforts. Joining us to discuss this are Amos N. Guiora, professor of law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and director of the Institute for…
A Buyer’s Guide for Legal Technology
My article is posted today on Law.com: Where to Click When You Need to Buy New (Legal) Tech. Excerpt:
“Is your firm in the market for a technology upgrade but uncertain what to buy? For consumer technology products, a shopper can find any number of buying guides. But what about legal technology shoppers?…
The Virginia Law Libel Show
These three videos are funny. They are identified as from the Virginia Law Libel Show, which I assume is this Law Libel show from the University of Virginia.
Ch-Check It Out
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5cDxdGc0s]
The Negotiator
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkTzb4Ls5pM]
Barbri
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWHRAg0MegA]…
20 must-have Firefox extensions
The title says it all. Via Computerworld.…
LII discontinues older RSS feed
As I mentioned in this 2005 article, The Power of RSS, Cornell’s Legal Information Institute has two RSS feeds for Supreme Court decisions, one for today’s decisions and another for recent decisions. But if you are using the RSS version 0.91 feed I linked to in that article, you’ll need to update your…
YouTube: Lawyers in High Profile Cases
More YouTube surfing: A video montage of high-profile lawyers in high-profile cases.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drszK9IOumY]…
A Lawyer Discusses Truth
No ID is given, but this YouTube video purports to show a lawyer being questioned about — and skillfully sidestepping — the meaning of truth.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BByWcHAfaA]…
New Blog on Law Practice Management
OK, not brand new — looks like it started in October, but I just discovered this blog, Law People, which describes itself as covering “better law practice through better people management.” The author is Ronda Muir, a lawyer and consultant at the New Jersey consulting firm Robin Rolfe Resources, where she focuses…