Someone in the Texas office of BCG Attorney Search is no fan of musician Prince, it appears. Wikiscanner — the tool that lets you track the origins of anonymous edits to Wikipedia entries — shows that someone from a Plano, Texas, IP address registered to BCG made dozens of edits to entries…

That is how the CBC reporter describes it in this 1993 broadcast. All these years later, it is still the anarchy that appeals most.

[Hat tip to WXPNews.]

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In an article I wrote in 2002, Web Resources for the Macintosh Lawyer, I noted that my then-colleague at American Lawyer Media, Mark Voorhees, had set off a virtual maelstrom of angry e-mail by declaring in the National Law Journal, “In the legal market, now and forever more, the Mac is…

Yesterday’s schooner races off Gloucester, Mass. In the top photo, the one in the center is, I think, the Friendship out of Salem, Mass. In the bottom photo, I believe the one in the center is the Virginia out of Norfolk.…

The Florida attorney who writes the blogs Redhead Esq. and New Mommy, Esq. has launched an online store, also called Redhead Esq, featuring items she designed for lawyers’ children. Treat your tot to a T-shirt labeled “Little Litigator” or buy your kid a hoodie with the…

Sullr is a new reverse telephone directory that — like other reverse look-up tools — allows you to enter a phone number and find the name and address of its owner. But this one adds an extra ingredient: a Google map showing the location of the phone number. So far, it covers five countries…

A new Web service, still in beta testing, promises to help users manage contracts throughout their life cycle, from negotiation and execution all the way to dispute resolution. Called Tractis, the site is being developed by a Spanish company Negonation. It provides a library of contract templates that parties to a negotiation can…

The American Constitution Society this week launched ACS ResearchLink, a project that links the research needs of legal practitioners with law students who perform the research for credit. The idea is that practitioners submit topics they need researched, law students select from among those topics to perform the research under faculty supervision for…

I recently republished my three-part series on Web 2.0 applications for lawyers (part 1, part 2, part 3), including several Web 2.0 word processing tools. Now comes one, Buzzword, that claims to be the first real word processor for the Web.

The difference between this and others such as…

Steroid scandals, home-run balls, libel lawsuits — baseball is becoming a hotbed of legal activity. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer 2 Lawyer, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I discuss the legal issues emerging in the wake of Barry Bonds’ new home-run…

Two federal courts began posting audio recordings of courtroom proceedings online earlier this month and three others will soon follow suit, according to an announcement from the Administrative Office of the Courts. Audio recordings of proceedings in the U.S. District Court in Nebraska and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of North…

The U.S. Government Accountability Office unveiled a major redesign of its Web site Monday. According to the announcement, the redesign is intended to make the agency’s work easier to find and better understood. A highlight is the three front-page tabs for quickly finding recently issued reports and testimony, legal decisions and opinions, and…