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…
Unlike the federal courts and most states, Massachusetts state courts have no rules of evidence. Last year, the Supreme Judicial Court appointed an advisory committee to draft a guide to evidence law, directing the committee “to assemble the current law in one easily usable document, along the lines of the Federal Rules of Evidence.”…
The National Lawyers Guild, the organization of politically progressive lawyers, law students and others in the legal field, has launched a new Web site and with it a new NLG Press Blog. The blog is intended to make it easier for members of the media and anyone else interested in the NLG to…
No sooner do I publish my review of the best law firm recruiting sites than comes another highly creative recruiting site, this one from the Boston firm Choate Hall & Stewart. (My article looked only at AmLaw 100 firms; Choate is in the second hundred.) Choate announced the site July 25, and…
Earlier this week, I wrote a review here of The Lawyers Wall, concluding, “As a medium for lawyer marketing, this one seems to hit a brick wall.” That brought a response from the site’s founder, Jeffrey D. Brown, on his blog, The LW Blog. Now, Brown has deleted his response from his…
From the University of Minnesota, a collection of state and federal information on the I-35 bridge, including inspection reports.…
The blog Free Government Information points to this page of RSS feeds available from the U.S. Census Bureau. Keep track of Census Bureau general news and releases or follow developments relating to specific topics such as aging, business ownership, health care and insurance, income and wealth, or any of more than three-dozen…
Larry Bodine gives the heads up on a new Web site he is helping to launch, JD Supra. The idea, apparently, is to promote yourself and your law practice by contributing content to the site. Bodine writes that he and Aviva Cuyler, a California lawyer, cofounded the site “to give members of the…
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