[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.…
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…
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…
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?…
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]…
The title says it all. Via Computerworld.…
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…
More YouTube surfing: A video montage of high-profile lawyers in high-profile cases.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drszK9IOumY]…
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]…
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…
Via Information Week comes this interesting item: A Massachusetts man was sentenced in Florida this week for hacking into the Accurint public-records database owned by LexisNexis. According to the U.S. attorney’s statement, the man will spend a year in prison and must pay restitution of $100,000 to LexisNexis and the Port…
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