The Des Moine, Iowa, intellectual property firm McKee, Voorhees & Sease today announced the launch of its blog, Filewrapper.com, devoted to legal issues pertaining to patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and IP litigation.
The firm has done something smart in preparing for the launch: It spent some six months developing and posting to…
Google has for some time allowed you submit searches from your mobile phone via text messages, but now you can search Google Local from any phone via Google Voice Local Search. Just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) and a voice takes your query and reports the results. If you are on a mobile phone, you can…
It has barely been two months since I reviewed Opera version 9.1 for Law.com (Browser Upgrade: Singing Opera’s Praises), and already the Web browser has been upgraded to version 9.2. The cool new feature in this version: speed dial. It lets you see thumbnail versions of your nine favorite sites and click…
The world is shrinking, thanks to the Internet, and that includes the legal world. More and more, the practice of law is global. One legal organization that seeks to harness this global network of lawyers in furtherance of promoting online justice is InternetBar.org and its educational arm, the…
When we spend as much time on a topic as we do these days on e-discovery, we’re bound to start mixing fact and fiction. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we consider some of the more striking misconceptions lawyers have come to believe about e-discovery. To help us sort fact from fiction are…
A new free resource for lawyers provides easy access to hundreds of articles written by lawyers for CLE programs or for publication in legal periodicals. Called Litilaw, it claims to be the largest free collection of advanced legal articles available on the Internet. The site focuses on collecting articles of interest to litigators and…
Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog is a new blog aimed at human-resources professionals. The authors write:
…“We started this blog to provide our perspective for the benefit of our clients who deal with employment, labor and human resource issues. We will provide practical information based on our experiences, albeit from a legal perspective, in dealing
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly will launch a new Bay State legal magazine tomorrow targeted at non-lawyers, the Boston Business Journal reports today. Called Exhibit A, the first issue will offer advice for drivers when stopped by police, discuss the legal consequences of scalping Red Sox tickets and feature a cover story on the state’s…
Just a day after Bruce Wasserstein announced that he was putting legal journalism company ALM up for sale, his family announced that it has donated $25 million to Harvard Law School, the second largest gift in the school’s history. The money will reportedly pay for the construction of Wasserstein Hall, a new…
Another follow-up to my post earlier this week, Food Allergies and the Law. A lawyer in Wisconsin sent me a thoughtful note detailing his own experiences with peanut allergies and his thoughts on prevention. I asked if I could share it here and he agreed, but he requested that I not identify him by…
My post Tuesday, Food Allergies and the Law, inspired May contain traces of nuts …, a post by the anonymous Australian lawyer who writes the blog The Legal Soapbox, describing her own life-threatening allergy to nuts. She rants (her word, not mine) about the vagueness and inconsistency of food-labeling laws and calls…
ABA TechShow kicked off today, and on our weekly legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we have a preview of the show and of what’s hot in legal technology. We recorded the program yesterday with guests Dan Pinnington, director of practicePRO and chair of the 2007 TechShow planning board, and Adriana Linares, founder of…
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