Since it emerged earlier this year that the backdating of stock options was widespread within the high-techology industry, the scandal has grown larger by the day. The SEC said last week that it has more than 100 active investigations into backdating practices, criminal charges have been filed against one company and the U.S. attorney in…

Say you can’t listen to podcasts because you’re always on the run. Strap on one of these and you have no more excuse.…

David Fish posts at Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Blog about a class action on behalf of restaurant owners to recover the cost of spinach they trashed in the wake of the recent e-coli outbreak. David has details and the complaint is here.

A quick search of Google News shows this is not the first…

My postings today at Legal Blog Watch:

Meyers Nave, a California law firm that concentrates in representing cities and towns, has launched California Public Law, a blog focused on public agency law in the state. The blog will track and analyze legal developments in areas such as eminent domain, land use, labor and employment, public contracts, environmental regulations, elections and…

I am on the faculty of a Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education seminar, Public Records and Open Meeting Laws, which is tomorrow, Sept. 21, 9 a.m. to noon, at the MCLE conference center, 10 Winter Place, Boston.

Chair of the seminar is Kimberly Keyes, a lawyer at Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye. Other faculty…

I posted these today at Legal Blog Watch:…

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today issued an opinion, McCarthy v. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., reinstating an NASD arbitration award. In what the court described as an “unusual circumstance,” it was the second time the district court had vacated and remanded the same arbitration proceeding. But the circuit court — noting…

Law Technology News has published the second in my three-part series on Web 2.0 sites of interest to legal professionals: Web Watch: The Web 2.0 Tour. (Free registration required.) The first part, published in August, was Web 2.0: The New Frontier.…

Google’s new News Archive Search is an amazing tool that lets you search 200 years worth of news articles. It includes both free and fee-based content from news organizations including Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Washington Post and many others. For a full review, see Google Debuts 200…

As lawyers, we do a lot of official-sounding stuff. But what good is sounding official if you don’t look official. That’s why you need the Official Seal Generator. Here’s one I created for myself.…

It seems that every law librarian in the United States knows the photo. Take a few parts Norman Rockwell and a few parts naughty, and you have the ingredients for “Shelving in Silhouette” — or, better yet, “Shelving in Stilletos.” The winning photo in last year’s Day in the Life of the…