At Legal Blog Watch today, I report on a new site, Judicial Reports, that is designed to do for judges what Consumer Reports does for appliances.…
Psychedelic Scalia
The Antonin Scalia psychedelic trading card, courtesy of Psychedelic Republicans. See also Clarence Thomas (fave album: Pretzel Logic) and John Ashcroft.…
Hoosier judges honor lawyer’s blog
Congratulations to lawyer Marcia J. Oddi, publisher of The Indiana Law Blog, who has been named winner of the media award for excellence in public information and education by the Indiana Judges Association.…
Mass. law school asks to start a college
The Boston Business Journal reports today that the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover has asked state officials for permission to open an undergraduate college, to be called the Massachusetts College of History and Law. The combined college and law school would enable students to earn a law degree in six years. Undergrads…
My own remembrance of 9/11
A long drive today had me listening to many sad 9/11 remembrances on the radio. I was in NYC that day, where I worked as editor of the National Law Journal. With our offices at Madison and 29th, we were far enough away to be safe, but close enough to see the burning towers…
Blogs liberate lawyers from dull writing
So says Doug Berman in today’s National Law Journal.…
So how many law blogs are there?
“Judges have discovered the Internet’s 600 legal blogs,” begins a story in last week’s National Law Journal. That number stopped me cold. Of this I am sure: there are far more than 600 legal blogs. Problem is, no one knows precisely how many.
Way back in February 2005, a publishing executive sent…
Coast to Coast: Vioxx update
With the next federal Vioxx trial set to begin today, the legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast discusses the latest in Vioxx litigation. Our guests are two prominent lawyers representing plaintiffs in these cases, Thomas V. Girardi of Girardi Keese in Los Angeles and J. Paul Sizemore from the firm
New site links academia and blogs
The nation’s oldest law review now seeks to be its most cutting-edge law review with the University of Pennsylvania Law Review’s launch this week of a new Web site, PENNumbra. The site is intended to engage a broader audience in legal scholarship by serving as a link between legal academia and the blogosphere.
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Simple search reveals confidential docs
How do you use Google to search for confidential documents? Just ask for them. Watch what you put on the Internet, folks.
[Via Depraved Librarian via BoingBoing.]…
It’s our pod-iversary
It’s our pod-iversary! The weekly legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast, which J. Craig Williams and I co-host, turned one last week. To mark the occasion, we recorded a unique Coast to Coast anniversary show in which we turned the mikes on ourselves, along with three special guests, to discuss the lessons we’ve…
Research Guide on International Health Law
Research Guide on International Health Law is the latest article published on GlobaLex, an electronic publication devoted to international and foreign law research from the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University School of Law. The research guide is written by Chenglin Liu, the foreign and international librarian…
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