Shortly after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood, we recorded the Coast to Coast program, Supreme Court and the Abortion Issue. Our guests to discuss the case and its implications were Neil S. Siegel, associate professor of law at Duke Law and former law clerk to…
TechnoLawyer releases ‘BlawgWorld 2006’ e-book
TechnoLawyer today released BlawgWorld 2006: Capital of Big Ideas, an e-book featuring representative posts from 51 “of the most influential” law-related blogs. Not sure I’d describe my blog as influential, but I’m included nonetheless.
The book is free to download — with a hitch. It is free to TechnoLawyer members, and TechnoLawyer…
Abortion oral arguments to stream today on C-SPAN
C-SPAN has announced that it will broadcast audio recordings of today’s oral arguments in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. The arguments will be broadcast through www.c-span.org as well as over C-SPAN cable and radio. The broadcast will begin today at approximately 12:15 p.m. ET or as soon as the Supreme…
Podcasting riches
Since J. Craig Williams and I launched our weekly legal news podcast Coast to Coast, I have not noticed any uptick in my standard of living. In fact, the only rewards I’ve derived from podcasting are purely of the nonpecuniary sort. Not so others, according to The Mercury News, which reports that
Easily add film clips to a presentation
Anyone who prepares presentations, whether for the courtroom or a seminar, knows that adding a movie clip can help bring it to life. Unfortunately, it isn’t easy to do. Here is a useful article that tells you how to capture movie clips on the fly.…
Corante launches media hub
I am proud to announce that my other blog, Media Law, today becomes a member of the newly launched Corante Media Hub, part of a new direction from Corante that has it partnering with independent bloggers on specific topics and aggregating, distilling and synthesizing their writings in topic-specific sections, or “hubs.” Other…
Just in time: The LawTunes holiday CD
New York lawyer Lawrence Savell has released his latest CD of holiday songs for lawyers, “You Don’t Wanna Cross Santa.” This is Savell’s third compilation of humorous, holiday rock-and-roll songs, all composed, performed and produced by him. You can find them all through his Web site, LawTunes. …
The stupendous lawyer kit
By way of Evan Schaeffer’s Legal Underground comes a link to the very funny animated film, Lawyer, Lawyer, by Kahye Hwang of the Vancouver Film School.
Mass. city and town ordinances
Links to bylaws and ordinances from more than 100 Massachusetts cities and towns are available through the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries. [Via Massachusetts Law Updates.]…
Blawg Review #34 is up
The folks at phosita bring you Blawg Review #34 — the tryptophan overdose edition.…
Mass. courts to evaluate judges via Web
For the first time in Massachusetts, the court system will use the Web to evaluate judges, it announced yesterday. The Supreme Judicial Court’s Judicial Performance Evaluation Committee is embarking on a round of evaluations of judges in Suffolk County, where Boston is located. The committee has already sent print evaluation questionnaires to lawyers…
Top 10 Supreme Court patent cases
Bill Heinze reports on Harold C. Wegner’s latest list of the top 10 patent cases likely to come before the Supreme Court. The entire paper is available through IPcentral.info.…