I wrote recently at LegalBlogWatch that ATLA’s new name, American Association for Justice, creates a cumbersome acronym. I wrote: “‘ATLA’ is a phonetically pleasing acronym that is easy to say and easy to remember. ‘AAJ’ sounds like the beginning of a sneeze.”
Now Walter Olson at Overlawyered has penned the headline I wish I’d…
I suspect I’m not the only blogger to have received an invitation from Josh Morgan to review his new directory of legal blogs, JuristBlogger. He is actively encouraging bloggers to add themselves to his directory, which now has more than 100 members. This is not the first such directory — there is Blawg.org…
The Center for Court Innovation, an independent research arm of the New York court system, has relaunched its Web site with a new design and new features and launched a blog tracking one of its key projects.
The center’s goal is to make courts and justice systems more responsive to litigants, victims and…
This June 11 video interviews Stanley Cohen, a lawyer who has represented Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, the Mohawks of Kanesatake and people accused of terrorism. For a 2002 Washington Post profile of Cohen, see Unorthodox Attorney.…
I have more in a post today at Legal Blog Watch.…
The Supreme Judicial Court announced today that it has raised the annual registration fees for Massachusetts lawyers effective Sept. 1. For lawyers practicing less than five years, the fee goes from $165 to $220; for those practicing five to 50 years, the fee goes from $220 to $300. The text of the court’s order…
Jared Kushner, a 25-year-old student entering his third year at New York University School of Law, has paid $10 million to buy a majority stake in The New York Observer, according to a report in the New York Times. Kushner is the son of a wealthy New Jersey developer who was sentenced…
Even though I neglected last week to post about one episode of Coast to Coast, I managed to record another, via iffy cell-phone connection. My co-host J. Craig Williams and I interview Robin Sparkman, editor-in-chief of Corporate Counsel magazine, about the results of the 2006 GC Compensation Survey, charting…
Off in the Maine woods last week, I neglected to post here about the July 21 episode of our legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast. The topic was Tech Training for Lawyers, and the line-up of guests was stellar. Joining my co-host J. Craig Williams and me were Andrew Z. Adkins III,…
Away last week camping by a lake in Maine with my 11-year-old and two of his buddies. Sad to say, the camp had wireless access. Glad to say, I avoided the temptation.…
In one of my posts yesterday about Reed Smith’s termination of Denise Howell, I wondered whether the firm anticipated the blogosphere’s reaction. Well, the stats suggest it should have. Kevin O’Keefe at LexBlog reports that Internet discussion about Reed Smith is up 50 percent in the wake of the incident. Meanwhile, Bob…
An interesting contrast in articles about the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia:
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