On Coast to Coast this week we discuss The Trial of Saddam Hussein. We are honored to have as our guest Simone Monasebian, chief of the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime. She formerly served as principal defender of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and as a trial attorney with the U.N. International…

Download this 2002 special report from the ABA Section of Litigation: Ethical Guidelines for Settlement Negotiations.…

I told you last week about the e-mails heard around the world between a Boston lawyer and his almost-associate. Now, courtesy of CNN, you get to meet them. [Thanks to Law Blog for the pointer.]…

The fun of exploring the Web is that every so often you discover a treasure. Such is The Green Bag, which describes itself as “an entertaining journal of law.” No ordinary law journal this, it is as eclectic as it is entertaining. In fact, it devotes a section to “eclectica,” where you will find…

As Legal Affairs readies its final print issue, the Yale Daily News considers the viability of an Internet-only version.

See also: Legal Affairs to cease publishing.…

… if it stops moving, it dies.”

That sage quote comes from “Blogs to Riches,” the cover story of the Feb. 20 New York Magazine featuring a package of stories on “The Blog Establishment.” Interesting reading, with a few law bloggers making it into the mix.…

The director of admissions at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall accidently sent an e-mail to thousands of applicants implying that they had been accepted to the prestigious law school, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

“[T]he mistake happened as he was training a new staff member on the office’s e-mail system. The e-mail was an

Two Georgia criminal defense lawyers, Rob Leonard and John Barrett, recently launched Georgia Criminal Law Blog, described as “Georgia’s premier web log for people accused of crimes and the lawyers defending them.” They are off to a good start, providing substantive discussion of cases and legislation — and a podcast to boot.…

Even the government is podcasting these days, and Free Government Information has compiled a list of federal and state government podcasts. The sleeper of the lot: Inside NYPD, the New York Police Department daily podcast.…

All the Justice Department asks is to monitor your online searches, but Google is resisting. If you want to be a patriot and help the federal government snoop on its citizens, then switch your search engine to Patriot Search. Its policy to is to make certain the government is informed should you search…

What’s new on the UK legal web? reports on two new blogs: Family Lore, from a family law solicitor practicing in England and Wales, and The Landlord Law Blog, offering thoughts on residential landlord and tenant law.…

Via The Volokh Conspiracy comes news of two new lawprof group blogs: Empirical Legal Studies and International Economic Law and Policy Blog.…