The U.S. Government RSS Library, part of the FirstGov portal, provides links to RSS feeds from U.S. government sources. Feeds are indexed by topics, which include agriculture, consumer, data and statistics, health, international relations and others.…

A hearing officer for the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers has recommended disbarment for three well-known lawyers accused of orchestrating an elaborate scheme to discredit a former Superior Court judge, the Boston Globe reports today.

As the Globe article reports, the three were accused of breaching ethical rules by luring the judge’s law clerk…

Bonnie Shucha at WisBlawg writes about BRB Publications, which has compiled a fairly comprehensive, state-by-state list of free public records sites, as well as an index of national sites and another for Canada and U.S. territories.

Bonnie discovered BRB’s site through Genie Tyburski’s article, Tools for Finding Public Records,…

The most valuable skill I use as a lawyer came not from law school, but from mediation training. It is “active listening” — the art (and it is an art) of focusing on the person speaking in order to be able to understand what he or she is saying and repeat it back in your…

As one who can see no basis in law, reason or morality for a death penalty, I was disheartened to see today’s State House News Poll finding that almost two-thirds of Massachusetts residents, 65 percent, support Gov. Romney’s death penalty bill, filed last month, which would reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts for specific…

Steve Cohen at Library Stuff reports that the U.S. Copyright Office has launched four RSS feeds:…

By way of Denise Howell comes word of the launch today by her law firm Reed Smith, in conjunction with DolphinSearch, of ComplianSeek, described as “a first-of-its-kind integration of law and technology designed specifically to help meet the regulatory compliance needs of investment advisers within the financial services community.” According to the…

I wrote in February about the launch of the Antitrust Law Blog by Sheppard Mullin Richter Hampton, noting the firm’s plans to use blogs to replace its former PDF newsletters.

It followed suit with the Feb. 1 launch of its Financial Institution Law blog and now adds a third,

The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday announced that it will begin publishing on its Web site comment letters and response letters relating to disclosure filings made after Aug. 1, 2004. The letters will be released on a filing-by-filing basis through the SEC’s EDGAR system.

The SEC first announced its plan to release…

The U.S. Department of Labor last week said that it had expanded the Web site GovBenefits.gov to include more than 1,000 federal and state benefit programs. It also announced the launch of GovLoans.gov en Español. The two sites are designed to serve as gateways to information about government benefits and loans.…

In the wake of the legal battle over Terri Schiavo’s fate, the American Hospital Association last week launched Put It In Writing, a Web site designed to be a one-stop resource on preparing advance directives such as living wills and health care proxies. It provides basic information about advance directives and links to resources…

Dale Tincher, president of Consultwebs, has posted photos from ABA TECHSHOW 2005, including shots of speakers, exhibitors and the Chicago skyline. Lots of blawgers in the mix, including me.…