In An ‘unprecedented’ push for diversity, Boston Globe reporter Diane E. Lewis reports on Mintz Levin:
…“A prominent Boston law firm has hired 11 minority attorneys to staff an employment law practice in Washington, D.C., and it is planning to add more to work in Boston, New York, and Washington in a
Some call lawyers sharks, but they seem harmless compared to the sharks tracked at the International Shark Attack File, a site that compiles all known shark attacks. Then again, the site does say, “The shark’s reputation is far worse than his bite.”…
ResearchBuzz reports that LexisNexis now offers RSS feeds for its news releases. There are four feeds: All News, Business News, Legal News and Risk Management News.…
The Scout Report reports on Patent Room:
“Intended as a showplace for interesting examples of industrial design, the site brings together patents from the 1920s to the 1950s. The patents can be browsed by type as well, including architectural renderings, illustrations of proposed cars, toys, and numerous others.”…
Law.com today has my article: What RSS Can Do for Lawyers.…
The folks from the Section of Litigation are blogging highlights from the ABA annual meeting this week.…
Because comments to older posts sometimes get overlooked, allow me to point out this comment posted today by lawyer and consultant Craig D. Ball. A sample:
“If I could buy back FindLaw and hand it over to the originators, I’d do it in a flash.”…
My recent series of posts about the aging of FindLaw brought e-mail from a number of readers. Several suggested that, for ease of reference, I create a single post with links to the series. Here goes:…
In my own consulting work with law firms, I often encourage them to create materials that highlight the real people who make up the firm and its clients — a description of a day in the life of an associate, a testimonial direct from a client, a bio that provides insight into the lawyer. I…
Speaking of SearchEngineWatch, it got a new owner today. Jupitermedia Corporation announced that it has sold its Search Engine Strategies trade shows and its ClickZ.com network of Web sites, which includes SearchEngineWatch, for $43 million in cash to London media company Incisive Media plc.…
Think most search engines deliver similar results? Think again. Today’s SearchEngineWatch reports on a new study that compared Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN Search and Yahoo, and found that the average overlap in their first-page results was just 1.1 percent. The survey found that 84.9 percent of all results were unique to a single search…
An ambitious Web site launched today, Courthouse Forum, aims to be a one-stop shop in which to monitor, discuss and evaluate all of the nationÂ?s federal and state courts and judges. The site is built around a complex structure of separate forums for each jurisdiction and venue in the United States. The site’s founders…
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