The AmLaw 100

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Bruce MacEwen has an early look at the complete AmLaw 100 for 2005, the list of last year’s top-grossing firms. Five posted revenue in excess of $1 billion, the largest number ever.

I find it interesting that top-ranked Skadden earned $212 million more than number two Baker & McKenzie even though it has…

Patently odd

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Patently Odd is my June Web Watch column for Law Technology News (free registration required). It is a guide to sites that compile offbeat patents. Here is the first graf:

“Necessity, it is said, is the mother of invention. Sometimes, however, invention appears to come first. How else do you explain U.S. patent

Site provides public access to congressional research

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A Web site unveiled today, Open CRS, provides public access to reports of the Congressional Research Service. The CRS, an arm of the Library of Congress devoted to performing research and analysis for members of Congress, does not make its reports available to the public. CRS reports become public only when members of Congress…