For small to midsized companies, the average cost of being public increased 33 percent last year, thanks largely to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, according to a new survey conducted by the law firm Foley & Lardner. Audit fees accounted for the largest out-of-pocket cost increases, the survey said, with audit fees for public companies with…

The Native American Rights Fund recently unveiled a complete redesign of its Web site, undertaken to improve its organization, accessibility, navigation and design. The site is home to the online version of the National Indian Law Library, a public law library devoted to federal Indian and tribal law. Its Tribal Law Gateway…

Final results are out for the 2005 TechnoLawyer @ Awards. Congratulations to all the award winners and finalists.…

As sure as thesis breeds antithesis, blogging’s popularity within the legal profession is drawing some to question its value, mostly with regard to marketing.

Last week, Dale Tincher, president of the Web development company Consultwebs, published a thoughtful piece, Law Firm Blogs – Hip or Hype?, in which he said that the majority…

At yesterday’s seminar, I learned from Kathie J. Sullivan, a law librarian and principal of Sullivan Information Management Services in Burlington, Vt., about two sites that are useful in several ways, but in particular for allowing searching of employer tax identification numbers, or EINs:…

I was one of three panelists yesterday for a full-day seminar in Concord, N.H., titled “Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Advanced Internet Strategies for the New Hampshire Legal Professional.” I’ve been putting on Internet seminars for lawyers for well over a decade now, and while my goal is always to pass on…

I saw so many news reports and blog posts earlier this week about the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s new Legal Guide for Bloggers that I thought I’d skip mentioning it here. Then today I read through it. I was impressed. It covers a broad-enough range of issues to make it a useful resource not…

One of the most consistently informative, insightful and opinionated legal blogs, TalkLeft, marks its third birthday today. Its creator, Denver criminal defense attorney Jeralyn Merritt, observes:

“With 6.5 million visits, almost 11 million page views and three Koufax awards for Best Single Issues blog, I’m proud to say the site is still going

About 220 miles high up, that is. As space law blogger Jesse Londin notes, the U.S. Congress reached a stellar milestone this week, hearing testimony for the first time from an astronaut in orbit.…

Kevin O’Keefe picks up on the story of Jim Guy, a Virginia lawyer who started a blog, 102704, the day after he learned he had esophageal cancer. As Stacy Hawkins Adams writes in last Saturday’s Richmond Times-Dispatch, Jim named the blog for the date of his diagnosis — Oct. 27, 2004 —…

With the unexpected cancellation of a conference call this afternoon, I thought I’d check in on some of my favorite bloggers. Oddly, my first stop, Monica Bay’s The Common Scold, sent me off on a sidetrack that took me back 100 years before landing me once again in the blogosphere, drawing an unlikely connection…

Have you published any articles on a freelance basis since 1978? If so, you may be eligible to receive additional payment for your work as part of a class action settlement. Complete details, including claim forms and important deadlines, can be found at CopyrightClassAction.com.

The proposed settlement stems from the landmark case Tasini…