The Thomson Corporation yesterday announced that it had acquired Global Securities Information, owner of LIVEDGAR, a Web service for searching and delivery of EDGAR filings and other SEC information. GSI will become part of Thomson West, publisher of Westlaw. The announcement says:

“The acquisition will enable West to satisfy the currently

My son and I made a last-minute decision to ride in a 28-mile bike-a-thon this weekend to help raise money to fight cancers in young adults. The event is in honor of an extraordinary 20-year-old man who died in April after a two-year battle with sarcoma.

We need sponsors. If anyone would like to pledge…

One other piece of news from my phone call with Scott Kinney, CEO of FindLaw: By the end of July, FindLaw will launch a directory of law-related blogs. It will be “an initial version,” with FindLaw continuing to add blogs “as rapidly as we can.”…

FindLaw CEO Scott Kinney called me today to discuss my survey last week showing the deterioration of FindLaw’s index of law-related Web sites. Kinney said that, as of Friday, the links were verified through a new content-management system and should now be 100 percent accurate.

A quick check showed there may still be some…

Alliance for Justice yesterday launched a Supreme Court Watch podcast as part of its larger Supreme Court Watch Web site. The podcast focuses on discussion of the future of the Supreme Court. AFJ also has a blog, Insider Scoop, devoted to the Supreme Court vacancy. AFJ is a national organization advocating…

A Massachusetts MD’s blog may become evidence in criminal harassment charges lodged against him, reports The Patriot Ledger. After a former patient took out a restraining order against the doctor, he took to his blog, where, in more than a dozen entries, he professed his love for the former patient and promised to divorce…

Bills pending in Wisconsin would allow divorced parents to visit their children through computer videoconferencing and other electronic forms of communication, the La Crosse Tribune reports. Only one state, Utah, already authorizes electronic visitations.

[Via Court Tech Forum.]…

I spoke yesterday to Kyle Christensen, corporate communications manager for Thomson Legal & Regulatory, about my survey showing FindLaw’s index of legal Web sites to be out of date. He acknowledged that FindLaw has fallen behind in keeping the index current, but he said that efforts are underway to update the information and…

In this final post of my report on the aging of FindLaw’s index, I offer some notes and comments on the links within specific practice areas.…

Yesterday, in Part 1 of this report, I explained that my survey of FindLaw’s index of legal Web sites found that 28 percent of the links were bad. Today, I provide a closer look at the numbers underlying my survey. In a third post, I will provide comments and observations on particular practice areas…

FindLaw notified lawyers yesterday that it would no longer host free law-firm Web sites and will remove the free sites from its servers on Aug. 1.

The notice states:

“Because of technical and business constraints, we are no longer able to provide this service. We are writing to inform you that this site will

FindLaw’s core is showing its age. Started in 1994 as an index of legal resources on the Internet, FindLaw used that index as the foundation on which to build a range of resources for legal professionals, businesses and consumers. But in recent years, FindLaw has let its index go to seed, failing to weed…