One day after a Kentucky newspaper reported about the former blog of a lawyer named to head a new government office, Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher scrapped plans for the office.

Fletcher had named lawyer C. Dodd Harris IV to direct a new Office of Merit System Referrals, which would look for political bias in merit…

The Senate Judiciary Committee today released four documents providing additional background on Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, including a 57-page Judiciary Committee questionnaire and a 1989 Texans United for Life survey in which Miers reveals her views on abortion. Also released were a financial disclosure form dated Oct. 17, 2005, and a financial statement outlining…

The DuPont Legal Model has become the de facto standard for relationships between corporate law departments and outside law firms. So I was intrigued when I received a note today from Jean Graef, founder of the Montague Institute in the beautiful Western Mass. town of Montague, about a Nov. 17 teleconference, Leveraging…

I attended a conference this weekend where I heard Debra Gersh Hernandez, national coordinator of Sunshine Week, talk about plans for Sunshine Week 2006. Like the first event this year, the week will be devoted to raising public understanding of the importance of open government.

In the course of her talk, Hernandez announced…

Oral arguments at the New Hampshire Supreme Court will be broadcast live over the Internet starting Wednesday, the court announced today. The broadcasts will be available at the court’s Web site. The broadcasts will be recorded and available to be replayed at any time. The court has provided audio recordings of oral…

This week, our weekly legal news podcast Coast to Coast looks at the Vioxx trial underway in Atlantic City, N.J. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and I earlier today to record a discussion of this issue were: …

Yahoo! today introduced Yahoo! Podcasts, a beta tool for helping users find, listen to and record podcasts. It allows users to search for podcasts by keywords, by categories and by tags. It also has tutorials on how to listen to podcasts and how to record them.…

The folks who bring you the magazines Law Technology News, Small Firm Business and Law Firm Inc. have not one but two contests to recognize innovation and best practices in the legal field, and both have entry deadlines that are fast approaching.…

The Delaware Supreme Court yesterday handed down an important ruling that protects anonymous bloggers from attempts to unnmask them through libel lawsuits. This is the first ruling by a state supreme court on this matter. The court said that, if an elected official claims he has been defamed by an anonymous posting on a blog,…

This week’s Coast to Coast looks at the issue of diversity among legal bloggers. My cohost J. Craig Williams and I were joined to discuss this issue earlier today by:…

Working to facilitate the fair distribution of disaster benefits to New Orleans victims of Hurricane Katrina is the goal of The New Orleans Coalition for Legal Aid and Disaster Relief. The coalition, developed through the efforts of Tulane Law School faculty, students and alumni, seeks to bring together resources from all parts of the…

Yesterday marked the first Monday in October, and you know what that means — Blawg Review #26, Supreme Court edition, by Tom Mighell.

Why not Tom for the Supreme Court? He has the key qualifications — he’s a lawyer and he’s from Texas. The court could use a justice with some Web savvy.…