When I was a much-younger lawyer, I had the good fortune to have my own practice in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The federal court there is a court of original jurisdiction, and in the mid-1980s, it was straining under a backlog of cases. I remember learning that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had…

Good news: The ABA Section of Litigation offers a free , weekly e-mail newsletter with litigation tips from James McElhaney, author of a number of books on litigation and case management.

More good news: The section’s Trial Practice Committee has posted to the Web its library of trial practice articles.

Now…

As a labor arbitrator myself, I was glad to discover that Ross Runkel had started Arbitration Blog, a blog about labor and employment arbitration. Then I realized he had started a second blog as well, LawMemo Employment Law Blog. Runkel’s LawMemo site has long been a leading Web destination for labor and…

Chadbourne & Parke announced today the formation of its U.S. Hispanic Practice Group, an expansion of its Corporate, Private Equity and Latin America Practices.

A quick Google search shows that Sheppard Mullin also has a Hispanic practice group. Others?…

Charles R. Schrader, a partner with Jordan Schrader in Portland, Ore., has launched the Construction Labor Law Blog. He will discuss collective bargaining, jurisdictional disputes, strikes and picketing, prevailing wages and other labor law issues related to the construction industry.…

Stephen C. Knight, a partner with Baydoun & Knight, Nashville, Tenn., has begun publishing a family law blog focused on, but not limited to, Tennessee: Knight on Family Law.…

TVEyes, a company whose product allows full-text searching of TV and radio programs, announced Monday plans to launch the first full-text search engine for podcasts. Called Podscope, it will index the audio of podcasts as well as of video blogs and personal videos. It will be available later this month, the announcement…

“While most attorneys are aware that many courts around the country have been offering inexpensive and free access to case dockets on the Internet for years, many are not aware that dockets can be automatically monitored for free as well.”

So starts the informative article, Free Court Case Docket Monitoring, written by Paul Bush,…

The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, located in Pittsburgh, Penn., launched its first Web site Monday. Among its many features, the site allows visitors to search criminal records, check court calendars, download forms and request postponements of jury duty.…

Ronald J. Riley is an inventor who claims that fraud by invention-promotion companies is bilking inventors out of millions of dollars. Executive director of a group called InventorEd.org, Riley used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain all unpublished complaints against invention promoters filed with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and…

If you host your blog on Blogger or Typepad, then there is a good chance corporate networks are blocking it. Even if you host your blog elsewhere, you should check whether it is being blocked.

I learned this today thanks to blawger Stuart Levine. After discovering that a brokerage house…

Could happen in Illinois:

“ILLINOIS — Internet phone users will be able to access 911 services under proposed legislation, Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced Sunday.”…