Rory Perry’s Weblog reports on the new blog Electronic Filing & Service for Courts that tracks development and implementation of electronic filing projects nationwide. Says Rory: “David Darst of LexisNexis File & Serve is the blog’s author, and he does a good job of collecting news items from around the country related to…

Is the USA Patriot Act a critical component in bolstering our nation’s security or is it an indefensible infringement of our constitutional rights? With several provisions of the act set to expire at the end of 2005, the still-in-beta Patriot Debates will serve as a forum in which to debate whether they should continue.…

OK, this will be my first-ever and last-ever Michael Jackson post. But, celebrity aside, here is a rare opportunity to get an inside look at a grand jury proceeding. The always-digging folks at The Smoking Gun have posted what they say is the entire 1,903-page transcript of the grand jury proceedings that resulted in…

Dennis Kennedy delivered the news of Jerry Lawson’s tragic auto accident. Now Jerry follows with a photo of the car. Like Dennis, I’ve known Jerry a long time, and I wholeheartedly agree with Dennis’ statement: “I’ve never found anyone who ‘gets’ the implications of the Internet for lawyers (and others) more than Jerry…

Through sheer happenstance, I discovered the blogs Symtym and Patent Baristas with a couple days of each other. Their content could not have less in common. Symtym is described as “the meanderings of a board certified emergency physician at mid–career … who tumbled into law school … chasing health, law and technology rabbits.”…

In it simplest form, a blog is nothing more than a frequently updated Web page. So what is the line that divides Web page from blog? It is a question Bruce W. Marcus, publisher of The Marcus Letter, asks in his most recent article, Sez Who? Sez Me.The New World Of Blogging. Marcus…

“Because I only understand things by tinkering with them, I’ve decided to tinker with podcasting.” So explains Lawrence Lessig as he joins the ranks of lawyer/podcasters — or as Denise Howell calls them, plawdcasters.…

The OPEN Government Act filed today to shore up the federal Freedom of Information Act would appear to include bloggers as members of the news media and thereby protect them from excessive fees for document requests. I discuss how this is so at my Media Law blog.…

A new Web site has been launched as a companion to the first Sunshine Week, a March 13-19 national event aimed at promoting awareness of the importance of open government and freedom of information laws. Sunshine Week is spearheaded by the American Society of Newspaper Editors and supported by the Newspaper Association…

You know when you know there’s a word, but you can’t for the life of you think of it? I give you the OneLook Reverse Dictionary.

Here’s the description:

“OneLook’s reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can

If you like Web logs with a distinct point of view, then check out PointofLaw.com. Sponsored by the Manhattan Institute and edited by the person who also brings you Overlawyered.com, the point of view here is decidedly anti-ATLA. As an unabashed believer that tort lawyers wear white hats, I find much…

Off-topic, but interesting: Analysis by the Berkshire Eagle of the biographies of all 197 sitting members of the Massachusetts legislature shows that the typical Bay State lawmaker is a middle-aged, married white male with a law degree. The review found that 33 percent of the legislators hold juris doctor degrees. That is an increase…