A guide to law library blogs

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University of Wisconsin law librarian and blogger Bonnie Shucha has compiled a list of law library blogs. She includes on the list only professional blogs targeted toward the legal community — blogs affiliated with a law library, blogs written by individual law librarians and blogs of law librarian associations.…

Thomson West acquires CourtEXPRESS

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Thomson West today announced its acquisition of CourtEXPRESS, a company that provides online docket research and retrieval from U.S. and international courts. An announcement says:

“The acquisition is part of Thomson West’s broader strategy to provide reliable, authoritative docket, trial court document and court information solutions to legal professionals. The company’s products

How Deep Throat helped send me to law school

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Deep Throat’s self-outing has me thinking today about how he – and Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate reporting – helped send me to law school.

The Watergate break-in took place on the very day I turned 18, a summer away from starting college and pursuing my goal of becoming a newspaper reporter. At the end of…

For me, a change of course

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Today marked my last day with the legal consulting firm Jaffe Associates. I have enormous respect for Jay Jaffe and his staff of marketing, media relations and creative professionals. But I have been craving more freedom to pursue projects that interest me, without having to be concerned about professional conflicts or divided allegiances. I…

If you have been unable to e-mail me …

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I learned this morning that e-mails sent over the weekend to my “legaline.com” addresses were being rejected as undeliverable. This resulted from my ISP “upgrading” my account to a new server last week. Supposedly, the problem is now fixed.

If you are unable to reach me by e-mail at my legaline.com address, please let me…

New search engine offers ‘richer’ results

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The developers of the new search engine Exalead say their goal was to design a “new and much richer user experience for information access, based on speed, interactive navigation and ease of use.” They have succeeded in creating a search tool that — while not as expansive in its coverage as, say, Google

Prisoner legal aid goes high-tech

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A new Web site aims to use the power of the Internet to deliver post-conviction legal services to prisoners throughout the United States. Called Prison Services Project, its purpose is to provide a brief and case management service for incarcerated pro se litigants and to serve as an intake, case management and referral…