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
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
California PI blogs about access to public records
Tamara Thompson, an Oakland, Calif., private investigator, writes two consistently interesting blogs about investigations, the law and Internet access to public records.…
Study: Lawsuits not to blame for doctors’ rising premiums
A new study by Dartmouth College researchers, published May 31 by the journal Health Affairs and reported yesterday in The Boston Globe, says that increases in doctors’ insurance premiums are the result not of medical malpractice lawsuits, but of insurers’ poor investments.
The Boston Globe article says:
…“Re-igniting the medical malpractice overhaul
I’ve been nominated! (I think)
TechnoLawyer has posted the official ballot for the 2005 TechnoLawyer @ Awards. At the bottom of the ballot is a list of blogs, and there among the many stellar blogs listed is this one. Matt Homann is also listed, and he says being listed there means his blog is nominated. So I…
How Deep Throat helped send me to law school
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
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 …
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
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…
A blawgosphere birthday
Happy birthday to blawger supreme and editor extraordinaire Monica Bay.…
Trademark Blog: Three years and still blogging
Marty Schwimmer kicks off his fourth year blogging. If anything, he’s just getting started.…
Prisoner legal aid goes high-tech
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…
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