On this 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, AARP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights have teamed up to launch Voices of Civil Rights, a site that collects and preserves personal accounts from the past and present of the civil rights movement. Using text, audio and transcripts, it…

Power searchers rarely rely on a single search engine. Queryster is a tool that puts a new spin on meta-searching – searching across multiple search engines from a single interface. By default, Queryster submits your search to 10 of the most popular search engines – Google, WiseNut, LookSmart, Ask Jeeves,…

Is anything to be gained by searching across multiple sites? If you have any doubt about the answer, visit Thumbshots Ranking, a tool that graphically compares search results on different search engines. It shows you how results compare in ranking and position on each site. You can elect to highlight your own or some…

Declan McCullagh writes about judges turning to search engines to check facts, look up information about companies in litigation, and challenge statistics presented by attorneys in court. Are judges making their own evidentiary records? If so, is this permitted? The answers are less clear than you might expect, the article suggests. (Thanks to Steve…

As a word, soople is said to derive from an early English dialect and mean to soften or make supple. As a Web site, Soople is Google for dummies. Google has a front page so Spartan that the casual user might never suspect that it is home to an array of search power…

Via TalkLeft comes news of new Web site for those who consider themselves politically progressive. Called Moving Ideas, its stated goal is “to improve collaboration and dialogue between policy and grassroots organizations, and to promote their work to journalists and legislators.” The site features research and reports from member organizations, legislative news and…

The Memory Hole has the uncensored version of the National Labor Relations Board’s 10(j) manual, used to guide its attorneys in seeking injunctive against unfair labor practices. This is said to be a “bootleg” of the manual that the NLRB has on its own site in a redacted version.…

Ernie posts today on IM as a corporate tool, asking, “So what does this IM stuff, which is clearly the province of young people, have to do with corporate culture?” My company, Jaffe Associates, operates “virtually” — our staff work out of home offices located throughout the world. All that connects us are…

The Leiter Reports offers a listing of the top 30 law schools with the most alumni on the federal bench. The top five: Harvard University (95), Yale University (49), University of Texas at Austin (35), University of Virginia (35) and University of Michigan (33).…

I’ve used a Palm for years, but never realized how underusing it I was until I read the new book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Palm Powered Handhelds, by Margaret Spencer Dixon, a consultant specializing in time management and stress management for lawyers. Published by the Law Practice Management Section of the American…

I am always interested in whether and how law firms employ their Web sites when big news occurs. Thus, with today’s news of the merger of Wilmer Cutler Pickering and Hale and Dorr, I am glad to see that both posted letters to clients on their sites about the merger, Wilmer’s

The 2004-2005 Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers, the only legal directory to rank law firms and individual lawyers, was released today on the Web. The guide, which is published by Chambers and Partners, the London-based publisher of Chambers Global and Chambers UK Leading Lawyers, investigates the top firms and lawyers for…