Monica Bay, editor-in-chief of Law Technology News and editorial director of Law Firm Inc. and Small Firm Business, launches her blog today, The Common Scold. “While legal technology will be the main theme,” Monica writes, “you can also expect rants and raves about the management issues we discuss in Law Firm…

Looking back in an interview with the First Amendment Center, John R. Bates, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that opened the door to attorney advertsing, says: “It is the nature of the First Amendment that there is going to be speech in every medium of communication that some people don’t like.”…

Law.com Monday will launch the Law.com BLOG Network. It will feature two new blogs written by ALM editors and a series of affiliated blogs. The two new blogs are Legal Blog Watch, by Lisa Stone, and The Common Scold, by Law Technology News Editor-in-Chief Monica Bay. The affiliated blogs, which…

Today marks two years since my first post as a blogger. The best part of blogging? The people I’ve met and the friends I’ve made.…

As someone who has spent his career at the intersection of law and journalism, I have always been a student of media law. My interest in the field stepped up a notch this summer, when I became executive director of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association. As such, my primary role is to be a legal…

Created by Congress in 1987 and housed at the University of Arkansas School of Law, the National Agricultural Law Center is an extensive resource for information relating to agricultural and food law. Its site features The National AgLaw Reporter, covering judicial developments, federal rules and administrative developments, and decisions from the USDA judicial…

The National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched a Policy and Legislation Database. The free, searchable database focuses on genetic testing and counseling, insurance and employment discrimination, newborn screening, privacy and confidentiality of genetic information, informed consent and commercialization and patenting. The site includes an…

The NLJ 250, the National Law Journal’s annual ranking of the 250 largest law firms in the United States, shows that large law firms grew last year, but just barely — by about 1.5 percent. First-place finisher Baker & McKenzie, with 3,194 lawyers, lost attorneys from the prior year. In second place was…

John L. Welch, a lawyer with Foley Hoag in Boston, has launched TTABlog, a blog focused on the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Welch sent me a note saying that a recent article I wrote about blogs for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly provided…

On Wednesday, I will be speaking about blogs to the Association of Boston Law Librarians.…

My dad died this week. Once a tap dancer on the vaudeville circuit, he later worked as an automobile sales manager. An avid reader, his passion for life kept him clinging to it through a major stroke and two bouts of cancer. Cancer finally got the better of him, but not until he reached…

CompuLaw yesterday launched Deadlines On Demand, a service designed to help sole practitioners and small firms calender court deadlines using CompuLaw’s rules-based service on a pay-per-use basis. The Web-based service allows lawyers to calculate court deadlines without the need to install or learn any software. The service researches the jurisdiction’s rules, adjusts for…