My ISP upgraded my account to a new server today, resulting in some glitches, such as postings disappearing and reappearing. Please let me know if you experience any problems.…

In a column last year, Laughing at Lawyers and the Law, I wrote about legal humor sites. Among them was Lawpsided, where Sean Carter — a lawyer, stand-up comedian and author of the book, If It Does Not Fit, Must You Acquit? Your Humorous Guide to the Law — follows the lighter side…

In The Choirboy, New York magazine writer John Heilemann tells the fascinating story of how well-known blawger and Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig ended up in a New Jersey courtroom confronting his own horrific past as a victim of child abuse.…

A Massachusetts company founded by former television broadcasters has launched a Web site devoted to Internet broadcasting of legal news and talk shows. Called The Legal Talk Network, the site so far offers only a handful of video and audio programs produced in cooperation with attorneys in Massachusetts but it aims to become a…

A service launched this week enables patent professionals to create watchlists for patent searches and monitor them through RSS feeds. Called PatentMojo, its users are able to create watchlists using any search criteria. The service searches the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office data daily and delivers updates via RSS. A seven-day free trial…

Perhaps it is a sign of how far we have come in the information age. A Russian lawyer has filed suit against several Russian governmental bodies for not having Web sites, asserting that not having a public site is a violation of the human right for information.

According to a report by Mosnews.com ,…

An interesting case from the Massachusetts Appeals Court on an issue of first impression in the state, ruling that there is no legal duty of reasonable care owed by a defendant to a plaintiff who was injured during their consensual sexual conduct. John Doe vs. Mary Moe. The court said:

“There are no

Only 14 percent of Americans and 57 percent of newspaper and TV journalists can name “freedom of the press” as a right that is guaranteed by the First Amendment, according to a University of Connecticut study released today. I have more about the survey at my Media Law blog.…

By way of update to this morning’s post, In Boston, a tale worthy of Grisham, you can find the full text of the hearing officer’s report here. Be forewarned: It is 229-page PDF file.…

The U.S. Government RSS Library, part of the FirstGov portal, provides links to RSS feeds from U.S. government sources. Feeds are indexed by topics, which include agriculture, consumer, data and statistics, health, international relations and others.…

A hearing officer for the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers has recommended disbarment for three well-known lawyers accused of orchestrating an elaborate scheme to discredit a former Superior Court judge, the Boston Globe reports today.

As the Globe article reports, the three were accused of breaching ethical rules by luring the judge’s law clerk…

Bonnie Shucha at WisBlawg writes about BRB Publications, which has compiled a fairly comprehensive, state-by-state list of free public records sites, as well as an index of national sites and another for Canada and U.S. territories.

Bonnie discovered BRB’s site through Genie Tyburski’s article, Tools for Finding Public Records,…