I wrote recently about the free, searchable versions of the Intelligence Reform Act, The Patriot Act and other government documents offered for download by askSam. This week, they added the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in a version that alows you to search or browse the act’s text.…

It is a question much debated: How do copyright law and digital media square up? In Send ‘free’ to work: Creative Commons brings copyrights into the digital age, Rocky Mountain News columnist Linda Seebach surveys Creative Commons and other alternatives to statutory copyright and challenges intellectual property owners “to make ‘free’ work…

Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society is host today and tomorrow to Blogging, Journalism & Credibility, an invitation-only conference of bloggers, reporters and academics focusing on ethics and credibility in blogging. The program is being webcast, supposedly, although it is not working for me just now. Alternatively, you can…

Did we need a survey to tell us this?

“Despite long hours at the office, many attorneys continue to burn the midnight oil once they leave, according to a new survey. Attorneys polled said they give themselves homework assignments an average of nine days per month, or more than twice a week.”…

beSpacific calls it “an amazing legislative tracking service,” and for good reason. Developed by Joshua Tauberer, a graduate student in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, GovTrack recently won the grand prize in the Technorati Developer’s Contest for developing a way to show what bloggers are saying about bills as they…

Copyright lawyers who represent photographers and image suppliers may soon have a new tool for enforcing their clients’ rights. An Israeli company that specializes in advanced image recognition software is making it easier to police infringements of copyrighted photographs on the Internet, according to the blog The Stock Photo Industry. The company, PicScout,…

Is it possible a client of yours is entitled to a pension that remains unclaimed? The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is looking for some 15,000 people who are owed pensions after their companies went out of business or closed their pension plans. To help locate them, it provides PBGC Pension Search, a tool…

My posting last week about InhouseBlog elicited news of another blog aimed at inhouse counsel, The Wired GC. written anonymously by “John,” a general counsel in the Midwestern United States. (The domain is registered in Michigan.)…

Blogger and Louisiana lawyer A.J. Levy explains.…

Sabrina has the scoop: The federal government is readying enhancements to Regulations.gov. According to GovExec.com, the Office of Management and Budget is working with an interagency project office to launch the new and improved site. “For the first time,” the report says, “citizens will be able not only to comment on proposed…

Indiana’s Most Wanted, a Web site that seeks to assist law enforcement by displaying photographs and descriptions of suspects wanted for arrest, is sponsored by the Fort Wayne criminal defense firm Miller & Arnold Law Offices. Guess that makes it Indiana’s most wanted criminal defense firm.…

CrossingtheBar.Com, a Web site devoted to providing information and commentary on the multijurisdictional practice of law, has ceased to operate. On the site’s homepage, George Riemer, president of Ethics Northwest Inc., posts the following message:

“Having put in over five years of effort into providing information and commentary on the multijurisdictional practice of law,