Electronic Discovery Resources is a useful and well-done site providing articles, news and Web links related to electronic discovery. It provides links to resources for case law, rules and regulations, CLE Webcasts, news articles and other resources. There is also a related blog, Alextronic Discovery. All of this is sponsored by the electronic…
LinkedIn helps expand your circles of contacts
I knew of lawyer and entrepreneur Mike Curreri from his having founded TrialNet in the mid-1990s. In fact, I wrote about him as an “Internet innovator” for Law Office Computing several years ago. So I was intrigued when I read this article in the Boston Globe about how Mike used LinkinIn.com…
Detod portal and blawg search up for sale
The Virtual Chase reports that Detod has put its legal portal up for sale. This includes the popular Blawg Search and its aggregator. Detod’s notice says that the sale includes “a caselaw database feed that is not live yet, but the code is 98% finished.” In place of legal research, the…
Eyeing the future of interrogation
Lie-detecting eyeglasses. A good reason for contact lenses?…
Another report on the domain suit
Here is CNET’s report on the patent lawyer suing Network Solutions and Register.com.…
The Register: Lawyer Claims Patent on Internet
The Register reports that a California patent lawyer sued Network Solutions and Register.com yesterday, claiming that issuance of “.name” domains violates his patent. If his claim is allowed, The Register says, it would effectively give him rights to the entire Internet domain naming system.…
Federal court transcripts online
The Virtual Chase reports: “The Federal Judiciary announced a pilot program involving seven federal district courts. The courts for the Southern District of Alabama, District of Columbia, District of Kansas, District of Maine, Eastern District of Missouri, District of Nebraska and the Eastern District of New York will make transcripts of courtroom proceedings…
PR-savvy stars navigate the courtroom
An interesting article, PR-savvy stars navigate the courtroom, from the Christian Science Monitor, talks about the role of public relations in celebrity trials, and the ability of celebrities to influence trials by hiring elite teams of lawyers and jury consultants.…
Federal district judge cites to blog
Is this a first? In Massachusetts, U.S. District Chief Judge William G. Young cites to a blog in an opinion issued Jan. 7. Addressing his own fallibility as a judge, Judge Young quotes the lyrics to the satirical song “Appointed Forever,” by the Bar and Grill Singers, and as authority for his quotation cites…
Littler lists its new lawyers, but Bingham, Choate unchanged
Littler Mendelson now lists the attorneys in its new Boston office (although the page caption that shows in the browser bar says “Atlanta Attorneys”). It does not yet have their bios on its list of shareholders. Meanwhile, two of the attorneys listed here continue to appear on their former firm’s sites,
No change on the Bingham, Choate, Littler Web site watch
Status quo today in the wake of four lawyers leaving three Boston firms to start a new Boston office for San Francisco-based Littler Mendelson. While Bingham McCutchen yesterday removed partner David C. Casey’s name from its Web site, it retains the name of associate Suzanne Suppa Sullivan. And Choate…
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