I wrote an article last year about outsourced legal writing, and, in particular, about one legal writing company, BriefMasters. For that story, I interviewed BriefMasters’ co-founder, Adam E. Quarles, and subsequently exchanged e-mails with him on various occasions. Thus, it was with sadness that I learned of Adam’s death June 5 at the young…

For anyone heading to Boston next week for the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, be sure to check out the new AALL annual meeting blog.…

Now officially available, the second edition of my book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web. Although the cover hasn’t changed much, the inside has. I revisited every site from the original book and updated its review, I added several new chapters, and I added lots of…

The latest issue of the monthly newsletter The Neutral Corner is now available on the Web site of NASD Dispute Resolution, the arbitration and mediation arm of the National Association of Securities Dealers. As a member of the NASD’s securities arbitration panel, I find the newsletter to be a good way to…

Besides this bizdev/PR job’s location in the Cayman Islands, there is the travel to Walkers’ other offices in London, the British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong.…

Funny how many e-mails I received over the item about the Oklahoma judge. Of course, no sooner did I post it than I thought of headlines I should have used:

“Authorites pumped up over judge’s oily release program”

“For Oklahoma judge, time on bench is a vacuum waiting to be filled”

Others??…

This one from The Smoking Gun:

“While seated on the bench, an Oklahoma judge used a male enhancement pump, shaved and oiled his nether region, and pleasured himself, state officials charged yesterday in a petition to remove the jurist. “…

In Boston, U.S. District Judge William Young yesterday declared the federal sentencing guidelines unconstitutional, according to the Associated Press via the Boston Globe:

“In a scathing criticism of the current system for handing out punishment for defendants convicted of federal crimes, a judge on Monday declared the federal sentencing guidelines unconstitutional.

“In a series

Good Harbor Beach this morning, just down the road from where I live.

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From Mediabistro, this good article on blogs as “the best thing to hit public relations since the advent of the fax machine.”…

OK, I am going to give Gmail a whirl. It has some promising features, such as its focus on searching over sorting and its contextual grouping of messages, so that a message and all its follow-ups are displayed together. Send me a message, if you’d like, using my last name at gmail.com.…

Finally some rationality in the spate of DirecTV piracy suits:

“In a setback to DirecTV’s fight against satellite piracy, a federal appeals panel on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the company cannot sue people under a wiretapping law just because they possess cards allowing them to intercept its signal.”…