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…

Still no change in the Littler, Bingham, Choate Web watch. This means that, if someone unaware of the week’s events went online to search for either Suzanne Suppa Sullivan or Gregory C. Keating, they would find each of them listed on the Web sites of two different firms, with no way of…

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,

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…

The American Bar Association’s new home page is designed to offer easier navigation into the ABA’s dense Web site. Unfortunately, what had been a sharp and stylish front page now looks somewhat scattered. The ABA is to be commended for trying to make its site easier to use, but my experience was that it…

beSpacific offers this report on the launch of BlogBook, a guide to legal blogging that hosts an ongoing discussion of style, ethics and technical issues associated with blawgs. The site’s design resembles that of the Bluebook, A Uniform System of Citation, and its three authors are attorneys who are also writers…

As of yesterday, neither Bingham McCutchen nor Choate Hall & Stewart had removed from their Web sites the bios of the lawyers who jumped ship to Littler Mendelson, although Hale and Dorr had.

Today, Bingham has removed partner David C. Casey, but, mysteriously, still lists departing associate Suzanne Suppa…

Blog land seems quiet —
Muteness of ethicalEsq.
No more! David’s back.

… And he’s added haiku.

Yes, I know he’s been back for a month from his self-imposed exile from blogging, but I’ve been off in my own exile, finishing my book, and never got around to mentioning the return of this…

How quickly should a firm update its Web site when a lawyer jumps ship? The Boston Globe reports this morning, in a story titled Top lawyers jump ship for Littler, that four lawyers from three Boston firms are jumping ship to join the new Boston office of Littler Mendelson, a San Francisco-based firm…

Finally finished writing the second edition of my book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, to be published by ALM Publishing. Watch for it to come out on LawCatalog.com.…

The National Association of Securities Dealers’ Web site reports that the NASD has asked the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission to approve amendments to its rules that would compensate securities arbitrators for last-minute adjournments. The change would require a party requesting an adjournment within three days of a scheduled hearing to pay…

Over at Network-Lawyers, Jerry Lawson posts a comment about the legitimization of blogs, noting that the most recent issue of inbox, the newsletter of Jaffe Associates, endorses blogs as one of the hottest trends of the coming year.

“If there is an ‘establishment’ when it comes to law firm marketing,”…