From the legal-ethics chapter:

American Legal Ethics Library. From Cornell’s Legal Information Institute, this digital library contains the full text of the codes or rules of professional conduct for most U.S. states, as well as the ABA’s model code. Some are in hypertext format, others are included through links to state

From the chapter on environmental law:

Environmental Law Net. David S. Blackmar, an environmental lawyer with Murtha Cullina LLP, Boston, created this rich and wide-ranging site in order to better serve his clients, who include general counsel, in-house attorneys and corporate environmental managers. He divides the site between two sets of resources: legal information

The Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University

of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication has launched Money and Politics Blog. Edited by Sean Treglia, senior advisor for democracy initiatives at USC Annenberg, it is intended to to help journalists stay on top of current campaign finance issues.…

From the technology and e-commerce practice group of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, an international law firm with more than 1,400 lawyers worldwide, CyberLaw@Sidley is a truly practical site combining daily news coverage with in-depth feature articles and analysis. The news comes via links to other media sites, with a half-dozen or so headlines…

I will be presenting a day-long program, Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Advanced Internet Strategies for the Massachusetts Legal Professional, this Friday, Sept. 17, in Boston. My co-panelist is Russell Beck of Epstein Becker & Green.…

Sept. 11 — and the sky was ablaze.

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I’ve posted my column, Patent and Trademark Searching Via the Web. A complete list of columns I’ve posted is here.…

Capital Defense Weekly. This practical site offers several useful resources. Begin with “Capital Defense Weekly,” its newsletter analyzing current court opinions and news developments relating to capital punishment. That is supplemented by the CDW blog, with daily updates on capital cases. Then there is its Brief Bank, a collection of appellate briefs in capital…

For the first time in its 126-year history, the American Bar Association is publishing a work of fiction, Shadow of Justice, written by Miami criminal-defense lawyer Milton Hirsch. Due for release Sept. 30, the novel is the first in a new series from ABA Publishing, “Great Stories by Great Lawyers,” according to…

Yale Law School’s Avalon Project publishes on the Web historical documents from the fields of law, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Materials span ancient Greece to contemporary times, and include such pre-Eighteenth Century documents as the Athenian Constitution by Aristotle, the Code of Hammurabi and the Magna Carta. Documents are organized by century, as…

Following a trackback to a recent post of mine, I discovered a blog I had not known about before, but wish I had — True Believer. Subtitled, “A Santa Barbara lawyer dares to explore the madd, madd world of DUI,” it is written by Lee A. McCoy, a lawyer who defends people…

The largest deposition bank on the Internet, TRIALSmith archives more than 150,000 deposition transcripts of experts, doctors and corporate representatives. Access is exclusively restricted to plaintiffs’ lawyers, who also use it to exchange documents, tips and investigative tools. Search for an expert by name or keyword, and view any available deposition immediately online or…