After a four-year investigation, students at the University of Illinois have concluded that Deep Throat, the anonymous source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal, was Fred Fielding, deputy counsel to former President Nixon and now a litigator with the Washington, D.C., firm Morgan, Lewis and Bockius. In the past,…

Lawyers who need to track when a company, Web site, product or name is discussed in Usenet newsgroups have a new tool they can use. NetNews Tracker is a bot that searches newsgroups twice each day for the phrases that you choose, then delivers new hits to you via e-mail. Each hit includes an…

Smith & Wesson Advanced Technologies, a corporate cousin of the 151-year-old handgun maker Smith & Wesson, today launched the first Web-based facial composite sketch tool for law enforcement agencies. Called Identi-Kit.NET, it gives law enforcement agencies the ability to produce a sketch instantly and transmit it immediately to other law enforcement agencies anywhere in…

A new Web site launched Wednesday, Weyerhaeuser Hardboard Siding Class Action Settlement, as part of a court-ordered supplemental notice program in the court-approved settlement involving Weyerhaeuser brand hardboard siding. The site is part of a series of notices intended to inform those who own or previously owned properties with the siding that if they…

This month’s Asian Legal Business magazine asks, “Does size really matter?” as it posts its rankings of the 50 largest law firms in Asia. Topping the list are Australian firms Minter Ellison, with a total lawyer headcount of 1476; Mallesons Stephen Jaques; and Allens Arthur Robinson. The highest ranking U.S. firm…

Lawyer referral services come and go on the Web. I was looking today for some of the services I once knew of, only to find dead URLs. So I went back to The Wayback Machine just to make sure my memory was correct. Here’s what I found:

www.lawconnect.com 2001 www.lawconnect.com now
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Medical Dictionary Online is a new online reference source for quick look-up of medical terms, drugs, medical devices, health conditions and medical abbreviations. Definitions are quite brief and often technical, so use this only for quick answers, not substantive information.…

Law.com unveiled a major overhaul today, with a new look and organization that better reflects its integration with American Lawyer Media. ALM acquired Law.com in May 2002. Among the changes:

• A redesigned daily Newswire that includes a new column, Today’s Brief.

• Direct links to ALM newspapers…

Jim Romanesko’s coverage of yesterday’s Pulitzer prizes features this profile of Stephen Kurkjian, Boston Globe metro editor and member of the team that exposed the scope of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests. What neither Romanesko nor the profile mention is that Kurkjian is a lawyer by training and member in good standing…

JD Lasica points to a new blog that focuses on copyright and digital rights issues, Paul Pedley’s Information Law Web log. Pedley works at The Economist in London and is author of the forthcoming book, Essential Law for Information Professionals, from Facet Publishing.…

Three leading constitutional scholars will debate campaign finance reform in a live webcast Friday, April 11, 7 p.m. Scheduled to participate are Bruce Ackerman, Sterling professor of law and political science at Yale University Law School, and Kenneth Starr, former independent counsel and now adjunct professor at the NYU School of Law and partner…

Indiana lawyer Douglas G. Amber last week published the sixth revised edition of Cases & Materials on American Federalism an online textbook he wrote for the American government classes he teaches at Purdue University Calumet. Although he wrote the text for college freshman, Amber, a partner with Amber, Golding & Hofstetter,…