In response to a series of corporate scandals in recent years, the American Bar Association House of Delegates yesterday adopted new lawyer conduct rules based on three proposals submitted by the ABA Task Force on Corporate Responsibility.

The first amended Rule 1.6 of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct to permit a lawyer to…

Finally I am able to publish after not having been able to for almost a week. Blogger Pro just could not manage the FTP connection to my ISP. Despite various messages back and forth with support people at both Blogger and my ISP, no one seemed able to identify anything wrong. Then, miraculously, it started…

Ernie the Attorney notes the launch of “a bevy of blogs,” as he put it, by lawyer Robert Unterberger, who will be keeping himself busy with Law Student Writing Blog, Delaware Personal Injury Lawyer Blog, New Jersey Personal Injury Lawyer Blog, and Pennsylvannia Personal Injury Blog. A former practicing lawyer…

Law firm Web sites have come a long way in what they tell you about a firm’s lawyers and practice areas. But many still tell you absolutely nothing about the firm’s business and support staff. Why is this?

Say you want to find the name of a firm’s administrator or chief operating officer. Very few…

Thanks to The Scout Report for pointing out the Corporate Crime Reporter, a legal newsletter that highlights recent news items about ongoing corporate crime prosecutions. The site includes full transcripts of interviews with prominent lawyers and full-text documents from cases in the news.…

The National Law Journal reports that, after six years of work, the California court system has rewritten more than 800 civil jury instructions in plain English. Their use will be allowed as of Sept. 1. Criminal jury instructions are being rewritten as well and are expected to be ready by September 2005. The court’s…

The Harvard Law School Library has launched Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection, a Web site devoted to analysis and digitization of documents relating to the Nuremberg Trials. The project is devoted to preserving and expanding access to the library’s 1 million pages of documents relating to the trials of Nazi Germany’s military…

The nation’s 100 best-paid chief legal officers saw their incomes increase an average of 9 percent in 2002, with the average combined salary and bonus surpassing $1 million, according to The 2003 GC Compensation Survey conducted by Corporate Counsel magazine.…

Law.com has an interesting article today from Philadelphia’s Legal Intelligencer,

Attorney Clears Hurdle in Defamation Action Against ABA. It reports that Philadelphia attorney Richard A. Sprague “has cleared another significant hurdle in his defamation lawsuit against the American Bar Association and its monthly magazine, the ABA Journal, now that a federal…

Somewhat off topic for this blog, but Influence today published a story I wrote, The Hub of Lobbying, which describes how Massachusetts—13th among the states in population—ranks third in spending on lobbyists, behind California and New York. Total lobbying-related spending in Massachusetts in 2002 was almost $54 million. Of that, $34.6 million went…

The Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Web site today announced a complete redesign and update, overseen by Timothy Stanley, who earlier this year left FindLaw, the company he co-founded. The redesign adds new content, including fair-use overview materials from Nolo, and a new site search powered by Google.

Stanley has now…

The spring 2003 Journal of Appellate Practice and Process has published an informative overview of legal Web logs, Legal and Appellate Weblogs: What They Are, Why You Should Read Them, and Why You Should Consider Starting Your Own. The piece was written by two well-known bloggers, Gary O’Connor of Statutory Construction Zone…