Every Tuesday, TechnoLawyer.com distributes “Technorelease Tuesday,” a form of advertorial e-mail in which legal vendors pay to include their content, with the proviso that it must be content “that teaches rather than preaches.”
Anthony Vlahos from lexisONE put together an interesting contribution today — three articles about how lawyers can leave the rat…
I wrote earlier about Jonathan Bender’s blog/site, SohoAttorney, which focuses on attorneys practicing from small offices or home offices. When Bender received a request recently from a fellow solo who was looking for a home for some used computer equipment that he add online classifieds, he took him up on it. The result…
From NetHappenings comes the reference to this compilation of federal education laws.…
The Tax Court has ruled that taxpayer is not allowed to deduct business-related travel expenses because his business requires him to travel constantly. Makes sense? No. But so reports Decnavda’s Dialectic, a new blawg devoted to tracking the Tax Court from California lawyer Tim Carter.…
Here is a forum to discuss blawging, although there has been only one posting so far. My question: Are not blawgs forum enough?…
Search site AlltheWeb.com introduced a new design today that eliminates banner ads and offers a gallery of skins so users can customize its look.
Along with new new design comes a new tool, URL Investigator. Type a URL in the search box and obtain detailed information about the site — who owns the…
The most common type of securities controversy that comes to arbitration under the National Association of Securities Dealers is breach of fiduciary duty. Common stocks are the most common type of security in NASD arbitrations. The total amount arbitrators awarded in customer claims last year was $139 million, of which $23 million was in…
The Christian Science Monitor is providing RSS files of its content, so the paper can be read in news aggregators. Different sections — Top Stories, Commentary, Work & Money, Sci/Tech, etc. — each have their own feed, and there is one for the complete paper.…
March 1 was the day 22 federal agencies found a new home under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But try to use that site to figure out precisely where the duties these agencies performed now fall. It is a challenge. Take the former Immigration and Naturalization Service. It is no…
Anyone who believes tobacco got its bad name only in the latter part of the 20th century should visit Coffin Nails: The Tobacco Controversy in the 19th Century, a fascinating history of the tobacco controversy drawn from the pages of Harper’s Weekly from 1857 to 1912. It shows that, as early as 1862, tobacco…
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws is single minded in its purpose – to study and review state law to determine which areas of law should be uniform, and then, having targeted a topic, to draft and propose specific statutes. The conference can only propose, of course – no uniform law…
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