Articles Tagged with bankruptcy

A new career site that marked its official launch this week is targeted at professionals who are not looking for a new job. In a new twist on playing hard to get, the site’s tantalizing premise is that your lack of interest in a new job combined with your stellar credentials will add…

The Thomson Corporation, parent of Westlaw, announced yesterday its first step into the B2B social networking market with its acquisition of Boston-based Contact Networks, a provider of relationship management technology for large law firms and other professional-services enterprises. From the announcement:

“ContactNet, the first and most powerful social networking application built

Track the real estate purchases and sales of lawyers in Chicago and St. Louis through BlockShopper.com. See my full post about it at Legal Blog Watch.…

Two new Web sites have similar missions: making secret and hard-to-find government documents, revealed through FOIA requests and other means, available to the public in order to promote government transparency.

The first and more sophisticated, GovernmentDocs.org, is being officially launched tomorrow. It will provide a database of FOIA responses and other government documents contributed…

There is what looks to be a great legal marketing conference this week in Washington, D.C., and here is your chance to attend for $200 off the standard registration price. The Nov. 8 and 9 The Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference is sponsored by the ABA Law Practice Management Section and features a…

The market for legal technology products will continue to grow over the coming year in all areas but for one — online legal research. So says a study released today by ALM Research and Cogent Research, which concludes that the online legal research market “is approaching saturation.” I have not seen the full study,…

At the urging of the U.S. Justice Department, the federal judiciary is considering whether to close Internet access to plea agreements and related docket notations in criminal cases. The judiciary is requesting public comment on the proposed restriction to be filed by Oct. 26. This would be a major step backwards for public access…

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I am thrilled to announce that I will be visiting Russia May 12-19 as part of a five-person delegation to discuss the relationship between the news media and the courts. We will be visiting the Siberian city of Tomsk, some 2,200 miles east of Moscow, where we will meet with Russian judges, lawyers, journalists…

Sorry for no blogging last week — I was away. As proof thereof, I offer the following photo of a distinctly non-East Coast landmark, as seen through the gray from far away.

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Martindale-Hubbell’s legal directory site Martindale.com today announced an interesting new feature — top 10 law firm lists. They rank the top law firms in three categories: top 10 peer-review rated, which ranks the firms with the highest number of peer-review-rated lawyers; top 10 by activity, which ranks firms in different subject…

Via Information Week comes this interesting item: A Massachusetts man was sentenced in Florida this week for hacking into the Accurint public-records database owned by LexisNexis. According to the U.S. attorney’s statement, the man will spend a year in prison and must pay restitution of $100,000 to LexisNexis and the Port…