Articles Posted in November, 2002

For law students, a judicial clerkship is the Holy Grail. A recently redesigned Web site, Judicial Clerkships.com, aims to help law students “successfully navigate the maze of courts and clerkship opportunities.” Thanks to this site, I now know that the federal judiciary maintains a site exclusively for law clerks, the Federal Law Clerk…

Like lots of lawyers, Edward Still of Birmingham, Ala., put up a Web site to promote his law practice. But this one appears to be unique — it may be the only one devoted to the topic of voting law. Called Votelaw.com, the site covers elections, voting rights, campaign finance and other topics. Sections…

The National Law Journal this week posted its annual ranking of the nation’s 250 largest law firms. Coming in at number one: Baker & McKenzie, with 3,246 lawyers.…

The nation’s only court that operates in secrecy, the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, may not have a Web site of its own, like other federal appeals courts, but its decision this week affirming the government’s broad power to investigate suspected spies and terrorists made it onto the Web. The complete text of…

Not long after its 1995 launch, Web research service VersusLaw adopted the slogan, “Revolutionizing the way America does law.” This was no exaggerated boast. In an era when online legal research still required expensive and cumbersome dial-up access to Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis, VersusLaw pioneered use of the Web to offer lawyers an…

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I am a Massachusetts lawyer and author of the book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, available from LawCatalog.com.…