Articles Posted in May, 2003

Lyle Roberts, a partner in the securities litigation group of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, has launched The 10b-5 Daily, a blog devoted to tracking news and events related to securities class action litigation. In addition to his daily postings, Roberts offers links to key securities law Web sites, cases and commentary. To learn…

Larry Bodine has launched LawMarketing Weblog, devoted to thoughts, opinions and news about law firm marketing. Bodine is a marketing consultant who operates The Law Marketing Portal. He is the former director of communications for Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago, and earlier was editor and publisher of the ABA Journal.…

beSpacific posts an announcement from Thomas R. Bruce, co-director of Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, that it is now offering Supreme Court decisions delivered via an RSS feed.

Bruce writes: “As part of some extensive (and ongoing) renovation of our Supreme Court collection, we’ve added RSS feeds that offer summaries of recent…

Headline of the day: Sampson lawyers may plead insanity. (Thanks to Dan Kennedy’s Media Log for the pointer.)…

The trial consulting firm Bowne DecisionQuest publishes a free electronic newsletter, DQ FYI, that you can subscribe to here. Sure, it’s a marketing device, but each newsletter generally includes a useful article or two, along with a Question of the Month, in which lawyers are invited to offer their solutions to sticky situations that…

Michael O’Sullivan, a corporate lawyer with a Los Angeles law firm, has started a blog devoted to corporate securities and M&A; law issues, Corp Law Blog.…

One of the best analyses I have seen of Web logs as legal-marketing tools is Web Logs for Lawyers: Lessons from Ernie the Attorney, written by the esteemed Jerry Lawson and published on LLRX.com.…

Inter-Alia reports that the ABA Litigation Section now features an RSS feed with its latest news and articles.…

Martindale-Hubbell today added a new feature to its martindale.com Web site — a library of in-depth articles, written by lawyers, about a variety of legal topics. The new Legal Articles section allows users to search for articles by topic, industry or area of practice, article title or keyword, date range, author name and…

MyShingle.com’s Carolyn Elefant interviews Jay Foonberg, the guru of solo and small-firm lawyers and author of How to Start and Build a Law Practice.…

The American Bar Association Section of Taxation has launched a Web site for consumers and small businesses, Tax Tips 4 U. It provides tax tips for individual taxpayers, charitable and non-profit organizations, and small businesses. It also provides links to other sources of consumer tax information.…

I have used the eFax free service since at least 1999, probably longer. In fact, I have used it so long that I had an eFax number with one of those hard-to-get “local” exchanges.

Recently, I received a notice from eFax stating: “When you signed up for your Free account, you agreed to the…