Howard Bashman, creator of the popular blawg, How Appealing, will be the guest speaker for the appellate process segment of the Cybercourts and Online Dispute Resolution seminar that will run next in the Network-Lawyers discussion group. Howard’s portion of the seminar, the appellate process, Cybercourts of Appeal, will be begin on Wednesday, Dec.…
For legal aid lawyers, a technology portal
If the bad news was the shutting down of the Equal Justice Network, the good news is a site that spun off from it, LStech.Org. Recognizing that few legal services programs have the budget to hire dedicated technology staff, LStech.org is a portal to technology services and information tailored to a legal aid…
Equal Justice Network shuts down
I just noticed that the Equal Justice Network has shut down. It operated as a joint project of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association and the Center for Law and Social Policy, serving as an online meeting place, information source, and connection mechanism for lawyers and other advocates involved in efforts…
A good site for medical illustrations
The Doe Report is a comprehensive medical demonstrative evidence resource, providing graphics, anatomical models and medical research. It contains more than 8,000 proprietary medical-legal exhibits that can be used in demand letters, settlement conferences, arbitration, mediation and trial. The site makes it extremely easy to find what you are looking for. It can be…
Denise Howell will be needing more baggage
Congratulations to Bag and Baggage blawger Denise Howell on the Thanksgiving arrival of Tyler Declan Howell.…
Two great resources for labor lawyers
UC Berkeley’s Institute of Industrial Relations is a rich resource for labor and employment lawyers. But two features are particularly noteworthy. One is its Labor Research Portal, an extensive guide to labor resources on the Web. It inludes the IIR library’s LaborBlog. The other is its Labor Contracts Database, an online…
NLJ releases annual ranking of 250 largest law firms
The National Law Journal today released the NLJ 250, it annual ranking of the nation’s largest law firms. Capping the list, Baker & McKenzie, with 3,214 lawyers, Jones Day, with 2,136, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, with 1,827.…
A site for disabled lawyers and law students
For his third-year Harvard Law School project in 2002, Carrie Griffin started the Disabled Lawyering Alliance as an online network for lawyers and law students with disabilities. The goal is to bring people together to foster mentoring relationships, professional networking and personal development. The primary way it does this is through QuickTopic discussion…
Another battle lost in WordPerfect vs. Word?
Lawyers love to debate WordPerfect vs. Word. So what does it mean that Richard Belthoff has changed the site formerly known as “The Legal WordPerfect Page” to The Legal Word Processing Page and now covers Word along with WP?…
LawSites is one year old
Almost missed my own anniversary. My first posting to this blog was on Nov. 19, 2002. Time flies when you’re having fun.…
Leaving law behind to teach high school
I was looking to see what Mark J. Welch was up to when I came across a surprise. In the mid-1990s, Mark founded the California Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law Web site. It was a pretty good site with a great collection of celebrities’ wills. He later sold the site to another law firm.…