Articles Posted in January, 2004

As Supreme Court scholars await the March 4 release of the late Justice Harry Blackmun’s papers, Supreme Court reporter Tony Mauro writes in Legal Times about the decision by Blackmun’s daughter Sally, to give exclusive pre-release access to the papers to reporters Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times and Nina Totenberg of National…

Just where is FindLaw headed? The question has been asked over and over again ever since West purchased it in January 2001. The press release announcing FindLaw’s purchase of Glasser LegalWorks is intriguing. It states: “The acquisition of Glasser LegalWorks accelerates FindLaw’s strategy of becoming the premier provider of expertise marketing solutions…

FindLaw today announced that it acquired Glasser LegalWorks, a producer of legal and law practice seminars, events and publications. FindLaw’s press release says that the purchase “accelerates FindLaw’s strategy of becoming the premier provider of expertise marketing solutions to large law firms, and establishes FindLaw as the legal industry’s foremost provider of client…

I was wondering last weekend why I couldn’t access Justia.com, the Web site of FindLaw cofounder Tim Stanley. Turns out, LLRX.com has the answer. In a fascinating article, West Publishing Fires and Sues FindLaw Co-Founder Tim Stanley, lawyer and writer T.R. Halvorson documents the strange tale of the falling out…

From law.com’s Today’s Brief comes a pointer to this article about former Boston-area nanny Louise Woodward’s new job training to be a solicitor in the U.K. town of Oldham. In 2001, Woodward was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1997 death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. The conviction was later reduced to involuntary manslaughter…

Electronic Discovery Resources is a useful and well-done site providing articles, news and Web links related to electronic discovery. It provides links to resources for case law, rules and regulations, CLE Webcasts, news articles and other resources. There is also a related blog, Alextronic Discovery. All of this is sponsored by the electronic…

I knew of lawyer and entrepreneur Mike Curreri from his having founded TrialNet in the mid-1990s. In fact, I wrote about him as an “Internet innovator” for Law Office Computing several years ago. So I was intrigued when I read this article in the Boston Globe about how Mike used LinkinIn.com…

The Virtual Chase reports that Detod has put its legal portal up for sale. This includes the popular Blawg Search and its aggregator. Detod’s notice says that the sale includes “a caselaw database feed that is not live yet, but the code is 98% finished.” In place of legal research, the…

Lie-detecting eyeglasses. A good reason for contact lenses?…

Here is CNET’s report on the patent lawyer suing Network Solutions and Register.com.…

The Register reports that a California patent lawyer sued Network Solutions and Register.com yesterday, claiming that issuance of “.name” domains violates his patent. If his claim is allowed, The Register says, it would effectively give him rights to the entire Internet domain naming system.…

The Virtual Chase reports: “The Federal Judiciary announced a pilot program involving seven federal district courts. The courts for the Southern District of Alabama, District of Columbia, District of Kansas, District of Maine, Eastern District of Missouri, District of Nebraska and the Eastern District of New York will make transcripts of courtroom proceedings…