A Pennsylvania judge slashes a lawyer’s hourly rate for typos and careless writing, Law.com reports. As reported by Shannon P. Duffy: “Finding that attorney Brian Puricelli’s courtroom work was ‘smooth’ and ‘artful’ in securing a $430,000 verdict in a civil rights suit, but that his written work was ‘careless’ and laden with typographical errors,…
Survey says directory listings hold more weight than Web sites
According to an announcement issued today by Martindale-Hubbell, a survey conducted by an independent research firm concluded that lawyer use of the Martindale.com Web legal directory more than doubled since 2000. The survey of more than 2,500 U.S. lawyers in both corporate and private practice found that 88 percent of law firm partners and…
Martindale-Hubbell and American Lawyer Media sites to share data
LexisNexis today announced an online data-sharing agreement with American Lawyer Media under which its Martindale.com law directory will add to its law firm listings new links to data from LegalMarketInfo.com, ALM’s service that includes data from proprietary ALM rankings such as the Am Law 200, the NLJ 250, the Global 100…
West offers new research service — shoe leather
In an age when it sometimes seems as though if it ain’t online it don’t exist, there is something almost quaint about the latest announcement from West, titled: “West Now Offers Additional Method for Obtaining Documents.”
The announcement sets the stage: “For those occasions when a document is not available in any of the more…
Google gets grander, surpasses 6 billion items
Search engine Google yesterday announced what it called a search engine milestone:
expanding its index to more than 6 billion items. Google breaks it down this way: 4.28 billion Web pages, 880 million images, 845 million Usenet messages, and a growing collection of book-related information pages.…
A free legal news feed for your Web site
Jurist’s Paper Chase is a regularly updated legal news service edited at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law by Professor Bernard Hibbitts and a volunteer staff of more than 30 law students. Now, you can add this news feed to your Web site simply by adding a single line of HTML…
Beard on RSS vs. Atom news feeds
Jeff Beard has an interesting post this morning, The Great RSS vs. Atom News Feed Debate, about the decision by Google-owned Blogger to use the Atom format rather than RSS for Web log syndication. One observation: Jeff writes, “There are many news aggregator programs and web site services that work with…
Links to state laws available on the Web
I have posted a comprehensive set of links to state laws available on the Web. The list spans all states as well as the District of Columbia, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.…
New Web site “makes it happen”
Having worked on the team that created it, I am pleased to announced the launch of the totally redesigned Web site of Jaffe Associates, the business development consultancy for professional service firms where I am a vice president. The site showcases the key Web technologies and design elements that we at Jaffe recommend…