Articles Posted in March, 2004

Nothing to do with law, but in the proud papa category, allow me to congratulate my son Ben, part of the winning cast in the Boston Globe State High School Drama Festival.…

sent me this picture that he took of Ernie Svenson and me having dinner Friday night at Rosebud in Chicago. The three of us ate along with fellow blogger and TechShow attendee Matt Homan.…

At ABA TechShow, the keynote had Louis Andreozzi, president and chief executive officer of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, and Mike Wilens, president of West, square off in a joint presentation in which they were slated to share their visions of the future role of legal technology. I’d met both men…

Hope to see you at ABA TECHSHOW, where I will be Thursday, Friday and Saturday. If you are attending, please stop by Friday’s plenary sessionl, 60 Sites in 60 Minutes, which I am putting on along with Jim Calloway and Jeff Flax.…

Yes, in case you haven’t heard, major league baseball is now streaming live over the Web.…

Just realized the FindLaw press release is on the Web here.…

According to a press release issued today by FindLaw, it ranked 385th most visited among all Web sites in February — the highest ranking ever for a legal informaiton Web site. The release said that FindLaw’s nearest competitor (which it did not identify) ranked 2,493. The rankings come from comScore Media Metrix, an…

Yahoo! News reports that Yale University is ending a 28-year-old program that offered free tuition to journalists to attend law school for a year to gain a better understanding of legal issues. The report says that the university withdrew its financial aid after a private foundation pulled its funding of the program, called the…

Laying claim to the largest deposition bank on the Internet, TRIALSmith archives more than 150,000 deposition transcripts of experts, doctors and corporate representatives. Access is exclusively restricted to plaintiffs’ lawyers, who also use it to exchange documents, tips and investigative tools. Search for an expert by name or keyword, and view any available deposition…

Coming in August 2004: Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Va. As he prepares for the launch, the school’s dean, Bruce W. Green, blogs his thoughts and observations on the progress of founding a new law school.…

My February Web Watch column for Law Technology News reviewed a number of sites for patent and trademark searching on the Web. Subsequently, I received a message from E. Timothy Uy, a graduate student in Applied Physics at Stanford, telling me about a patent delivery site he developed, patents | oncloud8. He…

David J. Gorberg sent me a pointer to MyLemon.com, the Web site of his law firm, Gorberg, Gorberg & Zuber, which represents consumers of defective cars in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The site contains informative FAQs on Pennsylvania and New Jersey lemon laws and a small collection of links to other lemon-law resources.…