Articles Posted in August, 2004

The American Bankruptcy Institute, an organization of more than 7,500 insolvency professionals — including bankruptcy judges, attorneys, trustees, accountants and others — has long claimed that its Web site is “the premier site for bankruptcy information on the Web.” Over the years, its claim has continued to hold true. The site features a wealth…

Since its creation in 1996, LLRX, an innovative Webzine for legal professionals, has remained on the cutting edge, spotting new trends, zeroing in on key developments, and often being first to report important news. Completely free, it is updated monthly with insightful feature articles and regular columns on legal research, technology and management. Contributors…

From the IP chapter:

There are two very good reasons to visit Mayall’s IP Links, from U.K. patent attorney John Mayall. The first is for its collection of IP links. It may well be the best, most thorough collection of IP links, all thoroughly annotated. It includes links to the patent databases of…

From the chapter on knowledge management comes this:

It should come as no surprise that professionals in the field of knowledge management have a compulsive urge to share knowledge. That may explain why one of the best gateways to KM resources on the Web is the KMWiki. What, you might ask, is a wiki?…

When I first visited LawPeriscope, a site that profiles the nation’s 300 largest firms using the firms’ own Web sites, I was not impressed. Heck, I thought, anyone could pull together a bunch of links to someone else’s site. Then one day I found myself at one of those large firm sites, trying to…

One of the longest-standing and most comprehensive legal portals, Hieros Gamos boasts more than 2 million links. International in scope, it is organized under a detailed index of topics and sources. The front page opens with six “centers”: Law Business, Law Events & Library, Law Practice, Law Student, Legal Employment and Law Consumer. Each…

I started blogging because of my book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web. After the first edition came out in 2001, I knew I’d be preparing a second edition sooner or later. I started this blog to remind myself — and my readers — of changed, updated…

I am behind in posting my “legal.online” columns to my archive, but by popular demand I’ve finally managed to post my recent survey of legal humor sites, Laughing at Lawyers and the Law.
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Hot site of the day: FireChiefLaw.com, publisher of the newsletters “Legal Briefings for Fire Chiefs” and “Fire Code Inspections Law Bulletin.”
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The American Bar Association House of Delegates voted today for Boston lawyer Michael S. Greco to become president-elect. He will become the association’s 129th president in August 2005. I became acquainted with Mike years ago when he was president of the Massachusetts Bar Association. From what I have observed over the years…

Speaking of The Blawg Channel, this is a new group blog written by seven of the blawgosphere’s reigning royalty: Dennis Kennedy, Ernest Svenson, Marty Schwimmer, Tom Mighell, Denise Howell, Rick Klau and Kevin Heller. Be sure to add it to your news reader.…

Thanks to Jerry Lawson and Dennis Kennedy for their favorable comments about my book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web. By my count, Jerry posted not one, not two, but six mentions of the book, noting it on his NetLawTools Web site, his NetLawBlog, his…