Articles Posted in September, 2004

As if Howard Bashman doesn’t have enough to blog about: The Virgin Islands Senate votes this week on whether to establish a Virgin Islands Supreme Court, the Virgin Islands Daily News reports. The VI is the only state or territory in the U.S. that does not have a locally administered appellate process, the…

The Bankruptcy LawTrove is possibly the most comprehensive collection on the Internet of links to bankruptcy-related resources. Maintained by Warren E. Agin of the Boston law firm Swiggart & Agin, it provides links to bankruptcy legislation, regulations, courts and cases; other bankruptcy law Web sites; government resources related to bankruptcy; and vendor…

Thank you, David, for the honor of a harvest moon haiku.…

Jeez, I used to be proud of having graduated from Boston College Law School, but between Ann Althouse and Beldar, I’m starting to feel like some sort of slacker.…

The editors of Law Office Computing have announced the winners and finalists of the magazine’s 6th Annual Best Law Office Web Site Contest. According to the announcement, an independent panel of expert judges selected the firms “whose approach to utilization of the Internet stands at the forefront of innovation and value-added content.”

Winners in…

American Lawyer Media will change its company name Oct. 1 to simply ALM, company president William Pollak announced in a memo to staff today. “Commencing on October 1, we will be changing our name to ALM, and will no longer refer to ourselves as American Lawyer Media,” he wrote. “We anticipate that this transition…

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? It is a type of server software that…

Stan Chess once told me that he has about 50 Web sites, most, if not all, related to the practice of law and the process of becoming a lawyer. Trying to navigate your way through them all can be confusing. But here’s the thing: It can really be worth the effort because there is a…

Vital Records Information tells where to obtain vital records — birth, death and marriage certificates and divorce decrees — from anywhere in the United States. It lists sources for each state, territory and county, and most cities and towns, along with contact, fee and ordering information. For records outside the U.S., the site lists…

A service of the U.S. Census Bureau, American Fact Finder is designed to simplify census research. It makes it easy to find social, economic or housing characteristics for any location. Tools help you create various tables—either from predefined templates or using your own preferences—and generate maps illustrating data and statistics. Other sections allow you…

Sure I’m partial to LawCatalog.com, the online bookstore of American Lawyer Media, and not just because they are the folks who publish my book. But starting this month, there is competition on the block, with the launch of the American Bar Association’s new WebStore. The site provides access to nearly 1,500…

The best source for learning and keeping up with everything there is to know about search engines is Search Engine Watch. Now, search-engine junkies can get even more frequent updates on news from the field, thanks to the newly launched Search Engine Watch Blog. Yes, it has an RSS feed.…