Articles Posted in April, 2005

The Wyoming State Bar has relaunched its Web site, with new features designed to better serve the public as well as its members. According to an announcement, the site’s navigation has been refined to make information easier to find. New features of the site include a lawyer referral service, the Wyoming…

Randy Roberts, founder of Law and Policy Institutions Guide, an index of legal resources on the Web, has added a new feature to the site, the Law and Policy Institutions Article Database. He describes it as an open-access, law article database that will provide free legal research and be governed by a strict…

Howard M. Friedman, professor of law and director of the Cybersecurities Law Institute at the University of Toledo, has launched Religion Clause, a blog that will track legal and political developments relating to freedom of religion and separation of church and state. The blog will feature news items on judicial, legislative and…

The ever-innovative Tim Stanley, CEO of Justia and fellow blogger, has launched Auto Recalls, a service that allows consumers to use RSS to track auto recalls as listed in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration database. The service provides RSS feeds allowing users to track all recalls or to narrow the…

I rarely use this blog as a soapbox, but, as a long-time member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, I cannot let David Giacalone’s post about it (bar & guild) go unanswered. I do not have the time to respond in as much detail as he has posted, but the picture he paints of…

By way of TalkLeft comes word of this startling government report that federal and state prisons house one of every 138 U.S. residents. The report estimates that 12.6 percent of all black males in their late 20s are in prisons or jails, compared to 3.6 percent of Hispanic males and 1.7 percent of…

Deval Patrick, former general counsel to The Coca-Cola Company from 2001 to 2004 and to Texaco from 1999 to 2001 and former assistant AG for civil rights under President Clinton, has launched a Web site in support of his campaign to be the Democratic candidate for Massachusetts governor. No doubt Patrick can afford a…

Perhaps the most interesting outcome of the Legal Affairs survey of the top 20 legal thinkers in America is its between-the-lines commentary on the power of blogging. Little surprise that Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O’Connor, William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas and circuit judges Alex Kozinski and Richard Posner…

At ABA TECHSHOW 2005, Jim Calloway, Jeff Flax and I presented our annual wrap-up of practical and not-so-practical Web sites for legal professionals. In case you missed it, the complete list is now available: 60 Sites in 60 Mintues. The list as posted actually includes more sites than we had time…

Steve Terrell, an Indianapolis lawyer who traces his Indiana routes nearly back to its statehood, has launched a blog on law and the practice of law in the Hoosier state, cleverly titled Hoosier Lawyer. I’ve come to know Steve through listservs and conferences and had the honor to be invited by him to speak…

In a posting two weeks ago, I noted the planned launch of Podscope, the first full-text search engine for podcasts. It is now up and running in a beta version.…

I wrote in February about the free public-records search engine Pretrieve. Today, in a development of significance to the legal profession, Pretrieve announced that it has integrated searching of nationwide court records. It covers all state and local courts in the United States that offer Internet searches of case records. When court records…