Articles Posted in August, 2005

Today we launched the inaugural program of Coast to Coast, a weekly legal news podcast cohosted by J. Craig Williams and I and produced by the Legal Talk Network. In our debut broadcast, we interview new ABA President Michael S. Greco about the challenges and goals…

I heard this afternoon from New Orleans blogger A.J. Levy, author of Out-of-the-Box Lawyering, who reports that he and his family made it out of the city Saturday and are comfortably ensconsced in a hotel in Arkansas.

Ernie Svenson reported on his blog that he made it out yesterday.

Our thoughts are…

Working from a makeshift studio at LSU, New Orleans station WWLTV.com is providing live, streaming coverage along with a blog providing updates as they come in.…

The American Bar Association said yesterday it will enlist its Young Lawyers Division and lawyers from several ABA sections to assist hurricane victims in the coming days and weeks. The lawyers will assist with insurance claims, home repair contracts, wills and other documents, and related issues.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is in…

From the Fulton County Daily Report:

“No one at Fisher & Phillips has seen what Hurricane Katrina did to its New Orleans office. But Roger K. Quillen, the managing partner of the Atlanta-based firm, received some indication from photographs of the nearby Hyatt Regency that showed scores of shattered windows with curtains fluttering in

I’ve written here and here about the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s launch last spring of live webcasts of its oral arguments. Today the court announced that, in addition to the live webcasts, it will provide permanent archives, posted to the Web within four days of the arguments.

The live…

The Houston-based firm Bracewell & Giuliani yesterday launched Energy Legal Blog, designed to provide updates and analysis on national and regional energy issues.

According to the firm’s announcement, the blog will cover commercial issues confronting the energy business, developments in energy trading, judicial and administrative rulings, and new federal and state laws…

Family Law Prof Blog is the latest addition to the Law Professor Blogs Network. It is edited by law professors Barbara Glesner Fines of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Robert E. Oliphant of William Mitchell College of Law and Nancy Ver Steegh of William Mitchell.…

It was on the left coast and I am on the right, so I did not make it to the July 30 BlogHer conference, much as I would have liked to. Fortunately, journalist and blogger J.D. Lasica did attend, and he videotaped interviews with several who were there, including organizer Lisa Stone,…

Law.com today published a virtual roundtable, Taking Stock of ‘Grokster’, from a special issue of the newsletter Internet Law & Strategy devoted to the Grokster decision. I was honored to be among the lawyers invited to participate. Subscribers to the newsletter can download a PDF version of the complete issue here.…

Back from a week in the Maine woods, where even simple dial-up Internet access was a challenge.…

The American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center has released its 2004-2005 Technology Survey on the use of technology within the legal community. The full survey is available only through purchase — the five-volume set is $2,225. You can download the executive summary in PDF format for a mere $150.…