The Boston and D.C. law firm Foley Hoag has hired Boston-based Arnold Corporate Communications to handle its public relations, the Boston Business Journal reports.…
New site targets ‘mystery bills’
A new Web site is home base to a campaign that asks Congress not to act so hastily on bills that the public has no time to review them. Called ReadtheBill.org, the site has launched a new Mystery Busters initiative urging members of Congress to vote against any legislation or conference report that has…
New blog discusses law firm diversity
A new blog, Law Firm Diversity, describes its purpose as promoting a rational discussion about the so-called business case for law firm diversity: that “the creativity and problem-solving ability of a group is a function of diversity.”
The blog is written by Mister Thorne, a freelance writer and editor in San Francisco. Although not…
’60 Sites’ now posted on Techshow site
Along with Jim Calloway and Natalie Kelly, I presented the “60 Sites in 60 Minutes” program at ABA Techshow last month. Now, the complete list of sites is posted. As always, we include some serious sites and some offbeat sites. This year we added a special category for Web 2.0.…
Podcast discusses SCOTUS eBay ruling
The recent Supreme Court ruling in eBay v. MercExchange, setting the standard for injunctive relief in patent cases, is the topic of this week’s legal affairs podcast Coast to Coast. Joining my co-host J. Craig Williams and me are two prominent patent lawyers, Rachel Krevans, partner at the law firm of…
Bloggers win victory in Apple v. Does
In a victory for bloggers as journalists, a California appeals court today issued a decision preventing Apple Computer from forcing the disclosure of unnamed individuals who allegedly leaked information about new Apple products to online news sites. In a 69-page opinion in O’Grady v. Superior Court, the California Court of Appeal said that the…
Extortionate legal marketing
Why would a law firm engage in marketing that starts with spam and closes with threats? That is precisely what an increasing number of firms seem to be doing.
Here is an example taken from an actual series of e-mails I received. I’ve changed the names to protect the innocent.
It starts with an e-mail…
S.C. Bar may put discipline online
The South Carolina Bar was scheduled to vote today on a proposal to post all attorney disciplinary actions on its Web site, according to The State. The Bar’s House of Delegates was to vote on the resolution as its biannual meeting today in Charleston, the report said.…
State Department orders, then bans, laptops
I don’t know if this is funny or sad. The U.S. State Department ordered 16,000 Lenovo laptops, only to decide it should quarantine them for fear that their Chinese manufacturers loaded them with spyware. As I sit here typing this on a Lenovo laptop, I wonder who in China might be monitoring my every…
State senate blog a ‘first’
With the launch of this “semi-official” blog, The Senate Site, Utah’s state Senate became the first legislative body to make blogging a tool for lawmaking, Stateline.org reports.
…“Joining the nation’s growing proliferation of political Web logs, or blogs, the Utah site was the first of its kind to strike up a digital
Lawyer video on your iPod
The Globe and Mail reports that venerable Toronto firm Torys LLP has launched a series of video podcasts “of pinstriped partners holding forth on such topics as merger break fees and proxy contests.” Reporter Beppi Crosariol writes:
…“Several industry watchers say Torys’ videocasts appear to be the first foray by a law
Podcast discusses immigration reform
Sweeping proposals this week from Congress and the president to change U.S. immigration laws have been met with strong reactions from across the political spectrum. On this week’s Coast to Coast legal-affairs podcast, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I discuss these proposed changes with immigration lawyers Gregory Siskind, founding partner of…