Articles Posted in July, 2006

I have more in a post today at Legal Blog Watch.…

The Supreme Judicial Court announced today that it has raised the annual registration fees for Massachusetts lawyers effective Sept. 1. For lawyers practicing less than five years, the fee goes from $165 to $220; for those practicing five to 50 years, the fee goes from $220 to $300. The text of the court’s order…

Jared Kushner, a 25-year-old student entering his third year at New York University School of Law, has paid $10 million to buy a majority stake in The New York Observer, according to a report in the New York Times. Kushner is the son of a wealthy New Jersey developer who was sentenced…

Even though I neglected last week to post about one episode of Coast to Coast, I managed to record another, via iffy cell-phone connection. My co-host J. Craig Williams and I interview Robin Sparkman, editor-in-chief of Corporate Counsel magazine, about the results of the 2006 GC Compensation Survey, charting…

Off in the Maine woods last week, I neglected to post here about the July 21 episode of our legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast. The topic was Tech Training for Lawyers, and the line-up of guests was stellar. Joining my co-host J. Craig Williams and me were Andrew Z. Adkins III,…

Away last week camping by a lake in Maine with my 11-year-old and two of his buddies. Sad to say, the camp had wireless access. Glad to say, I avoided the temptation.…

In one of my posts yesterday about Reed Smith’s termination of Denise Howell, I wondered whether the firm anticipated the blogosphere’s reaction. Well, the stats suggest it should have. Kevin O’Keefe at LexBlog reports that Internet discussion about Reed Smith is up 50 percent in the wake of the incident. Meanwhile, Bob…

An interesting contrast in articles about the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia:

Over at Legal Blog Watch, both coauthor Carolyn Elefant and I have written about Reed Smith’s incomprehesible firing of blogger Denise Howell:

In another item from the U.S. Virgin Islands, the V.I. Superior Court last week launched a Web site. The Superior Court — known until 2004 as the Territorial Court — is the trial court of general jurisdiction in the V.I. Its site includes extensive information about the court, as well as calendars, selected opinions…

U.S. Virgin Islands land records are now accessible over the Internet, through the V.I. Recorder of Deeds. You will need to register to gain access. Searching is free, but viewing a document costs $2 a page. Other subscription options are available. The project to put these documents online was the initiative of Lt.…

The most recent installment of the legal affairs podcast Coast to Coast reviews the just-completed Supreme Court term. We have two veteran court watchers as guests: Tony Mauro, Supreme Court reporter for Legal Times and American Lawyer Media, and Rex S. Heinke, head of the national appellate and litigation strategy…