Articles Posted in March, 2007

When we spend as much time on a topic as we do these days on e-discovery, we’re bound to start mixing fact and fiction. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we consider some of the more striking misconceptions lawyers have come to believe about e-discovery. To help us sort fact from fiction are…

A new free resource for lawyers provides easy access to hundreds of articles written by lawyers for CLE programs or for publication in legal periodicals. Called Litilaw, it claims to be the largest free collection of advanced legal articles available on the Internet. The site focuses on collecting articles of interest to litigators and…

Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog is a new blog aimed at human-resources professionals. The authors write:

“We started this blog to provide our perspective for the benefit of our clients who deal with employment, labor and human resource issues. We will provide practical information based on our experiences, albeit from a legal perspective, in dealing

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly will launch a new Bay State legal magazine tomorrow targeted at non-lawyers, the Boston Business Journal reports today. Called Exhibit A, the first issue will offer advice for drivers when stopped by police, discuss the legal consequences of scalping Red Sox tickets and feature a cover story on the state’s…

Just a day after Bruce Wasserstein announced that he was putting legal journalism company ALM up for sale, his family announced that it has donated $25 million to Harvard Law School, the second largest gift in the school’s history. The money will reportedly pay for the construction of Wasserstein Hall, a new…

Another follow-up to my post earlier this week, Food Allergies and the Law. A lawyer in Wisconsin sent me a thoughtful note detailing his own experiences with peanut allergies and his thoughts on prevention. I asked if I could share it here and he agreed, but he requested that I not identify him by…

My post Tuesday, Food Allergies and the Law, inspired May contain traces of nuts …, a post by the anonymous Australian lawyer who writes the blog The Legal Soapbox, describing her own life-threatening allergy to nuts. She rants (her word, not mine) about the vagueness and inconsistency of food-labeling laws and calls…

ABA TechShow kicked off today, and on our weekly legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we have a preview of the show and of what’s hot in legal technology. We recorded the program yesterday with guests Dan Pinnington, director of practicePRO and chair of the 2007 TechShow planning board, and Adriana Linares, founder of…

My posts today at Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch:…

Rumors have been circulating for weeks and now it is official: ALM — the parent company of Law.com, The American Lawyer, the National Law Journal, and a host of other national and regional legal periodicals — is for sale.

Here is the company’s announcement, and here is a report from…

[Note: The following column originally appeared elsewhere in print. Response was so strong that I decided to republish it here. -RJA]

One recent day, an unlabeled peanut-butter cookie nearly killed my teenaged son. We’ve known of his peanut allergy since he was an infant and thought we had it pretty well in hand.…

Martindale-Hubbell’s legal directory site Martindale.com today announced an interesting new feature — top 10 law firm lists. They rank the top law firms in three categories: top 10 peer-review rated, which ranks the firms with the highest number of peer-review-rated lawyers; top 10 by activity, which ranks firms in different subject…