Articles Posted in June, 2009

Head-to-Head Review: Casemaker vs. Fastcase

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Two legal research services are in a head-to-head competition to win the loyalty of America’s lawyers. If you think I’m talking about Westlaw and LexisNexis, think again. This battle is between Casemaker and Fastcase. For my monthly Web Watch column in Law Technology News, I offer a head-to-head review of the two services:…

Podcast: Air France Crash Legal Issues

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On May 31, Air France flight 447, out of Rio de Janeiro bound for Paris, seemed to vanish into thin air. A frantic search for passengers and the black boxes turned up some of the bodies and scattered parts, but no black boxes.

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we examine the lega…

How Facebook Fueled My Birthday Karma

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Yesterday was one of my most memorable birthdays ever. And it was all thanks to social networking — and some amazingly thoughtful and generous people. I was going to write a lengthy blog post all about it, but then Molly McDonough at the ABA Journal did it for me.

Read her piece and you…

Sotomayor’s Top Five Rulings on Expert Witnesses

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Much is made of the fact that Sonia Sotomayor was a federal district judge before she was named to the federal appeals court. After all, if confirmed to the Supreme Court, she would be the only one of the nine justices to have sat on the trial bench.

The…