Articles Posted in February, 2010

Here are some of the events at which I will be speaking in the coming months:…

A new legal blog, Mass. Appellate Briefs, provides an advance look at cases accepted for argument by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. “The goal,” says author Jack Cushman, “is to tell you not just what the court is doing, but what it will be doing, while there’s still time to respond — whether…

[The following column originally appeared in print in January 2010. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…

[The following column originally appeared in print in December 2009. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…

[The following column originally appeared in print in September 2009. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…

Sam Spencer was once one of the most prominent leaders in legal publishing. For many years, he was publisher and CEO of the Lawyers Weekly chain of publications, based in Boston. Then he became a senior vice president of Dolan Media, helping drive that company’s further expansion into legal publishing. In fact, Dolan eventually…

Some people think big. Not Toronto lawyer Jordan Farkas. He prefers to think small, as in small claims court. As a matter of fact, he calls himself
Mr. Small Claims Court and has created a Web site where he markets himself as “the recognized authority on the Ontario Small Claims Court.” As…

A new cloud-based document assembly system aims to offer solo and smaller-firm lawyers a tool on a par with the enterprise-level system the company already markets to large firms and corporate legal departments. Called ContractExpress.com, the new Web-based software-as-a-service was launched this month by the London-based company Business Integrity, which modeled it on…

This week’s episode of our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer explores the topic of cyberbullying and the law. Just recently, 15-year old student Phoebe Prince from South Hadley, Mass., took her own life after she was subjected to constant cyberbullying by a group of students at her school. Phoebe’s story is one of many that has…

I picked up the Boston Globe this morning and found the obituary of Dan Sharp, a friend, a lawyer and a former colleague when he and I worked together at Lawyers Weekly in the early 1990s. Seeing that his funeral was this morning,…

The law firm McDermott Will & Emery has launched Legal Crisis Strategies, a blog devoted to legal crisis management. The blog will provide advice on “preventing, managing and ending a crisis while protecting a company’s reputation and limiting its legal liability.”

Notably for those in Massachusetts, one contributor to the blog is

The Supreme Judicial Court has posted the 2010 edition of the Massachusetts Guide to Evidence. In the absence of formal rules of evidence in Mass., this is the closest the state comes to a document akin to the Federal Rules of Evidence.

The guide is compiled by a committee appointed by the SJC and…