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Meyers Nave, a California law firm that concentrates in representing cities and towns, has launched California Public Law, a blog focused on public agency law in the state. The blog will track and analyze legal developments in areas such as eminent domain, land use, labor and employment, public contracts, environmental regulations, elections and…

I am on the faculty of a Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education seminar, Public Records and Open Meeting Laws, which is tomorrow, Sept. 21, 9 a.m. to noon, at the MCLE conference center, 10 Winter Place, Boston.

Chair of the seminar is Kimberly Keyes, a lawyer at Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye. Other faculty…

I posted these today at Legal Blog Watch:…

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today issued an opinion, McCarthy v. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., reinstating an NASD arbitration award. In what the court described as an “unusual circumstance,” it was the second time the district court had vacated and remanded the same arbitration proceeding. But the circuit court — noting…

Law Technology News has published the second in my three-part series on Web 2.0 sites of interest to legal professionals: Web Watch: The Web 2.0 Tour. (Free registration required.) The first part, published in August, was Web 2.0: The New Frontier.…

Google’s new News Archive Search is an amazing tool that lets you search 200 years worth of news articles. It includes both free and fee-based content from news organizations including Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Washington Post and many others. For a full review, see Google Debuts 200…

As lawyers, we do a lot of official-sounding stuff. But what good is sounding official if you don’t look official. That’s why you need the Official Seal Generator. Here’s one I created for myself.…

It seems that every law librarian in the United States knows the photo. Take a few parts Norman Rockwell and a few parts naughty, and you have the ingredients for “Shelving in Silhouette” — or, better yet, “Shelving in Stilletos.” The winning photo in last year’s Day in the Life of the…

At Legal Blog Watch today, I report on a new site, Judicial Reports, that is designed to do for judges what Consumer Reports does for appliances.…

The Antonin Scalia psychedelic trading card, courtesy of Psychedelic Republicans. See also Clarence Thomas (fave album: Pretzel Logic) and John Ashcroft.…

Congratulations to lawyer Marcia J. Oddi, publisher of The Indiana Law Blog, who has been named winner of the media award for excellence in public information and education by the Indiana Judges Association.…

The Boston Business Journal reports today that the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover has asked state officials for permission to open an undergraduate college, to be called the Massachusetts College of History and Law. The combined college and law school would enable students to earn a law degree in six years. Undergrads…