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Citing the lessons of Benjamin Cardozo, William Brennan and the french fry case, Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff explains why the next Supreme Court justice should be U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein, not John Roberts.…

I was happy to see today that the Web site of the New Jersey law firm Riker Danzig received the Standard of Excellence Award from the Web Marketing Association. In my former role as vice president of Jaffe Associates and director of its WritersForLawyers, I was part of the creative team…

While most law firms use competitive intelligence to track competitors, many remain unfamiliar with the term. Other firms actively apply CI without the full support of senior partners.

These are among the intriguing findings of a survey released today, Law Firms and Competitive Intelligence: Who Gets it and Who Doesn’t? (A PDF of the…

Katrina’s Aftermath: The Gulf Coast Legal Community is the topic of this week’s Coast to Coast, the weekly legal news podcast cohosted by J. Craig Williams and me.

In the first half of the program, we hear first-hand accounts from Louisiana attorneys and blawgers Ernie Svenson and Raymond P.…

I came across this useful, two-part article addressing a range of employment-related issues facing employers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. It covers military leave and emergency workers, family and medical leave, unemployment compensation, OSHA, wages and hours, employee benefits, NLRA issues, workers’ compensation and immigration. It is written by lawyers from the labor…

After Google bought Blogger, we thought we’d see this sooner, but today the company finally did what everyone expected — launch a blog search tool. It is available in the classic Google-style interface or in a Blogger-style interface.

In an admittedly quick and unscientific test, I performed several searches and…

I received a note from Srishti Jha, partner in a new legal research company Jurix Prudent. She wanted to let me know that her company would donate a limited amount of free legal research to lawyers displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The company is new and so it is limited in how many hours it…

The folks over at rethink(ip) aren’t just blogging about IP law, they’re doing something about it.

A few weeks ago, they created RSS feeds for all news items and notices released by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. There are five feeds:…

Via The E-LawLibrary Weblog comes a report that the U.S. Department of Labor last week published an updated version of its Employment Law Guide. The guide describes the laws and regulations administered by DOL that affect businesses and workers.…

Government compliance with the Freedom of Information Act appears to be deteriorating in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a Society of Environmental Journalists report released today, A Flawed Tool – Environmental Reporters’ Experiences with the Freedom of Information Act.

The SEJ interviewed 55 reporters, finding that excessive…

A Web site launched Friday, Help Katrina Lawyers, aims to pull together volunteers and resources to help Gulf Coast law firms with issues relating to legal technology, practice management and disaster/data recovery. Spearheaded by Ross Kodner at Microlaw and Dale Tincher and his staff at Consultwebs, the site came about through the…

I wondered earlier this week how law firms are responding to Hurricane Katrina. Here is part of the answer.…