Dennis Kennedy manages today to both honor me and make me feel like an old geezer with his post The Curse of the New in the Blogging World. His comments about me aside, Dennis makes a thoughtful and all-too-accurate point, which I will paraphrase this way: In our rush to blog (and to out-blog…
Lawyers Weekly bought by Dolan Media
The Boston Business Journal reports that Minneapolis-based Dolan Media has purchased Boston-based Lawyers Weekly Publications, a chain that includes Lawyers Weekly USA and state legal newspapers in Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Virginia.…
Posted to site: Column on IP resources
In a slow-as-molasses effort to catch up on posting my legal.online columns to my site, I have just added the March 2004 column, Protecting Intellectual Property: Practical Resources on the Web. I also recently added, Laughing at Lawyers and the Law. A list of other available columns is here.…
Today’s five-star site: American Bankruptcy Institute
The American Bankruptcy Institute, an organization of more than 7,500 insolvency professionals — including bankruptcy judges, attorneys, trustees, accountants and others — has long claimed that its Web site is “the premier site for bankruptcy information on the Web.” Over the years, its claim has continued to hold true. The site features a wealth…
Today’s five-star site: LLRX
Since its creation in 1996, LLRX, an innovative Webzine for legal professionals, has remained on the cutting edge, spotting new trends, zeroing in on key developments, and often being first to report important news. Completely free, it is updated monthly with insightful feature articles and regular columns on legal research, technology and management. Contributors…
Today’s five-star site: Mayall’s IP Links
From the IP chapter:
There are two very good reasons to visit Mayall’s IP Links, from U.K. patent attorney John Mayall. The first is for its collection of IP links. It may well be the best, most thorough collection of IP links, all thoroughly annotated. It includes links to the patent databases of…
Today’s five-star site: KMWiki
From the chapter on knowledge management comes this:
It should come as no surprise that professionals in the field of knowledge management have a compulsive urge to share knowledge. That may explain why one of the best gateways to KM resources on the Web is the KMWiki. What, you might ask, is a wiki?…
Today’s five-star site: LawPeriscope
When I first visited LawPeriscope, a site that profiles the nation’s 300 largest firms using the firms’ own Web sites, I was not impressed. Heck, I thought, anyone could pull together a bunch of links to someone else’s site. Then one day I found myself at one of those large firm sites, trying to…
Today’s five-star site: Hieros Gamos
One of the longest-standing and most comprehensive legal portals, Hieros Gamos boasts more than 2 million links. International in scope, it is organized under a detailed index of topics and sources. The front page opens with six “centers”: Law Business, Law Events & Library, Law Practice, Law Student, Legal Employment and Law Consumer. Each…
New feature: Five-star site of the day
I started blogging because of my book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web. After the first edition came out in 2001, I knew I’d be preparing a second edition sooner or later. I started this blog to remind myself — and my readers — of changed, updated…
Laughing at lawyers and the law
I am behind in posting my “legal.online” columns to my archive, but by popular demand I’ve finally managed to post my recent survey of legal humor sites, Laughing at Lawyers and the Law.
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Burning legal issues for fire chiefs
Hot site of the day: FireChiefLaw.com, publisher of the newsletters “Legal Briefings for Fire Chiefs” and “Fire Code Inspections Law Bulletin.”
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