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U.S. Law Schools News Brief is a new Web site devoted to publishing the latest news releases from U.S. law schools nationwide. It includes an RSS feed. The site is a service of St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami, the same folks who bring you DiplomacyMonitor.com, which I wrote about in…

From the New York Law Journal, via law.com, comes Written on the Wind, an article urging caution when citing to the Internet in legal documents. The article is written by Ken Strutin, an attorney and the director of legal information services for the New York State Defenders Association in Albany. “The Internet is…

Jim Calloway, director of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Management Assistance Program, sent me a note about a useful Web resource. His note bears repeating here:

Oklahoma lawyer Doug Loudenback has created a quite remarkable WordPerfect resource and placed it on the web for others to use at no charge. It is called

I am honored to be included among the 50 best blawgs as selected by EDDix, a new research and publishing firm focusing exclusively on electronic data discovery. The listing of best blawgs is part of a beta launch of the EDDix Web site, which features categorized news pages and links to content at…

I wrote an article last year about outsourced legal writing, and, in particular, about one legal writing company, BriefMasters. For that story, I interviewed BriefMasters’ co-founder, Adam E. Quarles, and subsequently exchanged e-mails with him on various occasions. Thus, it was with sadness that I learned of Adam’s death June 5 at the young…

For anyone heading to Boston next week for the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, be sure to check out the new AALL annual meeting blog.…

Now officially available, the second edition of my book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web. Although the cover hasn’t changed much, the inside has. I revisited every site from the original book and updated its review, I added several new chapters, and I added lots of…

The latest issue of the monthly newsletter The Neutral Corner is now available on the Web site of NASD Dispute Resolution, the arbitration and mediation arm of the National Association of Securities Dealers. As a member of the NASD’s securities arbitration panel, I find the newsletter to be a good way to…

Besides this bizdev/PR job’s location in the Cayman Islands, there is the travel to Walkers’ other offices in London, the British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong.…

Funny how many e-mails I received over the item about the Oklahoma judge. Of course, no sooner did I post it than I thought of headlines I should have used:

“Authorites pumped up over judge’s oily release program”

“For Oklahoma judge, time on bench is a vacuum waiting to be filled”

Others??…

This one from The Smoking Gun:

“While seated on the bench, an Oklahoma judge used a male enhancement pump, shaved and oiled his nether region, and pleasured himself, state officials charged yesterday in a petition to remove the jurist. “…

In Boston, U.S. District Judge William Young yesterday declared the federal sentencing guidelines unconstitutional, according to the Associated Press via the Boston Globe:

“In a scathing criticism of the current system for handing out punishment for defendants convicted of federal crimes, a judge on Monday declared the federal sentencing guidelines unconstitutional.

“In a series