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My February Web Watch column for Law Technology News reviewed a number of sites for patent and trademark searching on the Web. Subsequently, I received a message from E. Timothy Uy, a graduate student in Applied Physics at Stanford, telling me about a patent delivery site he developed, patents | oncloud8. He…

David J. Gorberg sent me a pointer to MyLemon.com, the Web site of his law firm, Gorberg, Gorberg & Zuber, which represents consumers of defective cars in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The site contains informative FAQs on Pennsylvania and New Jersey lemon laws and a small collection of links to other lemon-law resources.…

In a piece entitled, The Rumsfeld-Bush Legal Black Hole: Powers Formerly Reserved Only for Kings, Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff reports on a Feb. 6 report from The Association of the Bar of the City of New York condemning the Bush administration’s indefinite detentions of alleged enemy combatants.

Hentoff cites this quote from…

The papers of Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun opened to the public today at the Library of Congress. Although the papers are not available over the Web, the library launched a searchable finding aid to the complete Blackmun collection. At the time he donated the papers to the library, Blackmun stipulated that…

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports on law firms outsourcing legal work to India. They do it through a Minneapolis company, Intellevate, which, the Pioneer Press reports, is majority owned by the Minneapolis intellectual-property law firm Schwegman Lundberg Woessner & Kluth.…

The Curiae Project provides Supreme Court records and briefs. It selects cases to include on the site based on rankings developed from citation data in historical and constitutional texts. The Curiae Project is located at the Yale Lillian Goldman Law Library and developed in cooperation with the Library of Congress, the…

Find out at Where You Live, from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.…

A Pennsylvania judge slashes a lawyer’s hourly rate for typos and careless writing, Law.com reports. As reported by Shannon P. Duffy: “Finding that attorney Brian Puricelli’s courtroom work was ‘smooth’ and ‘artful’ in securing a $430,000 verdict in a civil rights suit, but that his written work was ‘careless’ and laden with typographical errors,…

According to an announcement issued today by Martindale-Hubbell, a survey conducted by an independent research firm concluded that lawyer use of the Martindale.com Web legal directory more than doubled since 2000. The survey of more than 2,500 U.S. lawyers in both corporate and private practice found that 88 percent of law firm partners and…

LexisNexis today announced an online data-sharing agreement with American Lawyer Media under which its Martindale.com law directory will add to its law firm listings new links to data from LegalMarketInfo.com, ALM’s service that includes data from proprietary ALM rankings such as the Am Law 200, the NLJ 250, the Global 100…

In an age when it sometimes seems as though if it ain’t online it don’t exist, there is something almost quaint about the latest announcement from West, titled: “West Now Offers Additional Method for Obtaining Documents.”

The announcement sets the stage: “For those occasions when a document is not available in any of the more…

Search engine Google yesterday announced what it called a search engine milestone:

expanding its index to more than 6 billion items. Google breaks it down this way: 4.28 billion Web pages, 880 million images, 845 million Usenet messages, and a growing collection of book-related information pages.…