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Jurist’s Paper Chase is a regularly updated legal news service edited at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law by Professor Bernard Hibbitts and a volunteer staff of more than 30 law students. Now, you can add this news feed to your Web site simply by adding a single line of HTML…

Jeff Beard has an interesting post this morning, The Great RSS vs. Atom News Feed Debate, about the decision by Google-owned Blogger to use the Atom format rather than RSS for Web log syndication. One observation: Jeff writes, “There are many news aggregator programs and web site services that work with…

I have posted a comprehensive set of links to state laws available on the Web. The list spans all states as well as the District of Columbia, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.…

Having worked on the team that created it, I am pleased to announced the launch of the totally redesigned Web site of Jaffe Associates, the business development consultancy for professional service firms where I am a vice president. The site showcases the key Web technologies and design elements that we at Jaffe recommend…

As Supreme Court scholars await the March 4 release of the late Justice Harry Blackmun’s papers, Supreme Court reporter Tony Mauro writes in Legal Times about the decision by Blackmun’s daughter Sally, to give exclusive pre-release access to the papers to reporters Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times and Nina Totenberg of National…

Just where is FindLaw headed? The question has been asked over and over again ever since West purchased it in January 2001. The press release announcing FindLaw’s purchase of Glasser LegalWorks is intriguing. It states: “The acquisition of Glasser LegalWorks accelerates FindLaw’s strategy of becoming the premier provider of expertise marketing solutions…

FindLaw today announced that it acquired Glasser LegalWorks, a producer of legal and law practice seminars, events and publications. FindLaw’s press release says that the purchase “accelerates FindLaw’s strategy of becoming the premier provider of expertise marketing solutions to large law firms, and establishes FindLaw as the legal industry’s foremost provider of client…

I was wondering last weekend why I couldn’t access Justia.com, the Web site of FindLaw cofounder Tim Stanley. Turns out, LLRX.com has the answer. In a fascinating article, West Publishing Fires and Sues FindLaw Co-Founder Tim Stanley, lawyer and writer T.R. Halvorson documents the strange tale of the falling out…

From law.com’s Today’s Brief comes a pointer to this article about former Boston-area nanny Louise Woodward’s new job training to be a solicitor in the U.K. town of Oldham. In 2001, Woodward was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1997 death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. The conviction was later reduced to involuntary manslaughter…

Electronic Discovery Resources is a useful and well-done site providing articles, news and Web links related to electronic discovery. It provides links to resources for case law, rules and regulations, CLE Webcasts, news articles and other resources. There is also a related blog, Alextronic Discovery. All of this is sponsored by the electronic…

I knew of lawyer and entrepreneur Mike Curreri from his having founded TrialNet in the mid-1990s. In fact, I wrote about him as an “Internet innovator” for Law Office Computing several years ago. So I was intrigued when I read this article in the Boston Globe about how Mike used LinkinIn.com…

The Virtual Chase reports that Detod has put its legal portal up for sale. This includes the popular Blawg Search and its aggregator. Detod’s notice says that the sale includes “a caselaw database feed that is not live yet, but the code is 98% finished.” In place of legal research, the…