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If the bad news was the shutting down of the Equal Justice Network, the good news is a site that spun off from it, LStech.Org. Recognizing that few legal services programs have the budget to hire dedicated technology staff, LStech.org is a portal to technology services and information tailored to a legal aid…

I just noticed that the Equal Justice Network has shut down. It operated as a joint project of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association and the Center for Law and Social Policy, serving as an online meeting place, information source, and connection mechanism for lawyers and other advocates involved in efforts…

The Doe Report is a comprehensive medical demonstrative evidence resource, providing graphics, anatomical models and medical research. It contains more than 8,000 proprietary medical-legal exhibits that can be used in demand letters, settlement conferences, arbitration, mediation and trial. The site makes it extremely easy to find what you are looking for. It can be…

Congratulations to Bag and Baggage blawger Denise Howell on the Thanksgiving arrival of Tyler Declan Howell.…

UC Berkeley’s Institute of Industrial Relations is a rich resource for labor and employment lawyers. But two features are particularly noteworthy. One is its Labor Research Portal, an extensive guide to labor resources on the Web. It inludes the IIR library’s LaborBlog. The other is its Labor Contracts Database, an online…

The National Law Journal today released the NLJ 250, it annual ranking of the nation’s largest law firms. Capping the list, Baker & McKenzie, with 3,214 lawyers, Jones Day, with 2,136, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, with 1,827.…

For his third-year Harvard Law School project in 2002, Carrie Griffin started the Disabled Lawyering Alliance as an online network for lawyers and law students with disabilities. The goal is to bring people together to foster mentoring relationships, professional networking and personal development. The primary way it does this is through QuickTopic discussion…

Lawyers love to debate WordPerfect vs. Word. So what does it mean that Richard Belthoff has changed the site formerly known as “The Legal WordPerfect Page” to The Legal Word Processing Page and now covers Word along with WP?…

Almost missed my own anniversary. My first posting to this blog was on Nov. 19, 2002. Time flies when you’re having fun.…

I was looking to see what Mark J. Welch was up to when I came across a surprise. In the mid-1990s, Mark founded the California Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law Web site. It was a pretty good site with a great collection of celebrities’ wills. He later sold the site to another law firm.…

According to Suffolk Lawyers for Justice, the Federal Trade Commission has cancelled its investigation of the Massachusetts public defenders’ group, initiated in August after lawyers refused to accept appointments to new criminal cases. The SLJ’s announcement says that its board was informed by its attorney, Joseph Kociubes of Bingham McCutchen, that…

A new study of diversity in U.S. law firms, released this week by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, says that women now make up 40 percent of lawyers in medium- and large-sized firms, compared to 14 percent in 1975. The number of Black lawyers in these firms doubled since 1975, to over 4…