Secret Court

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The nation’s only court that operates in secrecy, the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, may not have a Web site of its own, like other federal appeals courts, but its decision this week affirming the government’s broad power to investigate suspected spies and terrorists made it onto the Web. The complete text of…

Redesigned VersusLaw

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Not long after its 1995 launch, Web research service VersusLaw adopted the slogan, “Revolutionizing the way America does law.” This was no exaggerated boast. In an era when online legal research still required expensive and cumbersome dial-up access to Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis, VersusLaw pioneered use of the Web to offer lawyers an…

Welcome to my blog

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Welcome. Here I will post news and reviews of Web sites of interest to the legal profession.

I am a Massachusetts lawyer and author of the book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, available from LawCatalog.com.…