Must have been something in the courthouse water during Gerry Spence’s recent defense of Geoffrey Fieger on charges he made illegal political campaign contributions. Within weeks of winning an acquittal for his well-known lawyer client, the equally (more?) well-known Spence launched his blog, Gerry Spence’s Blog. Now,…
Geoffrey Fieger Now Has a Blog
Justia Adds Lawyer Directory
I am not sure when this happened, because I just noticed it, but I see that Justia has added a lawyer directory to its many features. It lists lawyers and law firms by their practice areas and jurisdictions and can be searched by name and location. It is labeled “pre-beta,” suggesting it is…
Mass. AG Launches Workplace Rights Site
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has launched a Web site, MassWorkRights.com, that provides Massachusetts workers with information about the rights on the job. The site features information about wages, overtime, tips and meal breaks, all provided in six languages: English, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.…
Legal PR Firm Launches Blog
The Texas consulting firm Androvett Legal Media & Marketing has gone live with its new blog, Androvett Blog. Androvett media consultant Robert Tharp, a former law and criminal justice reporter at The Dallas Morning News and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, says the firm operated the blog internally for several months…
Help! Blawger Identity Crisis
I started this blog in November 2002. My plan was to use it to post news and reviews of Web sites of interest to the legal profession. I had just published the first edition of my book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, and…
My 15 Minutes of Fame
It comes courtesy of the Boston Business Journal and reporter Lisa van der Pool, who profiled me for the weekly “Outside the Box” feature: Robert J. Ambrogi: Legal Beat. The photo by BBJ photographer W. Marc Bernsau shows Motif Number 1, the fishing-shack icon…
Gunmen Invade Hospital, Murder Patient
This is a horrifying story from The Virgin Islands Daily News, with no coverage that I’ve seen from the mainland media. Five gunmen forced their way into a hospital, past multiple layers of security, and shot a patient to death in his bed.…
My op-ed today on open meetings
The Boston Globe today published an op-ed I wrote on current efforts to reform the Massachusetts open meeting law: Open the doors to public meetings.…
EverNote Beta: Never Forget Anything
EverNote has long been a popular desktop application among lawyers, who use it to store notes, Web page clips, images, ideas, to-do items and whatever. The “ever” in EverNote came from its appearance, storing all your notes and clips in a perpetual, scrolling tape-like window on your desktop. Recently, the company announced the limited,…
Troll Tracker Sued for Libel
As I wrote here Feb. 25, efforts to unmask the anonymous author of the Patent Troll Tracker blog ended in the author revealing himself to be Rick Frenkel, a lawyer who works inhouse at Cisco. Now, the Daily Journal newspaper is reporting that two Texas patent attorneys, T. John Ward Jr. and…