The Boston personal-injury law firm Breakstone, White & Gluck has launched Massachusetts Injury Lawyer Blog. The founding partners of this firm, Marc L. Breakstone and David W. White, are highly regarded trial lawyers in the state with an impressive record of verdicts and settlements (not to mention long-time friends of mine).…
Defense Bar Launches Blog
The Defense Research Institute, the organization that is to the civil-defense bar what the American Association for Justice is to the plaintiffs’ bar, recently launched a blog, For the Defense, as an adjunct to the organization’s magazine of the same name.
I learned about the blog through a comment added to a…
An Intoxicating New Blawg
Every year, the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau approves more than 100,000 labels for beer, wine and spirts, according to Robert C. Lehrman, founder of the law firm Lehrman Beverage Law in Oakton, Va. “In these approvals you can see the bursting efflorescence of the American (and the world) economy,”…
Unique New Blog: Furniture Law
A newly launched blog is the first I’ve seen to focus on the topic of furniture law. The Womble Carlyle Furniture Law Blog comes from the Intellectual Property Group at the law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice in Winston-Salem, N.C. The blog will focus on IP and patent issues that…
When Your Expert Has a Blog …
Jurors do it. Litigants do it. But when happens when experts do it? The “it” in question is blogging, and the issue is what impact it may have on a trial. While I’ve seen several articles dealing with jurors blogging or litigants blogging, I had not seen any about experts blogging — until now. I…
Catching Up: New Legal Blogs
Here are some of the new legal blogs that I have come across recently:…
Gerry Spence Launches a Blog
Legendary Wyoming trial lawyer Gerry Spence is now also on the road to becoming a legendary blogger. Earlier this month, he launched Gerry Spence’s Blog, explaining in an introductory post that he has done a “miserably inadequate” job of using the Internet to share his thoughts and lessons. “I have learned things…
Slate Launches Legal Blog
The online magazine Slate launched a legal blog this week, Convictions, that will provide commentary from a range of legal professionals, including Slate’s Jurisprudence columnists Dahlia Lithwick and Emily Bazelon as well as practitioners and law professors from across the country. “By launching a law blog, we’re able to post immediate reactions to…
Lawyers as Bloggers as Writers
Thanks to Laura Orr at Oregon Legal Research for including this blog in a pair of thoughtful posts on the art and practice of blogging for lawyers: Blogging for Lawyers and Blawgers as (real) Writers. In the first post, she covers the fundamentals of getting started in blogging. In the second,…
New Blog Deals With Business that ‘Divorce’
A new blog focuses on break-ups between businesses, particularly in New York. Called New York Business Divorce, it is written by Peter A. Mahler, a partner in the Manhattan office of the firm Farrell Fritz. The blog provides information for lawyers and others on dissolution and other disputes among owners of corporations,…
Whistleblower Protection Blog
Earlier today at Legal Blog Watch, I wrote about yesterday’s joint investigative report by 60 Minutes and The Washington Post revealing the injustice to hundreds of defendants who remain in prison based at least in part on a discredited FBI forensic tool known as comparative bullet-lead analysis. As the Washington Post piece…
New Blog: ‘Today in Legal History’
FindLaw has teamed with National Public Radio’s Justice Talking program to launch the blog Today in Legal History. As the name suggests, each day the blog highlights a historical event related to law or government. The blog appears on both FindLaw and on JusticeLearning, a Web site produced by Justice…