Legal Commentary

Mark Osborn, of LexisNexis, checks in with the news that his company has created an Environment and Climate Change center on lexis.com. It's designed to help companies and their law firms better understand the relevant law, prepare for changes, and respond to litigation. Check it out here.  Press release: Download LN1201.doc

?  Survey Says: Osborn also reports that LN has surveyed corporate counsel about the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and found that 44% say their companies were not prepared when the amendents went into effect but made progress during 2007: Download ACC-LNSurvey.doc.

? The ABA Journal has declared its Blawg 100, in an article by Molly McDonough and Sarah Randag, and is asking folks to vote now for their favorite. I'm still smarting that neither this blog, nor our new EDD Update blog, made the list, but congrats to those who did, including:

* Our colleagues at Legal Times for The BLT (one of my favorite blog names around, the acroynm stands for The Blog of the Legal Times). 

        * Lu Ann Reeb and the gang at Legal Talk Network, home of both Lawyer2Lawyer (Bob Ambrogi & J. Craig Williams) and the brand new, launching this week, Legal Technology Now (avec moi) -- as well as both Bob's and Craig's blogs (  Robert Ambrogi's LawSites and May It Please the Court)

*Blawg Review (a member of our Law.com network)

* Ernie the Attorney (Ernie Svenson) and Adam Smith, Esq. (Bruce MacEwen), Larry Bodine's LawMarketing Blog (all of LTN's edit board)

?  Russ Curtis, LTN's photo editor, was part of the San Francisco team that helped rescue oil-drenched birds after the oil spill in the SF Bay last month. Check out his insta-blog, here.