Legal Research

Blawg of the Day -- New Jersey Public Safety Officers Law Blog

Posted on August 18, 2008
Today's blog, however, is not a golden oldie -- the New Jersey Public Safety Officers Law Blog is dedicated to corrections officers, policemen, and firemen throughout the Garden State. It's published by Frank Crivelli of the firm of Arpaia & Crivelli, which protects "the rights of those who serve and protect."

Blawgs of the Day, Revisited

Posted on August 18, 2008
Now that I'm entering into my seventh year of blogging, I realized that I've been featuring a brand new law blog nearly every day of the week for the past 4-5 years. I'd like to start revisiting some of those great blogs, to let you know how they've changed and what they're up to these days. I'll still be featuring brand new blogs, but you'll see a few old-timers in the mix from now on.

Blawgof the Day -- Androvett Blog

Posted on August 15, 2008
Androvett Legal Media and Marketing has been providing media and public relations services for lawyers in Texas for many years now -- it's great to see they now have a blog! The Androvett Blog has a lot of great legal news updates.

Blawg of the Day -- Calgary Criminal Lawyers' Weekly

Posted on August 14, 2008
Another Canadian blog for you today -- the Calgary Criminal Lawyers' Weekly is published by Michael Bates, a partner in the Calgary firm of Ruttan Bates. He practices primarily in the areas of criminal defence and appellate litigation, and at his blog he's bringing you current developments of the criminal justice system in Calgary.

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Blawg of the Day -- eLaw Exchange

Posted on August 13, 2008
eLaw Exchange is much more than a blog about e-discovery -- here you can find lists of service providers, e-discovery state law and rules, litigation intelligence resources, and many other materials. It's brought to you by e-discovery guru Michael Arkfeld, who's providing most of these resources for free. Looks like a great e-discovery site!

Blawg of the Day -- Northeast Texas Bankruptcy Lawyer

Posted on August 12, 2008
Today's blog comes from my own backyard: the Northeast Texas Bankruptcy Blog is published by J. Brian Allen, an attorney in Paris, Texas. He's discussing the usual bankruptcy topics: Chapters 7, 11, 12, and 13, debt collection, plan payments, bankruptcy courts, case law, and a whole lot more.

Links for 2008-08-10 [del.icio.us]

Posted on August 11, 2008
American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Alberta Courts > Home Fuel Cell Patents/Applications | Thompson Hine LLP Dermatology Online Journal FindSounds - Search the Web for Sounds WHO | Disease Outbreak News Feed My Search Turn Google searches into RSS feeds Florida Special Needs Law

RSS-ify your Google searches

Posted on August 11, 2008
RSS is a great research tool, but to be truly powerful you must be able to create your own customized RSS search feeds. Yes, there are a few services that do this -- Kebberfegg was one of the earliest keyword-based feed generators -- but not enough for my liking. Now there's a new tool that will create an RSS feed out of your Google searches. Feed My Search will automatically turn your search into an RSS feed, on several of the Google search pages -- Web, News, Video, Blogs, Local, Books, Images, and Patent search. Hopefully, a good addition to the RSS search arsenal. Thanks to LifeHacker for the heads up.

Blawg of the Day -- 3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Posted on August 11, 2008
I've gotten to know Toby Brown from being at ABA TECHSHOW for the past few years -- he's a great speaker, and he knows his stuff about just about any kind of legal technology. He's now working down at Fulbright & Jaworski doing some knowledge management stuff, and he and two others have started publishing 3 Geeks and Law Blog. According to the byline, it's "a law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks, specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management, internet marketing and library sciences, melding together to form the Dynamic Trio." The other two geeks are law librarian Greg Lambert, and marketing person Lisa Salazar. When I first subscribed to it they were only providing the titles in their RSS feeds -- I hope they change that to offer more of the post in the feed...

Blawg of the Day -- Digital Copyright Canada

Posted on August 08, 2008
Digital Copyright Canada is a spare-looking site, but it boasts a good number of publishers -- 11, in fact. They focus on digital copyright, but they'll also discuss the related issues of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other protections. Russell McOrmond is the coordinator of the site.

Blawg of the Day -- Greater Houston Criminal Defense Law Blog

Posted on August 07, 2008
The Greater Houston Criminal Defense Law Blog is brought to you by Grant Scheiner, a Houston lawyer I had the pleasure of presenting with at TechLawSA a few weeks ago in San Antonio. On his blog, Grant's discussing various criminal defense issues, such as DWI, prostitution, search and seizure, sexual assault, and others.

Blawg of the Day -- The Last Word

Posted on August 06, 2008
I got to know my good friend Laura Calloway through working together on the ABA TECHSHOW planning board -- in fact, she recently succeeded me as Chair of the TECHSHOW board, where I hear she's doing great things. When she's not planning major technology conferences, Laura, is the Director of the Alabama State Bar's Law Office Management Assistance Program, where she dispenses wisdom and advice on technology, finance, marketing and management issues to Alabama lawyers. Now Laura has entered the blogging world, and in a big way. At The Last Word, she's discussing news of interest to members of the Alabama State Bar. She recently returned from the ASB's Annual Meeting, and she live-blogged the activities there. Laura's handing out the same great advice she does in her job, but now we non-Alabama lawyers get to benefit from it...

Paper-Free Traveling

Posted on August 05, 2008
When I travel, I take a *lot* of reading material -- books, magazines, and articles about e-discovery and other technology issues that I've found on the internet. Yes, I'll admit it -- in the past when I found these articles, I would print them out and bring the all that paper with me on the plane -- after all, it's the best way to read those articles offline....right? Thanks to my Kindle, I can now save all those trees and leave the paper at home when I travel to the ABA Annual Meeting in New York City tomorrow. The way I did this was probably not the most elegant, but it worked great for me. Here's what I did: I had already bookmarked 11 technology articles on Delicious for later reading. I went back to those articles, and cut and pasted the text from each into a single Google Doc (there's no reason why you can't also use Word or other word processor)...

Blawg of the Day -- EffectiveIP

Posted on August 05, 2008
I first met Matt Buchanan a few years ago at ABA TECHSHOW. He is always trying out new and innovative ways to provide intellectual property news and information to clients and others on the internet. His latest endeavor is the companion blog to his new law firm site. At EffectiveIP, Matt's "helping businesses grow, manage and leverage effective intellectual property portfolios."

Blawg of the Day -- Green Pages - NJ

Posted on August 04, 2008
Green Pages - NJ is the simply-titled blog of Michael Pisauro, of the Princeton, New Jersey firm of Frascella & Pisauro. He's discussing issues important to New Jersey's environment there, including clear air and water, fisheries, global warming, legislation, recycling, renewable energy, and more.

Links for 2008-08-02 [del.icio.us]

Posted on August 03, 2008
http://asblastword.wordpress.com/

Blawg of the Day -- ICBC Law Blog

Posted on August 01, 2008
Erik Magraken is a British Columbia personal injury lawyer. His ICBC Law Blog(ICBC stands for Insurance Corporation of British Columbia) features news and commentary on personal injury as well as ICBC claims.

Blawg of the Day -- Virginia & Washington D.C. Personal Injury Lawyer

Posted on July 31, 2008
Brien Roche is the Virginia and Washington D.C. Personal Injury Lawyer. He has several offices in Virginia and one in D.C., and on his blog he's discussing the usual personal injury topics.

Blawg of the Day -- Hearing Loss Law & Wash-CAP

Posted on July 30, 2008
Once again, a great niche blog, this time from Washington attorney John Waldo. His blog, Hearing Loss Law & Wash-CAP, is "answering the special legal needs of the hard of hearing and deaf." Wash-CAP, in case you didn't know (I didn't), is the Washington State Communication Access Project. Waldo is talking about such issues as the ADA and insurance coverage for hearing loss.

Blawg of the Day -- Georgia DUI Law Blog

Posted on July 29, 2008
The Georgia DUI Blog is brought to you by the Ginsburg Law Offices in Atlanta. In addition to offering commentary and case studies on DUI law in Georgia, they also provide an Online Blood Alcohol Calculator to give you an approximation of your blood alcohol level after one or more drinks.

Free Chapter from Our Collaboration Book

Posted on July 29, 2008
I've been remiss in mentioning this, but the great folks at TechnoLawyer posted an excerpt from the book Dennis Kennedy and I wrote, The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together. The excerpt they chose to reproduce is from Chapter 17, simply titled SharePoint. It gives what we think is a good basic overview of the collaboration tool, for lawyers who might not know a lot about SharePoint. While you're at the TechnoLawyer blog, make sure you sign up for their free newsletter. They consistently deliver fantastic legal technology news all week long -- not just from experts, but also reviews from lawyers who are using these tools in their practice. It's a don't-miss subscription.

Links for 2008-07-27 [del.icio.us]

Posted on July 28, 2008
College of American Pathologists Criminal History Online Public Record Search - Montana Department of Justice Georgetown Law Library: Research Guides Martindale Experts & Services Federal Evidence Review | Highlighting Recent Federal Evidence Cases and Developments

A New Wiki for Lawyers

Posted on July 28, 2008
Oklahoma attorney Brad Smith has created a new wiki for lawyers to use, and it looks promising. LegalWikiPro is, like Wikipedia, a free collaborative encyclopedia that anyone can edit -- but this one is for lawyers. Brad wants to provide real content for real lawyers, but to that he needs your help -- after all, a wiki depends on the collective knowledge of the community to be successful. The wiki is divided into three main areas -- Federal, State and General. To see how powerful a wiki of this type can be, check out the Oklahoma pages -- there's a lot of great, free information for lawyers there. The rest of the wiki is just waiting for you to get started -- so go on, start editing!

Blawg of the Day -- ABlawg.ca

Posted on July 28, 2008
The University of Calgary Faculty of Law are up and blogging about developments in the province of Alberta. ABlawg.ca includes commentary by faculty members on court and tribunal decisions as well as legislative and policy developments in the province.

Hot off the Presses....

Posted on July 27, 2008
Issue #306 of the Internet Legal Research Weekly is now available for your reading pleasure.

Blawg of the Day -- e-discovery 2.0

Posted on July 25, 2008
I am heading to San Antonio today to take part in the TechLawSA conference, so I figured I'd feature an e-discovery blog today. e-discovery 2.0 is published by the folks at Clearwell Systems, an e-discovery provider. While they spend their days working on live cases with enterprises, law firms, and service providers to help them with their e-discovery issues, they want to share their thoughts about e-discovery on the blog, and encourage discussion among like-minded e-discovery enthusiasts.

Blawg of the Day -- Art Law

Posted on July 24, 2008
Now, here's a great niche for a law blog -- Art Law discusses issues including art litigation, art finance and recent trends in the art market. It's brought to you by the blog-prolific firm of Fox Rothschild, and specifically by attorneys Robert Goldman, Samantha Evans, and Daniel Schnapp.

Blawg of the Day -- Jeremy de Beer

Posted on July 23, 2008
Jeremy de Beer is a law professor at the University of Ottawa, specializing in legal issues surrounding technology, intellectual property and other forms of knowledge governance. At his self-titled blog he's discussing those things, as well as biotechnology, copyright, digital music law, digital rights management systems, and more.

Blawg of the Day -- Opportunity Knocks

Posted on July 22, 2008
The Cowen Group is a search firm specializing in staffing and recruiting for litigation support, practice support, and electronic discovery. David Cowen himself is blogging at Opportunity Knocks, where he's providing career and management thoughts from a headhunter in the e-discovery/litigation support space.

Blawg of the Day -- Georgia Personal Injury Law Blog

Posted on July 21, 2008
The Georgia Personal Injury Law Blog is authored by attorney Jason Schultz, who practices personal injury law in the cities of Atlanta, Newnan, and Peachtree City, Georgia. He's discussing the usual personal injury topics -- car accidents, insurance, medical malpractice, premises liability, and truck accidents, to name a few.

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