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Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (1) Useful Links at the Top

By Andis Kaulins

We have gone through our links on the LawPundit main page to update the URLs, remove links as appropriate and to explain what we have kept or to provide information found at the linked websites or blogs.

Starting with the "Useful Links" at the top:

Copyrights (Library of Congress, United States Copyright Office), which informs us:
"New basic registration fee: $45 (read about all new fees)
Save $10 through electronic registration option (become a beta tester)"

EPO (European Patent Office), in the news, the London Agreement lowering post-grant patent translation costs

EU Law (Links to Essential EU Law Sites)

Find Law ("FindLaw is the highest-trafficked legal Web site, providing the most comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet for legal professionals, corporate counsel, law students, businesses, and consumers. These resources include Web search utilities, cases and codes, legal news, an online career center, and community-oriented tools, such as a secure document management utility, e-mail newsletters, and message boards.")

ILLCD (Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions by Martin Samson)

Intute ("Intute: Law provides guidance and access to global legal information resources on the Internet. The service aims to identify and evaluate legal resource sites offering primary and secondary materials and other items of legal interest. Descriptive records and links are created for legal service sites and specific documents.... Intute: Social Sciences is the subject group of Intute that provides the very best Web resources for education and research for the social sciences, including law, business, hospitality, sport and tourism.... Intute: Social Sciences has been created by bringing together two of the Hubs of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN): Altis and SOSIG. In combining the resources and services of these two services, Intute: Social Sciences offers an easy to use and powerful tool for discovering the best Internet resources in this important range of subjects.")

Law.com ("ALM's Law.com is the Web's leading legal news and information network.... Law.com connects legal professionals to more than 20 award-winning national and regional legal publications online, including The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, New York Law Journal and Legal Times, and delivers top legal news electronically to a growing national and global audience of subscribers each day on The Newswire." - interesting technical election article there by Andy Peters examining the case of a deadlock between Obama and Clinton: Democratic GC Ponders What's Next for Race: Superdelegates like former President Carter could settle race for nomination)

Legal Week ("Our flagship title is dedicated exclusively to commercial lawyers in the UK and major international jurisdictions. Legal Week breaks the biggest stories first and delves into the issues behind the headlines. It is the only legal title to ever win the publishing industry's most coveted award - the PPA Business Magazine of the Year. * With the most talented team of journalists in the legal marketplace, Legal Week offers your business a powerful environment to communicate its message.")

LII (Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School, "The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a research and electronic publishing activity of the Cornell Law School. Popular collections include: the U.S. Code, Supreme Court opinions, and Law about...")

LLRX ("Legal and technology resources for legal professionals", e.g. a recent feature: Social Networks for Law Librarians and Law Libraries, or How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Friending by Meg Kribble and Debbie Ginsberg, published on January 19, 2008 at LLRX.)

Nolo ("Nolo is your legal companion, empowering you and saving you money whenever the law touches your work, life or finances. We are the nation's oldest and most respected provider of legal information for consumers and small business.")

Out-Law.com ("OUT-LAW has 8,000 pages of free legal news and guidance, mostly on IT and e-commerce issues. These issues can affect any organisation, and OUT-LAW is as much for those in a software start-up as it is for the compliance team at a bank. If and when you need further advice, we hope you'll choose Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind OUT-LAW.COM.")

Paul|Weiss (Telecom, IT, IP, Legal & Regulatory Developments)

RefDesk.com (Comprehensive References of Value and News, e.g. searchable Legal Dictionary)

Search Systems (Searchable Public Record Databases)

Sidley CyberLaw (Recent Developments in Intellectual Property, E-Commerce & Internet Law, Communications & Information Technology, Privacy)

Slashdot (News for Nerds)

TVC - The Virtual Chase (Teaching Legal Professionals How To Do Research)

USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office - e.g. a recent posting about the Bush administration opposition to the Patent Reform Act of 2007, S. 1145 )

Vault (legal careers)

WorldLaw (Law Library of the US Congress)

Full post as published by LawPundit on February 13, 2008 (boomark / email).