Legal Research

Blawg of the Day -- LibTech Life

Posted on June 26, 2008
LibTech Life offers "notes from the life of a law librarian technician turned webmaster." The webmaster in question is Rob Golbeck, who works at Clark Wilson LLP in Vancouver.

Blawg of the Day -- MRB Insurance Law Blog

Posted on June 25, 2008
The Ontario firm MacMillan Rooke Boeckle hosts the MRB Insurance Law Blog, where they focus on insurance matters relevant to the areas of property and casualty, insurance coverage, and subrogation. The blog is managed by associate Raj K. Datt.

Blawg of the Day -- Green Patent Blog

Posted on June 24, 2008
The Green Patent Blog occupies a nifty niche -- it covers intellectual property issues in clean technology. Your blogger-in-residence is Eric Lane, a patent attorney at Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps in San Diego. He's discussing patent issues as they might apply to biofuels, energy storage, hybrid vechicles, solar power, and other clean technology issues.

Blawg of the Day -- Ballad in Plain E

Posted on June 23, 2008
Emma Wood is a law library technician in Vancouver -- she does research, provides current awareness services, and builds databases to help her firm better manage its knowledge. She's also the author of Ballad in Plain E, where she writes about some of the great information she finds.

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Blawg of the Day -- The Word on Employment Law

Posted on June 20, 2008
John Phillips has practiced labor and employment law for over 33 years with the Atlanta/Chattanooga/Nashville firm of Miller & Martin. His blog, The Word on Employment Law, discusses legal issues affecting the workplace, with a little bit on politics and HR thrown in.

Blawg of the Day -- The Ethical Lawyer

Posted on June 19, 2008
The Ethical Lawyer is minimalist in its design, but has some great information. Franco Tarulli is a Nova Scotia lawyer who's providing thoughtful commentary on ethics and the law.

Blawg of the Day -- Virtually Blind

Posted on June 18, 2008
Here's a great niche blog -- Virtually Blind discusses virtual law and legal issues that impact virtual worlds. It's brought to you by Benjamin Duranske, a lawyer whose last physical world law job was in San Francisco. He founded the Second Life Bar Association, and works with several groups who are trying to establish independent judicial systems.

Blawg of the Day -- British Columbia Courthouse Library Society Blog

Posted on June 17, 2008
The British Columbia Courthouse Library Society Blog is pretty bare-bones, but it gets the message across. It covers British Columbia and federal legislation, court rules, judicial appointments, notable cases, recent reports and articles, websites of interest to legal research, and recent library acquisitions.

Blawg of the Day -- Minnesota DWI Blog

Posted on June 16, 2008
The title Minnesota DWI Blog pretty much says it all -- it's a blog providing information and updates on DWI laws and defense in the state of Minnesota. It's published by Jason Brown of the Brown Law Offices in Minneapolis.

Blawg of the Day -- Law Library Reference Blog

Posted on June 13, 2008
I've already mentioned the University of British Columbia's Law Library Blog, but I didn't realize they had a second blog, dedicated to reference materials. The Law Library Reference Blog says that it's a "blog for UBC Law Library Reference Staff," but there are lots of great resources here for any law librarian or lawyer.

Blawg of the Day -- Construction Law Blog

Posted on June 12, 2008
Uber-firm K&L Gates has another blog -- this one is the Construction Law Blog, featuring a discussion on legal issues, news and regulations relating to the construction industry. They're mostly providing summaries of construction law cases from a number of states.

Blawg of the Day -- Bay Area Real Estate Law Blog

Posted on June 11, 2008
From the Law Offices of David C. Winton comes the Bay Area Real Estate Law Blog. Mr. Winton is a Marin County attorney, and as you might expect he's discussing such real estate topics as agents and brokers, foreclosure, landlord-tenant, mortgages, taxes, and others.

Blawg of the Day -- Crane on Law

Posted on June 10, 2008
The broadly-named Crane on Law comes to you from James Crane, an attorney, consultant and author with extensive experience in e-discovery management. He's examining e-discovery issues in the news, and provides a contemporary perspective on the realities of information management, corporate policy, and proactive litigation strategy. He hasn't posted since February -- let's hope he starts blogging again soon.

Blawg of the Day -- faircopyright.ca

Posted on June 09, 2008
Another blog from Canada for you today -- it's not by a lawyer, but it definitely touches on legal topics. faircopyright.ca is published by Laura Murray, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair of the Department of English at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. She started the site because so few copyright resources were available in Canada for nonlawyers, and she's also the author of "Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide."

Blawg of the Day -- Climate Law Update

Posted on June 06, 2008
Here's an interesting niche blog -- the Climate Law Update is "your source for the most up-to-date news relating to climate change and renewable energy." It's published by the worldwide firm Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner.

Blawg of the Day -- New York Criminal Attorney Blog

Posted on June 05, 2008
The White Plains, New York firm of Tilem & Campbell is publishing the New York Criminal Attorney Blog, featuring posts on DWI, gun crimes, narcotics, prostitution, traffic offenses, and more.

Blawg of the Day -- Cuming Gillespie & Raymaker

Posted on June 04, 2008
The firm of Cuming Gillespie & Raymaker describes itself as "Serious Personal Injury and Plaintiff Lawyers," and the Calgary firm is talking about serious matters on their blog. Topics include class actions, verdicts and settlements, and wrongful death.

Blawg of the Day -- Daniel Gershberg

Posted on June 03, 2008
The self-titled Daniel Gershberg blog primarily discusses bankruptcy law issues that affect New York residents. Daniel is a New York lawyer with offices on both Brooklyn and Newark, New Jersey.

Acrobat Takes One Giant Step for Collaboration

Posted on June 02, 2008
Wow -- Adobe has slowly but surely been making advances in adapting its tools for collaboration purposes, but today they make one giant leap into the collaboration space. With the debut of the new Acrobat.com beta, Adobe is putting all of its collaboration tools in one convenient, very pretty place. All of these services were previously available -- just not all on one page. Here's what you get: -- Buzzword -- Adobe's word processor is not quite as powerful as Google Docs or Zoho, but it sure is beautiful. You can create a document here, and then...... -- Show it to other people with ConnectNow, a screen-sharing program. Adobe Connect was previously only available for a fee, but now it's free to everyone. Show a document to the people at your online meeting, and as soon as you're satisfied with it you can...

Blawg of the Day -- LegalTech Insights

Posted on June 02, 2008
Paul Deschenes is the CEO of Advologix, a Software-as-a-Service provider for service professionals, and primarily the legal market. His blog is LegalTech Insights, where he's discussing his insights and ideas surrounding technology for the legal profession.

Learning Congressional Research Online

Posted on June 02, 2008
The folks at the UC Berkeley Library have provided a terrific set of Flash tutorials on how to conduct congressional research. The tutorials help you find a bill, hearing, or congressional debate, and they are really easy to follow. Thanks to the great Librarian's Internet Index for the pointer.

Links for 2008-06-01 [del.icio.us]

Posted on June 02, 2008
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Extra! Extra!

Posted on May 31, 2008
Issue #302 of the Internet Legal Research Weekly is online and ready for you to read.

Pre-Fabricated Pipes

Posted on May 30, 2008
If you use RSS to keep up with the latest in news, technology, and other issues, you might agree with me that the ultimate use of RSS is the ability to create your own, dedicated RSS feeds -- otherwise, you're stuck receiving the news headlines that others think are important. There are a few tools out there that allow you to create your own RSS feed, including the early Kebberfegg, where all you have to do is plug in a few search terms and RSS feeds are generated for you instantly. But then Yahoo! Pipes, which totally blew me away. Pipes is an awesome RSS-creation tool; you can mash together multiple feeds, filter those feeds so that only news items with certain words are delivered, filter out duplicate feeds, and oh, so much more. The problem with Pipes is that it's too good -- there are just so many options for creating an RSS feed, the casual or less advanced RSS user is sure to get confused...

Blawg of the Day -- Amir Kafshdaran Law Blog

Posted on May 30, 2008
The Amir Kafshdaran Law Blog is authored by a Quebec lawyer of the same name. He's providing opinion and commentary on several subjects, including immigration, economics, and of course the law.

Blawg of the Day -- Complex Discovery

Posted on May 29, 2008
Rob Robinson recently stopped publishing his Information Governance Engagement Area blog, found he couldn't stay away from blogging about e-discovery for long. His new blog is Complex Discovery, and he's providing information, tools and tactics relevant to the growing electronic discovery market. As he says, Nothing is ever as simple as it seems - and with that in mind - hopefully the content provided on this site and via the corresponding blog will help you as you translate complex discovery into executional simplicity."

Blawg of the Day -- Property of the Estate

Posted on May 28, 2008
Here's a blog from my own backyard -- Property of the Estate focuses on developments in plaintiff-oriented bankruptcy litigation. It's brought to you by Rochelle, Hutcheson, & McCullough, but the main blogger there seems to be lawyer Sean McCaffity.

Blawg of the Day -- The Law Blog

Posted on May 27, 2008
The broadly-titled The Law Blog discusses personal injury and disability law in Canada. It's published by LawBroker.ca, a free lawyer referral service in Canada. They're talking about medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, slip and falls, and other types of personal injury matters.

Blawg of the Day -- Missouri Injury Attorney Blog

Posted on May 26, 2008
David A. Payne publishes the Missouri Injury Attorney Blog, where he discusses topics such as auto accidents, insurance claims, pharmaceutical drugs, trasylol, and more.

This week's issue of....

Posted on May 24, 2008
....the Internet Legal Research Weekly is now online for your reading pleasure.

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