Legal Research

Eureka! I get it! (Twitter)
I’ve been a Twitter hater for a long time now.  Twitter, bleh!  I was a skeptic, thinking “why in the world would people care what I had for dinner?”  My epiphany came after an excellent seminar on personal branding put on by the guys at Tricycle...

Cuil, a new search engine
Cuil, a new search engine started by former Google engineers, looks very, well, “cuil.” Cuil breaks with the “here’s a long list of stuff” search results page paradigm...

Using Twitter for Legal Updates
Twitter.com is a service that lets people send short messages (140 characters or less) (called “tweets”) to those who decide to “follow” them, and to receive short messages from those they choose to follow...

Arrogant, or Just Dim
Blonde Justice wrote yesterday about dealing with a none-too-bright prosecutor: So, I continued, “Look, she’s been through a lot, but she’s getting her life straightened out...

Cognition for Legal
The race is on to make (and sell to users) the first truly good search engine that deals well with concepts, such that a search for “dog bites man” would include results without the word “dog” or “bites” but that include “Pomeranian” and “attacks,” to give a very simple example...

LTNY 2009: Twitter Topples Electronic Discovery
It's official: Twitter has de-throned "electronic discovery" as the most buzzworthy term at LegalTech. While the ratio of EDD vendors at the show is still extremely high, much of the talk surrounding the show revolves around Twitter and its uses...

Virgin Atlantic Flight
Makes Emergency Landing

Exotic Meats USA
Announces Urgent Statewide Recall of Elk Tenderloin

VW Passat
allegedly linked to dangerous engine fires.

Energy Price Gouging
Inergy Propane announces refunds to customers as part of lawsuit settlement.

Compellent, Storage Engine, et. al.
$10.5 million settlement reached in intellectual property dispute.

Search Engine Optimization Claims
Web based company pays over $150,000 settlement in Internet lawsuit.