Legal Writing

Lawyer Websites for iPhone and iPod Touch
If you read the comments here, you know that I love my iPod Touch (how did I ever live without it??). When browsing the web apps for it, I noticed this one that Slaw readers might find very neat: Lawyer websites for iPhone and iPod Touch is a service that creates law firm websites specifically [...

A survey for people who make websites
Attention web masters, designers, developers, writers, editors, and everyone else who makes websites: A List Apart has just released their 2008 Survey For People Who Make Websites! The survey aims to get a picture of how web design is practiced around the world...

Website Marketing at IACA
We recently attended the IACA convention in Orlando. We had a lot of great discussions with cosmetic dentists who were interested in improving their website marketing. Most of them had websites, but their websites were either outdated or just weren't showing up on the search engines for one reason or another...

Website Emails
Today, while browsing for websites that might make good Page 1 clients, I noticed an unfortunate phenomenon. As I clicked through pages of Google SERPS, I found far too many websites that in one way or another, did not take advantage of email...

The Bottom Line - Most Law Firm Websites Stink
I just found this report by The Bloom Group concerning the effectiveness of professional services websites, including those of law firms. It is a couple of years old, but do those of us that look at a lot of lawyer websites need a study to confirm that most of these sites are simply ineffective? The Bloom study found law firms rate prospective clients as their most important audience for websites, which should be true...

Important Law Websites for the European Union (EU)
The website of the Delegation of the European Commission to the USA has a page of law links which it calls ESSENTIAL EUROPEAN UNION LAW WEBSITES in the title and additionally in the page heading also labels Best European Union Law Websites and Principal European Union Law Websites...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Liberty National Life Insurance Co.
allegedly discriminated against Haitians by offering low quality policies and canceling without reason.

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Tomato Salmonella
Sheetz Convenience Stores agrees to confidential out-of-court settlement with food poisoning victim.

National Association of Realtors
Settlement reached in broker listing antitrust lawsuit, pending court approval.

Missouri Attorney General's Office
$26,000 settlement reached in disability discrimination lawsuit, pending court approval.