23 January 2003. Revised 16 June 2003. Denise M. Howell, an attorney with Reed Smith (formerly, Crosby Heafey Roach & May), comments on a variety of legal issues related to intellectual property, Internet law, technology, and more. Denise cites her sources, which facilitates additional research. The RSS news feed appears to reproduce the entire blog entry. 23 January 2003. Revised 16 June 2003. Sabrina Pacifici, Editor of LLRX.com, comments on law and technology issues. These often comprise copyright, trademark, patent, and Internet law matters. Like, Tech Law Advisor, beSpacific cites its sources, making additional research easier. The RSS news feed appears to reproduce the entire blog entry. 18 September 2002. Cornell Legal Information Institute developed a bot that "listens" to various legal listservs for information about new information sources.
28 August 2002. Revised 24 March 2008. Register free to receive tables of contents from select electronic journals by email. The collection includes several legal titles. (Special Note: On 6 March 2003, the home page indicated that the entire site was undergoing construction.) 20 November 2003. Chilling Effects, a clearinghouse of cease and desist letters, offers a feed for newly received notices. The feed provides basic information and a link to the letter. 14 January 2002. Revised 10 March 2006. A fee-based resource by MDEX (Medical and Disability Experts) Online, the Daubert Tracker tracks federal and state "Daubert" cases. The original U.S. Supreme Court Daubert decision set precedent with respect to scientific evidence and the admissibility of expert scientific testimony. Daubert Tracker maintains a database of reported Daubert, as well as Kumho Tire and Joiner, decisions. In addition to the reported decisions, subscribers may display the court docket online and order filings, as well as briefs and transcripts. A new brief bank (added during February 2006) contains more than "10,000 briefs and other supporting documents from both appellate and trial courts. You may search it for free. Subscribers receive a discount for the documents they download. 18 March 2003. Revised 17 June 2003. Technology lawyer Dennis Kennedy (Thompson Coburn LLP, St. Louis, MO) comments on legal technology and technology law. The RSS news feed provides the headline and a brief description. 18 September 2002. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offers several listservs for keeping current with news and documents from the EPA. These include Federal Register notices, compliance news, and more. 27 January 2003. Revised 16 June 2003. Ernie the Attorney is Louisiana lawyer Ernest Svenson. Ernie comments on a variety of law and technology issues, including copyright, patent, trademark, and Internet law matters. He likes gadgets, so you will often find mention of the latest devices, software, or other new technology. The RSS news feed appears to reproduce the entire blog entry. 9 September 2003. Glenn K. Garnes, attorney and President of Lawyer Lounge, comments on news and information about law and technology. Categories of coverage include hardware, law firm marketing, legal research, practice tips, software and more. Beginning mid-September, the site will also offer radio broadcasts from legal experts on a variety of issues. The RSS news feed provides headlines and partial comments. 27 January 2003. Revised 21 November 2003. Joy London, knowledge and training manager at Allen & Overy discusses the implementation of knowledge management in law firms. Frequently, excited utterances contains postings with bibliographic references to new or thought-provoking materials. Anyone with an interest in how people share and use information will want to visit this site. The RSS news feed appears to reproduce the entire blog entry. 14 August 2002. FindLaw provides a number of alert services. Receive legal headlines, information about important documents in the news, court case summaries, and more by email.
13 August 2004. Revised 25 June 2007. Maintained by Atlanta-based intellectual property and technology lawyer Doug Isenberg, Gigalaw offers commentary on news and legal developments pertaining to intellectual property, technology and Internet-related issues. You may keep up-to-date with news posted via e-mail or RSS feed. 18 September 2002. The Government Printing Office hosts several mailing lists, including one for routing Federal Register tables of contents. 18 September 2002. Receive notification about the publication of documents or events related to the HIPAA Administrative Simplification regulations (such as NPRMs). 17 September 2002. Cornell Law Library offers this database of new law-related Web resources. Librarians evaluate each resource and provide annotations.
Search the database for resources covering your topic.
Cornell Law Library spotlights approximately four legal resources per week. Receive notification by email or search the InSITE database.
27 January 2003. Revised 16 June 2003. Texas lawyer Tom Mighell comments on news stories, Web sites, and other sources of information about research issues (especially legal), Internet use, intellectual property, search engines and more. Every Sunday, the site features the newsletter, Internet Legal Research Weekly. The newsletter contains the same type of information, but typically about different news stories and Web sites. It also offers a technology or research tip (or both!). The RSS news feed consists of headlines and a lead sentence.
18 March 2003. Patent attorney and law professor Gene Quinn comments on cases and other news pertaining to intellectual property, Internet and antitrust law. The site also offers a weekly newsletter by email. 17 March 2004. Jury Verdict Review Publications, Inc. publishes several monthly reporters containing summaries of civil jury verdicts. Jury Verdict Review & Analysis is currently available in six editions--national, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, New England and Florida. Another reporter, Medical Liability Alert, covers medical liability verdicts. These publications require a paid subscription. You can, however, sign up for free monthly email alerts containing verdict updates. The updates provide the type of verdict, amount if relevant, county, type of legal action and brief description. 27 February 2003. Computer forensics consulting firm Kroll Ontrack Inc. offers a free monthly newsletter, which provides current news about court decisions, technology, rules of evidence, and other issues pertaining to electronic evidence. A Minneapolis-based firm, Kroll Ontrack provides services for legal professionals, federal agencies and corporations, including data-recovery, evidence collection, electronic discovery, expert testimony, and secure chain-of-custody procedures. 28 August 2002. Oxford University Press offers a free table of contents alerting service for its legal journals. No registration required.
17 March 2003. Revised 16 June 2003. The ABA's Law Practice Management Section publishes this webzine covering management, marketing, technology and finance issues. Articles are available for free. The RSS news feed consists of headlines and a brief description. 20 November 2003. Cindy Chick, former co-editor of LLRX.com, recently launched a Weblog on law library technology and knowledge management. Since Cindy works with knowledge management issues on a day-to-day basis, LawLibTech should be a great resource. Currently, in addition to knowledge management, topics covered include PDF, search engines, spam and virtual libraries. 31 January 2008. Legal information site, Justia.com, makes it easy for you to find federal cases involving select companies or certain topics. Currently this section of Justia tracks federal case law involving Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, eBay and Menu Foods. It also tracks new filings in cases by federal court topic number. So, for example, you may monitor new filings pertaining to employment and other civil rights, torts, contracts, intellectual property and more. Not only will you find new cases, but new filings in existing cases.
Please note: We were unable to find any documentation about the scope of coverage for these monitoring services. It's difficult to determine whether they track filings in all federal courts or select federal courts. 11 March 2003. Revised 11 June 2003. Not to be confused with an official state court reporter, Louisiana Supreme Court Report is a current information awareness service that provides summaries of Louisiana Supreme Court decisions. Each summary links to the full-text of the decision. The site also offers this service via email and an RSS news feed. The news feed provides the headline and lead sentence. 20 November 2003. U.S. Supreme Court multimedia site Oyez provides updates concerning the current day's activities in the court. Find abstracts of cases decided on the decision date. The RSS feed displays the case name and year argued. We were unable to display the RSS feed for this site. 26 April 2004. Revised 10 March 2006. Legal information service Jurist offers a legal news Weblog and news feed called Paper Chase. It summarizes, and links to, select legal news stories of mostly national or international interest. You can stay up-to-date with the news via e-mail or RSS. You may also display the feed in your intranet or Web site. Jurist supplies the code. 29 October 2007. The law firm, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, maintains this blog on privacy and security law. Lawyers comment on events in the news and legal developments, such as court decisions and state or federal legislation. The blog has an RSS feed and e-mail alert service for keeping up with new postings. The topics links on the home page take you directly to related commentary. You will also find this subject index in the site map. 14 April 2004. Technology attorney Michael Geist maintains this Web site on Canadian privacy law. It provides summaries of the Canadian Privacy Commissioner's decisions under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) as well as search features unavailable through the Commissioner's official Web site. You will also find privacy law related news, links to federal and provincial privacy legislation and related documents, and more. The site offers an email alert service as well as an RSS news feed. The news feed contains the full text of all postings. 28 August 2002. Revised 24 March 2008. Taylor & Francis Group offers table of contents alerting service for its legal journals. Free registration required.
13 August 2003. Continuing professional education provider SmartPros Ltd. offers a mix of free and commercial resources for accounting professionals. Find news and commentary (also available for free by email) on a variety of accounting issues, including new tax law, financial fraud, the economy and corporate accountability. Other resources include continuing education materials (fee-based), a glossary of accounting terms, full-length articles with a free searchable archive, job bank and more. 13 August 2003. Kleinrock Publishing provides current information on developments in tax law as well as the text of official documents. The Daily Tax Bulletin comments on federal tax issues and helps keep you up-to-date with important tax-related news from the IRS, Treasury, Congress and the federal courts. The Research tab contains several libraries of federal tax material as well as plain-English explanations of federal tax law. Most of the information here requires a paid subscription. 23 January 2003. Revised 16 June 2003. Attorney Kevin Heller comments on copyright, trademark, parody, fair use, and technology law issues. His comments consist of short remarks on news items, court decisions, Web sites, and more. Moreover, he links to sources so that you can continue to research whatever strikes your fancy. The RSS news feed appears to reproduce the entire blog entry. 17 March 2003. This community offers legal professionals a forum for discussing legal technology and practice management issues, as well as legal products and services. Community managers then compile the submissions into various email newsletters, which they also archive. Joining the community requires free registration. 9 September 2003. Several attorneys contribute to this resource, which provides information about select legal articles, judicial opinions with some scholarly analysis, law journal publication schedules and more. Recent summaries of law review articles include topics like the consent defense in rape cases, judicial behavior, and constitutional law in intellectual property. 20 November 2002. Attorney Timothy L. Takacs offers commentary, a weekly newsletter, and a news bulletin pertaining to elder law issues. The commentary targets seniors and covers issues like "Navigating the Medicaid Maze" and "What the Salespeople Don't Tell You About Living Trusts." The newsletter covers issues of interest to attorneys as well as the public, and is also available via email. Especially for lawyers, the bulletin is published by LexisNexis and appears to be available free of charge by email. It consists of news summaries with links to full-text documents. A current issue covers "Inflation-Adjusted Tax Items for 2003," the "Use of Psychotropic Drugs in Skilled Nursing Facilities" and many other topics. The site maintains an online archive of the bulletin, which you can browse.
26 April 2004. News search service Topix.net displays the headline and full or partial lead sentence for law-related news stories from numerous local, national and industry sources. The XML-based news feed displays the same information that appears in the Web site's category index. Follow a linked headline to display the full article (free). 22 January 2003. Revised 16 June 2003. Intellectual property lawyer Martin Schwimmer comments on trademark-related events and issues. One of my favorite postings explains the importance and complexity of trademark searching. The news feed provides the headline and lead sentence. |
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