Robert Ambrogi,
a lawyer
in Rockport, MA, is vice president for editorial services at Jaffe Associates and director of WritersForLawyers.

He is author of the book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web

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Just in time for the holidays
Among the many e-mails I received from readers who saw my article on Law.com was one from Lawrence Savell, counsel with New York's Chadbourne & Parke, expressing disappointment over my failure to include legal-humor sites. Savell operates an enjoyable site I somehow had never seen before, LawHumor.com, featuring legal humor articles he has written over the years. Better yet -- given the time of year -- Savell is producer of his own holiday recording, The Lawyer's Holiday Humor Album. It features songs sure to become law-office classics, such as "Santa And I Are Gonna Pull An All-Nighter On Christmas," "Let 'Em Sue" (parody of "Let It Snow"), and "It's Gonna Be A Billable Christmas." You can find his album at LawTunes.com.
posted by Robert Ambrogi at 1:57 PM :: |

 

Law.com link. The "laudable launches" article I mention below is featured today on Law.com.
posted by Robert Ambrogi at 12:53 PM :: |

 
Laudable Web site launches in 2002
In the annals of Internet history, 2002 may go down as the year of the blog. Twelve months ago, few of us had ever heard the term, even though blogs had existed in one form or another since at least 1997. Today, their number is estimated to be anywhere from 200,000 to more than half a million. The explosion in blogging has been felt within the legal field, with lawyers, academics, pundits and even judges introducing blogs of their own. Many of these blogs are interesting, some quite good, and a handful truly useful.

But blogs were not the only law-related Web sites started in 2002. Other notable sites debuted, covering topics ranging from Daubert to domestic violence. In a recent column, I review some of the year's most laudable launches. Among the sites I mention:

• Blogs
  
  • TalkLeft, news and musings on the politics of crime from Denver criminal lawyer Jeralyn Merritt.
  
  
  • How Appealing, Howard J. Bashman's blog devoted to appellate litigation.
  
  
  • SCOTUSBlog, published by the Washington, D.C., firm Goldstein & Howe.
  
  
  • Lessig Blog, from Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig.
  
  
  • The Volokh Conspiracy, from UCLA's Eugene Volokh, along with his brother and other contributors.
  
  
• Topical Sites
  
  • Daubert on the Web, devoted to analysis of the Supreme Court's 1993 decision, Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, and created by Philadelphia litigator Peter B. Nordberg.
  
  
  • Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, maintained by the University of California, San Francisco.
  
  
  • Women's Law Initiative is a nationwide resource for women who are victims of domestic violence.
  
  
  • The Religious Liberty Archive, which focuses on religious freedom as it has played out in courts and legislatures.
  
  
  • Chilling Effects, a site devoted to the legal protection of online speech.
  
  
  • American Non-Governmental Organizations Coalition for the International Criminal Court, a repository of information about the United States and the International Criminal Court.
  
  
  • Global Competition Forum, from the International Bar Association.
  
  
  • Creative Commons, working to develop alternatives to traditional copyright.
  
  
• Search Sites
  
  • Teoma, the search engine that is proving itself a challenger to Google.
  
  
  • MyWay.com, a feisty challenger to Yahoo.
  
  posted by Robert Ambrogi at 11:31 PM :: |

 

Government science portal. Lawyers in a range of practice areas -- from tort to IP to biotech and beyond -- can attest that scientific research is often an important aspect of law practice. Such research is now a bit easier thanks to a new federal government gateway to science and technology information on the Internet, science.gov. The product of a collaboration among 14 scientific and technical organizations from 10 major science agencies, the site indexes more than 1,000 government resources such as technical reports, journal citations, databases, government Web sites and fact sheets -- all of which are available free. Agencies participating in the site are the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, and Interior; the Environmental Protection Agency; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and the National Science Foundation.
posted by Robert Ambrogi at 2:02 PM :: |