Jurist Legal Website and Community Celebrate 10 Years Online
Hi Friends,
UPDATE 30 March 2007: Here I am with Mr. Jurist himself, Bernard Hibbitts -- I am putting some more photos up here and here on our Law Reivew blog
Jurist, the well known legal news and law school community Website run by Law Professor Bernard Hibbitts and the University of Pittsburgh Law School Team, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week. During the last 10 years, Jurist has become the strongest law school community site on the Web, as well as a source of continuous legal news and commentary. In 2006 Jurist was the Webby People's Voice Award winner for law sites, and every year it continues to improve, adding more and more useful features. University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor Ethan Katsh of online dispute resolution fame and University of South Carolina Professor and former CNN Supreme Court reporter Charles Bierbauer are the keynote speakers. I will be on the Law and Media in the Age of the Internet panel with Tony Mauro and Ed Adams, probably talking about python code and mysql databases and free case law. It should be great. And congrats to Jurist for 10 great years!!!
Peace,
Tim
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Bay Area Blawgers Get-Together, March 28, 6-8 pm at the Santa Clara Law School High Tech Law Institute
Hi Friends,
Santa Clara Law Professor Eric Goldman and the High Tech Law Institute are having a Bay Area Blawgers Round Table and discussion this Wednesday night (March 28). It is open to all, but you need to RSVP to Eric by email.
There will be a lot of great technology law bloggers there (and Mary Minow -- this weeks BlawgSearch.com's featured Blawger :). You can get CLE credit and it is... free (except for parking :)
You can read more about the meeting and participants on Eric's Blog. Eric also has a post about some potential discussion topics here.
Here is the roundtable information.
When: March 28, 6-8 pm
Where: Wiegand Room, Arts & Sciences Building, Santa Clara University. Directions to campus.
Cost: Free. Parking is available for $5
CLE: This event qualifies for 1 hour of general CLE credit. Santa Clara University School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider.
How: Please RSVP to Eric Goldman.
Peace,
Tim
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Justia Regulation Tracker Beta - Tracking Federal Regulations, Rules, Proposed Rules and Notices
Federal regulations affect the practices of a broad spectrum of lawyers. For corporate counsel, federal regulations may directly touch on their company's core business, or they may impose additional general compliance requirements, such as in human resources, as an example. Attorneys in both private practice and public interest law face a similar impact whether they practice labor and employment, immigration, criminal law or in a completely different area.
Here are some federal regulations that attorneys in the corresponding practice areas or industries may find of interest:
| Regulatory Agency | Practice Areas / Industry |
| US Citizenship and Immigration Services | Immigration, Employment |
| Internal Revenue Service | Estate Planning, Tax |
| Patent and Trademark Office | Intellectual Property |
| Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | Energy, Government Relations |
| Food and Drug Administration | Personal Injury, Pharmaceutical, Government Relations |
| Department of State | International Law, Immigration |
| Thrift Supervision Office | Financial Services |
| Securities and Exchange Commission | Financial Services, Securities, Consumer Law |
| Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation | Labor and Employment, Employee Benefits |
| DOJ Antitrust Division | Antitrust, Business, Consumer Law |
If you practice in an area affected by federal regulations, you probably already recognize that keeping abreast of new regulatory developments is essential. To assist you, Justia has released the free Justia Regulations Tracker, found at http://regulations.justia.com/ (currently in beta). Justia Regulations Tracker allows a user to focus on regulations originating from a specific federal agency and subscribe to an RSS feed of those regulations.
Better yet, you can further refine the RSS feed by specifying the type of regulation or stage in the regulation making process (i.e., rules, administrative orders, notices, proposed rules, executive orders, and proclamations) or even defining certain search terms, such as all regulations that mention bovine spongiform encephalitis.
If you aren't already on the RSS bandwagon, now is a great time hop aboard. RSS feeds allow you to take a particular set of data and view it using your RSS reader. So, instead of opening a print newspaper and reading the articles that the editors have selected for you, and RSS reader allows you create your own custom news and information source from data sources that you select. For lawyers, this means reading the federal regulations, court filings, legal commentary and other resources that you decide are worth tracking. Enjoy!
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Dockets.Justia.com -- beta 2 - More Updates & Faster
Hi Friends,
As I noted in a previous post (Federal Court Case Filings - Dockets.Justia.com).... we put up a "beta" free Website of new civil case filings. Well it has been a few weeks, and "beta 2" is here :)
Here is what we have fixed up.
1. We are now updating the dockets database continuously --- multiple updates each day.
2. We are checking for updates of previous dockets to pick up changes and corrections.
3. Faster. We have moved dockets to a very fast machine and have optimized the database for faster search results.
4. We have added additional docket information, including
a. the cause of action
b. the presiding judge (and referring judge if given)
c. whether a jury trial was demanded, and if so by which party.
5. We have put in additional links from each listing into relevant online databases, some specific to the type of case, such as patent searches for patent cases.
6. Additional interface changes. They are small, such as replacing the case number with the cause of action in the result listing pages, but they should make things more intuitive.
Anyway, we thought we had enough changes to announce a Dockets.Justia.com Beta 2. We have a lot of additional free features we are working on... but you will have to wait a bit longer for beta 3 :)
Peace,
Tim
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