http://onward.justia.com/ en-us 2008-04-29T23:46:36-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/justia-news-204-wwu-seattle-vancouver-visit-2008.html Hi Friends,Dan, Cicely and I flew over Oregon and headed up to LexBlog Country in the great Northwest. We were there to do some interviewing of computer folks... but we also had some fun (Seattle/As game, Vancouver and more :).Dan... Justia News Tim Stanley 2008-04-29T23:46:36-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-203-cease-desist-resist-oregons-copyright-claim-on-the-oregon-revised-statutes.html Hi Friends, Last week, the State of Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee sent Justia a notice of copyright infringement and demand to cease and desist. In its letter, Dexter Johnson, the Legislative Counsel, asked us to remove a copy of the... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2008-04-19T09:19:57-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-202-us-legislative-histories-sold-to-thomsonwest-by-the-gao.html Hi Friends, As public domain information hero Carl Malamud is working on getting case law online and into the public domain (we have helped a bit :). Carl, donors, and the Public.Resource.org team have done a lot and... more... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2008-03-18T19:03:19-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-201-jdsupra-free-user-generated-legal-document-forms-brief-library-open-to-all.html Hi Friends,JDSupra has officially launched and opened its site to the public today. The JDSupra site allows legal professionals to upload legal documents, memos, forms, filings and briefs and share them with the legal community. On the marketing front,... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2008-02-26T08:00:00-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-200-the-public-library-of-law-the-largest-free-us-case-law-database-on-the-internet-from-fastcase.html Hi Friends,The team at FastCase have announced the largest free online US case law database at The Public Library of Law at plol.org. The site is GREAT! The database of cases includes all of the Supreme Court cases and... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2008-02-13T18:52:49-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-199-legal-commons-free-us-court-of-appeals-us-supreme-court-case-law-by-way-of-publicresourceorg-and-the-creative-commons.html Hi Friends,Here comes the Legal Commons.Carl Malamud and the team at Public.Resource.org with Larry Lessig and the Creative Commons gang got the FastCase deal done and the case law online. The cases include all of the Federal Court of... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2008-02-12T09:12:23-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-198-free-case-law-from-precydentcom.html Hi Friends,More free case law has come online. PreCYdent has added 300,000 Federal cases to their database at http://www.PreCYdent.com. They have built in some nice community tools for commenting and rating the cases. And they have a new search... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2008-01-30T18:04:35-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-197-us-supreme-court-photos.html I found this photo of the U.S. Supreme Court on flickr, the photo-sharing website owned by Yahoo!. Sure, there are a lot of photos on flickr. However, this photo was uploaded by the Library of Congress. Is this the federal... Useful Tools & Web Sites Ken 2008-01-23T09:28:20-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/google-196-fcc-announces-accepted-applications-for-700-mhz-band-auction.html FCC 700 MHz Band Auction Auction ID: 73 Accepted Applications (Sorted by Applicant) Date of Report: 12/18/2007 01:13 PM ET The following applicants have an Initial filing phase status of "Accepted." FRN Name Bidding CreditRevenue Range 0002805596 Adams Telcom, Inc.... Google Ken 2007-12-19T11:12:34-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-195-free-courts-of-appeals-decisions-from-1950-and-all-us-supreme-court-decisions-since-1754-coming-soon.html Hi Friends,Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.org have gotten together with Ed Walters CEO of FastCase and are happy to announce that they will be putting online an archive of US Appeal Court decisions since 1950 and all of the US... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-11-14T09:57:20-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/justia-news-194-message-from-ithaca.html We are waiting... but will not wait too long.... Justia News Cornell LII 2007-11-08T07:59:12-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-193-stanford-copyright-and-fair-use-website-updated.html Hi Friends,The new Stanford Copyright & Fair Use site is up :) And I have not even gotten on the plane...Mary Minow, Jon Silver and Justia's Cicely, Courtney, Dan, Nick and Vasu made it happen.More info on the site once... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-11-06T11:31:34-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-192-cornell-lii-director-tom-bruce-visits-stanford-justia.html Hi Friends,One of the biggest forces in free online legal information, Tom Bruce, Director of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School stopped by to meet with the gang at Justia. It was great talking through ideas about... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-10-13T01:51:22-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-191-new-jurist-server-enters-the-cage.html Hi Friends,Last night I had a good "trip" to the cage to add a new fast Web server for the Jurist Community and News Website run by Professor Bernard Hibbitts and his team. Ok... well technically I just watched... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-10-11T16:10:05-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-190-free-federal-district-court-opinions-database-with-rss-feeds-full-text-search.html Hi Friends,We recently added the a FREE database of Federal District Court Opinions since 2004 that are available using the opinion report in the Federal Courts' ECF. The database is updated daily.Here is the URL for the Federal District Court... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-09-30T20:31:22-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-188-carl-malamud-publicresourceorg-and-free-case-law.html Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-09-09T15:13:40-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/blogs-187-new-lexblog-real-lawyers-have-blogs-blog.html Hi Friends,Kevin O'Keefe and the LexBlog team have updated the design and features of the LexBlog's "Real Lawyers Have Blogs" Blog. LexBlog has changed the blog into a resource center for legal bloggers, with a Chicago Cubs look and feel... Blogs Tim Stanley 2007-09-07T17:35:13-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/web-site-design-186-bellingham-law-office-and-riley-the-dog.html Hi Friends,Cicely traveled up to Bellingham, Washington to meet with a new client Anderson, Connell & Carey to check out what the Bellingham work environment of ocean views and clean air is really like.Debra Sheldon stands outside the office :)Riley... Web Site Design Tim Stanley 2007-09-06T11:45:21-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/blogs-185-blawgsearch-top-law-professor-blogs-by-edu-visitors-and-top-blawgs-for-august-2007.html Hi Friends,First, here are the top ten law professor blogs as determined by vistors on .edu networks on BlawgSearch.com. I set this filter up for Professor J. Robert Brown, Jr. and a paper he was writing on blogs and reputation.... Blogs Tim Stanley 2007-09-05T15:46:51-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-184-aba-journal-website-news-articles-blawgs.html Hi Friends,Let me start our new month of blogging with a post on the great new ABA Journal Website. The site went live a few weeks ago, and includes articles from the magazine, updated daily news and a legal blog... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-09-04T08:02:11-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/blogs-183-back-to-blogging-and-congrats-to-appalachian-state.html Hi Friends,Ken, Stacy and I are going to get back to blogging... finally :) We have been working on a few legal information projects this summer... which we talk about in the next few weeks.But first, congrats to Appalachian State... Blogs Tim Stanley 2007-09-02T12:47:57-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/blogs-181-technolawyer-blawgworld-2007-ebook-released.html Hi Friends,This years BlawgWorld e-book is out from Neil Squillante, Sara Skiff and the TechnoLawyer Team.The BlawgWorld 2007 ebook has sample posts from a number of blogs, AND a legal technology solutions guide. You can download the ebook here. It... Blogs Tim Stanley 2007-07-31T09:28:24-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/attorney-advertising-180-new-york-lawyer-advertising-rules-found-unconstitutional-by-federal-district-court-new-rules-violate-first-amendment-right-to-freedom-of-speech.html The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York granted a permanent injunction against a number of the amended rules on attorney advertising that had become effective in February, finding portions of the new rules unconstitutional as protected... Attorney Advertising stacy 2007-07-25T12:38:08-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-179-court-tv-rebranded-trutv.html Hi Friends,Turner Entertainment Networks has announced plans to re-brand Court TV as truTV starting January 1, 2008. The network will also sport a new logo, new look and expanded line-up focused on the psychographic known as "Real Engagers". truTv plans... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-07-13T07:03:23-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-178-alm-american-lawyer-media-sold-for-630-million-to-london-bases-incisive-media.html Hi Friends,ALM has been sold for $630 Million to Incisive Media. You can read more about in the press releases here and here.See Bob Ambrogi's post and Mark Obbie's post (found on LawSites) for more info...Peace,Tim :: Peace Frog, Morrison... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-07-05T10:46:39-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/web-directories-177-avvo-sued-over-lawyer-rating-system-update-3.html Hi Friends,A class action law suit was filed today against Avvo. You can get more information from LexBlog's Kevin O'Keefe's blog and/or read the complaint. Kevin has some additional commentary and resources about the case, so news.justia.com (which is in... Web Directories Tim Stanley 2007-06-14T23:49:33-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/blogs-176-lawyer-videos-on-websites-blogs-and-googtube-et-al.html Hi Friends,In the next week, I will be writing a series of posts on making and using video in your Website or blog. Many people, and a few lawyers, are making and uploading video for use on their Websites or... Blogs Tim Stanley 2007-06-12T13:59:39-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/blogs-175-blawg-review-112.html Hi Friends,Welcome to our take on the blawgosphere in this Blawg Review #112 of the review of blawgs. It has been a fun week of reading blogs and interesting posts. Many thanks to the Blawg Review editors for giving us... Blogs Tim Stanley 2007-06-11T04:55:59-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/web-directories-173-avvo-lawyer-directoy-is-live-looks-good.html Hi Friends,LexBlog's Kevin O'Keefe called it.... Avvo is live. Nice clean graphics and fonts that look like Google Analytics (bold Arial).The focus is on the attorney, not the law firm, and listings are free. There will be additional advertising and... Web Directories Tim Stanley 2007-06-05T10:37:17-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-172-avvo-to-release-tomorrow.html Hi Friends,There is a mention on LexBlog's Kevin O'Keefe's Blog that Avvo may release their site tomorrow.Currently neither TechCrunch Attorney Michael Arrington nor ValleyWag has info on the new Avvo site... yet... so confirmation is a leak away. We may... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-06-04T19:22:41-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/blogs-171-justia-blawgsearchcom-may-2007-most-popular-blogs.html Hi Friends,Here are the most popular blogs on BlawgSearch.com for May 2007. Above the Law dominated nearly every day.Above the Law [feed]A legal tabloid that provides news and gossip about the profession's colorful personalities and powerful institutions, as well as... Blogs Tim Stanley 2007-06-04T10:27:35-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/blogs-170-add-blawgsearchcom-search-results-to-your-website-or-blog.html Hi Friends,We have added the ability for you to have BlawgSearch search results on your Website or Blog with your own look and feel.The html code for adding the Blawg Search results to your Website or legal Blog is... Blogs Tim Stanley 2007-05-24T09:45:32-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-169-yaptacom-tracking-airline-fare-price-drops-getting-coupons.html Hi Friends,I initially wrote this up for the LMA list, but after rereading my email I figured it would be a good post. And it has Bellingham Washington in it, which is good.There is a new free service that... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-05-22T15:18:50-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/blogs-168-blawgsearchcom-current-historical-blawg-rankings.html Hi Friends,We have added historical snapshots of the most popular blawgs on a monthly basis since we released BlawgSearch in October of 2006. For each month we have listed the 200 most popular blawgs overall, as well as the top... Blogs Tim Stanley 2007-05-22T10:04:29-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-167-legal-newswire-for-thomsonreuters.html Hi Friends,This from Today's New York Times...While no decisions have yet been made, he [Tom Glocer] said Reuters might hire about 50 additional journalists to create a legal news wire, integrating it with Thomson’s current offerings to lawyers.Interesting... and I... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-05-16T09:34:31-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/justia-news-166-gino-wins.html Stacy, Dana and I went to the Contra Costa Bodybuilding, Figure & Fitness Championships on Saturday to cheer our friend Gino Eagle Johnson on in the Ultra Grand Masters category.The Ultra Grand Masters is the division for those over 60.... Justia News Tim Stanley 2007-05-15T09:07:09-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-165-tom-glocers-blog-reuters-ceo-and-new-thomson-ceo.html Hi Friends,Tom Glocer, Reuters' CEO and likely new Thomson CEO to be, has his own blog. Just a few posts, but Tom is posting himself. Click here to read Tom's Blog.Source: WSJ Law Blog CommentPeace,Tim :: HBR IdeaCast from Harvard... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-05-08T12:25:45-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-163-llrxcom-new-design-is-live.html Hi Friends,The new LLRX.com Web site that we worked on for/with Sabrina Pacifici is now live. While it is primarily an editorial research Website, there is a section on law firm marketing, and a lot of tech tips that are... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-04-30T11:34:52-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/blogs-162-pacific-northwest-meeting-with-lexblogs-kevin-okeefe.html Hi Friends,No trip to the great Northwest can take place without a meeting with the blog man himself, Lexblog CEO Kevin O'Keefe. Well this time we met up in Bellingham right in the middle of Dirty Dan Days in Fairhaven.KOK... Blogs Tim Stanley 2007-04-29T22:41:02-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/justia-news-161-linuxfest-northwest.html Hi Friends,As part of our Bellingham recruitment trip we went to Linuxfest Northwest... to find Bellingham linux people and perl/python programmers.Me with The Bird.Google recruitment table :)Second Life & Silicon Mechanics - the sponsors of... The Party.The organizers table... While... Justia News Tim Stanley 2007-04-28T21:16:43-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/justia-news-160-fun-in-the-sun-at-the-western-washington-university-career-fair.html Hi Friends,Cicely and I went to Bellingham and the Western Washington University Career Fair, and met a lot of great students and people who wanted to put up free case law :).Cicely and Ocean ViewWe are also going to be... Justia News Tim Stanley 2007-04-27T10:27:36-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/blogs-159-tech-executive-blogs-to-avoid-irrelevance.html In H.P. Tries to Create Printers That Love the Web, the New York Times reported on this comment by Vyomesh I. Joshi, the Executive Vice President of HP's Imaging and Printing Group: "Reluctantly, I am doing blogs," he told the... Blogs Ken 2007-04-10T10:53:34-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/justia-news-158-sf-giants-opening-day.html Hi Friends,I "skipped" work today and went to the SF Giants opener with Acendi Software CEO Charlie Moore (who took us all -- thanks!!!!), one of my many attorneys Ruben Sundeen, bike photographer Kent Williams and Acendi team members (others... Justia News Tim Stanley 2007-04-03T22:50:39-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/useful-tools-web-sites-157-jurist-legal-website-and-community-celebrate-10-years-online.html 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 blogJurist, the well known legal news and law school community Website... Useful Tools & Web Sites Tim Stanley 2007-03-27T21:02:22-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/blogs-156-bay-area-blawgers-gettogether-march-28-68-pm-at-the-santa-clara-law-school-high-tech-law-institute.html 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... Blogs Tim Stanley 2007-03-26T07:36:05-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/justia-news-154-justia-regulation-tracker-beta-tracking-federal-regulations-rules-proposed-rules-and-notices.html 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... Justia News Ken 2007-03-09T08:28:07-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/justia-news-152-docketsjustiacom-beta-2-more-updates-faster.html 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... Justia News Tim Stanley 2007-03-05T15:38:15-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/google-151-dont-let-your-clients-sit-in-traffic.html Google Maps now offers real-time traffic conditions via a Traffic text button. This button may be found in the upper right-hand corner of the map where the other buttons are located for alternating between the Map, Satellite and Hybrid... Google Ken 2007-02-28T11:47:27-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/justia-news-149-federal-court-case-filings-docketsjustiacom.html Hi Friends,We put up a Website with the new civil case filings in the US District Courts with links into Pacer for the full docket and filing information and News, Finance, Web and Blog Internet resources. The URL is: http://dockets.justia.comIt... Justia News Tim Stanley 2007-02-14T17:15:38-08:00 http://onward.justia.com/web-site-design-150-polishing-your-online-portrait.html Earlier this week, the New York Times reported on the use of digital photos by realtors on real estate websites: When selling properties online, agents and Web designers say that the pictures buyers see of houses and apartments for sale... Web Site Design Ken 2007-02-14T14:23:02-08:00