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Thursday, January 22, 2004
West v. Stanley: A case of Goliath tackling David? I was wondering last weekend why I couldn't access Justia.com, the Web site of FindLaw cofounder Tim Stanley. Turns out, LLRX.com has the answer. In a fascinating article, West Publishing Fires and Sues FindLaw Co-Founder Tim Stanley, lawyer and writer T.R. Halvorson documents the strange tale of the falling out between West and Stanley following the legal publishing giant's purchase of FindLaw in 2001. It is hard to feel sorry for Stanley -- Halvorson reports that West paid Stanley $2.8 million for his shares of FindLaw plus an annual salary of $200,000 not including incentives. Nevertheless, the article quotes West as claiming that Stanley's Justia Web site was "for all intents and purposes FindLaw II." Come on. Was Stanley's stab at setting up a search-engine optimization business really a competitive threat to FindLaw or West? Whatever the answer, the article is a must read. Convicted former nanny begins work as lawyer From law.com's Today's Brief comes a pointer to this article about former Boston-area nanny Louise Woodward's new job training to be a solicitor in the U.K. town of Oldham. In 2001, Woodward was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1997 death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. The conviction was later reduced to involuntary manslaughter and Woodward was allowed to return to her home in England. Wednesday, January 21, 2004
New electronic discovery portal and blog Electronic Discovery Resources is a useful and well-done site providing articles, news and Web links related to electronic discovery. It provides links to resources for case law, rules and regulations, CLE Webcasts, news articles and other resources. There is also a related blog, Alextronic Discovery. All of this is sponsored by the electronic discovery company Fios Inc. Tuesday, January 20, 2004
LinkedIn helps expand your circles of contacts I knew of lawyer and entrepreneur Mike Curreri from his having founded TrialNet in the mid-1990s. In fact, I wrote about him as an "Internet innovator" for Law Office Computing several years ago. So I was intrigued when I read this article in the Boston Globe about how Mike used LinkinIn.com to look for new professional opportunities -- sufficiently intrigued that I signed up myself. LinkedIn.com is a business networking service that operates along the "six degrees of separation" principle -- I know these people, who know these people, who know these people. You upload your contacts and LinkedIn tells you who among them are already members. You then invite other members to link to you, expanding your circles of potential contacts and theirs. You can also invite non-members to join. There is no fee for any of this, and I was pleasantly surprised to find quite a few people I knew were already members. I'm not sure where this will lead, but it is fun to play with. Monday, January 19, 2004
Detod portal and blawg search up for sale The Virtual Chase reports that Detod has put its legal portal up for sale. This includes the popular Blawg Search and its aggregator. Detod's notice says that the sale includes "a caselaw database feed that is not live yet, but the code is 98% finished." In place of legal research, the company will launch an e-mail hosting service. |
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