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Last updated on February 8th 2010.
Here is a list of some useful USA Legal News Sources:
FindLaw's Legal News provides a wide range of current
legal news stories, grouped by major heading, e.g. US Supreme Court, Business, Civil Rights, Crime, and so on.
FindLaw started in 1996 when two attorneys compiled a list of Internet resources for a group of law
librarians in northern California. The company is now owned by Thomson Reuters.
JURIST is a Web-based legal news and real-time legal research
service powered by a mostly-volunteer team of over 30 part-time law student reporters, editors and Web
developers led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. They track important legal news stories and materials and aim to present them rapidly,
objectively and intelligibly in an accessible, ad-free format.
JURIST says that it covers legal news stories based on their substantive importance rather than on
their mass-market or commercial appeal.
Law.com is an extensive source of legal news.
This site, part of the American Lawyer Media group, has now "gathered up" a number of previously independent
legal web sites and businesses.
Other sites in the group cover legal jobs, legal training, directories of attorneys and various legal data bases.
LLRX (Law Library Resource Xchange) is a free, independent,
Web journal providing information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues,
applications, resources and tools.
NewsLinx provides "Information Technology Headlines From Around
The Web" (not specifically legal ones). Everything you could want (and more).
bizjournals provides business news "from around the country"
linked with many local news sources.
For more legal sites in the USA, see my page
here.
Last updated on January 29th 2010.
Three unusual sites! (I report these with a straight face)
serial-litigants.com provides
a unique and valuable service to those who find themselves caught up in employment tribunal litigation.
They undertake a nation-wide search of your opponent to find out whether they have previously won or
lost any employment tribunal cases. Armed with information about other claims, the opportunities
for achieving a successful outcome (or even a strike-out without a full cost hearing) can be greatly increased.
There has been an Early Day Motion with 40 MP's signatures, against this site.
Solicitors from Hell is a site for individuals to put
up bad remarks about their solicitors. Then (according to the Law Society Gazette) solicitors can pay £299 to get the entries removed.
Apparently, this is a lot cheaper than the usual legal redress for libel.
Miners Compensation Claims is a site from Jordans Solicitors
"Calling all miners suffering from Vibration White Finger (VWF)" who have already made a claim but who
did not include damages for services in the claim – every day tasks such as DIY, gardening, window cleaning,
decorating or car maintenance. Apparently, it has been estimated that
approximately 50,000 miners who are entitled did not submit services claims.
Last updated on January 24th 2010.
Getting quite close and well worth a visit - major exhibition of legal technology - and it's all free
Legal IT show 2010 takes place on 10th & 11th February 2010
at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London. This is the largest exhibition of its type in Europe.
Opening times are 9 30 to 5pm on 10th Feb and 9 30 to 4 30pm on Feb 11th.
You can register for a free visitor pass for the exhibition
here.
Keynote Speakers include Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan Management School and
Dr. Karen Stephenson, CEO, Netform. There is a new Parallel "VIP" Stream which runs alongside the regular meeting.
This is an opportunity for (invited) Managing Partners, Finance Directors, IT Directors and Practice Directors from the
UK 300 firms to participate in workshop sessions with the Keynote Speakers.
There are also 'strategy lab' discussions, live interviews and interactive practitioner panel debates.
These are all free.
Last updated on January 22nd 2010.
Very exciting.....
data.gov.uk is a new site launched by the Government to provide free
access to all the data currently held by government (and therefore created by our taxes) which may be of use to
individuals or organisations. This has been the culmination of a study of several years length, advised by
(amonst others) Tim Berners-Lee. The site uses open standards, open source and open data: these are the core
elements of a modular, sustainable system. You can browse the data sets (listed alphabetically) or search them
by key word. There is further information about the semantic web - putting out data in a form which can be understood by other applications.
And see the USA site
Data.gov.
Last updated on January 18th 2010.
The Jackson report,
written by Lord Justice Jackson, is a review of civil litigation costs. In the forward, he says
"In some areas of civil litigation costs are disproportionate and impede access to
justice. I therefore propose a coherent package of interlocking reforms, designed to
control costs and promote access to justice." (This is a pdf of 584 pages). Detailed analysis and references
to other reports can be found on
The Legal Costs Blog from
Gibbs Wyatt Stone, the Defendant Costs Specialists.
Last updated on January 17th 2010.
The Lawyers Defence Group is a new body set up by
Richard Nelson Solicitors and Murdochs Solicitors to provide all lawyers (solicitors, barristers, legal executives and
paralegals) with access to practical and expert advice on a wide range of conduct, disciplinary, practice,
partnership and employment issues. Areas covered include how to manage a practice and supervise staff to
assistance in disciplinary, criminal or civil proceedings. The group believes that the regulatory structure
changes so fast that practitioners cannot always keep up with it - and then they may need help when something
goes wrong. They have offices in London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Nottingham, Manchester and Bristol, and they also have
access to a panel of other solicitors, barristers and consultants throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland.
There is useful information on the site and you can also register (it's free) to obtain more detailed information
and support.
Last updated on January 7th 2010.
Latest legal blog
BDN Blog is written by Andrew Walker of Bircham Dyson Bell. The blog
is actually about planning Law and in particular, about the implementation of the Planning Act 2008, which
introduces a new regime for the authorisation of large infrastructure such as airport runways, nuclear power stations,
windfarms, reservoirs and incinerators. It is principally aimed at
non-lawyers - whether potential clients or fellow consultants - although lawyers will also find it useful.
Last updated on January 5th 2010.
Industrial Tribunals and The Fair Employment Tribunal
of Northern Ireland share a web site.
Industrial Tribunals are independent judicial bodies in Northern Ireland that hear and determine claims
to do with employment matters. These include a range of claims relating to unfair dismissal, breach of contract,
wages and other payments as well as discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, age,
part time working and equal pay.
The Fair Employment Tribunal is an independent judicial body in Northern Ireland that hears and
determines complaints of discrimination on the grounds of religious belief or political opinion.
You can search on the site for main decisions of the Industrial Tribunals or The Fair Employment Tribunal or both Tribunals.
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