Legal Research Blog

Every once in a while, I’ll come across a law blog that does not have an RSS feed. The problem isn’t that their blog software doesn’t support RSS feeds. Instead, these bloggers have gone out of their way to disable their feed. I don’t get it.
The entire point of blogging, I thought, [...]

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The Greatest Generation liberated Europe from Nazi Germany, and the most-privileged generation whines about free wi-fi. Yes, I’m from the generation of whiners and complainers. I’m using the “free” wireless Internet connection at a hospital, and I hate it because free also means filtered, censored, or whatever else you want to call it.Now, I [...]

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Ken Shigley: Ford - Volvo divorce in the works?. When Ford acquired Volvo a few years ago, I thought it was quite a mismatch of corporate cultures. Volvo had a reputation for building the world’s safest cars. Ford, on the other hand, sometimes seemed only slightly ahead of Yugo in that regard.
In his observations [...]

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Kevin O’Keefe noted that a California Court of Appeals had vacated a judgment in a case where a juror failed to disclose that he was an attorney. He also blogged about the case while it was pending.Here’s the decision: People v. McNeely. In this case, a jury had convicted McNeely of residential [...]

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Legal Juice is a new blog by John B. Mesirow of Mesirow & Stravitz, a Washington D.C. personal injury law firm. Unlike the countless other legal blogs out there, this one focuses on the lighter side of the law by highlighting all things humorous about the legal profession, ranging from odd cases and strange [...]

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Justia recently launched BlawgSearch, a search engine that scours through lawyer and law-related blogs. I think this will be a great research tool for lawyers.
If you come across a case or law in your daily practice and want to see what other lawyers have said about it, Justia’s BlawgSearch lets you search across hundreds [...]

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