Sunday, March 18, 2007 7:09 AM
Blawg's Sunday Paper, a quick spin through the blawgosphere and the week that was.
Sabrini Pacifici at beSpacific noted Hearing Examines Exposure of Covert CIA Agent Valerie Plame Wilson's Identity and included a host of documents and links to related materials.
Geoffrey G. Gussis at InhouseBlog said to Protect Your Marks in the .ASIA TLD: Call MIS, call your CIO - call the IP attorneys. In short, it’s time to make sure that your trademarks are not snapped up by a domain name pirate in connection with the launch .ASIA, the latest top level domain to hit the market. If you failed to grab your .EU domain names, don’t make the same mistake again...
The Carnegie Legal Reporting Program Blog reported, in the post Flooding the zone, that Veteran courthouse reporter Mary Flood took a break from deadline toil after her groundbreaking coverage in the Houston Chronicle of the Enron scandal. Now, after recruiting fresh talent for the Chron, she's back on a new beat, covering the legal business. Here's Legal Trade, her new blog...
And speaking of Ms. Flood, she started off Here's Legal Trade with a couple of interesting posts. The first, Judge Posner, Judge Criss and Other Bloggers in Robes, related to a "story about judicial bloggers," in the Houston Chronicle, and the second asking simply Should We Require Lawyers to Have a Clue?
Class Action Defense Blog reported from California that Employment Law Class Action Lawsuits Regain Top Spot In Weekly California State And Federal Court Class Action Filings
Lavi Soloway at Soloway offered a recap and some photographs from the LeGal Foundation Dinner NYC Lesbian & Gay Lawyers Hold Annual Dinner. From the report, it sounded like there were a lot of law firms in attendance:
Most of the well-appointed tables purchased by the city's leading and most prestigious law firms, apparent from the little white signs that seemed to sprout up from the center of each one proudly announcing the names of the impressive sponsors. (Well done, Dinner Committee!) From my vantage point at one of those tables, I was able to see Proskauer Rose, Willkie Farr, Weil Gotshal, Davis Polk, Cravath, and others. Across the room I visited my friends at Bryan Cave, and stopped to say hi and take pictures at Pillsbury Winthrop, Mayer Brown and, possibly the most famous of all LeGal supporters, Sullivan & Cromwell.
Dennis Kennedy will be talking about blogging tomorrow night in St. Louis and wants to meet you if you are in town: Idea Market: Meet Me in St. Louis to Talk About Blogging. Stop by his post to find out details.
Ross Runkel at Ross' Employment Law Blog wrote about Sciolino v. Newport News (4th Cir 03/12/2007) in Personnel files, reputation, and the constitution: "Stigma plus" without publication is what it is called. The result: a public employer violates the due process clause by putting damaging information into a personnel file without giving the employee a name-clearing hearing.
Steve Matthews at Vancouver Law Librarian Blog posted about the Biggest Hurdles for Law Firm RSS Adoption:
Admittedly, the adoption rate for RSS in law firms has been slow. Despite some good coverage in legal publications, many Lawyers still aren't aware the technology even exists. And when they have been savvy enough to know and ask, the reception from many CIOs and systems departments has been luke warm.
So if RSS is as important as many of us believe, why hasn't it received any priority? and why haven't more lawyers adopted? There are no simple answers, but I'll try to identify some of the biggest hurdles below, and how we might respond...[Hit the link above to see the hurdles and thoughts about each].
Law Dawg Blawg offered a book review on Inheritance Law and the Evolving Family by Ralph C. Brashier [This Week's Featured Book].
And, finally, in the first instance I have seen of a legal-specific comic strip being delivered via RSS, you LawComix and its Scribble-in-Law strip are now available via RSS feed. You might consider subscribing via your favorite feed reader. Scribble-in-Law is a new law cartoon from Charles Fincher. Several new strips will be posted each week. Each current cartoon is rotated to the archive when a new one is posted.
Have a great Sunday...