What Price Visuals?

The Doc camera fund still could use your help. Look top right here, and donate while the donating's good.

If It Blogs It Leads

The Christmas Eve edition of California's Daily Journal included a front-page story on how weblogs have offered commentary and counterpoint concerning the allegations against former Boalt Hall Dean, John Dwyer. I can't link you to the article (subscribers only, through DJC Law), but the blogs featured were Xrlq's Blog, Stefan Sharkansky's Shark Blog and Erin O'Connor's Critical Mass.

Visa Stamped

Jose Latour and his immigration law firm, Latour & Lleras, won one of the Inc. Magazine "Transformations" Web awards for the usvisanews.com site. Inc.'s article describes how the site has helped make the practice more manageable and more visible. (It doesn't discuss why Jose's Port Of Entry column isn't a blog.)

Federal Courts Rule

(Started to type "Federal Court Rules," but the alternative version's a marked improvement.) A colleague at the office recently sent two useful links my way. The first he dubbed "The Mother Of All Federal Courts Link Lists," and it rounds up links to the Web sites for every federal appellate and trial court in the U.S. The related map page also is nice.

Then, just when I thought I'd had all the adreneline one day could contain, he sent me this search at LLRX, which yields 213 links to local rules of the U.S. federal courts. To paraphrase Jim Carrey, "Somebody stop him!"

O Joy, O Rapture, O eCourt Records

Roger Winters, Electronic Court Records Manager for the King County Superior Court Clerk's Office (Seattle), writes the Electronic Court Records Blog. [via Rory Perry] In California, the Judicial Council's Reporting of the Record Task Force is busy examining, among other things, how best to produce a useful electronic record on appeal. Here's a related press release and the Task Force member roster.