Tag Archive: legal

Jan
01

Happy New Year 2008!

Has it been a year already? It seems like such a short time ago that I sat up at 2 a.m. in a hotel room in San Simeon, CA writing about 2006. I claimed 2006 incredible and, an “oddity” in my life as for the first time in recent years I was not alone and …

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Jul
18

Two new Justia Services, Thanks Google!

The time has come once again for an announcement of something I’ve been working on at Justia. Actually this is a double announcement of not one but two new services that I can finally mention today. The first is a whole new way to Search Justia’s massive amounts of free legal information, and it’s thanks …

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May
21

BlawgSearch to Go

The first project with Justia I mentioned on this blog was BlawgSearch, a free search engine that focuses on Legal blogs and podcasts. I’ve been hard at work with the rest of the Justia team on new improvements to BlawgSearch, which today include our new “Friend Search” system and a history of the top blawgs …

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Mar
06

Justia Regulation Tracker

Perhaps the most controversial aspect of this year’s MacWorld Conference and Expo, which my wife and I got to attend, was not the announcement of the iPhone, but the lack of the phrase “And now, one more thing” which has been Steve Jobs’ catch phrase at his keynotes for quite some time now. Since Jobs …

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Feb
16

Justia Federal District Court Filings and Dockets

I’m really excited about a new project I have been working on for my job. Justia Federal District Court Filings and Dockets is a new project I have had the pleasure of working on for Justia (the company I work for). This project is a database of all of the civil cases filed in federal …

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Jan
17

Justia in the News Again

I previously mentioned a project I’ve had the opportunity to work on at my new job known as BlawgSearch, a search engine for legal blogs. Today BusinessWire contains a press release Officially announcing BlawgSearch to the world. BlawgSearch is by far one of the most advanced bits of coding I’ve ever had the privilege of …

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Jan
04

Justia Superstar

I previously mentioned that I was sitting on something very cool with my new job, Justia. I did not want to mention it in my blog before they had a chance to release a press release on this announcement. Google has named Justia an Enterprise Search Superstar for it’s use of the Google mini to …

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Dec
19

Life Changes

My last blog post before this one was in August and things have definitely changed in the lives of Barbara and I since then. The biggest change (really the only change but it has effected so much of my life it’s really a category rather then an item) is that I got a new job. …

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Oct
30

On Ben’s view on how to fix the Legislature

Ben posted in his blog today (2011 Editorial note, over the years Ben eventually Abandoned his blog and the original post is gone, you can see a copy of Ben’s original article on the Wayback machine on the Internet Archive here.)about a plan on how to “fix” the United States Legislative Branch by getting rid …

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