For a summary of the key Supreme Court cases decided this term check out this week’s Lawyer 2 Lawyer Podcast, hosted by Robert Ambrogi and featuring two Supreme Court experts.  Click here for more details.

We now have a site-license for unlimited access to all articles and cases found on the websites of four major legal newspapers: The New York Law Journal, The New Jersey Law Journal, The National Law Journal, and The American Lawyer. These sites offer the latest legal news, with a six-month archive. Earlier content is available […]

Take a break from the tedium of law study and enjoy the pleasures of punctuation!  September 24 is National Punctuation Day:  “A celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis.”  How do you celebrate such an event?  Enter the Presidential Punctuation Challenge; entries […]

Haven’t been able to make it to London for the Olympics?  Curious about the many different laws and regulations that underlie and sometimes impact what has been described as “the world’s most recognized international sporting event”?  It’s not too late to explore the wide-ranging Olympics and International Sports Law Research Guide produced by the Georgetown Law […]

Sunday April 22, 2012 is Earth Day. Repeating last year’s theme of A Billion Acts of Green®, a “people-powered campaign to generate a billion acts of environmental service and advocacy . . .” the folks at the Earth Day Network have almost reached their goal:  the total Acts of Green reported as of the morning […]

This is the time of year when our thoughts have turned to the issue of taxation.  Whether you have already submitted your tax returns or continue to fiddle with them under an extension, you may want to take an enjoyable look at the Tax History Project, created by Tax Analysts, publisher of Tax Notes. The Tax History Project […]

Take a break from the tedium of law study and enjoy the pleasures of punctuation!  September 24 is National Punctuation Day:  “A celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis.”  How do you celebrate such an event?  Enter the Punctuation Paragraph Contest; entries […]

It’s that time of year again! Are you looking for tax forms?  You can find federal forms at the IRS site at  http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html?portlet=3. If you are looking for New York forms, go to  http://www.tax.ny.gov/forms/.  If you need forms from other states there are links to all state tax forms from the Federation of Tax Administrators […]

According to a Duke Law professor and a Rutgers Business professor, average ticket prices for baseball games have increased 265% over the last two decades, more than four times the inflation rate.  Those same professors suggest that tax laws that allow businesses to write off tickets to sports events as entertainment expenses are partly to […]