The ABA is soliciting nominations for its 2011 “Blawg 100,” a listing of 100 blogs written by lawyers for lawyers. If you look at last year’s awards, you’ll see that there’s not even a category for international law blogs (though some international law blogs are included, for instance, the China Law Blog, in the “niche”……

This coming Monday, August 15, Letters Blogatory will be undergoing a technical upgrade. The process should be invisible to readers, but I’ve learned to take that kind of should with a grain of salt, so apologies in advance if you have trouble reading the blog on Monday. The process should be completed by Tuesday. There……

Like any blogger who covers developments in the case law, I sometimes cover cases involving persons or companies accused of unsavory things. Yesterday I received a comment from a reader who said that he was the victim of one of the alleged fraudsters I’ve written about. The comment didn’t have to do with the substance……

For those of you who are interested in my attempts to obtain copies of the testimony given at a recent Massachusetts legislative committee hearing on the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgment Recognition Act, here are the latest developments: I corresponded with the House chairman of the Joint Committee on the Judiciary, Rep. Eugene O’Flaherty (D-Chelsea), about……

There was a hearing today before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary of the Massachusetts legislature regarding the Uniform Foreign Court Money Judgment Act, which Massachusetts may adopt. The bill was introduced at the start of the current legislative session. I couldn’t attend the hearing, so I called the Committee’s offices to ask whether I……