When I was a young associate at a large NYC law firm I was taught that it was important to keep current by reading advance sheets. Today, the internet and certain web blogs provide an excellent opportunity for the attorney/law professor to remain current. The problem is the controlling the amount of information and choosing which sites to regularly visit. Which sites you regularly visit (and we hope ours will be one of them) very much depends upon your practice area and which state you practice in. I hail from New York, practice labor, employment and education law so my favorite web sites and blogs are going to lean in that direction. For professors and students looking for law review topics, these sites are also excellent reference material. My favorites are:
1. Cornell Law School LiiBulletin (sends out email summarizing all Supreme Court cases)
2. Workplace Prof Blog (regularly reports on new scholarship and important cases in field of labor, employment and employee benefits law)
3. New York Personnel Law Blog (summarizes important New York public sector employment law cases as federal employment cases)
4. New York Law Journal (Official Newspaper which reports on important New York cases)
5. New York Slip Opinion Service (Provides full text copies of all appellate and selected trial level court decisions in New York)
6. Law Blog Metrics (Provides a long taxonomy of legal blogs arranged by category)
7. Special Education Law Blog (provides summary of important developments in field of special education)
8. Professor Ross Runkel’s Law Memo (provides summary of important cases in labor and employment law and summarizes all pending U.S. Supreme Court cases and provides links to Court briefs)
I can go on, but it defeats the purpose to provide too many.
Mitch Rubinstein