For those who think the typical blogger is a twenty-something tapping on a laptop while wearing pajamas and listening to Death Cab for Cutie through earbuds, a Brookline woman who blogs on legal affairs for Slate magazine is an anomaly.

Details (as well as plenty of rumor and speculation) continue to emerge about how messages and images from Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's Yahoo! e-mail account were made public earlier this week. The FBI and U.S. Secret Service are in

A federal judge ruled Monday that registered sex offenders in three Missouri counties, including Cape Girardeau County, will not be forced to comply Friday with certain parts of a new Missouri law restricting their movement and behavior on Halloween.

Looking back at LegalTech West Coast 2008, Law.com Legal Technology editor Sean Doherty sorts through a long list of e-discovery fixes; explains this year's catchphrase: "act locally, act globally"; and test-drives Clio, practice management software th

He carries a gun in his boot, likes the smell of burning diesel and observes "Confederate Heroes Day" like a religious obligation. So go ahead, critics, make Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson's day.