Legal Workshop - Legal Scholarship in Lay Terms

The Legal Workshop is a website providing an online forum for legal scholarship from the top law journals in the country. If you are looking for a concise summaries of law review articles written in plain English, the Legal Workshop might be exactly what you are looking for. Current law review members are:

• Cornell Law Review
• Duke Law Journal
• Georgetown Law Journal
• New York University Law Review
• Northwestern University Law Review
• Stanford Law Review
• University of Chicago Law Review

Via Law.com,

The site aims to bring content from some of the most prestigious law reviews in the nation to a wider audience by offering condensed version of articles translated from scholarly language into plain English, and at no cost.

The New York University Law Review managing editor Matthew Lawrence who helped launch this website said:

Our goal was to provide free legal scholarship in a format accessible to laypersons.

The Legal Workshop website allows you to browse by a topic and/or a journal. You can subscribe to receive all new updates via email and/or by adding a RSS feed to your reader, such as Google Reader, or to your Outlook RSS feeds. You can also subscribe to the user-submitted comments feed.

U.S. Court of Appeals For The 1st Circuit Implements RSS

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit announced the implementation of RSS feed on their official website. The audio recordings of the court's oral arguments and electronic versions of the court's opinions are now available via RSS (Real Simple Syndication).

Until now, electronic versions of the court's opinions were available only through e-mail with an opinion attached. We will soon be phasing out this method and strongly encourage current subscribers to convert to RSS, which will allow you to search, sort, and filter information.

Please click here to read the full announcement of the court and to learn how to set up your RSS reader that collects the information for you. Standard web browsers, such are FireFox, Safari, Opera, or Internet Explorer have RSS readers embedded within, or you can set up other readers such as Google Reader. Once you have your reader set up, add the URL for desired RSS feed to your reader which will automatically deliver the information without cluttering your email inbox.

This is the RSS feed URL for the U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit opinions: http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/

The site also offers news updates under What's New.