Spindle Law now offers very thorough coverage of the extensively litigated dredge and fill regulation under the Clean Water Act.  Created and overseen by chief editor Professor Marcia Gelpe, with a good deal of suport from Kit Donnelly, it should be a great benefit to the many lawyers faced with questions on the dredge and fill provisions, as well as to lawyers involved in actions brought under this part of the statute.  Like the material on the Clean Air Act, it gives the practicing lawyer an excellent way of seeing how the statute is constructed and the issues that have arisen under it in litigation, as well as an easy tool for finding case law relevant to the issues.  Take a look.

I posted something over at our securities blog about a circuit split the Supreme Court just signed up to resolve.  I mention it here because following the links in it gives a sense of how Spindle handles circuit splits and other disagreements among authorities.

Back in June, Robert Richards (@richards1000), one of the world’s great conduits of information about legal information, retweeted this one from @lbergus:

I want a legal wiki where ppl post statements they want to find support for and the citations are crowdsourced.

I replied (in 2 parts), figuring Laura might like what we were doing over here at Spindle Law—and she did.  She reviewed us for Lawyerist, I chatted with her on her Legal Geekery podcast, and in other conversations and emails she offered all kinds of great ideas for our project.

Now, and for the next several weeks, Laura has agreed to blend her voice with ours.  She is tweeting from @spindlelaw, posting at our Facebook page, and setting us up on LinkedIn.  She’ll be blogging here from time to time here, and helping law school professors, librarians, and legal research and writing instructors use Spindle Law with their students.

Laura is a social media and technology specialist as well as a 3L at the University of Iowa College of Law.  She’s thoughtful on many subjects, so read her posts here and all the other places I just mentioned.  Welcome, Laura!