Here's another annoying administrative item for the new year. Former clients of Brobeck, the big Silicon Valley law firm which went bust in 2003, will want to get in touch with one David Kirsch at the University of Maryland. If they don't opt out, litigation correspondence, employment agreements and other legal records will be available to researchers into the "Dot Com Era". Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, before it was dissolved, represented tech companies such as Broadcom and E*Trade, and venture capital firms such as Kleiner Perkins and Accel Partners. As part of the law firm's liquidation, client records are to be preserved by the Robert H. Smith School of Business. Tom Fragala has more details. For the letter, with Kirsch's snailmail address: