Miscellaneous

Battle of the Blawging Behemoths

Posted on January 02, 2008
Today is the last day of voting for the readers' favorites among the ABA Journal Blawg 100. While my own blog's tally in the vote has been paltry (I'm in the Lawyer's Toolkit section, should you wish to soothe my embarrassment), some others have been rallying the vote with great success...

'Transparent' Search Tool Sets Jan. 7 Launch

Posted on January 01, 2008
The founder of Wikipedia has set Jan. 7 as the launch date for his new search engine, Wikia, according to a report in The Washington Post. The site, which is already operating in beta, hopes to challenge search giant Google by distinguishing itself through four organizing principles:Transparency...

Column: What's New on the Legal Web

Posted on January 01, 2008
[The following column originally appeared in print in May 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...

Column: Legal Technology Buying Guides

Posted on January 01, 2008
[The following column originally appeared in print in March 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...

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Column: Food Allergies and the Law

Posted on January 01, 2008
[The following column originally appeared in print in February 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...

Part Two: Discovering E-Discovery on the Web

Posted on December 29, 2007
[The following column originally appeared in print in October 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...

Part One: Discovering E-Discovery on the Web

Posted on December 29, 2007
[The following column originally appeared in print in September 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...

Where There's a Wiki, There's a Way

Posted on December 29, 2007
[The following column originally appeared in print in April 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...

The Better People Search Tool

Posted on December 28, 2007
Over the last several weeks, I've received several e-mails informing me that someone I know has requested my trust on Spock. Not knowing anything about it, I ignored them until I could find the time to investigate. Today I found the time -- and I am impressed...

More Government Docs to Go on Web

Posted on December 27, 2007
Carl Malamud and his Public.Resource.Org -- who I wrote about last month for his project to publish 1.8 million pages of federal case law on the Web -- has struck again. This time, as The New York Times reports today, Malamud is teaming up with The Internet Archive to publish millions of pages of historical U...

Low Cost, High Return Marketing Tool

Posted on December 27, 2007
The New York Times makes it official: Blogging?s a Low-Cost, High Return Marketing Tool for small businesses, including law firms. All together now: Duh-uh!

Free Access to Older Mass. Cases

Posted on December 27, 2007
Via the Massachusetts Law Updates blog, the Massachusetts Trial Court Libraries announced today the completion of a project to provide free online access to all Supreme Judicial Court and Mass. Appeals Court cases from 1986 to 1996. (Cases starting in 1997 are already available through Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly...

Round-up of Recently Launched Sites

Posted on December 26, 2007
Law.com today features my most recent Web Watch column for Law Technology News, titled To Get Noticed Online, Blow Your Horn. It is a round-up of recently launched Web sites, including ones to help lawyers get noticed, keep informed, manage contacts and get research help.

Lawyer2Lawyer Named Best Legal Podcast

Posted on December 26, 2007
I am honored to report that Lawyer2Lawyer, the weekly legal-affairs podcast I cohost with J. Craig Williams, is the winner for the second year in a row of Dennis Kennedy's Best of Law-related Blogging Award for Best Legal Podcast. Dennis writes:"This regular weekly podcast of interviews and panel discussions has a new name for 2007, but is once again the clear choice as best legal podcast...

Federal Court Tosses Case Against Avvo

Posted on December 19, 2007
A federal judge in Seattle yesterday dismissed the class-action complaint filed by two lawyers against lawyer-rating site Avvo. U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik ruled that the opinions expressed through Avvo's ratings system are absolutely protected by the First Amendment...

Paradise Lost: A Matter of Degrees

Posted on December 18, 2007
Yesterday: St. Croix, U.S.V.I., 84 degrees.Today: Rockport, Mass., 14 degrees.

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