Law.com has my latest column posted today: Legal Blogs Are Dead! Long Live Legal Blogs!

I am scheduled to be a panelist in two programs this month, both in Boston: Sept. 13, 4-5:30 p.m., Ginsburg & Friends: Conversations on Professional Relationships: The Press, the Courts, the Profession. Retired Judge Edward Ginsburg is a legend in Massachusetts for all he’s done both on and off the bench. This is the first of [...]

A report this week on social media use by older adults has important implications for the legal profession — even though it never mentions the legal profession or any other profession. A study by Pew Internet, Older Adults and Social Media, finds that social-networking use among Internet users aged 50 and older nearly doubled in the [...]

This post has nothing to do with law, unless you are a lawyer who likes to bike or hike or run or ski or sail or do any kind of outdoor activity. I like to bike and hike and I’ve been looking for a GPS app for my iPhone that would track my routes. Look [...]

I’ve given a lot of thought over the years to the very mundane topic of lawyer bios. Having done so, I am compelled to file this dissent to Matt Homann’s clever but off-base Venn diagram about lawyer bios (Your Clients Don’t Care Where You Went to Law School). At the same time, I will most [...]

Google today unveiled Google Realtime Search, a new search interface for real-time results from social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, blogs and elsewhere. (That link may not yet work for everyone. If it doesn’t, use this link to the development page.) Once you enter your search query, results continue to be updated in [...]

Legendary criminal defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey and New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt join us to discuss the indictment of Roger Clemens on this week’s installment of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. You can listen to the program in your browser or download the MP3 file from the Legal Talk Network. Never miss an episode [...]

Three great guests join us on this week’s Lawyer2Lawyer to discuss the prison suicide of accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff and what it means for the case, the victims’ families and the criminal justice system. Our guests are: Douglas Berman, professor of law at Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University and author of the blog [...]

Two years ago in a post here, I bemoaned the shuttering of The Virtual Chase, a website devoted to enhancing the research skills of legal professionals. Founded in 1995 by Genie Tyburski, a law librarian at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia, the site was a top destination for legal researchers, until Genie announced she would no [...]

I’ll admit it: I’m a sucker for a clever pun or play on words.  Among legal blogs, there’s been a minor run on clever names lately, with several new blogs carrying clever turns of phrases as their names. Clever names are nothing new for legal blogs, of course. I think one of the oldest legal [...]

Both the president and Congress are often criticized for moving too slowly to fill federal judicial vacancies. But where are these vacancies and what has been done to fill them? The answers to these and other questions can be found at  JudicialNominations.org, a website published by the American Constitution Society. The site features an interactive [...]

The Defense Research Institute, an international association of civil defense attorneys and corporate counsel, has launched DRI Today, which it describes as “a one-stop online information portal for the legal community.” So far, it is nowhere near being a one-stop information source. Its directory of blawgs, for example, barely scratches the surface, especially when compared to [...]

Well, maybe not everything. But on this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the newest member of the Supreme Court and the impact she might ultimately have there. Joining us are two experts on the court: Tony Mauro, Supreme Court correspondent for The National Law Journal and ALM Media and a veteran journalist [...]

I wrote last May about Apptorney IP, an app that facilitated patent and trademark searching on an iPhone by providing direct links to the appropriate sections of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website. Now comes an app that takes that to the next level, enabling more seamless searching of patents and trademarks. Called Banner & [...]

In a landmark decision last week, U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker in San Francisco struck down California’s controversial and highly debated Proposition 8. Approved by the state’s voters in November 2008, Prop 8 overturned a state supreme court ruling that resulted in the legalization of same-sex marriage. This week on the legal-affairs podcast [...]

Several legal blogs of note have launched recently: The ZRG Blog. For roughly a decade, legal researcher Andrew Zimmerman has published Zimmerman’s Research Guide, an online encyclopedia for legal researchers. Last month, he launched this blog to keep his readers informed of updates to the guide. In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress. Launched this [...]

Law Technology News has my latest column, Crowdsourcing the Law, in which I review innovative new legal websites that rely on the legal community to help gather and refine expertise. Sites I review are: Spindle Law. Judgepedia. OpenRegs.com.

When applied to human beings, “legendary” is a word best reserved for outlaws and truly accomplished people such as Carol Burnett and Daniel Schorr. Thus, I am particularly grateful to Gina Roers (a/k/a CLE Gina) for her very kind review of my recent talk at the ACLEA annual meeting. As she notes, the presentation was recorded and will [...]

Looking for a lawyer in Latvia? Need an accountant in Australia? Well, you guessed it, there’s an app for that. The MSI Global Alliance, an international association of 250 independent law and accounting firms in 105 countries, yesterday released Advisors2Go, an iPhone app that provides a directory of its member firms and of key contacts within [...]

Interesting to see, via Romenesko, that Thomson Reuters has hired Eric Effron as editor for law of the new Thomson Reuters Professional News Center. Effron is the former editor and publisher of Legal Times, the former ALM-owned Washington, D.C., legal newspaper that ALM recently folded into its national legal newspaper, The National Law Journal. Effron [...]