Articles Posted in December, 2007

I am off tomorrow to St. Croix, where I will be presenting “60 Sites in 60 Minutes” Friday at the annual meeting of the Virgin Islands Bar Association.…

From an article I wrote for the newsletter of IMS Expertservices:

“Ronald A. Katz once predicted that he would someday become the wealthiest patent holder ever. By most estimates, he has achieved that goal – or will soon.

“He has arrived there through an aggressive strategy of patent litigation that has had him taking

The lawyer rating site Avvo today announced two new features: “Avvo Answers,” a Q&A; forum in which lawyers can answer questions posted by consumers, and “Track Record,” a free option by which lawyers can post and showcase their cases and deals. I have more details in a post today at

In 2003, the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, with some degree of fanfare, launched e-Dicta, a portal to tort and insurance resources on the Internet. I praised it at the time, writing on this blog that it was “a true mega-site, combining original content and links to other…

I wrote in May 2006 about Lawbby, a site that aspired to be the MySpace of the legal world. Lawbby described itself as a place where lawyers could mingle, whether for business or pleasure, by creating their own profiles and groups. But in recent days, attempts to visit the site were rerouted…

The popular public-records search site SearchSystems.net has won a federal court judgment of $780,000 against the competing site CourtsOnline, according to this press release. A federal judge in San Francisco entered the order against the site’s creator, Mark Musselman, for stealing content from SearchSystems.net, the release says. The order also bars Musselman…

Track the real estate purchases and sales of lawyers in Chicago and St. Louis through BlockShopper.com. See my full post about it at Legal Blog Watch.…

Monica Bay, longtime editor-in-chief of the magazine Law Technology News, launched her own podcast this week, Law Technology Now. (It also has its own site at LawTechnologyNow.com.) Each month, Bay will interview a key expert from the legal technology community about top issues confronting the legal profession. In the

A Massachusetts’ judge’s release of Daniel Tavares become part of the national political debate after Tavares allegedly shot and killed a newlywed couple in Washington state and Republican presidential hopeful and former Bay State Gov. Mitt Romney called on the judge — his own appointee — to resign. On the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer…