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If you are looking for the new EDD Update blog that I mentioned in a post here on Sept. 30, it is down due to technical difficulties. I am told it should be back up ASAP. So stay tuned.…

Break out the bubbly! It is the second anniversary (give or take a month) of our weekly legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. We posted our first program on Aug. 31, 2005, with two special guests, then newly installed ABA President Michael S. Greco and Duke Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky.…

I truly hate these things. The anonymous editor of Blawg Review (who I don’t hate) has started a meme he calls Simply the Best. He’s tagged his top 10 law blogs; each of them, in turn, is supposed to tag theirs, and so on, until we end up with one great big…

Problem is, it’s in New Zealand and I’m not.…

Available now in Law Technology News is my latest column, Discovering E-Discovery, the first of two parts surveying e-discovery sites on the Web. (Free registration required.) This month, I look at some of the more useful Web sites for learning about and keeping current with this essential area of practice. Next month in…

If you are in the Boston area, tune in tonight to WGBH 2 at 7 p.m. for a special episode of Greater Boston that promises to provide an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the highest court in Massachusetts, the Supreme Judicial Court. “This is the first time the SJC has allowed the media…

As of today, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has a new Web address. Here’s the notice from the court:

“The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is relocating its Internet Web page to its own in-house servers. As part of this process, the court’s Web page address and domain name

In honor of this first Monday in October, I have rounded up links to my previously posted items and columns that cover resources related to researching and tracking the Supreme Court.

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I am extremely proud to join with an esteemed group of e-discovery and legal technology experts in the launch of the blog EDD Update, a joint project of Law Technology News and Law.com Legal Technology. As LTN Editor Monica Bay and Law.com Technology Editor Sean Doherty explain…

I recently moderated a roundtable discussion by three top patent lawyers to assess the significance and impact of the Aug. 20 en banc decision of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, In re Seagate Technology. The transcript of that roundtable is now available via IMS ExpertServices, which sponsored…

At the urging of the U.S. Justice Department, the federal judiciary is considering whether to close Internet access to plea agreements and related docket notations in criminal cases. The judiciary is requesting public comment on the proposed restriction to be filed by Oct. 26. This would be a major step backwards for public access…

I wrote last February at Legal Blog Watch about the imminent release of A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar…, a documentary film that follows six aspiring lawyers as they prepare for and take the California bar exam. I received an update today from co-producer (and Los Angeles lawyer)…