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The real estate Web site Zillow.com, a site that provides free valuations — which it calls “Zestimates” — on most U.S. homes, has been cleared to operate in Arizona. According to The Arizona Republic, a bill signed into law this week allows Zillow to operate in the state. Last year, the…

London-based Incisive Media announced today its acquisition of ALM from U.S. Equity Partners for $630 million. ALM owns and publishes 33 national and regional magazines and newspapers focused primarily on the legal community, including The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, Corporate Counsel and

I’ve been waiting years for a good excuse to use that headline and here it is: A site devoted to Contact Solution Recall Litigation. It is, of course, the site of a PI firm, Williams Kherkher of Houston, which has a number of similarly named sites, such as PatentLitigationLawyers.com, HerniaPatchLawyers.com, PaxilLawsuitAttorney.com,…

Two well-known practice-management professionals have launched what they plan to be a monthly podcast. Called “The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology,” it is produced as part of the Law Technology Today e-zine of the ABA’s Law Practice Management Section. The first 30-minute episode is up, on the topic Electronic Marketing: Harnessing…

I’ve been so busy lately, I’ve neglected to plug the most recent episodes of my own podcast. So here is two weeks’ worth of Lawyer2Lawyer:…

Remember when 5-4 used to mean decisions from the Supreme Court such as this, as reported in 1972 by The Fresno Bee?…

For some 14 years, Allan Colman was well known within the legal industry as senior vice president in charge of marketing and business development for the jury consulting firm DecisionQuest. In 2005, Colman left DecisionQuest to become the first chief business-development officer at the law firm Howrey. Now, Coleman is launching a consulting…

Today at her blog MyShingle.com, Carolyn Elefant announced the launch of her new feature, SOLOFORMANIA. Here is her description:

“It’s a cornucopia of forms for the busy solo – ranging from FREE sample practice guides, fee agreements and retainer letters, to court forms for all 50 states (some free, some fee) to general

Do search engines have politics? Well, no, but big Internet companies such as Google certainly do care about public policy — as it relates both to the company and its customers. So it is interesting but not altogether surprising that Google today took the wraps off its new Google Public Policy Blog. In…

This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we speak with attorney John Henry Browne, a lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against the new lawyer rating service Avvo. Also joining us to discuss the legal and professional issues surrounding Avvo are bloggers Denise Howell and Carolyn Elefant.

We invited…

As was announced yesterday, Seattle lawyer Steve W. Berman filed this lawsuit against controversial lawyer-rating site Avvo. Later, Avvo CEO Mark Britton issued a statement in response to the lawsuit. I have not been able to find it online, so here is what he said:

“Avvo.com is designed to give consumers information

Lawyers in Massachusetts have been able to access Loislaw from their home or office computers through an arrangement with the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries. But as the libraries’ blog announced this week, that remote access is ending as of July 1. (Apparently, lawyers will still be able to access Loislaw from…