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A new blog, Maryland Courts Watcher, provides synopses of every publicly available opinion published on the Internet by any court in Maryland. This includes the Court of Appeals, the Court of Special Appeals, the U.S. District Court, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the Maryland Tax Court, the Circuit Court for Baltimore City and opinions of…

Global business has raised the importance of employment law on an international level. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I discuss this topic with a global array of guests from the U.S., the U.K., Germany and France. Our guests are Nicholas Connon, partner in…

Electronic discovery. This was the use that kept coming to my mind as I tested dtSearch, an immensely fast and powerful desktop and enterprise search tool. Its marketing tagline is, “Instantly search terabytes of text.” I can’t vouch for terabytes, but after testing it on a single laptop, I can say it is the…

Some patent lawyers might consider the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to be a circus, but a new Web site aims to tame the lion of patent caselaw. Called FedCirc.us, the site is the latest and most ambitious project of the folks behind rethink(ip), patent attorneys and bloggers J. Matthew Buchanan,…

In my experience, the most interesting blogs are often the most difficult to categorize. The authors feel free to write about what they fancy. A lawyer may blog about a current trial, a favorite movie, a good band. An obvious example is popular blogger Ernie the Attorney. He writes about law, technology, music, spirituality,…

I’ve been tagged by Monica Bay to participate in the Lawyers Appreciate blog-a-thon. The one rule — start a post with those words. Here are some of the other posts so far, and here is mine:

Lawyers appreciate civility among their peers. Too many lawyers see the practice of law as a…

In the spirit of citizen journalism, arm every blogger with one of these: the amazing Nokia N93. DVD-quality video and 3.2 megapixel camera in a full-featured Bluetooth phone with support for RSS, e-mail attachments, etc., etc., and an optional full wireless keyboard.…

This week brought two sets of awards for best law-related blogs, and I am proud to say that both gave honors to two of my projects — the legal affairs podcast Coast to Coast that I cohost with J. Craig Williams and the blog Legal Blog Watch that I coauthor with

As I wrote last March, I had mixed feelings about Microsoft’s acquistion of Onfolio. At the time, it was my RSS reader of choice. I also liked its ability to capture, save and organize Web pages. I regularly used it to save and organize news articles that might later disappear from public view.…

Tag Crowd is a site that lets you create tag clouds for any document. Tag clouds are those clusters of variously sized words you see on many blogs and on Web sites such as Flickr. Usually, they are used to display the labels attached to blog posts or images and their frequency. But…