This week’s episode of our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer looks at secure email provider Lavabit’s appeal to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seeking to overturn a contempt-of-court finding resulting from the company’s resisting a government subpoena and search warrant. We discuss the case with Lavabit’s lawyer, Jesse R. Binnall.…

My email brought a note from a website called Best Attorneys Online congratulating me on my new rankings as a “Best Attorney” and inviting me to download a “winners seal” to add to my website and email signature. I was honored, particularly because I was ranked as among the best in three different states —…

Lawyers have an ethical obligation to protect the confidentiality and security of communications with their clients. The more we learn about NSA snooping, the more we realize what a challenge that can be.

One option for secure communications is to skip the email and use the SMS messaging app Wickr, which…

As I reported last week, Ed, the anonymous editor of Blawg Review, has died. Today, several legal bloggers collaborated to create a fitting tribute to his memory — a final Blawg Review written in multiple chapters on multiple blogs. Start with Colin Samuels’ explanation…

One of my favorite sites for tracking the U.S. Congress is OpenCongress, an open-source project that draws on a variety of sources, from official government websites to blogs, to track federal legislation and members of Congress. (See my original post about OpenCongress.)

OpenCongress was…

I’ve written a couple of posts (here and here) about TheFormTool, an add-on to Microsoft Word that makes it extremely easy to create document templates and generate documents based on those templates. This week, the developers…

OK, not only is it the morning after the World Series, but it is also Halloween. You don’t really feel like working today, do you? Besides, you may be stuck by your front door for hours, waiting to dole out treats to a stream of ghosts and goblins.

WordStar was the most popular word…

Back in 2011, I wrote a post about the launch of CourtListener, a free website that lets you create alerts to notify you of new cases that match your search criteria. Today, the site announced that it is adding more than 1.5…

Ed, the anonymous editor of Blawg Review, has died, according to tweets sent out over the @BlawgReview Twitter feed.

Tweets posted this morning said:

Dear Blawg Review Community,

I am the son of Ed, writing today with a heavy heart to inform you of his passing after a

I am thrilled to announce my new monthly column for the ABA Journal, “Ambrogi on Tech.” The first installment is now available, a review of the Thomson Reuters practice-management platform Firm Central: Thomson Reuters’ cloud platform Firm Central emphasizes integration—at a cost.

Are there topics you’d like to see me…

Can Twitter be a legitimate source of legal research and scholarship? As an associate editor of the Michigan State Law Review, 3L Patrick M. Ellis decided to find out. To fulfill the requirement that he produce a scholarly note addressing a legal issue, he…

Starting tomorrow and continuing every Friday thereafter, the creators of the Rulebook app will offer for free one of the books from its library of state and federal rule books. The company is calling this its Free Rule Book Friday promotion. The company will announce which book it is offering each Friday…