The web-based practice-management platform Rocket Matter announced improvements this week to its time-and-billing capabilities. The improvements include:…

The “hero” label is much abused these days. The tendency of the TV news to call anyone who commits an act of compassion or humanity a hero threatens to water down the word. Nelson Mandela was a hero — a man who came out of three decades of imprisonment and played…

Here are a few items from the week that are worthy of note:

Elvis law. The ABA has published The Little Book of Elvis Law. The King’s legacy inspired not only generations of fans, but also generations of litigation. This book reports on some of those…

In response to this blog’s 11th birthday yesterday, a couple of people asked me what other law blogs were around way back then. The question reminded me of a post I’d written in 2007 for Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch, Who Was the First Legal Blogger?.

After searching through the archives of some…

Earlier this year, I wrote about the launch of Esqspot, a professional networking site for lawyers that offers a twist from other such sites — it aims to promote not only online networking, but also good old-fashioned live networking.

So far, it has hosted its live networking events only in…

The Free Law Project — which I mentioned here just recently when it added 1.5 million opinions to CourtListener — had more big news…

You know you’re getting on in years when even your blog is old. Eleven years ago today, this blog started. Here was my first post.

Heck, this blog has been around so long, it’s in a hall of fame.

Thank you to all my…

A little over a year ago, wireLawyer launched in beta as an online community exclusively for lawyers.  At the time, I wasn’t kind to it. I expressed skepticism about the likelihood of success of a legal-vertical professional network and I

Last July, I reported here that Box, the file-sharing and collaboration platform, was making a ramped-up push into the legal industry. Today, Box followed up on that news in a big way, announcing new integrations with 22 mobile and web legal platforms,…

I recently blogged here about Law.com’s forthcoming launch of an extensive contributor network, with from 100 to 500 writers from outside ALM regularly contributing commentary and analysis. I wrote that the network would be in the style of

Last week, Google introduced Helpouts, a service that offers “real help from real people in real time.” The idea is simple: If you need help with something — a recipe, a computer problem, a home repair, or whatever — you can turn to Helpouts to find people who have the knowledge to…

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.…