Hope this doesn’t mean it’s time for me to hang up my cleats, but I am proud to say that this blog has been selected as one of the inaugural 10 members of the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 Hall of Fame. According to the very nice…

Jay and I enjoying dinner at a Mexican restaurant near his Colorado home in 2004.

Jay Jaffe died this week, at the too-young age of 68. Jay was a true trailblazer and pioneer in legal marketing. Much of what the field is today follows from Jay’s lead. He was also my employer…

VerdictSearch, you’ve come a long way baby!

Roughly a decade ago, I helped design and launch the original version of VerdictSearch. At the time, I was editorial director of all litigation-related publications and websites at ALM. The company had acquired a series of verdict and settlement reporting companies from around the country…

The legal directory and Q&A forum Avvo today introduced Avvo Lawyers, an app  that allows lawyers to follow and answer consumer legal questions directly from their iPhones or iPads. Using the app, you can:

Today is the 10th anniversary of this blog. I launched it on Nov. 19, 2002.

To all this blog’s regular readers, a special thanks. I know some of you have stuck with me since the start.…

The cloud-based practice management platform Rocket Matter today announced that it has added email integration. This means that users can associate folders in whatever email program they use — whether it is Outlook, Gmail or another — to the Rocket Matter system. Thus, email folders for…

Avvo, the legal and medical directory and Q&A site, today launched two new services designed to help lawyers more effectively market their practices. The two services are both offered under the umbrella name Avvo Ignite. One, Avvo Ignite Starter, offers “hassle-free search and mobile optimized” websites…

CitePin’s home screen consists of six main menu items.

When Ari Rodopoulos was in law school, he became a bit obsessive about keeping track of his work. He created what he describes as a spreadsheet on steroids, so that he could quickly and easily find anything he needed. He kept a log…

After more than seven years of weekly shows, this week’s Lawyer2Lawyer is our last. The Legal Talk Network, which has been our home since we started the show in August 2005, is closing down. The full archive of our shows will remain available for download through the…

The cloud-based practice management application MyCase announced this week that it has  been acquired by AppFolio, a company that creates software for use in residential property management. MyCase founder and CEO Matthew Spiegel announced the acquisition in an email to subscribers this week, saying that he will…

Any site that sets out to become an exclusive online community for lawyers has a tough row to hoe. Lawyers are happy enough with LinkedIn and Facebook and do not seem all that interested in legal-vertical sites. We saw the ABA’s social networking site, LegallyMinded, shut down…

In 2010, a series of 15 workshops were held across the country to explore the idea that primary U.S. legal materials should be readily available to all and that government institutions should make these materials available in bulk as distributed, authenticated, well-formatted data. Public.Resource.Org,  together with Point.B Studio and Foolish Tree Films, created a 15 DVD set…