A newly launched website, The Free Law Reporter, provides free access to a searchable index of recent federal and state court opinions. Developed by the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), the site describes itself as an “electronic case reporter” that makes the opinions searchable and also provides them as ebook collections.…

No doubt you’ve heard the news by now: Your iPhone is snooping on you, regularly recording data about your whereabouts. My response to this news is similar to David Pogue’s, So what? Of course, there are real forensics implications here, as these hidden files pop up as Exhibit A in divorce…

An innovative experiment that will turn a working Massachusetts courtroom into a test lab for social media in the courts is gearing up to launch on May 2.

Once it starts, most of what happens in the courtroom at Quincy District Court will be streamed live over the Web for anyone to see. In addition,…

The editor and publisher of the ABA Journal, Edward A. Adams, announced today that he is resigning, effective May 27. He has been publisher of the Journal since 2006. In 2010, he also took on the job of overall publisher for the ABA, supervising books, periodicals, websites and CLE.

Before joining the ABA,…

Justia today launched a service providing free, daily summaries of federal and state court opinions. The service, daily.justia.com, covers all federal circuit courts of appeal and select state supreme courts. Additional state courts will be added in the coming weeks.

The daily summaries provide brief descriptions of each decision and are tagged…

In a post I wrote in November 2009 at Legal Blog Watch, Appeals Court Lawyer ‘Traffics’ in Term Papers, I told you about Damian R. Bonazzoli, then a senior staff attorney for the Massachusetts Appeals Court who advertised himself on Craigslist as available to write term papers for a fee, even though it is against…

Just a few days ago, I titled a post here, Maybe I Need to Give Up on Adobe Acrobat X Pro. As I explained there and in an earlier post, I was never able to install and run Adobe Acrobat X Pro. Try as I might, it crashed every time I tried to…

Let me ask you a question: Where are you more likely to buy a car, at a Superbowl commercial or at your local auto dealer? Given that most people would say auto dealer, it follows that Superbowl commercials must not be effective at selling cars, right?

Of course not. The question, as phrased, makes no…

In a post here two months ago, I wrote about my problems with Adobe Acrobat X Pro. Adobe invited me to download and test a review copy. I was never able to run it. Each time I tried, it crashed immediately.

After writing that post, Adobe said it would send me a boxed version and…

If a lawyer provides a company with a helpful answer to a legal question, at no charge, the lawyer gets a foot in the door to be hired by that company for additional business. That, anyway, is the operating principle behind LawPivot, a website where companies can pose legal questions and get answers from…

A relatively new website functions as an office-space matchmaker for the legal profession, pairing law firms that have space to sublet with solo and small-firm lawyers who need to obtain an office. The site, LookingForSpace.com, is exclusively devoted to office space for lawyers and aims to develop a national database of listings. So far, it…

After the American Bar Association launched its social networking site, LegallyMinded, in December 2008, I wrote a review that I summed up with this title: ABA Social Network Fails to Connect. Regrettably, it was a commendable idea but poorly executed. As I wrote then, “It jettisons features that should…