Copyright law 101: If you make a wholesale copy of someone else’s entire blog post and publish it on your blog without permission, you are violating that person’s copyright. It’s not fair use. There’s no implied license. It’s simply wrong.

Imagine my surprise earlier this week when I discovered that a lawyer — a lawyer…

The Department of Defense has launched a website, Military Commissions, devoted to coverage of trials by the military courts in operation at Guantanamo to try accused terrorists. Notably, the site allows users to view and download documents and court filings from the commission cases against specific individuals and to obtain summaries of the charges…

The Web-based practice-management application Clio marked its third year of business Oct. 1. Today, to mark the occasion, it announced new features and unveiled a cleaner design.

The most significant changes announced today are that Clio users can now integrate their accounts with three of the leading cloud-based document management applications:

Amy Howe

This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look ahead to what is on the docket for the Supreme Court’s 2011-2012 term. Joining us to share their insights into some of the term’s key cases are Amy Howe, editor of SCOTUSblog and partner with the appellate boutique

I feel a bit like long-time radio commentator Paul Harvey with this post. On Friday, I reported here that SCOTUSblog would unveil a new look and new features on Monday. Well, now we get the rest of the story. Along with the new look…

Supreme Court watchers usually set their sights on the first Monday in October. This year, however, they might want to pay attention to the last Monday in September. On Monday, the preeminent Supreme Court blog, SCOTUSblog, will unveil a new look and some new features.

Tom Goldstein

SCOTUSblog has long stood…

Craig Williams and I had a lot of fun yesterday recording the Lawyer2Lawyer Sixth Anniversary show. Not only do we have some bloopers and outtakes from past shows, but we have cameos from such blogosphere (and podosphere) notables as Monica Bay, Dennis Kennedy, Sharon Nelson and John Simek, and Lynne DeVenny and Vicki…

A Web-based service called vCita launched yesterday that allows you to easily add a widget to your blog or website through which clients and potential clients can schedule a meeting with you and arrange payment in advance. Once the meeting is set, you can meet with the client in a vCita-hosted video-conference…

I was in New York City on 9/11. Five years ago on this blog, I posted my remembrance of that horrible day. And, as I wrote last year, I also will never forget the days that followed, as desperate family members searched for loved ones and the faces of everyone in that usually vital…

A second-year student at Boston College Law School is intentionally doing something that most legal bloggers know better not to do: blog about a client. A key difference here is that the student, Anusia Hirsch, is doing this with the full consent and cooperation of the client, who reads…

Producer Kate Kenney

This week marked the beginning of our seventh year of producing the weekly legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. With roughly 300 episodes under our belts, we continue to be the longest continually running legal podcast. We now average some 80,000 listeners a month, from all over the world. We’ve also won…

Scheduled to launch Sept. 15 is Conventus Law, a legal-media site that promises to provide legal professionals and business leaders with a one-stop shop for the latest Asia-Pacific legal business news. Exactly what the site will encompass is still a bit vague, but a recent email from its publisher, Stephen Lai, describes it this…