A recently released iPhone and iPad app designed for bankruptcy lawyers, Bankruptcy II, describes itself as a “complete reference for the working bankruptcy attorney.” It is an overstatement to call it complete, because it does not have cases. Aside from that, however, it has pretty much everything else a bankruptcy lawyer could ask for…

In October, exactly two decades after Justice William J. Brennan Jr. retired from the Supreme Court, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish a new biography of him, Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, written by journalists Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel. As they prepare for the book’s release, Stern and Wermiel have launched a new…

I was in New York on that horrible 9/11. Four years ago, I posted my own remembrance of the day. The images of the day remain clear in my memory — the burning towers, the grey-white ash, the panicked crowds early in the day and then the eerily deserted city later. I also will…

A new website, TM.Biz, has been launched with the goal of helping trademark owners protect themselves in a sea of social networks. The service searches and monitors the 500 most popular social networks for occurrences of a trade name as a user name. It then provides detailed, downloadable reports of its findings. It will also…

Good overview of this issue by Adrian Dayton at Above the Law — and I’m not just saying that because he quotes me.…

I have received a number of e-mails and read several blog posts in response to my recent column in Law Technology News, Legal Blogs Are Dead! Long Live Legal Blogs! Some applauded me, some criticized me. Of those who criticized me, they fell into two camps. In one camp were those who were unhappy…

Kate Bladow has issued a challenge to the legal community: publish one blog post in support of pro bono. As she explains at her blog Technola, Bladow is asking lawyers to pledge to publish one blog post between Oct. 24 and Oct. 30 in honor of the 2010 National Pro Bono Celebration.

Why the…

If solos are the downtrodden and under-appreciated laboring masses of the legal profession, then Carolyn Elefant is their Spartacus. First through her blog, myShingle.com, then through her book, Solo by Choice, Carolyn has championed the cause of the sole practitioner. Now, Carolyn has teamed with another well-known solo, Lisa Solomon, to launch her latest…

I am a bit late in posting this, given that the class started Aug. 26, but it is not too late to join in.

The University of Iowa College of Law is offering free online access this semester to a colloquium on the health care reform act. Starting Aug. 26 and ending Dec.…

With today’s episode of the Lawyer2Lawyer podcast, we reach a milestone: our 250th episode and the end of our fifth year of weekly shows. This makes Lawyer2Lawyer the longest continually running legal podcast.

Our first show was on  Aug. 31, 2005. Our guests for that first show were Michael S. Greco, then…

Law.com has my latest column posted today: Legal Blogs Are Dead! Long Live Legal Blogs!…

I am scheduled to be a panelist in two programs this month, both in Boston:

Judge Ginsburg

Sept. 13, 4-5:30 p.m., Ginsburg & Friends: Conversations on Professional Relationships: The Press, the Courts, the Profession. Retired Judge Edward Ginsburg is a legend in Massachusetts for all he’s done both on and off the…