ABA President Stephen N. Zack is our guest this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Amid controversy among legal bloggers over the ABA’s recent issues paper on lawyers’ use of the Internet, I ask Zack for his perspective on the issue. Zack also discusses his initiative to enhance civics education in…

Arbitration in 1623? So says this historical marker at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester, Mass.…

Did not take long after the election for Gov. Patrick to name his nominee to succeed Margaret Marshall as chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. Today he announced that he is nominating Justice Roderick L. Ireland. Ireland is an associate justice of the SJC and a former Appeal Court and Juvenile Court judge.

Ireland…

The legal news and information site Law.com got a major facelift this week, and the new look is more than skin deep. In addition to a cleaner and more consistent design throughout, the revamped Law.com features a broader array of news and voices, from both within and without the network of ALM, Law.com’s parent company.…

After reading today that FindLaw had launched a mobile version of its website, I decided to check it out. In the course of doing that, I discovered that FindLaw has no listing for me. I knew it once did, so I followed the link to edit my profile. Sure enough, it had a username…

You may remember the Peer To Patent pilot project, an innovative collaboration between  the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and the Center for Patent Innovations at New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy. The pilot, which ran from 2007 to 2009, used crowdsourcing and the power of the Internet at…

The lawyer-rating site Avvo.com is taking on a whole new profession with its launch today of doctor ratings. As of today, Avvo is adding an entirely new section of its site that contains profiles and ratings of medical doctors from all 50 states.

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If you find yourself in the unfortunate position of being fired or laid off from your job and in need of legal advice, there is an app for that — but only if you are in the United Kingdom. The iPhone app, I’ve Been Fired, helps terminated workers understand their legal rights and…

If David Pogue can write a love letter to a camera, I don’t see why I shouldn’t write one to my laptop — or, actually, to a family of laptops, the Thinkpad.

I just bought what will be my third Thinkpad. It hasn’t even arrived yet, so I should be cautious about singing its…

Forty percent of state court judges use social media profile sites, with the majority of them on Facebook. Even so, nearly half of judges strongly believe that they cannot participate professionally in social networking sites without compromising judicial ethics.

These are among the findings of fascinating survey conducted over the summer by the Conference…

This is a good list of 25 business law blogs compiled by the LexisNexis Corporate & Securities Law Community.…

PC or Mac? It is a question lawyers have long debated and debated and debated even more. Now, a survey seeks to put some meat on the bones of the debate, aiming to determine whether there is clear evidence of trend towards Macs within the legal industry.

The survey is being conducted…