Inspired by the ABA Journal Blawg 100, the editors of practicelaw.org, the Minnesota State Bar Association’s online legal-resource center, have launched a contest to name the top 25 Minnesota blawgs.

Anyone can nominate a blog, but the blog must satisfy two conditions:…

At an event today in New York City, Thomson Reuters will formally announce the launch of TrustLaw, a Web-based service that is intended to promote “the culture and practice of pro bono” around the world.

The key feature of the site is a platform called TrustLaw Connect, which is designed to allow non-governmental…

When I saw today that the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft had launched a new International Practice mini site, I was hopeful that it would be a truly useful resource and not some mere marketing site. After all, in its own announcement, the firm described itself as “one of the world’s…

Want to track product recall alerts on your Android phone? Need to find the nearest U.S. embassy as you travel in a foreign country? Can’t wait until you’re back in your office to get the latest list of the FBI’s 10 most wanted?

You can do any of these and more on…

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…