Call it “Extreme Makeover, Bar Edition.” The American Bar Association today took the wraps off a major redesign of its website and moved the site from its former URL, abanet.org, to a new address, americanbar.org.

“The new and improved website includes a fresh overall design as well as improved functionality that offer simpler…

I noted in an earlier post that the free Web-based project management tool Onit was preparing to launch a paid, premium version aimed at enterprise-level users. This week at LegalTech it did just that, introducing Onit Premium, an enhanced version of the free product designed specifically for corporate legal…

Jessica Leibrook, the new managing editor of the Thomson Reuters blog Legal Current, interviewed me briefly after the annual bloggers’ breakfast. Click here to see the interview.

Jessica and other contributors to Legal Current captured a number of interviews at LegalTech, with legal technology luminaries such as Monica Bay and…

I wrote here in October about the launch of Lexis Advance for Solos, the LexisNexis flat-rate legal research platform for one- and two-lawyer firms. This week, Lexis rolled out a new app that allows lawyers who subscribe to Advance to use it from their iPhones.

The app lets you search by…

Recently, I received an invitation from Adobe to download a review copy of its latest PDF software, Adobe Acrobat X Pro. I downloaded and installed the program and immediately ran into problems.

Every time I tried to start it, it immediately crashed. Sometimes it would stay open for a few moments longer than other…

In a post here recently, I mourned the death of Peter Nordberg, creator of the website Daubert on the Web and of the related blog, Blog 702, both devoted to the Supreme Court’s seminal opinion on expert evidence. Now I note the launch of a new blog devoted to tracking legal developments on…

Here are four new blogs of interest to legal professionals:…

The major commercial legal research services allow you to create alerts that will notify you by e-mail when a new case matches your search.  Now, a new website, CourtListener, offers a no-cost alternative, providing a free alert tool covering the federal circuit courts and the Supreme Court.

To create an alert, simply enter…

When I first wrote last year about the fact that Google Scholar had added case law research, I acknowledged it was still rough around the edges. Even so, I described it as “more than just a good start,” adding, “I expect there will be further refinements and enhancements to come.”

A notable enhancement…

Think back to when our ancestors lived in caves and imagine yourself as your clan’s hunter-gatherer. Sit by the cave entrance all day and hope that a wooly mammoth might saunter by, and your clan will soon be clamoring for food. As a hunter-gatherer, you need to do just that – get out of your…

Victoria Pynchon, the Los Angeles mediator, author and blogger, will be in Boston on Tuesday, Jan. 18, to present a program, ABC’s of Negotiation.

Since 2006, Victoria  has written the blog Negotiation Law. In December, she and Lisa Gates launched a blog for Forbes, She Negotiates. As…

TechnoLawyer, the company that publishes a series of free e-newsletters devoted to legal technology and law practice management, today launched a new weekly newsletter, LitigationWorld. You can see the first issue here.

Edited by Kimberlee L. Gunning, a member of the Seattle firm Terrell…