I wrote last May about Apptorney IP, an app that facilitated patent and trademark searching on an iPhone by providing direct links to the appropriate sections of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website. Now comes an app that takes that to the next level, enabling more seamless searching of patents and…

In a landmark decision last week, U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker in San Francisco struck down California’s controversial and highly debated Proposition 8. Approved by the state’s voters in November 2008, Prop 8 overturned a state supreme court ruling that resulted in the legalization of same-sex marriage.

This week on the legal-affairs podcast…

Several legal blogs of note have launched recently:…

Law Technology News has my latest column, Crowdsourcing the Law, in which I review innovative new legal websites that rely on the legal community to help gather and refine expertise.

Sites I review are:

When applied to human beings, “legendary” is a word best reserved for outlaws and truly accomplished people such as Carol Burnett and Daniel Schorr. Thus, I am particularly grateful to Gina Roers (a/k/a CLE Gina) for her very kind review of my recent talk at the ACLEA annual meeting.

As she notes,…

Looking for a lawyer in Latvia? Need an accountant in Australia? Well, you guessed it, there’s an app for that.

The MSI Global Alliance, an international association of 250 independent law and accounting firms in 105 countries, yesterday released Advisors2Go, an iPhone app that provides a directory of its member firms and of…

Interesting to see, via Romenesko, that Thomson Reuters has hired Eric Effron as editor for law of the new Thomson Reuters Professional News Center. Effron is the former editor and publisher of Legal Times, the former ALM-owned Washington, D.C., legal newspaper that ALM recently folded into its national legal newspaper, The National…

In a post here last week, I wrote about findings on social networking from the 2010 Legal Technology Survey Report of the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center. The six-volume survey looks at legal-technology trends in various aspects of law practice. Volume IV of the survey covers Web and communication technology.

In this post,…

At the ACLEA annual meeting in New York City yesterday, I gave a plenary talk on the topic, “10 Ways Technology is Rewiring Lawyers’ Brains … and What it Means for CLE.”

Embedded below are the slides from my presentation. To view the presentation in a larger window, click this link: How_Technology_is_Rewiring_Lawyers_Brains.…

In a post here in May, I wrote about GroupESQ, a site that aims to deliver group-buying power to lawyers, even in small firms. Now, another site, Prime Advantage Legal, is offering a similar service for small- and mid-sized law…

I wrote last week about the news that JD Supra is Now Linked Up to LinkedIn. After writing that, I came across a post from Martha Sperry in which she said that JD Supra and LinkedIn go together like peanut butter and jelly. Now I read, via Jayne Navarre’s Virtual Marketing Officer…

Robert V. Ward

On this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we interview Robert V. Ward Jr., dean of the new University of Massachusetts School of Law, the first public law school in the state. He talks about why the school is important, how it will be financed, and its…