A new online networking site for lawyers and other professionals, HubSTREET, is unusual in that it evolved out of a bricks-and-mortar networking event. The site’s founder, Nancy Fox, is a professional networking and business-development coach. In October, she launched a regular New York City networking program, The MetroRoundTable, to facilitate networking between…

[Update 7/20/09: I did not post the attachments to Mr. Newsom’s letter because I could not replicate their formatting. Casemaker has now posted those attachments on its own Web site.]

In response to my review of Casemaker vs. Fastcase published this month in Law Technology News,…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we delve into the legal issues surrounding Michael Jackson’s will and family trust. Joining us are two experts in the field, Lawrence H. Heller, an international tax and estate planning attorney at the firm Bryan Cave,…

Brain Injury Lawyer FAQ. New York personal injury lawyer John Hochfelder, author of the New York Injury Cases Blog, has launched this site to serve as a resource for both lawyers and injury victims. The site answers questions about traumatic brain injury and the law.

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Every year, the nation’s largest law firms produce thousands of client alerts, briefing papers and memoranda on a range of corporate, regulatory and industry issues. What if someone pulled together the links to all these materials and organized them in a way to make them more useful and more readily accessible?

That, in a nutshell,…

New Web sites and blogs of note for legal professionals:…

New Web sites and blogs of note:…

The two major U.S. legal research companies, West and LexisNexis, both separately announced new initiatives and new Web sites to help laid off lawyers as they make the transition to new jobs. I have more details in a post I published today at Legal Blog Watch, West, Lexis Offer Help for Hard Times.…

Two legal research services are in a head-to-head competition to win the loyalty of America’s lawyers. If you think I’m talking about Westlaw and LexisNexis, think again. This battle is between Casemaker and Fastcase. For my monthly Web Watch column in Law Technology News, I offer a head-to-head review of the two services:…

I am extremely honored to announce that I have been elected as a fellow in the College of Law Practice Management. The letter I received from COLPM President Edward Flitton explains:

“The COLPM is an honorary organization, unassociated with any bar association, which formally recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the

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On May 31, Air France flight 447, out of Rio de Janeiro bound for Paris, seemed to vanish into thin air. A frantic search for passengers and the black boxes turned up some of the bodies and scattered parts, but no black boxes.

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we examine the lega…

Yesterday was one of my most memorable birthdays ever. And it was all thanks to social networking — and some amazingly thoughtful and generous people. I was going to write a lengthy blog post all about it, but then Molly McDonough at the ABA Journal did it for me.

Read her piece and you…