I’ve given a lot of thought over the years to the very mundane topic of lawyer bios. Having done so, I am compelled to file this dissent to Matt Homann’s clever but off-base Venn diagram about lawyer bios (Your Clients Don’t Care Where You Went to Law School). At the same time, I will…

Google today unveiled Google Realtime Search, a new search interface for real-time results from social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, blogs and elsewhere. (That link may not yet work for everyone. If it doesn’t, use this link to the development page.)

Once you enter your search query, results continue to…

Legendary criminal defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey and New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt join us to discuss the indictment of Roger Clemens on this week’s installment of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer.

You can listen to the program in your browser or download the MP3 file from the Legal Talk…

Three great guests join us on this week’s Lawyer2Lawyer to discuss the prison suicide of accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff and what it means for the case, the victims’ families and the criminal justice system.

Our guests are:…

Two years ago in a post here, I bemoaned the shuttering of The Virtual Chase, a website devoted to enhancing the research skills of legal professionals. Founded in 1995 by Genie Tyburski, a law librarian at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia, the site was a top destination for legal researchers, until Genie announced…

I’ll admit it: I’m a sucker for a clever pun or play on words.  Among legal blogs, there’s been a minor run on clever names lately, with several new blogs carrying clever turns of phrases as their names.

Clever names are nothing new for legal blogs, of course. I think one of the oldest legal…

Both the president and Congress are often criticized for moving too slowly to fill federal judicial vacancies. But where are these vacancies and what has been done to fill them? The answers to these and other questions can be found at  JudicialNominations.org, a website published by the American Constitution Society.

The site features…

The Defense Research Institute, an international association of civil defense attorneys and corporate counsel, has launched DRI Today, which it describes as “a one-stop online information portal for the legal community.”

So far, it is nowhere near being a one-stop information source. Its directory of blawgs, for example, barely scratches the surface, especially…

Well, maybe not everything. But on this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the newest member of the Supreme Court and the impact she might ultimately have there.

Joining us are two experts on the court:…

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:…