Given that it was announced April 8, not April 1, this appears not to be an April Fool’s hoax, even though it might sound like one.

A Texas law firm has launched a site that offers to fix your traffic ticket for just $45…

That’s what Nick Montgomery, editor of myCorporateResource.com, calls me in a piece he wrote about my blogging, The Site Stuff. You don’t have to read the piece, but you must check out the photo.…

Remember BestAttorneysOnline.com, the site that describes itself as “an independent authority on the best attorneys at law.” As I wrote about it on March 4 and again on March 5, the site says it uses an “experienced research team” to pick the best lawyers in various fields. Yet many of the lawyers…

Join me this Friday in Hartford, Conn., for the Connecticut Bar Foundation symposium, Flash Forward or Lost: How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law, and What’s Next? This full-day program features a great line-up of programs and speakers on the future of legal technology and social media. I will be part of a…

APRIL 1, 2010–A new cloud-based legal site unveiled today, Cloud E-Law, does virtually everything a lawyer could want and does it all entirely for free. The Software-as-a-Service site promises to be a soup-to-nuts, one-stop-shopping site for everything from legal research to social networking to e-discovery.

Among the features offered by Cloud E-Law:

Ed Flitton, the former managing partner of Holland & Hart in Denver, died Saturday. A council member of the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association, he died while attending ABA TechShow in Chicago.

Ed was also the president of the College of Law Practice Management. As such, Ed was…

A Boston Globe article today, FBI Gives a Glimpse of its Most Secret Layer, discusses a special set of files kept in a separate location by the FBI that are its most secret (or most embarrassing). Pursuant to an FOIA request, the FBI released hundreds of pages of memoranda describing these secret files and…

The law firm of Shearman & Sterling has launched a comprehensive Web site designed to serve as a one-stop resource on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The site is a searchable, dynamic version of the firm’s FCPA Digest, a nearly 500-page summary of FCPA cases and review releases.

The Web site includes…

Dan Schwartz has issued a challenge: Tweet your favorite U.S. Supreme Court case. Schwartz, author of the Connecticut Employment Law Blog, is organizing an April 9 educational program at UConn Law School on how technology is changing the practice of law.

To help build buzz for the event, he is issuing this…

Legal-technology company Catalyst Repository Systems has launched a blog devoted to electronic discovery law, technology and best practices. I will be one of the contributors to the blog, along with several of the company’s legal and technology professionals. Others who will contribute posts include:

(For any confused readers, yes, this is a revised version of my earlier post, which complained that the piece listed the wrong links for my blogs and podcast. The school corrected the links within minutes of being informed of the errors.)

My law school, Boston College, today sent out an eBrief blast with an…

I have moved my Media Law blog from its old address to this new one: http://medialaw.legaline.com. Anyone who subscribes to the feed for that blog will have to update their subscriptions to this new feed address: http://medialaw.legaline.com/feeds/posts/default.

As I’ve posted here and here, I have been pondering what to…