An article I wrote for the e-newsletter of IMS ExpertServices, When What Happens Online Ends Up in Court, discusses 10 cases where involvement in social media came back to haunt lawyers, judges, jurors or witnesses.…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels project. Joining us for a rare in-studio conversation are the Journal’s editor and publisher Edward A. Adams and legal affairs writer Rachael M. Zahorsky, who were in the Boston…

In a post here earlier this month, I told you how you can get a discount off the registration for a stellar conference coming up on Monday, Sept. 21, Social Media: Risks & Rewards. Seats are still available and so is a discount (now $50 off the price).

The day-long program is at…

In a post here in May, New Tool Jumps to Right Windows Folder, I told you about QuickJump, a simple but clever little utility for Windows that lets you quickly find the right folder with just a few key strokes. Today it comes out of beta and its developer, TechHit, has provided…

As part of its programming to help judges better manage death-penalty cases, the National Judicial College has developed a Web site, Capital Cases Resources. The site provides resources for state trial judges who sit on capital cases, but one need not be a judge to find it useful.

A featured resource is an…

The folks from the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels Tour stopped by the Legal Talk Network studio today to record an episode of our podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. The interview will be posted tomorrow morning. Here, I interview ABA Journal editor and publisher Ed Adams and reporter Rachel Zahorsky.

The document-assembly site WhichDraft.com enables automatic assembly of contracts and other legal documents. Users start by finding the type of document they want and then they fill them out by answering a series of simple questions. The site provides its own collection of documents and also allows users to post documents.

Of course, attorneys…

Logged on to Plaxo today to find this notice regarding its new terms of service:

On October 6, 2009, we will move to a common Privacy Policy and Terms of Service across Plaxo and several other Comcast properties. The new policies will retain both TRUSTe compliance and the strong core principles of our

Thanks to the blog Social Media Law Student for the heads-up about the announcement from the New Jersey judiciary that it is adopting an array of social-media tools to keep lawyers, litigants and the public better informed of court developments.

The court system now has a Twitter feed and uses text…

Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, has an xRank feature that shows the day’s most popular searches. So with it being Labor Day weekend and comedian Jerry Lewis hosting the Muscular Dystrophy telethon as he has for as long as I can remember, it makes sense that the name Jerry Lewis is at the…

The legal research service Casemaker has launched a new case-digest service providing summaries of the most recent cases decided by the courts. Called CASEMAKERdigest, this initial roll-out of the service covers only state and federal courts in Texas. Eventually, it will cover all 50 states.

The service provides summaries of cases soon after…

A few weeks ago in a post at Legal Blog Watch, I wrote about the new iPhone and iPod Touch app that ranks the 100 best law schools in the United States. The app, the Law School 100, is from LawTV Inc., the same company that publishes The Law School 100 on…