By way of Debra Cassens Weiss at the ABA Journal, I learned of David Lat’s Project Truman Show. Lat is known among legal bloggers as author of the legal gossip blog Above the Law, where he often delves into other people’s private moments. But via his personal blog, he is now promising…

The launch of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School in 1992 was the first giant step towards making legal information available to the public via the Internet. A year later, inspired by Cornell’s LII, the Canadian LII was born. Today, there are 14 Legal Information Institutes throughout the world. A…

I got very tired of the white text on dark background I’d had for awhile, so I’ve switched to a new template. It is based on a Web page design by Andreas Viklund, which was turned into a Blogger template by Carl Galloway, and further modified by me into a three column layout…

This is a horrifying story from The Virgin Islands Daily News, with no coverage that I’ve seen from the mainland media. Five gunmen forced their way into a hospital, past multiple layers of security, and shot a patient to death in his bed.…

In a post earlier this week at Legal Blog Watch, I wrote about the 10th anniversary conference of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Harvard’s “courtship” of Jonathan Zittrain to accept a tenured…

Law.com today has a piece I wrote, Super-Powered Web Sites Hit the Jackpot, which reviews Web sites that help you “build memory stronger than an elephant’s, have the vision to search across the Web, and develop the ability to communicate from the afterlife.”…

Law.com and LegalTalkNetwork.com have collaborated to launch Legal Channels, a service that produces professional-quality marketing and informational videos for lawyers and law firms. The videos are produced by Emmy award winning broadcast professionals (these are the folks who produce my Lawyer2Lawyer podcast) and the finished videos are posted on both Law.com…

It was a year ago tomorrow that I left for my trip to Russia. A year later, the trip stands out as one of the most memorable events of my life. After I returned, I gave a presentation in Boston on Russian courts and the news media. I have converted that presentation to Flash…

Our topic this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer is the Am Law 100, which reports that total revenues for the nation’s highest-grossing law firms reached $64.5 billion. We discuss the survey and what it reveals about the state of the legal profession with

Winners of the 2008 Webby Awards have been announced, honoring excellence in Web sites in more than 100 categories, and in the law category, the Webby Award winner is OUT-LAW.COM, the IT and e-commerce legal-help site of the international law firm Pinsent Masons. Winner of the People’s Voice award — decided…

Legal publishing is a $5 billion industry. Now, the portion of that industry that focuses on publishing and selling court opinions is facing a threat from movements on several fronts to put all federal and state case law in the public domain (a topic I’ve written about here on several occasions). We look at…

The Boston Globe today published an op-ed I wrote on current efforts to reform the Massachusetts open meeting law: Open the doors to public meetings.…