The full video of the North Carolina disbarment hearing against former Durham County District Attorney Michael B. Nifong is now online and available in the public domain. The 31.5 hours of video were donated to Public.Resource.Org by Courtroom Connect. The video is available at The Internet…

In response to various competitions and rankings of the best legal blogs, the Avvo Blog has created an auto-updating list of the top 300 legal blogs, ordered by their traffic rankings as shown by Web information company Alexa. Because the list is regularly updated, the rankings vary. At the moment, this blog,…

There is now a Twitter feed for news from the U.S. Supreme Court. The blog Law Tech Review suggests that this feed comes directly from the court, which uses it to disseminate information about its latest activities. But I strongly doubt that the feed is from the court. If it is from…

With its first program having debuted in October, the Intellectual Property Colloquium is a promising series of monthly podcasts devoted to intellectual property law. The current program features an interview with Paul Michel, chief judge of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, who talks about patent reform. Here is how the program describes…

The use of expert witnesses in litigation has skyrocketed. Have our ethics rules kept pace? I have posted an article, Proposed: A Lawyer’s Code of Expert Ethics, at the Web site of IMS Expert Services, that sets out a draft of a proposed code. The idea is to generate discussion about whether such…

The Boston personal-injury law firm Breakstone, White & Gluck has launched Massachusetts Injury Lawyer Blog. The founding partners of this firm, Marc L. Breakstone and David W. White, are highly regarded trial lawyers in the state with an impressive record of verdicts and settlements (not to mention long-time friends of mine).…

Whether you are a credentialed reporter or a citizen journalist, if you are arrested or run into legal problems while reporting on the presidential inauguration, help is available from two sources:

OK, I’ll admit up front that I am biased about this video, given that my son Ben Ambrogi produced it. And although it is addressed to educators, it is actually a useful overview for anyone who is new to Facebook. Ben produced this and a series of other video tutorials for a San Francisco-based…

The view from my back porch today.…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we consider the pros and cons of Twitter as a tool for legal professionals:

The stand-out free social networking and micro-blogging service Twitter has been praised and shunned by legal professionals. What do you think? Law.com bloggers and co-hosts J.

The share of adult Internet users who have a profile on an online social network has more than quadrupled in the past four years, from 8 percent in 2005 to 35 percent now, according to a new Pew Internet study of adults and social networks. Not surprisingly, use of social networks still remains much…

The editors of two of the top legal periodicals in the United States join us this week to discuss the top legal stories of 2008 on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Our guests are Edward Adams, editor and publisher of the ABA Journal, and Steven Fromm, editor-in-chief of the National Law Journal. Listen…