Update 1/7/09: The official results are now in, and they differ from the below. See my post here.

Polling ended yesterday for the readers’ choice awards in the ABA Journal Blawg 100. The ABA Journal has yet to release the official results, but based on the numbers…

Law.com today published my article, Seeking Data Security on the Web. It is for the “do-it-yourselfers” out there — the solo and smaller firm lawyers who handle data protection and back-up on their own.…

Voting ends tomorrow, Jan. 2, for best legal podcast in the ABA Journal Blawg 100. Our podcast, Lawyer2Lawyer, was in the lead, but has fallen into second place in these waning hours, behind the LexisNexis Legal News and Litigation Report. Voting is easy — all you have to do is click on…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, our fourth annual predictions show. We also look back at our track record for 2008. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me is our prediction guru, Stephen L. Kaplan, a partner in the Laguna Niguel, Calif., office of Hicks, Mims, Kaplan & Burns. Listen…

The Washington bureau of McClatchy Newspapers has launched a legal-affairs blog, Suits & Sentences. The blog is written by reporter Michael Doyle, a former Knight Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School and an adjunct instructor in journalism at The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs.…

For the third year running, Dennis Kennedy’s Blawggie Awards have named Lawyer2Lawyer as the best legal podcast. This year, we tied for best with Denise Howell’s This Week in Law. Lawyer2Lawyer also won the Blawggie in 2007 and 2006.

Lawyer2Lawyer was recently selected as a top legal podcast by…

Erin Brockovich of film fame and noted plaintiffs’ lawyer Tom Girardi are our guests on this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Here the description of the show:

You may have heard about the Gardasil vaccine for teenage girls, but you may not have heard about the serious side effects allegedly affecting some

I wrote this for IMS ExpertServices: Top 10 Expert Witness Cases of 2008. I read a lot of cases and heard from a variety of sources. Let me know if you agree with my picks or if there are others you would add.…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at the state of diversity within the legal profession. Here is the show description:

People are making a difference in the legal community. The American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession recently announced their selection of judges,

… is not this one. But our Lawyer2Lawyer podcast is neck and neck for first place in the readers’ choice balloting for best podcast in the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100. We’re up against a podcast from some company called LexisNexis. Ever heard of it? In any event, all of us at Lawyer2Lawyer would…

Law.com today published my article, Sixteen Reasons to Tweet on Twitter. This is the same article I mentioned last week, Tweet Sixteen, that was first published in Law Technology News. The version published today does not require registration or a log-in.…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer:

The failing economy is having an impact on law firms, and not just in the U.S. Firms are cutting staff and scrapping bonuses — and some law firms are even collapsing. Across the pond in the UK, law firms are facing similar troubles. Law.com bloggers