As lawyers elsewhere debate the value of microblogging tool Twitter, one law firm isn’t waiting around for an answer. Texas-based firm Jackson Walker has created several Twitter feeds for news about its firm and it is featuring them prominently on its Web site. It is…

With public defenders’ offices in seven states refusing to take on new cases or suing to limit their caseloads, this week’s legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer looks at the plight of the public defender. Our guests for this program are Bennett H. Brummer, public defender in charge of the Miami-Dade Public Defender…

I pass along the following from a friend of a friend:

Makeovers are all the rage, and one lucky Boston-area non-profit organization stands to benefit from the trend. An international group of website designers is looking for a local non-profit that is interested in having its website redesigned — at no charge.

The effort is

I am honored to be among the presenters next week at the 2008 Annual Conference of the New England Legal Marketing Association. My program, on Friday, Nov. 21, at 2:20 p.m., is titled, “Reaching Digital Savvy Audiences: Which Digital Channels are Best for Law Firms?” Although not yet noted on the agenda,…

I am among the lawyers interviewed by Justin Rebello for this Lawyers USA piece about lawyers using Twitter.

The difference between Twitter and a blog is akin to the difference between a haiku and a ballad, said Ambrogi.

“Blogging is such that you’re trying to write a commentary and provide perspective,” he said.

Beginning in February 2009, the Martindale.com lawyer directory will include rankings and commentary from London-based Chambers & Partners, Martindale’s parent, LexisNexis, announced today. The addition is part of a broader effort to enhance Martindale.com through the introduction of new tools and new sources of data, rankings and commentary, the announcement said. The…

I pass along this noteworthy notice:

The James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering is awarded once a year by the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association at the Annual ABA Techshow in Chicago. The award is named for James I. Keane, the founding chair of the

On this week’s legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we consider Wyeth v. Levine, the case argued before the Supreme Court last week that raises the issue of whether FDA prescription drug labeling authority preempts a state law product liability claim. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me to share their views on…

Law.com has my latest column, Tour the Legal Web’s New Sites, which rounds up several new sites of interest to lawyers.…

The first hybrid yacht.

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Here is something strange about lawyer listings on Martindale.com. I noticed that my listing included something called a “Visibility Ranking,” which is supposedly based on “the total number of weekly profile views.” Mine said that I was #1 out of 17 lawyers in my town of Rockport, Mass., and that I was #204,221…

The Law Library of Congress and Google have teamed up in a collaborative project to digitize 75,000 volumes of printed Congressional Hearings. Eventually, the entire collection will be converted into PDF format. So far, the project has compiled test collections of selected hearings having to do with three topics: the U.S.…