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.…

I am once again on the “back bench,” adding my quick impressions to Gerry Oginski’s YouLaw video reviews on the TechnoLawyer Blog This week’s review: Fast Talking Attorney Jodi Ginsberg Wants to Host a Talk Show.…

I’m tempted to say that this week’s episode of our podcast Lawyer2Lawyer is for the birds. We take on Twitter, the social-networking and microblogging phenomenon where everything happens in 140 characters or fewer. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me to discuss Twitter’s place in legal marketing are Brian Carter, director…

The Defense Research Institute, the organization that is to the civil-defense bar what the American Association for Justice is to the plaintiffs’ bar, recently launched a blog, For the Defense, as an adjunct to the organization’s magazine of the same name.

I learned about the blog through a comment added to a…

Another post of mine at Legal Blog Watch today should be of interest to readers of this blog: A preliminary audit conducted by Public.Resource.Org of publicly accessible documents from 32 federal district courts found 1,669 containing Social Security numbers and other personal information.…