The new Federal Rule of Evidence 502 is aimed at reducing the cost of discovery — e-discovery in particular — by clarifying the rules applicable to disclosures of information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work-product doctrine. On this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, J. Craig Williams and I discuss the…

I received an e-mail this morning informing me that I’ve been nominated to be a 2008 Outstanding Attorney in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, says the e-mail, my candidacy has so far received only three votes. That leaves me quite a bit behind Goodwin Procter chair Regina Pisa with 395 votes, Wilmer Cutler co-managing partner

Or is is “tweeting”? In any event, I’m on Twitter, with all of one tweet so far.…

It can be difficult to keep up with the folks at Public.Resource.Org and their efforts to put as much law as possible into the public domain. I’ve written before about their successes in putting caselaw in the public domain. The latest release, Codes.gov, publishes critical state and municipal public safety codes from all…

LexisNexis has launched a beta version of its own Web search tool, called Lexis Web. Unlike general search sites such as Google, Lexis Web searches a more limited sphere of legal-oriented Web sites. The user guide says that the sites it searches have been selected and validated by the LexisNexis editorial staff, so…

Will the Supreme Court dismiss a class action suit brought by smokers in Maine, who say they were misled into believing that “low tar” and “light” cigarettes are a healthier alternative to regular cigarettes? The case argued before before the high court this week, Altria Group v. Good,…

Law.com has my column, Ten Legal Podcasts to Keep You Informed, which updates my 2005 column, 10 Essential Podcasts for Lawyers.…

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This is part of the Legal Channels series, produced by the Legal Talk Network in cooperation with Law.com.…

FindLaw has added RSS feeds for case summaries from the Supreme Court, the federal circuit courts and state appellate courts in California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New York and Texas. It has also introduced practice-area feeds that provide case summaries for 16 practice areas, from bankruptcy to tax. The feeds provide summaries of the opinions…

The New York Legal Marketing Association has posted the slides from our Sept. 17 panel on social and professional networking (pdf). As I had noted in an earlier post, the other panelists were Doug Cornelius, a lawyer and frequent speaker and writer on the legal profession’s use of knowledge management, enterprise…

This week’s episode of Lawyer2Lawyer marks our 150th podcast and third anniversary! For this special show, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I revisit some highlights from the past three years and welcome two special return guests, Eugene Volokh, professor at UCLA School of Law…

Peter Schilling, IT director at Amherst College, surveyed this year’s incoming first-year class of 438 students about their technology use. He has posted the results, in the form of the Harper’s Index, as the IT Index. For anyone wondering about the future of social networking, the numbers speak volumes. Consider:…