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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:…

The TechnoLawyer Blog recently launched a regular feature it calls YouLaw, which reviews law firm advertising videos that are posted to YouTube. New York medical malpractice lawyer Gerald Oginski writes the
reviews. At the end of each review is a section called “Back Bench,” in which other experts add their nutshell opinions.…

Today we recorded the 150th episode of our weekly legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. The show is not yet ready to post, but as we were recording, our favorite lawyer/recording artist Larry Savell of LawTunes surprised and honored us with our very own Lawyer2Lawyer song that he composed and recorded to mark our third…

The Law Library of Congress has converted its Global Legal Monitor from a static, monthly PDF to a dynamic and regularly updated Web site. The monitor tracks legal news and developments worldwide, drawing on information from the Global Legal Information Network and other sources.

From the announcement:

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The official Web site of the U.S. court system has finally enabled RSS feeds for news and rulemaking. There are five feeds:

Find them all on this page.…

A newly launched blog is the first I’ve seen to focus on the topic of furniture law. The Womble Carlyle Furniture Law Blog comes from the Intellectual Property Group at the law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice in Winston-Salem, N.C. The blog will focus on IP and patent issues that…

When Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast, lawyers were not spared. Many lawyers were hard hit in both their profesisonal and personal lives. On this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I interview Bill Livesay, executive director of Andrews Kurth LLP in Houston, and…

I am often asked whether professional networking sites such as LinkedIn ever generate new clients for lawyers. I previously mentioned one such success story. Now, here are several more, detailed in this Wisconsin Law Journal article published yesterday, Attorneys are Getting LinkedIn to Clients Online.…