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:

The Law Library

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.…

Goodwin Procter attorney and KM guru Doug Cornelius, Morrison Mahoney IT director Jenn Steele and I will team up Oct. 2 in Boston for a panel on social networking for lawyers and legal IT staff sponsored by the International Legal Technology Association. The lunchtime panel is free to attend and open to ILTA…

Our Lawyer2Lawyer podcast this week looks at the fall of Lehman Brothers and the largest bankruptcy case in U.S. history. Read further details about this episode and listen to or download it from this LegalTalkNetwork page.…

Not quite a monopoly, but darn close. The now-final $4.1 billion acquisition by Reed Elsevier — parent of LexisNexis— of ChoicePoint Inc. would have given Reed control over 80 percent of the $60 million market for the sale of electronic public records to U.S. law enforcement agencies. Last week, the

Further to my recent posts about the controversy over reported link sales by FindLaw, the National Law Journal today has this story: Blogosphere Tries FindLaw for Link Sales. It includes a quote from me — although, as quotes tend to do, it oversimplifies what I was trying to say.…

Several times since I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve received requests to delete or amend posts. Until now, I never have. These requests never said my post was inaccurate or even unfair. Rather, the typical request was one in which the circumstances had changed but my post continued to show up in search engines. For…