A new Web site for pairing consumers with attorneys will be rolled out at the American Bar Association annual meeting in New York this week, although it will not formally launch to consumers until September. Called WhoCanISue.com, it is being developed by a Florida lawyer-turned-entrepreneur named Curtis Wolfe. The site is not yet operating,…

As online professional networking gains traction within the legal community, Martindale-Hubbell has been quietly testing its own networking site, Martindale-Hubbell Connected, which it plans to launch publicly late this year or early in 2009.

The company made much ado earlier this month about its partnership with professional networking site LinkedIn. But…

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The lawyer rating site Avvo unveiled a major redesign of its Web site last night in order to enhance user access to its three main features: Lawyer Search, Answers & Advice and Legal Guides. It also formally launched its Legal Guides, a series of brief overviews of legal topics written by private attorneys or…

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice John M. Greaney will join the faculty of Suffolk University Law School in December and become director of its Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy, the school announced today. Under state law, Greaney would have been required to retire in April,…

Indulge me as I blow my own horn. The American Society of Business Publication Editors this week awarded me its national silver award for best contributed column in a publication with a circulation under 80,000. I received the award for the “Web Watch” column I write for the…

A $1 billion lawsuit by Viacom accuses Google’s video-sharing Web site, YouTube, of violating its copyrights. Last week, Google and Viacom reached an agreement to allow Google to mask user information from records before handing them over to Viacom. On this week’s legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my co-host J. Craig…

I’ve repeated this story enough times that I’m no longer sure it is even true: Way back in 1995, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, we introduced volume one, number one, of legal.online, the first-ever newsletter about how lawyers could use the Internet. And as we stood there…

beSpacific provides the heads up to the Google Blog announcement of the launch of Knol:

“Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. … The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of

Legendary Wyoming trial lawyer Gerry Spence is now also on the road to becoming a legendary blogger. Earlier this month, he launched Gerry Spence’s Blog, explaining in an introductory post that he has done a “miserably inadequate” job of using the Internet to share his thoughts and lessons. “I have learned things…

I came across this fairly interesting legal blog, Domain Name Shame, that tracks WIPO arbitration decisions in domain name cases. The posts are straightforward in their synopses of the cases and devoid of comments that anyone would consider highly critical or inflammatory. Yet the blog is published “anonymously,” with no identification of the lawyers…

For the do-it-yourselfers out there, Roxer beta looks like a simple way to build a nice-looking Web site. It is all done within your browser and no knowledge of HTML is required. In fact, to demo the site, you can remake its front page — just click on the padlock icon in the lower…