This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer:

The failing economy is having an impact on law firms, and not just in the U.S. Firms are cutting staff and scrapping bonuses — and some law firms are even collapsing. Across the pond in the UK, law firms are facing similar troubles. Law.com bloggers

The American Bar Association has jumped on the social-networking bandwagon with a networking site of its own, Legally Minded. I wrote about it earlier today at Legal Blog Watch. As I said then, a bug in the site is preventing me from completing my registration. Fred Faulkner, the ABA’s manager of interactive…

Two projects of mine, a blog and a podcast, are included on the ABA Journal’s second annual listing of The Blawg 100, the editors’ picks of the best legal blogs. Legal Blog Watch, the Law.com-sponsored blog I cowrite with Carolyn Elefant, won recognition in the News category, and Lawyer2Lawyer,…

Law Technology News has posted my latest column, Tweet Sixteen: 16 Ways Lawyers Can Use Twitter. (LTN requires registration to read articles, but it is free.

When it comes to social media, I tend to be an evangelist. But even I could not grasp why so many lawyers were all atwitter over Twitter.

[The following column originally appeared in print in August 2008. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…

[The following column originally appeared in print in September 2008. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…

Bailout or bankruptcy for U.S. automakers? On this week’s legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the legal and policy issues surrounding a bailout or bankruptcy for the Big Three automakers. Joining us as guests are Professor Eugene F. Fama, the Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University…

The document-sharing site JD Supra is launching an application for Facebook today that lets its members stream their documents and professional profile information into their Facebook profiles. This means that if you contribute documents to JD Supra, you can get additional exposure by having them show up in Facebook.

The application lets…

It was six years ago today that I launched this blog. Right from the start, the best part about blogging has been the people it has helped me meet and the friends it has helped me make. Thanks to all who follow along.…

As lawyers elsewhere debate the value of microblogging tool Twitter, one law firm isn’t waiting around for an answer. Texas-based firm Jackson Walker has created several Twitter feeds for news about its firm and it is featuring them prominently on its Web site. It is…

With public defenders’ offices in seven states refusing to take on new cases or suing to limit their caseloads, this week’s legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer looks at the plight of the public defender. Our guests for this program are Bennett H. Brummer, public defender in charge of the Miami-Dade Public Defender…

I pass along the following from a friend of a friend:

Makeovers are all the rage, and one lucky Boston-area non-profit organization stands to benefit from the trend. An international group of website designers is looking for a local non-profit that is interested in having its website redesigned — at no charge.

The effort is