Must have been something in the courthouse water during Gerry Spence’s recent defense of Geoffrey Fieger on charges he made illegal political campaign contributions. Within weeks of winning an acquittal for his well-known lawyer client, the equally (more?) well-known Spence launched his blog, Gerry Spence’s Blog. Now,…

On Sept. 17 in New York City, I will moderate a panel, Web 3.0 Attorney Social Networking: The Next “Next” in Online Business Development and Client Service, with a stellar line-up of participants. Sponsored by the New York chapter of the Legal Marketing Association, the panel will include:…

Charles Pugsley Fincher divides his time between practicing law in Texas and drawing cartoons. For the former, his clients may be thankful. For the latter, many lawyers are surely appreciative. At his LawComix Web site, he publishes his “more or less weekly” cartoon, Scribble-in-Law, along with…

A Web site launched today, LitiReviews, provides free access to reviews of legal and litigation software and technology. The site collects the reviews from third-party sources such as TechnoLawyer, the American Bar Association, the Association of Legal Administrators and Law.com. It does not actually publish the reviews, but links to…

Are you a listener to our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer? If so, we’d like to have you as a guest on a special program to mark our third anniversary later this month. We know you’re out there — our podcast last month had more than 40,000 downloads. For our anniversary show, we’d like to learn…

I am not sure when this happened, because I just noticed it, but I see that Justia has added a lawyer directory to its many features. It lists lawyers and law firms by their practice areas and jurisdictions and can be searched by name and location. It is labeled “pre-beta,” suggesting it is…

Here are some of the new legal blogs that I have come across recently:…

A new Web site, Mygazines.com, encourages users to upload PDFs of entire magazines in order to share them with others. Apparently, the site’s founder never bothered to consult with a copyright lawyer before launching his new venture.

“It’s pretty hard to see how it’s anything other than a straightforward set of copyright violations,”

Several bloggers are talking today about a blog post saying that FindLaw violated Google’s guidelines by selling links. That post accused FindLaw of scamming customers. My reaction was: Is this the pot calling the kettle black?

The blog post comes from a site called GetLawyerLeads.com. This is a company that creates shell…

Legendary trial lawyer Gerry Spence is our special guest this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Spence came to national prominence for handling the Karen Silkwood case and was most recently in the news for winning an acquittal for Michigan lawyer Geoffrey Fieger. He has…

Law.com today published Social Networking: For Lawyers Only? This is the second installment in my two-part look at social and professional networking sites for lawyers. The first part, published in June, is available here. This second part focuses on networking sites designed specifically for legal professionals. See also my review last week…

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,…