Law.com and LegalTalkNetwork.com have collaborated to launch Legal Channels, a service that produces professional-quality marketing and informational videos for lawyers and law firms. The videos are produced by Emmy award winning broadcast professionals (these are the folks who produce my Lawyer2Lawyer podcast) and the finished videos are posted on both Law.com…

It was a year ago tomorrow that I left for my trip to Russia. A year later, the trip stands out as one of the most memorable events of my life. After I returned, I gave a presentation in Boston on Russian courts and the news media. I have converted that presentation to Flash…

Our topic this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer is the Am Law 100, which reports that total revenues for the nation’s highest-grossing law firms reached $64.5 billion. We discuss the survey and what it reveals about the state of the legal profession with

Winners of the 2008 Webby Awards have been announced, honoring excellence in Web sites in more than 100 categories, and in the law category, the Webby Award winner is OUT-LAW.COM, the IT and e-commerce legal-help site of the international law firm Pinsent Masons. Winner of the People’s Voice award — decided…

Legal publishing is a $5 billion industry. Now, the portion of that industry that focuses on publishing and selling court opinions is facing a threat from movements on several fronts to put all federal and state case law in the public domain (a topic I’ve written about here on several occasions). We look at…

The Boston Globe today published an op-ed I wrote on current efforts to reform the Massachusetts open meeting law: Open the doors to public meetings.…

Updates to two of the sites I discussed in my recent two-part article, “Discovering E-Discovery on the Web” (Part One, Part Two):

First, I wrote in the article that DiscoveryResources.org “may be the leading e-discovery portal” and that its Sound Evidence blog, written by e-discovery expert Mary Mack, is “one of…

Aric Press, editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer, presents a free webinar today in which he previews the results of this year’s Am Law 100. The 15-minute program begins at 3 p.m. Eastern time. Register for it at this page.…

The raid of a polygamist compound in West Texas has raised difficult and troubling issues concerning the interplay between the state, religion and the rights of children, women and families. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, I discuss the events in Texas with two guests: Betsy Branch, a family-law attorney with…

I’ve had several posts in recent months about various efforts to move caselaw into the public domain and, once there, to make it more accessible. I also had a recent article about this in Law Technology News, Online Legal Research Revolution. Now, some updates:…

On our legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer this week, we discuss the federal shield bill pending in Congress. I have complete details about the show at my Media Law blog.…

At my Media Law blog, I have this post about the open meeting bill reported out yesterday by a committee of the Mass. legislature. I have also posted the text of the bill. Here are two news reports in which I comment on the bill:…