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:…

That’s what a new Web site, SueEasy.com, promises consumers. But one lawyer calls the site “the worst lawyer idea ever.” See my post today at Legal Blog Watch.…

Amy Campbell has this picture from last night’s meetup of Boston blawgers at Emmets Pub. The occasion was the Boston visit of Kevin O’Keefe, president of lexBlog. Among other bloggers who attended were Diane Levin of MediationChannel.com, Leanna Hamill of Massachusetts Estate Planning and Elder Law, Joshua Paulin of

See here.…

Recently at Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch, in a post titled Massacring the Boston Massacre Trial, I wrote about bloggers’ critiques of the dramatization of that trial in the recent HBO miniseries, John Adams. Now you can obtain a less dramatic and perhaps more historically accurate perspective,…

Kevin O’Keefe, president of LexBlog, is coming all the way from Washington state to Boston this week, so the least we can do is get some blawgers and blawgees together to buy him a beer. Our meetup will be this Wednesday, April 16. Tentative time is 6-ish and tentative place is Emmet’s Pub.…

With global warming and environmental issues plaguing the world, the legal community is doing its part by going green. This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility within the legal profession. taking charge and partaking in individual tasks within…

Savvy estate-planning lawyers help their clients prepare for every contingency that may arise after they leave this life. This week brought announcements of two new Web sites, each aimed at simplifying the process of settling a decedent’s affairs, even when no estate planning was done.

The first, eDivvyup, is an online auction site specifically…