Lawyers considered Eliot Spitzer either a hero or a villain. But as the now-former governor of New York faces possible criminal charges, we explore the case against him on this week’s edition of the legal-affairs podcast LegalTalkNetwork. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me to discuss the legal case against Spitzer are:…

The online magazine Slate launched a legal blog this week, Convictions, that will provide commentary from a range of legal professionals, including Slate’s Jurisprudence columnists Dahlia Lithwick and Emily Bazelon as well as practitioners and law professors from across the country. “By launching a law blog, we’re able to post immediate reactions to…

My post yesterday, Case Law Libre!, pointed to the registration-required Law Technology News version of the article. Today, Law.com posted it on the Legal Technology page, where no registration is required.

Also, I heard today from Thomas Smith, the University of San Diego School of Law professor who serves as CEO…

Here is a useful feature that compares and reviews the top 10 e-mail marketing services. Top choice is iContact, followed by Constant Contact and Benchmark.…

My latest Web Watch column for Law Technology News magazine, Case Law Libre (free reg. required), looks at several recent projects to move case law into the public domain, from Public.Resource.Org to Alt-Law to PreCYdent. Here are the opening grafs:

“Feb. 11, 2008 was a day that may forever change

The Connecticut Law Tribune’s Tom Scheffey interviews me for his article today, ‘Duby-ous News’?, which follows up on a controversy I previously wrote about at Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch surrounding a PR consultant’s role in a law firm’s staged news program.

The half-hour program features two partners from Hartford’s Shipman…

The essential role of paralegals in law practice is our topic this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Joining us as guests to discuss this topic are Tita A. Brewster, president of the National Association of Legal Assistants, and Chere Estrin, CEO of

I recently wrote here about PreCYdent, a sophisticated search engine for public-domain law. Now, the project’s CTO, Antonio Tomarchio, has posted this video showing how to use it and comparing it against commercial legal research tools.

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As I wrote here Feb. 25, efforts to unmask the anonymous author of the Patent Troll Tracker blog ended in the author revealing himself to be Rick Frenkel, a lawyer who works inhouse at Cisco. Now, the Daily Journal newspaper is reporting that two Texas patent attorneys, T. John Ward Jr. and…

Kevin Hunt, corporate communications guru for Thomson North American Legal, filmed interviews at LegalTech New York with Law Technology News Editor Monica Bay, Legal Tech Newsletter Editor Adam Schlagman and me. Now he’s woven them together in this video about current trends in legal technology. An audio-only version is available at…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the recent Supreme Court decision Sprint/United Management Co. v. Mendelsohn, involving the admissibility of “me too” evidence in employment discrimination cases. Our guests are three employment lawyers: Michael Ketchmark, from Davis Ketchmark & McCreight in Kansas City, Mo.;…

I will be participating tomorrow in Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education’s 6th Annual Municipal Law Conference. I am on a panel beginning at 11:15, “Open Government Issues: Public Records and Open Meeting Law,” together with Assistant Attorney Generals Lorraine A. Goldenberg-Tarrow and Robert W. Ritchie, director of the AG’s Municipal Law Unit.…