Another term has ended for our nation’s highest court, so we’ve recruited two Supreme Court experts to wrap-up the term’s most significant opinions and most influential justices, as well as to shaire their thoughts on the future of the court in a presidential election year. Joining us this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer…

I have details in a post at Legal Blog Watch.…

Evernote, the perpetual, multi-platform note-keeping and Web-clipping service that I reviewed favorably in March (Evernote Beta: Never Forget Anything) is now in open beta, which means that an invitation is no longer required to sign up. In addition, Evernote announced two new features:…

Both beSpacific and Creative Commons provide pointers to the news reported on the blog Inside Google Book Search that Google Book Search now has copyright data for pre-1978 books, enabling users to determine whether books are in the public domain:

“How do you find out whether a book was renewed? You

One of the products to be introduced this week at Legal Tech West Coast is Clio, a Web-based practice management suite designed for solo and smaller-firm lawyers. It is still in beta and pricing is not yet available, but anyone interested can sign up to participate for free in the beta testing of…

Ever wondered how to do this? Jim Calloway has an answer.…

I wrote here in March about Searchme, a new search site, still in beta, that delivers results visually, showing pages rather than descriptions of pages. I learned today of two new features added to Searchme, one of which could be of particular use for research, presentations or any number of uses.

This new…

Efforts by Justia and Public.Resource.Org to overturn Oregon’s claim of copyright in its statutes paid off today. Oregon’s Legislative Counsel Committee met this morning and voted unanimously to put the Oregon Revised Statutes in the public domain. Tim Stanley has the news. Background on the Oregon issue is available from Public.Resource.Org.…

The Texas consulting firm Androvett Legal Media & Marketing has gone live with its new blog, Androvett Blog. Androvett media consultant Robert Tharp, a former law and criminal justice reporter at The Dallas Morning News and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, says the firm operated the blog internally for several months…

The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover will convene a conference in September to lay plans for the war-crimes prosecutions of President Bush and other high administration officials. If they are convicted, says the school’s dean, Lawrence Velvel, their punishment should mirror that of World War II war criminals: hanging. I have more…

I started this blog in November 2002. My plan was to use it to post news and reviews of Web sites of interest to the legal profession. I had just published the first edition of my book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, and…

One of the best law-related podcasts will record its last program June 30. After nine years on the air, Justice Talking, the NPR radio program about law and American life, which is also available as a weekly podcast, has run out of funding. In a post on the program’s companion site, Talking…