At first I thought it was just my computer, but it turns out that something is broken in the latest version of Google Desktop that can disable its desktop search function for Firefox users. Try to perform a desktop search and instead of results, Firefox displays the error message, “The connection was reset.” The…

Gizmodo is reporting that Samsung is denying rumors of a recall of its BlackJack phone due to antenna problems causing poor reception. For me, this is ironic. Just last week, I was on a conference call via my BlackJack, and someone on the other end commented that I…

Law.com today features the second installment in my two-part column on useful e-discovery sites and resources. The second part, Keeping Up With EDD Blogs and Tools, focuses, as the title suggests, on EDD blogs and also on vendor sites with useful information. The first part, EDD Bytes to Feed Your Firm, looked…

Amazon is calling Kindle a revolutionary wireless reading device with a high-resolution “electronic-paper” display “that looks and reads like real paper.” Purchasers can use it to buy and read books and subscribe to top newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the

On Nov. 9, Merck & Co., after long insisting it would never settle the 27,000 Vioxx cases filed against it, turned an about face and agreed to a global settlement in which it will pay $4.85 billion to resolve the bulk of these cases. Two of the lawyers who were instrumental in bringing this about…

Earlier today at Legal Blog Watch, I wrote about yesterday’s joint investigative report by 60 Minutes and The Washington Post revealing the injustice to hundreds of defendants who remain in prison based at least in part on a discredited FBI forensic tool known as comparative bullet-lead analysis. As the Washington Post piece…

This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the ongoing litigation by the Recording Industry Association of America against college students, soccer moms and others accused of illegally sharing and downloading music. Our guests for this program are two experts on the issue:…

As of Wednesday, Nov. 14, a new labor-relations agency replaces and consolidates three long-standing agencies overseeing labor-management relations in Massachusetts. The new Division of Labor Relations came into existence as the result of legislation merging the Labor Relations Commission (where I was a staff counsel in the 1980s), the Board of Conciliation and…

The law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice is introducing a new tagline, “Innovators at Law,” and releasing four animated videos that illustrate the theme using the firm’s mascot, Winston the bulldog. In the first video of the series, titled “Zip Past…

Carl Malamud’s nonprofit organization Public.Resource.Org and the legal research company Fastcase today announced an agreement that will allow Public.Resource.Org to publish 1.8 million pages of federal case law in the public domain. The archive, which will become available sometime in 2008, will include all U.S. courts of appeals decisions since 1950 and…

Matt Homann called it a You Tube for legal documents, and I can’t think of a more perfect description. The site is called docstoc, and just as You Tube does for videos, docstoc allows users to upload and share professional documents. Documents are categorized as legal, business, financial, technological, educational or creative.…

I noted here in August that two federal trial courts had started posting audio recordings of courtroom proceedings online and that three others were slated to follow. Now one of those three has started posting audio of its proceedings, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The two courts that…