Some patent lawyers might consider the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to be a circus, but a new Web site aims to tame the lion of patent caselaw. Called FedCirc.us, the site is the latest and most ambitious project of the folks behind rethink(ip), patent attorneys and bloggers J. Matthew Buchanan,…

In my experience, the most interesting blogs are often the most difficult to categorize. The authors feel free to write about what they fancy. A lawyer may blog about a current trial, a favorite movie, a good band. An obvious example is popular blogger Ernie the Attorney. He writes about law, technology, music, spirituality,…

I’ve been tagged by Monica Bay to participate in the Lawyers Appreciate blog-a-thon. The one rule — start a post with those words. Here are some of the other posts so far, and here is mine:

Lawyers appreciate civility among their peers. Too many lawyers see the practice of law as a…

In the spirit of citizen journalism, arm every blogger with one of these: the amazing Nokia N93. DVD-quality video and 3.2 megapixel camera in a full-featured Bluetooth phone with support for RSS, e-mail attachments, etc., etc., and an optional full wireless keyboard.…

This week brought two sets of awards for best law-related blogs, and I am proud to say that both gave honors to two of my projects — the legal affairs podcast Coast to Coast that I cohost with J. Craig Williams and the blog Legal Blog Watch that I coauthor with

As I wrote last March, I had mixed feelings about Microsoft’s acquistion of Onfolio. At the time, it was my RSS reader of choice. I also liked its ability to capture, save and organize Web pages. I regularly used it to save and organize news articles that might later disappear from public view.…

Tag Crowd is a site that lets you create tag clouds for any document. Tag clouds are those clusters of variously sized words you see on many blogs and on Web sites such as Flickr. Usually, they are used to display the labels attached to blog posts or images and their frequency. But…

Many large firm Web sites have “media rooms” — pages devoted to news releases, press contacts, factsheets, event listings, logos and other information useful to the news media. But what about the rest of us? A new Web service, MyMediaRoom, enables anyone — individuals and organizations — to add a media room to a…

Thanks to The Lawyer.com for reporting on my poll of your top legal blogs. And thanks for the new title of “blawglord” — with this mantle coming from a U.K. publication, I feel I’ve practically been knighted.…

Google Patent Search is a new Google feature that searches the full text of more than 7 million U.S. patents. It covers the entire collection of USPTO patents, from the 1790s through the middle of 2006. It does not currently include patent applications, international patents, or U.S. patents issued over the last few…

We have a particularly special edition this week of our legal-affairs podcast, Coast to Coast: We interview JAG Major John A. Engels, who speaks to us from his station in Iraq. Major Engels is serving in Iraq as command judge advocate of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division. He supervises an…

The newsletter Marketing The Law Firm, a publication of ALM’s Law Journal Newsletters, today released the results of its second annual MLF 50 — The Top 50 Law Firms of 100+ Attorneys in Marketing and Communications. Topping the list are:…