The lawyer rating site Avvo today announced two new features: “Avvo Answers,” a Q&A; forum in which lawyers can answer questions posted by consumers, and “Track Record,” a free option by which lawyers can post and showcase their cases and deals. I have more details in a post today at

In 2003, the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, with some degree of fanfare, launched e-Dicta, a portal to tort and insurance resources on the Internet. I praised it at the time, writing on this blog that it was “a true mega-site, combining original content and links to other…

I wrote in May 2006 about Lawbby, a site that aspired to be the MySpace of the legal world. Lawbby described itself as a place where lawyers could mingle, whether for business or pleasure, by creating their own profiles and groups. But in recent days, attempts to visit the site were rerouted…

The popular public-records search site SearchSystems.net has won a federal court judgment of $780,000 against the competing site CourtsOnline, according to this press release. A federal judge in San Francisco entered the order against the site’s creator, Mark Musselman, for stealing content from SearchSystems.net, the release says. The order also bars Musselman…

Track the real estate purchases and sales of lawyers in Chicago and St. Louis through BlockShopper.com. See my full post about it at Legal Blog Watch.…

Monica Bay, longtime editor-in-chief of the magazine Law Technology News, launched her own podcast this week, Law Technology Now. (It also has its own site at LawTechnologyNow.com.) Each month, Bay will interview a key expert from the legal technology community about top issues confronting the legal profession. In the

A Massachusetts’ judge’s release of Daniel Tavares become part of the national political debate after Tavares allegedly shot and killed a newlywed couple in Washington state and Republican presidential hopeful and former Bay State Gov. Mitt Romney called on the judge — his own appointee — to resign. On the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer…

The Red Sox kindly surprised us today at a newspaper publishers meeting with a visit from the World Series trophy.…

Editors of the ABA Journal today announced they have selected this blog as one of the Blawg 100, the 100 best Web sites by lawyers for lawyers. Now the ABA Journal is inviting lawyers to vote for their favorites in each of the Blawg 100’s 12 categories. To vote, go to http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs/blawg100.…

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…