I am thrilled to announce that I will be visiting Russia May 12-19 as part of a five-person delegation to discuss the relationship between the news media and the courts. We will be visiting the Siberian city of Tomsk, some 2,200 miles east of Moscow, where we will meet with Russian judges, lawyers, journalists…

In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer examines the legal liability of higher-education institutions for students who are homicidal or suicidal. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me for this discussion are Anthony J. Sebok, professor at Brooklyn Law School and author of a…

The 2007 Webby Awards have been announced, and in the law category, the Webby Award winner is LawHelp.org, a Web site created by probono.net that helps low-income people find legal assistance and answers to legal questions. Winner of the People’s Voice award — decided by votes from the online community —…

I know nothing about U.K. legal ethics rules. I don’t even know if the U.K. has legal ethics rules. But I’m pretty sure this site would not pass muster in the U.S.

Called Expert Legal Advice, the site sells legal advice in prepaid increments of 10, 20, 40 and 80 minutes. The advice,…

Pandora Corp. has launched the latest beta version of Pandora Recovery, its software for finding and recovering deleted files on your PC. The program scans your hard drive and builds an index of existing and deleted files and directories. Once the scanning is complete, you have several options for managing deleted files. It works…

Colette Vogele provides a nice round-up of articles, blogs and other resources related to attorney advertising, ethical rules and the First Amendment. It is drawn from the written materials from a panel she moderated last week for the Bar Association of San Francisco.…

Sorry for no blogging last week — I was away. As proof thereof, I offer the following photo of a distinctly non-East Coast landmark, as seen through the gray from far away.

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It’s all Imus all the time this week in the media and in the blogosphere. But what does the law have to say about all this? Did Imus commit libel? What about the First Amendment? Where’s the FCC in all this? Did he have an employment contract? We get…

Law.com today launched a new search tool that allows more focused searching of legal sites than would a general search site such as Google, with the goal of delivering more relevant results. Called Law.com Quest, it provides the option of searching only the Law.com network of sites or a broader collection of…

The Des Moine, Iowa, intellectual property firm McKee, Voorhees & Sease today announced the launch of its blog, Filewrapper.com, devoted to legal issues pertaining to patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and IP litigation.

The firm has done something smart in preparing for the launch: It spent some six months developing and posting to…

Google has for some time allowed you submit searches from your mobile phone via text messages, but now you can search Google Local from any phone via Google Voice Local Search. Just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) and a voice takes your query and reports the results. If you are on a mobile phone, you can…

It has barely been two months since I reviewed Opera version 9.1 for Law.com (Browser Upgrade: Singing Opera’s Praises), and already the Web browser has been upgraded to version 9.2. The cool new feature in this version: speed dial. It lets you see thumbnail versions of your nine favorite sites and click…