With the Democratic race for president down to two lawyers, how well did the legal careers of Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton prepare them to become our nation’s chief executive. That is the topic this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, as my cohost J. Craig Williams and I are joined by:…

Legal supplies and services company BlumbergExcelsior today announced the launch of Law Site Builder, a low-cost Web site development and hosting service for small- and medium-sized firms. Using a selection of pre-designed templates, Blumberg will create a Web site of up to 10 pages for a flat fee of $350 and then host…

At the recent LegalTech New York, I played roving reporter and, armed with a Zoom H2 stereo MP3 recorder, walked around the show interviewing exhibitors, attendees and show organizers. For this week’s episode of the weekly legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my cohost J. Craig Williams and…

Paul Walsh, the former law clerk who was the target of the bizarre scheme that led to last week’s disbarment of two prominent Boston lawyers, breaks his silence about the case in a post yesterday at Boston Magazine’s Boston Daily Blog. Now working for an international law firm in Hong Kong, Walsh said…

Via ResearchBuzz comes word that Connecticut now has an online database of criminal convictions, even including motor vehicle infractions.…

There’s something happening here. Just two days after Public.Research.Org published 1.8 million pages of copyright-free federal case law online (see my post), the company that provided it with those cases, Fastcase, unveiled an even larger free library of cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and legal forms. Called The Public Library of…

The good news: Starbucks is dropping its Wi-Fi partnership with T-Mobile, which charges $9.99 for 24 hours access, and switching to an AT&T; plan that will give Starbucks card holders two hours free a day and AT&T; broadband customers unlimited free access. The bad news: Other customers will still have to pay for Wi-Fi, but…

The LexisNexis-owned Martindale-Hubbell law directory announced this week that it is adding law firm videos to its martindale.com online legal directory and its lawyers.com legal-consumer site. One of the first examples is featured on the lawyers.com listing for the Newtown, Penn., firm Kardos, Rickles, Bidlingmaier…

The day we previewed here last week has arrived: The non-profit organization Public.Resource.Org today released 1.8 million pages of federal case law free of copyright or other restrictions, in a joint venture with Creative Commons. The release includes all Supreme Court cases and all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 on.…

I reported here in November that 1.8 million pages of federal case law would go public early in 2008 through an agreement between Carl Malamud’s nonprofit organization Public.Resource.Org and the legal research company Fastcase. Today, Malamud said the release of those cases is scheduled for next week. The release will include all…

A brief videotaped interview with me at LegalTech New York yesterday is posted on WestBlog.net.…

My Web Watch column this month, Search on Steroids, profiles Collexis, a powerful new search tool making its way into the legal market. The review notes, “The company also is preparing to launch other legal products based on the same search platform, including databases of federal and state case law and U.S. patents.…