Two federal courts began posting audio recordings of courtroom proceedings online earlier this month and three others will soon follow suit, according to an announcement from the Administrative Office of the Courts. Audio recordings of proceedings in the U.S. District Court in Nebraska and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of North…

The U.S. Government Accountability Office unveiled a major redesign of its Web site Monday. According to the announcement, the redesign is intended to make the agency’s work easier to find and better understood. A highlight is the three front-page tabs for quickly finding recently issued reports and testimony, legal decisions and opinions, and…

Unlike the federal courts and most states, Massachusetts state courts have no rules of evidence. Last year, the Supreme Judicial Court appointed an advisory committee to draft a guide to evidence law, directing the committee “to assemble the current law in one easily usable document, along the lines of the Federal Rules of Evidence.”…

Back from a week of travel, including a stop at beautiful Yosemite National Park.

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The National Lawyers Guild, the organization of politically progressive lawyers, law students and others in the legal field, has launched a new Web site and with it a new NLG Press Blog. The blog is intended to make it easier for members of the media and anyone else interested in the NLG to…

No sooner do I publish my review of the best law firm recruiting sites than comes another highly creative recruiting site, this one from the Boston firm Choate Hall & Stewart. (My article looked only at AmLaw 100 firms; Choate is in the second hundred.) Choate announced the site July 25, and…

Earlier this week, I wrote a review here of The Lawyers Wall, concluding, “As a medium for lawyer marketing, this one seems to hit a brick wall.” That brought a response from the site’s founder, Jeffrey D. Brown, on his blog, The LW Blog. Now, Brown has deleted his response from his…

From the University of Minnesota, a collection of state and federal information on the I-35 bridge, including inspection reports.…

The blog Free Government Information points to this page of RSS feeds available from the U.S. Census Bureau. Keep track of Census Bureau general news and releases or follow developments relating to specific topics such as aging, business ownership, health care and insurance, income and wealth, or any of more than three-dozen…

Larry Bodine gives the heads up on a new Web site he is helping to launch, JD Supra. The idea, apparently, is to promote yourself and your law practice by contributing content to the site. Bodine writes that he and Aviva Cuyler, a California lawyer, cofounded the site “to give members of the…

For my Web Watch column this month in Law Technology News, I review the recruiting sites of the nation’s largest law firms. This first of two parts looks at the more innovative efforts. Next month’s column will review the ones that fall flat. Here is the opening:

“It is time for the

For an article I am writing, I am looking to hear from legal professionals about their experiences with LinkedIn. In particular, I would love to hear from anyone whose participation in LinkedIn brought them new business or opened doors to other beneficial opportunities. I also want to hear from any longtime users of LinkedIn…