BlawgSearch.com, the new search engine for legal blogs I reported about here last month, has moved from “alpha” to “beta,” says its developer Tim Stanley of Justia.com, with the addition of RSS feeds for searches, media icons for audio/video posts and a flash player for audio. Also, several hundred more blogs have…

That is the question addressed in a recent Connecticut Supreme Court case, as I report in an article recently published on the Web site of IMS ExpertServices. Excerpt:

The defective ladder is a much-maligned icon of products liability law. But when an engineering expert gives his opinion on why a ladder fell, is

Boston-based law firm Bingham McCutchen is expanding eastward. Last month, it announced the opening of a Hong Kong office, and today the Boston Business Journal reports that Bingham has acquired a 22-lawyer firm in Tokyo, Sakai & Mimura, known for financial restructuring and mergers and acquisitions. The BBJ says that Bingham…

In the December ABA Journal article, Top Ten in Tech, writer Jason Krause surveys “the trends, programs and gadgets that add punch to your practice.” As an example of Web 2.0’s impact on law practice, he features Coast to Coast, the legal-affairs podcast I co-host with California lawyer J. Craig Williams.…

LawMemo has long been a superior site for labor and employment law resources, but now it becomes a supreme site — literally — with the addition of Supreme Court Times. Covering all Supreme Court cases, this new feature compiles information and commentary into a resource that houses virtually everything you might want to…

At podCast411, Rob Welch, author of Tricks of the Podcasting Masters, interviews lawyer Colette Vogele about the Podcasting Legal Guide she co-authored. Vogele reveals that she will soon launch her own podcast that will address the legal questions of podcasters and video bloggers.…

Thanks in part to funding from Bill and Melinda Gates, Pro Bono Net has developed a Web-based platform for law firms to manage and promote their pro bono work. To be launched early in 2007, it is called Pro Bono Manager. An article in the Pro Bono Net newsletter says the software…

The fine folks who bring us Slaw truly deserve recognition as a top legal blog. My presentation of that honor — accompanied as it was by my mention of the low turnout of voters and high turnout of spammers — was not intended to steal their thunder.…

The Maryland Court of Appeals this week began a pilot project of webcasting its oral arguments live. Webcasts are also available as archived copies.…

You have to feel sorry for Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp. At 452-feet long, his private yacht is only the world’s second largest — four feet shorter than the yacht of the Saudi Arabian defense minister.

At least he can enjoy docking it in the Virgin Islands for a couple days.…

A month ago, I invited readers to vote for their top legal blog. I should have known better.

Here is what I wrote at the time:

This is an experiment that I hope will allow me to tap into the collective wisdom of my readers. My RSS reader is flooded with law blogs. Every

Major revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure take effect Dec. 1, governing discovery of electronically stored information. I wrote a quick guide to the new e-discovery rules, which is available at this link from the Web site of IMS ExpertServices.…