Zillow.com, the real-estate valuations site I wrote about last April (An essential site for real estate lawyers), is the target of a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission. According to Ars Technica, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition alleges that Zillow is “intentionally misleading customers and real estate professionals to…

As I noted earlier this week at Legal Blog Watch, the tally of Vioxx-related lawsuits filed against Merck is now at 23,800 and rising. Yet Merck maintains it will continue its litigation strategy of examining each case on its own merits. Is Merck’s strategy viable for the long haul? What do a recent jury…

You’ve heard of fantasy football leagues. You’ve heard of fantasy baseball leagues. You may even have heard of the Fantasy Supreme Court league. Now add to the fantasy roster Fantasy Congress: Where People Play Politics.

Create a team of 16 members of Congress. To keep it interesting, you are required to have…

eWeek has this review of newly released Firefox 2.0. Bottom line: eWeek says the latest version of Firefox has “the greatest out-of-the-box usability of any Web browser that we have tested (and that’s a lot of Web browsers).”…

Law Technology News has published the final installment of my three-part Web Watch series on Web 2.0 applications for the law office. The latest is available here: Part 3.0 of Web 2.0. (Free registration required.)

The earlier two installments were:…

The California law firm Wallin, Kress, Reisman & Kranitz has created a new Web site, CityAttorney.us, that provides an index of links to California municipal and state law resources. Among the resources it indexes are city and county codes and city political and demographic information. It also provides overviews and analyses of the…

In an interesting case involving the use of an expert witness in antitrust litigation, the 10th Circuit recently excluded an economics expert who failed to explain how he reached his analysis of one market using data from another. I discuss the case in the article, Market Expert Blocked in Antitrust Case, which I wrote…

Today at Legal Blog Watch, I have a post about the Christopher McCowen Murder Trial Blog, following the trial on Cape Cod of McCowen for the 2002 murder of former fashion writer Christa Worthington.…

Prerelease versions have been available for some time, but Microsoft made it official this week with the final release of Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft’s long-overdue great leap forward in the browser wars looks suprising familiar to users of the Firefox browser. New features in IE — tabbed browsing, RSS support and integrated…

Earlier this month, Congress removed a controversial provision in a military bill that would have permitted military chaplains to offer sectarian prayer at mandatory nondenominational events. But the issue remains alive, as conservative Christian groups say they will refile the bill in January.

We consider the First Amendment issues at play here on this…

A debut comic book, Attorney Man, is designed to teach lawyers how to be better salespeople. Created by Karen Katz, a consultant with Boston’s Law Practice Consultants, and Raul Gonzalez, a Somerville, Mass., artist, the comic tells the tale of Tim Silver, lawyer at the law firm…

A new Web site, Australasian Legal Technology, aims to provide information on technology relevant to law firms in the Australian and Asia-Pacific region. Its founder, Chris McLean, director of a national Australian law firm, said that the site addresses the lack of a source for local IT information in the region. The site provides…