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.…

A Web site scheduled to launch tomorrow is designed to help lawyers — particularly those in smaller firms — outsource work to legal-support freelancers. The site, LawSourcing, facilitates the process of hiring outside help to perform projects such as legal research and writing, due diligence and document reviews, Web site design, marketing or any…

From The New York Times:

“H. Donald Wilson, who prepared the original business plan for what became Mead Data Central and its pioneering Lexis-Nexis database, died on Nov. 12 at his home in Mitchellville, Md. He was 82.

“The cause was a heart attack, said his daughter Edith R. Wilson.

“Mr. Wilson, a lawyer

Call me a prude, but I agree with those who say that the suit-as-aphrodisiac ad was inappropriate for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, as reported today in The Boston Globe and noted at the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog. MLW’s editor, Dave Yas, initially called…