“Judges have discovered the Internet’s 600 legal blogs,” begins a story in last week’s National Law Journal. That number stopped me cold. Of this I am sure: there are far more than 600 legal blogs. Problem is, no one knows precisely how many.

Way back in February 2005, a publishing executive sent…

With the next federal Vioxx trial set to begin today, the legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast discusses the latest in Vioxx litigation. Our guests are two prominent lawyers representing plaintiffs in these cases, Thomas V. Girardi of Girardi Keese in Los Angeles and J. Paul Sizemore from the firm

The nation’s oldest law review now seeks to be its most cutting-edge law review with the University of Pennsylvania Law Review’s launch this week of a new Web site, PENNumbra. The site is intended to engage a broader audience in legal scholarship by serving as a link between legal academia and the blogosphere.

Call…

How do you use Google to search for confidential documents? Just ask for them. Watch what you put on the Internet, folks.

[Via Depraved Librarian via BoingBoing.]…

It’s our pod-iversary! The weekly legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast, which J. Craig Williams and I co-host, turned one last week. To mark the occasion, we recorded a unique Coast to Coast anniversary show in which we turned the mikes on ourselves, along with three special guests, to discuss the lessons we’ve…

Research Guide on International Health Law is the latest article published on GlobaLex, an electronic publication devoted to international and foreign law research from the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University School of Law. The research guide is written by Chenglin Liu, the foreign and international librarian…

“209A” is the chapter of the Mass. General Laws governing domestic-abuse restraining orders. Boston lawyer Dmitry Lev has launched a blog devoted to defense of these orders, Criminal Defense and 209A Restraining Order Defense.

[Via Bob Kraft’s P.I.S.S.D.]…

The Supreme Court blog SCOTUSblog last week released its first podcast, featuring Tom Goldstein discussing Practice Pointers on the Cert Criteria. Says Goldstein of the podcasts:

“Today, we’re introducing a new feature to the blog: podcasts. Every week or two, we will record and post a 5-7 minute segment on a topic that

After my post last week, New browser covers your tracks, about the Web browser Browzar, which lets you surf without leaving tracks on the local computer, I heard from Neil Squillante of TechnoLawyer, who pointed me to this item on Web3.0log: New secure browser Browzar is fake and full of adware.…

This one, called TrackMeNot, is a Firefox exstention that, as AP writer Anick Jesdan says, “seeks to make your searches more private by hiding them in plain sight.” It works by periodically sending out random queries to popular search engines, hiding your actual search trail “in a cloud of ‘ghost’ queries.” This…

[Update 9.4.06: Is Browzar adware? Not that I can tell.]

A new browser, called Browzar, lets you surf the Web without leaving any tracks on your host computer. It keeps no cache files or browsing history and deletes any cookies you accept when you close it down. Better yet, the program is tiny…

I wrote yesterday about WikiPatents, a site designed to encourage public discussion of patents. Are the folks at rethink(ip) planning something similar? They are being coy about a new project they have in the works, but Matt Buchanan offered this hint:

“Here’s a big hint….remember the word everyone. The focus