Our legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast this week discusses the latest developments in e-discovery with three of the foremost experts in the field. Our guests this week are:…

I confess: When I first received the announcement of Virtual Family Dinner, I wondered if it was a joke. Once I realized it wasn’t, I immediately saw its potential in the emerging area of virtual visitation.

Here’s the scenario as described by the Chicago company that developed it, Accenture Technology Labs:

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Fans of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia will want to check out Wikiseek, a new tool that describes itself as a better way to search Wikipedia. Developed by a company named Searchme, it uses proprietary technology that draws on the suggestions of thousands of vertical search engines, reportedly enabling it to deliver…

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A new blog, Maryland Courts Watcher, provides synopses of every publicly available opinion published on the Internet by any court in Maryland. This includes the Court of Appeals, the Court of Special Appeals, the U.S. District Court, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the Maryland Tax Court, the Circuit Court for Baltimore City and opinions of…

Global business has raised the importance of employment law on an international level. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I discuss this topic with a global array of guests from the U.S., the U.K., Germany and France. Our guests are Nicholas Connon, partner in…

Electronic discovery. This was the use that kept coming to my mind as I tested dtSearch, an immensely fast and powerful desktop and enterprise search tool. Its marketing tagline is, “Instantly search terabytes of text.” I can’t vouch for terabytes, but after testing it on a single laptop, I can say it is the…

Some patent lawyers might consider the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to be a circus, but a new Web site aims to tame the lion of patent caselaw. Called FedCirc.us, the site is the latest and most ambitious project of the folks behind rethink(ip), patent attorneys and bloggers J. Matthew Buchanan,…

In my experience, the most interesting blogs are often the most difficult to categorize. The authors feel free to write about what they fancy. A lawyer may blog about a current trial, a favorite movie, a good band. An obvious example is popular blogger Ernie the Attorney. He writes about law, technology, music, spirituality,…