Law Technology News has posted my latest Web Watch column, Support for Media Lawyers: With Journalists Under Fire, Websites Offer Help. (LTN’s site requires free registration to view articles.)…

Steven M. Cohen’s blog Library Stuff does a great job of keeping track of new RSS feeds. Thanks to Steve, I report today on two that represent the full range of possibilities for RSS.

The first is a series of RSS feeds and podcasts from the White House. Here you will find links…

In Who Makes How Much – New York’s Salary Guide 2005, New York magazine offers a look at the salaries of hundreds of New Yorkers — and lawyers aren’t left out. We learn that Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau earns $150,000, while a first-year Manhattan DA brings home just a third of that and…

The American Bar Association said today it will relocate its February 2006 midyear meeting from New Orleans to Chicago. The notice from ABA President Michael S. Greco said:

“The decision was made difficult because of our strong desire to help the economy of New Orleans at this time. We made every effort to remain

Citing the lessons of Benjamin Cardozo, William Brennan and the french fry case, Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff explains why the next Supreme Court justice should be U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein, not John Roberts.…

I was happy to see today that the Web site of the New Jersey law firm Riker Danzig received the Standard of Excellence Award from the Web Marketing Association. In my former role as vice president of Jaffe Associates and director of its WritersForLawyers, I was part of the creative team…

While most law firms use competitive intelligence to track competitors, many remain unfamiliar with the term. Other firms actively apply CI without the full support of senior partners.

These are among the intriguing findings of a survey released today, Law Firms and Competitive Intelligence: Who Gets it and Who Doesn’t? (A PDF of the…

Katrina’s Aftermath: The Gulf Coast Legal Community is the topic of this week’s Coast to Coast, the weekly legal news podcast cohosted by J. Craig Williams and me.

In the first half of the program, we hear first-hand accounts from Louisiana attorneys and blawgers Ernie Svenson and Raymond P.…

I came across this useful, two-part article addressing a range of employment-related issues facing employers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. It covers military leave and emergency workers, family and medical leave, unemployment compensation, OSHA, wages and hours, employee benefits, NLRA issues, workers’ compensation and immigration. It is written by lawyers from the labor…

After Google bought Blogger, we thought we’d see this sooner, but today the company finally did what everyone expected — launch a blog search tool. It is available in the classic Google-style interface or in a Blogger-style interface.

In an admittedly quick and unscientific test, I performed several searches and…

I received a note from Srishti Jha, partner in a new legal research company Jurix Prudent. She wanted to let me know that her company would donate a limited amount of free legal research to lawyers displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The company is new and so it is limited in how many hours it…

The folks over at rethink(ip) aren’t just blogging about IP law, they’re doing something about it.

A few weeks ago, they created RSS feeds for all news items and notices released by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. There are five feeds:…