Who would have known that Al Nye the Lawyer Guy is also Al Nye The Funny Guy? Sure enough, Al recently did two nights of stand-up comedy at a Portland, Maine, comedy club, with coaching from another lawyer/comedian, Karen Morgan. Next time, Al, let us know in advance!…

The American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation has launched a podcast, Litigation Podcast: Tips & Tactics for the Practicing Trial Lawyer. The first episode, Managing Privilege, discusses real-world situations involving privileged communications. The podcast is also available through iTunes.…

Thanks again to Kevin O’Keefe, this time for tipping me off to the beta of Blogger’s new version. Unfortunately — given how long we’ve had to wait for this — Blogger for now is limiting the number of users who can switch over. If you are a Blogger user who is among the…

It took Kevin O’Keefe to help me read between the lines and realize that Denise Howell will host the new This Week in Law podcast on the This Week in Tech podcast network.…

This may be hard to see, but all those little red dots show the locations of people who have downloaded our legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast. The folks at Legal Talk Network, which produces the program, analyzed IP addresses of listeners to come up with this.…

Mike Dillon, general counsel of Sun Microsystems, has launched a blog, which he calls the legal thing…. According to Geoffrey G. Gussis at InhouseBlog, Dillon is the first Fortune 500 GC to launch a blog. Dillon explains his reason for the move:

My primary motivation is a question that I am

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The first of what was to be my two-part “Web Watch” series on Web 2.0 is posted at Law Technology News (free registration required). I say “what was to be” because I just got the OK from LTN Editor Monica Bay to extend it into a three-part series. So many useful and interesting…

David C. Harlow, a Massachusetts health-care lawyer and consultant, has launched HealthBlawg, a blog covering federal and state health care law. Harlow’s firm, The Harlow Group LLC, provides legal, legislative and consulting services to clients in a range of health-related fields.…

The 2007 Kaplan/Newsweek “How to Get ito College Guide” was announced today, and introduces the “New Ivies” — colleges whose academic programs and numbers of top students “have fueled their rise in stature and favor … edging them to a competitive status rivaling the Ivy League.” The list covers undergraduate programs, not…

Or at least so says Time magazine. And not a legal site among them!…

Three eminent law bloggers join us to discuss Blawgging at Big Law Firms on this week’s legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast. Our guests, as they say, need no introductions:

Denise Howell of Bag and Baggage. Ernest Svenson of Ernie the Attorney. Howard Bashman of How Appealing.

Listen to the program:…

My post yesterday about the JuristBlogger widget brought an e-mail this morning from company founder Josh Morgan. He writes:

“First, thank you for the feedback. User feedback always proves to be invaluable.

“We certainly do not want to mislead any users and I should have been more clear. To answer your question about

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