Claiming deceptive Web advertising by LegalMatch, Maine’s Pine Tree Legal Assistance, a nonprofit agency that provides legal services to the poor, has sued the San Francisco business in federal court in Portland.

The suit alleges that when users type “Pine Tree Legal Assistance” in Web search engines, LegalMatch’s advertisements appear in the…

The Boston Globe’s Sacha Pfeiffer tells the story of how Peter D. Enrich, “a mild-mannered, 55-year-old philosophy teacher-turned-law professor,” found himself in the Supreme Court yesterday taking on DaimlerChrysler, the state of Ohio and others: “Professor leads small group in battle with legal giants.”…

Following up on my posts (here and here) yesterday about Fast Mediator using content from other mediation blogs without attribution, the owner of the blog has now removed all unauthorized posts and issued an apology. Golden Media Managing Director Andrew Golden writes, in part:

“I want to be certain that

Your client comes in distraught. The family jewels are missing. This is a case for … the Stolen Jewelry Web Site. I’ll let them explain:

“The Stolen Jewelry Website of the Jewelers’ Security Alliance provides a central clearinghouse for the jewelry industry, law enforcement, insurance personnel and the general public to share information

I’ve written before (here and here) about virtual visitation — allowing divorced parents to visit their children through computer videoconferencing and other electronic means. Here’s a good overview of the topic from AP, via CNN: ‘Virtual’ visits for children of divorce.…

Follow-up to my earlier post, Blog takes others’ posts, without credit, Fast Mediator has now removed the posts copied from other bloggers.…

The bad news is that the inimitable Lisa Stone, originator of Legal Blog Watch, is leaving her lookout to spend more time on her pioneering project, BlogHer, as she explains here.

The good news — for me anyway — is that I’ll be joining Carolyn Elefant to share duties taking…

UPDATE: 3:30 p.m., March 1: Fast Mediator has now taken down the copied material described below, so the links now lead to “404” pages.

The blog Fast Mediator is making no fast friends in the blogosphere. It contains multiple posts taken word-for-word from other people’s blogs, without attribution. Two bloggers, Diane Levin, author…

No secret opinions in the federal courts. This was the warning issued last week by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a Wisconsin magistrate judge sealed her opinions in two trade secrets cases.

In Hicklin Engineering v. R.J. Bartell, the three-judge panel cautioned: “We hope never to encounter another sealed opinion.”…

In November 2004, I wrote about the launch by CompuLaw of Deadlines On Demand, a service designed to help sole practitioners and small firms calendar court deadlines using CompuLaw’s rules-based service on a pay-per-use basis. With the service now over a year old, I recently checked back for an update.

DOD’s purpose…

Sitting around my office, I often play streaming music. Sometime last fall, I discovered Pandora, and I’ve been addicted ever since.

Pandora calls itself “a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you’ll love,” and that is precisely why it is addictive — it takes information about artists…

Attention smaller-firm lawyers: Tomorrow CMP Media officially launches a new Web site for small-business owners, SmallBizResource. Here’s the description:

“The site will offer original content, free information and expert advice from CMP Media editors on a broad spectrum of issues including sales, marketing, finance, legal, HR, technology, growth, and strategy.

“Unlike other sites, smallbizresource.com