One goal of media relations should be to make it as simple and painless as possible for the media to keep up with you. Don Ledford is someone who understands this. I don’t know Don, but I do know that, as public affairs officer for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the western district of Missouri,…

In his blog Out-of-the-Box Lawyering, A.J. Levy tells how to determine whether you can earn mandatory CLE credits in your state from the comfort of your own computer or TV. He also provides more in-depth information on the rules in his home state of Louisiana. Among the several links he provides, he kindly includes…

Jim Keane, who died of cancer Friday, was a pioneer in legal technology, e-filing and e-discovery. Among the many bloggers remembering him today are Monica Bay; Michael Arkfeld, who provides this link to Jim’s own telling of his life story; Neil Squillante, with a contribution by Jim’s good friend Tom O’Connor;…

Nearly 200 people who have died in Arizona’s Maricopa County since 1973 remain unidentified. In an attempt to identify them, the county medical examiner is preparing to launch a Web site to profile unidentified bodies, the Arizona Republic reports. Scheduled to be online by Labor Day, the site will include where the bodies were…

Via Library Stuff comes word that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched four RSS feeds covering Medicare:

Add these to the library of government RSS feeds I reported last month.…

The Dallas-based plaintiffs’ personal-injury firm Baron & Budd announced today that it has launched a Spanish-language Web site, Mesotelioma en Espanol, to provide information for Spanish-speaking victims of mesothelioma, a form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure. The firm already maintains a similar, English-language site, Mesothelioma News.…

Winners were announced today of the 2005 EPpy Awards, presented by Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek for best interactive media sites. Awards for best newspaper sites went to The New York Times and The Providence Journal. Slate Magzine took the award for best Internet news service.…

Kevin O’Keefe throws down the gauntlet, announcing that lexBlog, the company he founded a year ago, is ready to take on LexisNexis Martindale and Thomson’s Findlaw.

Kevin knows the turf. In the 1990s, after practicing law for 17 years, he founded an innovative legal portal called Prairielaw. In 2001, he sold it…

TechnoLawyer posts a status report on voting for its Technolawyer @ Awards, and it’s neck and neck among blawgers, with virtual ties for first place in both categories, favorite practice management blog and favorite practice area blog.

Meanwhile, TechnoLawyer’s Neil Squillante clarifies the matter raised by my post last week, explaining that…

… so that he may continue to blog for free.

At issue, as Ben explains in this post, is a rule in Ben’s home state of Kentucky that could require lawyers who blog to pay $50 every time they post. Kentucky lawyers must submit a copy of any advertising — broadly defined to include…

Who is responsible for the greater share of the cost of asbestos litigation, plaintiffs’ lawyers or defense lawyers?

A recent Rand Corporation study finds that more than 730,000 people in the United States filed compensation claims for asbestos-related injuries from the early 1970s through the end of 2002, costing businesses and insurance companies…

A sincere thank you to Jim Calloway for listing this blog as a site of the week — and for pairing me with the incomparable Tom Mighell.…