Charles C. Abut, a New Jersey divorce lawyer and mediator, recently launched a blog, appropriately titled New Jersey Divorce Mediation, Litigation & Arbitration. Charlie focuses on summarizing recent family law cases from New Jersey and recent developments from other states of interest to family lawyers generally.…

With a bevy of blawgers threatening to descend upon LegalTech New York Monday, Monica Bay of The Common Scold has taken the lead in organizing a blawyers’ dutch treat lunch Tuesday, Feb. 1, at noon. If you are interested in joining us, please get in touch with Monica or me.…

One of the most valuable but little-known legal resources on the Internet is the CORI K-Base, an archive of more than 25,000 contracts, 22,000 of them searchable, maintained by the Contracting and Organizations Research Initiative of the University of Missouri. Today, CORI announced that the K-Base will soon be even better. On…

Think you know everything about your computer? Find out with the free Belarc Advisor. This neat little utility builds a detailed profile of all installed hardware and software on your computer and displays it in your Web browser. It provides details down to the serial number of your main circuit board and the secondary…

In writing my post Monday about wacky patents, I came across a blog I had not seen before but wish I had: IP Funny. Devoted to “intellectual property humor,” it features items such as the breast pump attachment for a household vacuum cleaner and a method for automatically detecting pornographic images.…

I wrote in October about the launch of Law Professor Blogs, a network of blogs written by law professors, and I noted more recently the network’s launch of Law Librarian Blog.

Now there are another two: Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog, edited by Gerry W. Beyer, professor at…

As Google released its TV search, Yahoo released a video search of its own. It does not search TV programs, but it does search for video on the Web. It searches for files in the standard video formats — AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, Windows Media and Real. Results display as a still…

Google today released Google Video, a service that enables you to search the content of television programs from PBS, the NBA, Fox News and C-SPAN, among others. “What Google did for the web, Google Video aims to do for television,” Google co-founder Larry Page said in a press release.

Still in development,…

It must have been waking to this view of my driveway that led me in search of a better snow shovel.

With that my goal, I managed to end up at Delphion’s Gallery of Obscure Patents, where I found the potentially useful method and apparatus for directing a stream of pressurized fluid at…

I have posted the full text of my recent column, IP Blogs: Pocket Parts for a Digital Age. Here is a sample:

For lawyers in many fields, blogs are becoming the new pocket part. With their immediacy and focus, they provide up-to-the-minute news and analysis of judicial, legislative and regulatory developments.

More than in

Researchers at Cranfield University are warning that “evil twin” hot spots, networks set up by hackers to resemble legitimate Wi-Fi hot spots, present the latest security threat to Web users.…

The U.S. Department of Justice has developed an extensive and extremely useful library of Internet legal research materials, including a research blog, according to Michael Ravnitzky, a lawyer and former colleague of mine at American Lawyer Media. But while DOJ created the library at taxpayer expense, it keeps it closed to public view.

Ravnitzky,…