In a posting two weeks ago, I noted the planned launch of Podscope, the first full-text search engine for podcasts. It is now up and running in a beta version.…

I wrote in February about the free public-records search engine Pretrieve. Today, in a development of significance to the legal profession, Pretrieve announced that it has integrated searching of nationwide court records. It covers all state and local courts in the United States that offer Internet searches of case records. When court records…

Back from a week traveling the incredibly beautiful state of Arizona, from Phoenix to Sedona to the Grand Canyon. With a fried modem and only intermittent high-speed access, I learned I can survive a week offline — and better yet, enjoy it. Fortunately, the Grand Canyon is yet to offer WiFi.…

I am traveling much of this week and have made two discoveries. One, high-speed Internet access isn’t always easy to find. Two, it seems my modem is fried. Thus, I am not likely to post for several days.…

A recent study by the Knight Foundation found that high school students know little about the First Amendment — 49 percent say newspapers should not be able to publish stories without government approval, 75 percent think flag burning is illegal, and nearly 50 percent believe the government can censor the Internet. In response, the…

When I was a much-younger lawyer, I had the good fortune to have my own practice in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The federal court there is a court of original jurisdiction, and in the mid-1980s, it was straining under a backlog of cases. I remember learning that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had…

Good news: The ABA Section of Litigation offers a free , weekly e-mail newsletter with litigation tips from James McElhaney, author of a number of books on litigation and case management.

More good news: The section’s Trial Practice Committee has posted to the Web its library of trial practice articles.

Now…

As a labor arbitrator myself, I was glad to discover that Ross Runkel had started Arbitration Blog, a blog about labor and employment arbitration. Then I realized he had started a second blog as well, LawMemo Employment Law Blog. Runkel’s LawMemo site has long been a leading Web destination for labor and…

Chadbourne & Parke announced today the formation of its U.S. Hispanic Practice Group, an expansion of its Corporate, Private Equity and Latin America Practices.

A quick Google search shows that Sheppard Mullin also has a Hispanic practice group. Others?…

Charles R. Schrader, a partner with Jordan Schrader in Portland, Ore., has launched the Construction Labor Law Blog. He will discuss collective bargaining, jurisdictional disputes, strikes and picketing, prevailing wages and other labor law issues related to the construction industry.…

Stephen C. Knight, a partner with Baydoun & Knight, Nashville, Tenn., has begun publishing a family law blog focused on, but not limited to, Tennessee: Knight on Family Law.…

TVEyes, a company whose product allows full-text searching of TV and radio programs, announced Monday plans to launch the first full-text search engine for podcasts. Called Podscope, it will index the audio of podcasts as well as of video blogs and personal videos. It will be available later this month, the announcement…