Dennis Kennedy reports availability of the first two in a series of e-discovery webinars he is producing for the Merrill Corporation. The webinars run 10 to 15 minutes and cover specific areas of electronic discovery. Available so far are:…

Imagine if, at the click of a mouse, young lawyers could receive mentoring from some of the legal profession’s most highly regarded practitioners. Now they can, thanks to Ten Minute Mentor, a free series of Web lectures launched March 1 by the Texas Young Lawyers Association, which describes them as “Concise. Practical. Free.”…

Joel H. Seachrist, a partner with Beckman & Seachrist in Westfield, N.Y., has launched a blog he calls Small Town Lawyer. Here is why: “That name has a dual meaning in that, while I practice in a small town, the bulk of my practice is representing several small, mostly rural towns.”

One intended audience…

Barry D. Bayer, a practicing lawyer in Chicago who has been writing prolifically and insightfully about technology for law offices since 1987, has launched a blog, Law Tech Review. His column, Law Office Technology Review, appears in a variety of legal periodicals throughout the United States.

Bayer will use the blog to supplement…

Google today announced the formal launch of Google Desktop Search, a free application that allows users to search for information on their own computers.

First offered last year in a beta version, today’s version 1.0 release adds search over the full text of PDFs and the meta-information stored with music, image…

If you find yourself beset by the urge to return to law school, here is a site for you. LLM Guide is a database of master of laws programs worldwide. As the site explains:

“For lawyers, in some ways the LL.M. is the equivalent of what an MBA is for business people. Many law

What does Google “think” of you? Find out via Googlism, a fun tool that searches Google to arrive at a characterization of a person, place or thing.

Take me for instance. Googlism reports: “robert ambrogi is a prolific writer on internet legal issues who works in alternative dispute resolution in massachussetts.” (OK, so…

For “live, up-to-the minute coverage of the existential absurdity of human life,” there may be no better source than The Harrison Report. It is not about law, per se, although lawyers and the law seem to find their way in, but it is written by someone familiar to the legal profession, Tom Harrison, the…

The Sunshine Project, an organization devoted to promoting transparency in research on biological and biochemical weapons, today released CRISP-ER, a new tool to search and organize research grant data from the National Institutes of Health.

The new tool searches the NIH’s CRISP database — Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects…

Two professors and a lecturer in legal ethics have started a blog for discussion of legal ethics and the legal profession, Legal Ethics Forum. The three who contribute to the blog are:…

In my recent article for Law Technology News, Podcasting: CLE’s New Wave?, I predicted that podcasting may just be the next big thing in CLE. Little did I know, CLE podcasts were already in the works.

Yesterday, the Santa Clara County Bar Association launched a series of one-hour CLE podcasts dubbed CLE…

From Joy London comes word of two new blogs on legal department management:…