beSpacific calls it “an amazing legislative tracking service,” and for good reason. Developed by Joshua Tauberer, a graduate student in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, GovTrack recently won the grand prize in the Technorati Developer’s Contest for developing a way to show what bloggers are saying about bills as they…

Copyright lawyers who represent photographers and image suppliers may soon have a new tool for enforcing their clients’ rights. An Israeli company that specializes in advanced image recognition software is making it easier to police infringements of copyrighted photographs on the Internet, according to the blog The Stock Photo Industry. The company, PicScout,…

Is it possible a client of yours is entitled to a pension that remains unclaimed? The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is looking for some 15,000 people who are owed pensions after their companies went out of business or closed their pension plans. To help locate them, it provides PBGC Pension Search, a tool…

My posting last week about InhouseBlog elicited news of another blog aimed at inhouse counsel, The Wired GC. written anonymously by “John,” a general counsel in the Midwestern United States. (The domain is registered in Michigan.)…

Blogger and Louisiana lawyer A.J. Levy explains.…

Sabrina has the scoop: The federal government is readying enhancements to Regulations.gov. According to GovExec.com, the Office of Management and Budget is working with an interagency project office to launch the new and improved site. “For the first time,” the report says, “citizens will be able not only to comment on proposed…

Indiana’s Most Wanted, a Web site that seeks to assist law enforcement by displaying photographs and descriptions of suspects wanted for arrest, is sponsored by the Fort Wayne criminal defense firm Miller & Arnold Law Offices. Guess that makes it Indiana’s most wanted criminal defense firm.…

CrossingtheBar.Com, a Web site devoted to providing information and commentary on the multijurisdictional practice of law, has ceased to operate. On the site’s homepage, George Riemer, president of Ethics Northwest Inc., posts the following message:

“Having put in over five years of effort into providing information and commentary on the multijurisdictional practice of law,

Of interest to lawyers in Texas, the Brownsville Herald reports that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality now publishes public and legal notices directly on its Web site, where they are also fully searchable.

The Herald also reports on what it says is the first Texas lawmaker to have a blog. State Rep.…

Here is an easy way to keep current with the most recent articles published in law journals. John Doyle, librarian at Washington and Lee School of Law, has compiled a list of RSS feeds for the tables of contents of 132 law journals and loaded them into an OPML file. Import…

For any legal professional who wants to keep current with new developments on the Web, Cornell Law Library’s electronic newsletter InSITE is a must-have (and free) subscription. On this Martin Luther King day, the current issue offers a pointer to Reporting Civil Rights, online companion to the Library of America’s two-volume

Geoffrey G. Gussis, an associate with Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, Morristown, N.J., has launched InhouseBlog, a blog targeted at inhouse lawyers. He knows of what he blogs — he is former general counsel to a dot-com marketing and advertising services firm.…