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.…

No, not the Patriots’ owner. The lawyer. His new blog is Bob Kraft’s P.I.S.S.D. The initials stand for “Personal Injury, Social Security Disability,” and the blog, says Kraft, is about the ways injured and disabled persons are mistreated by governments and insurance companies. “I’ve spent almost 35 years trying to help those…

Anyone interested in blawgs as a phenomenon within the legal profession should read the results of the readership survey conducted by Bruce MacEwen for his blog, Adam Smith, Esq. The results are interesting for what they reveal about Bruce’s readers, but even more so for the glimpse they offer into blawg readership in…

Catching up on some blog reading this morning, I almost choked on my coffee when I read this from Denise Howell:

“What I really want to see though is a firm using technology that lets lawyers (all and sundry, of course) readily customize their bios at will, on the fly, with information that really