I am always interested in whether and how law firms employ their Web sites when big news occurs. Thus, with today’s news of the merger of Wilmer Cutler Pickering and Hale and Dorr, I am glad to see that both posted letters to clients on their sites about the merger, Wilmer’s

The 2004-2005 Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers, the only legal directory to rank law firms and individual lawyers, was released today on the Web. The guide, which is published by Chambers and Partners, the London-based publisher of Chambers Global and Chambers UK Leading Lawyers, investigates the top firms and lawyers for…

Paul L. Caron, Charles Hartsock professor of law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law and a nationally recognized tax-law scholar, today launched TaxProf Blog. It offers resources, news and information of interest to law school tax professors in their scholarship and teaching, including regularly updated permanent resources along with daily…

The American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services today launched the Pro Se/Unbundling Resource Center. According to the official announcement, the site is intended to help state policymakers better understand the growing practice of unbundling of legal services, in which lawyers partner with a client to accomplish discrete…

Here is my list of 60 Sites in 60 Minutes. These were the sites I prepared for the 2004 ABA TechShow panel 60 Sites in 60 Minutes. Not all these sites were shown during the presentation. See also the 60 Sites in 60 Minutes Hall of Fame and the collection of…

An article that I wrote on where to find free legal briefs on the Web brought so much response that I decided to expand and update the links. I have now posted my collection of links to finding free legal briefs on the Web.…

U.S. News & World Report releases its annual ranking of America’s best law schools. First on the list: Yale.…

Jeff Beard has the exclusive. I thought Wilens and Andreozzi seemed a little too chummy at TechShow.

And let’s hope this one’s a joke: HHS announces program to implant RFID tags in homeless.…

A new social-networking site launched by the IRS? Rick Klau has the scoop on WhoYouShouldKnow.gov.

Meanwhile, in honor of April 1, Erik Heels launches a new URL, www.parodylaw.com, where today he’ll be tracking the net’s best April Fools’ Day parodies. Erik also has a new URL for his blog, www.lawlawlaw.com.…

Nothing to do with law, but in the proud papa category, allow me to congratulate my son Ben, part of the winning cast in the Boston Globe State High School Drama Festival.…

sent me this picture that he took of Ernie Svenson and me having dinner Friday night at Rosebud in Chicago. The three of us ate along with fellow blogger and TechShow attendee Matt Homan.…

At ABA TechShow, the keynote had Louis Andreozzi, president and chief executive officer of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, and Mike Wilens, president of West, square off in a joint presentation in which they were slated to share their visions of the future role of legal technology. I’d met both men…