John L. Welch, a lawyer with Foley Hoag in Boston, has launched TTABlog, a blog focused on the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Welch sent me a note saying that a recent article I wrote about blogs for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly provided…

On Wednesday, I will be speaking about blogs to the Association of Boston Law Librarians.…

My dad died this week. Once a tap dancer on the vaudeville circuit, he later worked as an automobile sales manager. An avid reader, his passion for life kept him clinging to it through a major stroke and two bouts of cancer. Cancer finally got the better of him, but not until he reached…

CompuLaw yesterday launched Deadlines On Demand, a service designed to help sole practitioners and small firms calender court deadlines using CompuLaw’s rules-based service on a pay-per-use basis. The Web-based service allows lawyers to calculate court deadlines without the need to install or learn any software. The service researches the jurisdiction’s rules, adjusts for…

Law.com yesterday announced the opening of a new CLE Center. The site promises “new features and expanded functionality,” including an “online classroom setting,” a new layout and design, enhanced program-search functionality, “My Account” for tracking your registered programs, libraries of supporting materials, and “CLE counselors.” Take a tour of the site’s new features…

Project Diana. From Yale Law School comes this international archive of human rights law, featuring full-text litigation documents and links to reference sites throughout the Internet. Project Diana’s archive includes legal briefs, organization charters, treaty texts, and bibliographies relating to a variety of human rights issues and ongoing cases. The entire collection can be…

The primary Web site of the European Union, Europa provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration. Through Europa, you can get access to all the information made available on the Internet by the institutions and bodies of the E.U., including the European Parliament, the Council of the…

Kevin O’Keefe and David Giacalone both comment on my recent post about Blogads. Kevin says that, for lawyers who use their blogs to market their legal services, advertising is a big mistake. David agrees. I agree as well. If your blog’s purpose is primarily marketing, advertising is not only unnecessary,…

Launched in 2003, eDICTA is the “mega site” of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association. Part e-zine, part portal, it is a comprehensive and broad-ranging guide to resources on the TIPS Web site and elsewhere on the Internet. It features an extensive collection of legal links, direct…

Recently I signed up with Blogads, a service that sells advertising space on blogs. Not long afterwards, I received my first ad, as you can see to the right. Call me commercial, but I believe Blogads may be just the ticket to the future of blawging.

The more I see of blogging, the more…

Justice Information Center. This site of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, the clearinghouse for the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of National Drug Control Policy, lives up to its claim to be “one of the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the world.” The site’s materials…

And no sooner do I publish my column on IP blogs than a new one comes along: Patent Pending. Its author, patent attorney Robert Shaver, says it is more entertainment for inventor and technology fans than it is legal postings. “I post what I am interested in,” he says, “which is old patents,…