The American Bar Association’s new home page is designed to offer easier navigation into the ABA’s dense Web site. Unfortunately, what had been a sharp and stylish front page now looks somewhat scattered. The ABA is to be commended for trying to make its site easier to use, but my experience was that it…

beSpacific offers this report on the launch of BlogBook, a guide to legal blogging that hosts an ongoing discussion of style, ethics and technical issues associated with blawgs. The site’s design resembles that of the Bluebook, A Uniform System of Citation, and its three authors are attorneys who are also writers…

As of yesterday, neither Bingham McCutchen nor Choate Hall & Stewart had removed from their Web sites the bios of the lawyers who jumped ship to Littler Mendelson, although Hale and Dorr had.

Today, Bingham has removed partner David C. Casey, but, mysteriously, still lists departing associate Suzanne Suppa…

Blog land seems quiet —
Muteness of ethicalEsq.
No more! David’s back.

… And he’s added haiku.

Yes, I know he’s been back for a month from his self-imposed exile from blogging, but I’ve been off in my own exile, finishing my book, and never got around to mentioning the return of this…

How quickly should a firm update its Web site when a lawyer jumps ship? The Boston Globe reports this morning, in a story titled Top lawyers jump ship for Littler, that four lawyers from three Boston firms are jumping ship to join the new Boston office of Littler Mendelson, a San Francisco-based firm…

Finally finished writing the second edition of my book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, to be published by ALM Publishing. Watch for it to come out on LawCatalog.com.…

The National Association of Securities Dealers’ Web site reports that the NASD has asked the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission to approve amendments to its rules that would compensate securities arbitrators for last-minute adjournments. The change would require a party requesting an adjournment within three days of a scheduled hearing to pay…

Over at Network-Lawyers, Jerry Lawson posts a comment about the legitimization of blogs, noting that the most recent issue of inbox, the newsletter of Jaffe Associates, endorses blogs as one of the hottest trends of the coming year.

“If there is an ‘establishment’ when it comes to law firm marketing,”…

Legal technology consultant Ron Friedmann took the wraps off a major redesign of the Web site for his Prism Legal Consulting. The site includes Ron’s blog as well as a collection of his articles on the application of technology to law practice. The former CIO at Mintz Levin, Ron says he plans…

Today’s Brief, the Law.com daily news round-up, picks up this item from the ABA Journal about the quirky Web site of the Colorado firm Powers Phillips. Reporter Lori Patel writes: “One needs a sense of humor in dealing with Colorado firm Powers Phillips. In fact, the firm insists upon it.…

What happened to Brief Reporter? My June 2003 column, A Brief Summary: Free Briefs on the Web, mentions this Web source of legal briefs (even though it is not free). But a poster to the law-lib listserv said today that he has been trying to access it for several weeks with no luck.…

Cindy L. Chick recently introduced LawLibTech, her blog focused on law library technology and knowledge management. Chick is co-founder, along with Sabrina Pacifici, of LLRX.com, although Chick is no longer affiliated with LLRX.…