Who had the first-ever law blog? Greg Siskind claims the title.…

I missed Eugene Volokh’s day 2 BloggerCon panel on blogs and the law, but Doug Simpson reports that Volokh, commenting on why lawyers blog, said the motive is largely not monetary. Rather, many law blogs are what he called “prof blogs,” written by professors or folks with “professorial behavior patterns.” Not…

“Are you a 10?” Chris Lydon prodded attendees at BloggerCon, measuring the significance they attach to blogging as a phenomenon. I didn’t have to think hard to know I’m somewhere on the high end of the scale. But I did have to think a bit harder about why. Are blogs as significant as…

No talk of blawgs at BloggerCon, although several references to the legal issues surrounding blogging. Should shield laws protect bloggers? What is a blogger’s duty to retract a potentially libelous statement? Will efforts be made to regulate blogging? What are an educational institution’s obligations under COPA?

But a handful of lawyer-bloggers in attendance. As…

Yesterday’s BloggerCon felt at times like a revival meeting, preaching blogs as the Internet’s second coming, if not humanity’s salvation. Yet I could not escape the irony of the place. Amid fiery talk of blogs cracking the matrix, of blogs as the second superpower, of blogs breaking down social, political and cultural barriers, the…

The latest issue is up of LLRX.com, taking on the question du jour, Will RSS replace e-mail? Fortunately, author Robin Good gets that out of the way right off: “E-mail is a two-way communication medium while RSS is only a distribution one. From that simple realization, you can immediately derive that e-mail is…

Lindsay Thompson is an old friend, a well-regarded “super lawyer” in Seattle, Wash., and one of the best writers I know. He’s not a blogger, although he should be, but he’s back after a many-year hiatus editing the Washington State Bar Association Bar News, and everyone should read his monthly editor’s…

Any blawgers going to BloggerCon this weekend? I am. I know Doug Simpson is. And Eugene Volokh and Glenn Reynolds of course. Anyone else? (Here’s the BloggerCon blogroll as of today.)

And just who is a “blawger”? Is it any blogger with a law degree? Or does it depend on…

On Monday, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office introduced TTABVue, a system that allows users to view images of documents relating to trademark disputes via the Internet. According to the official announcement, TTABVue includes images of most documents filed since January 2003, as well as some…

beSpacific reports that former Attorney General Edwin Meese, appearing yesterday on NBC’s Today show, said that “librarians are more interested in pushing pornography than fighting terrorism.” American Library Association President Carla Hayden disagreed.…

What are the best law firms at which to be an associate? The results are in of The American Lawyer’s 2003 Associates Survey. Topping the list: Houston’s Bracewell & Patterson.…

Operating on the premise that research on contracting is stymied by a lack of available contracts, the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute at the University of Missouri, Columbia, is working to create a digital collection of contracts and make them available over the Internet. The collection so far contains more than 10,000 contracts, drawn…