Search engine AltaVista last month unveiled what it claimed to be the world’s largest multimedia index, cataloging more than 540 million image files and 11 million video and audio files, including MP3s and MPEG videos. The index also includes professional image content from providers such as Corbis. To access the multimedia index, users can…

Whether or not you are a solo lawyer, take the time to read the April/May 2003 GPSOLO magazine. It features nine articles that collectively offer a creative look at the risks of practicing law. It avoids the predictable “traps for the unwary” in favor of articles that examine such subjects as the risks of…

Please note that I’ve added commenting by Haloscan. Drop by and say hello.…

In a review I wrote last February (Daubert Tool Lets Lawyers Track Expert’s History, I recommended lawyers try The Daubert Tracker, an expert-witness service whose central feature is a database of all reported decisions interpreting and applying Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals and Kumho Tire v. Carmichael, backed up when available…

FantasyCourt.Com — the Web site where lawyers compete to predict the outcome of Supreme Court cases — today announced the winner of its 2002-2003 challenge. Kristin Kiehn, an associate with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York, will receive $2,500 for coming in first out of 516 participants. She correctly predicted the outcome in…

The Oyez Project has provided streaming audio of Supreme Court arguments since 1996, but it recently took a leap forward by adding Supreme Court audio in MP3 format. The first set of releases, which can be found here, includes 51 cases. They are release under a Creative Commons license that allows listeners…

According to the NITLE Weblog Census — an attempt to find as many active Web logs as possible across all languages — it has so far found 629,083, of which 320,634 “seem to be in English.” [via net.law.blog.]…

Interesting trivia: If you Google the query, “free legal software,” my site comes up second, right after Nolo. (Thanks to a reader who followed this route to my site for letting me know this.)

This made me wonder: Where would I end up with the query, “free beer.” The answer is here.…

For those whose interests straddle law and journalism, Steven Brill is a man of rather epic reputation. The cigar-chomping, ever-suspendered founder of American Lawyer magazine, Court TV, Counsel Connect (one of the first online services for lawyers) and Brill’s Content, he recently published the book, After: The Rebuilding and Defending of America in the…

After posting my article yesterday, A Brief Summary: Free Briefs on the Web, I received an e-mail from M. Sean Fosmire, developer of the preeminent online court directory, Courts.Net, pointing out that I missed one state court that provides briefs on its Web site, Michigan. I have now added it to the…

I have posted two recent columns devoted to new and newly discovered Web sites of interest to lawyers, A Hodgepodge of Newly Launched Sites and A Round-up of New and Interesting Sites.…

I have posted my recent column, Managing Knowledge Management Via the Web, a guide to Web resources on legal knowledge management.…