Final testing is underway for a new service that will allow lawyers to consult law librarians in real time, via chat, over the Internet. The service, Legal Reference Services Inc., began a six-week pilot Feb. 10 with five law firms in New York City. They are using the service for free to help identify…

Two Washington, D.C., lawyers have each launched Web logs intended to serve as resources for solo and small-firm lawyers.

Jonathan Bender’s site, SohoAttorney, focuses on attorneys practicing from small offices or home offices. More than just a blog, SohoAttorney allows other lawyers to register and participate in developing the site’s content. For example, Bender…

LLRX.com, a consistently outstanding resource for legal professionals who use the Internet ever since its launch in 1996, announced today that it is “going on hiatus.” The site will remain available, but without the twice-monthly webzine or other updates.

Here is the announcement that appeared on the LLRX front page:

Dear LLRX Readers,

This…

Jonas Luster over at J/files posted this enormously helpful item explaining how to make RSS autodiscovery work on a blog or Web page. With autodiscovery, news aggregators such as Newz Crawler and discovery tools such as discover/it can automatically detect whether a blog has an RSS feed and, in the case…

From Ethan Katsh, director of the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution at UMass/Amherst:

“The UMass Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution, in collaboration with the Online Dispute Resolution Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution, is pleased to be holding Cyberweek 2003 this year from February 24-28th. This is the…

I have just finished writing a column about a new Web tool that every trial lawyer who uses expert witnesses should look at. I cannot post the entire column until it appears in print, but I can offer a preview.

As any trial lawyer will tell you, getting expert testimony admitted has been tougher since…

These lawyers know how to handle a pest.…

Declan McCullagh reports on ZDNet that the Bush administration has pulled the plug on a .gov Web site pending an investigation into the authenticity of the organization that controlled it. The site, AONN.gov, called itself the Access One Network Northwest, and was supposedly a cyberwarfare unit supported by the U.S. Department of Defense. But…

Who does Google think I am? Well, according to Googlism, an amusing tool that helps you see what Google “thinks” about a particular topic or person:

ambrogi is an accomplished lawyer

ambrogi is a former catholic priest

ambrogi is the chief prosecutor of suspected criminals

BriefMasters, a service that writes briefs and other documents for lawyers, is noted here, here, and probably elsewhere, following its mention on TechnoLawyer. Such services are neither new nor unique — in fact they seem to be springing up with increasing frequency. I have written before about one of the more…

Lawyer Micah U. Buchdahl, operator of the Internet Marketing Attorney Web site, today released his 2003 Internet Marketing Attorney Awards. This is the second year in which Buchdahl has reviewed and scored the Web sites of each of the 250 largest firms in the U.S., much as Erik Heels and Rick…

Lawyers turn to Google every day to get information on potential clients, opposing parties and adverse witnesses. But is Google turning us into a nation of voyeurs? Writing in the Boston Globe Magazine, reporter Neil Swidey looks at the good and the bad of how Google has changed what we can find out about…