As more and more law firms launch Web logs, I’ve wondered whether they will begin to hire writers to maintain them. Along those lines, I found yesterday’s Boston Globe story, A hired gun who muses with fingertips, intriguing. It tells the story of Mathew Gross, 31, the former rock band drummer, Colorado River boatman,…

The Washington Business Journal reports today on the demise of Web sites devoted to providing online legal information in Failed Internet law sites guilty of too much optimism. The article features this quote from Brian Dunn, a professor at Santa Clara State University: “The Web wasn’t really the place for pet food or lawyers.”…

Ron Friedmann blogs a story I wrote for The American Lawyer about the 50 State HIPAA Privacy Study Web site developed by Reed Smith for the Healthcare Leadership Council. The full text of the story, Making Money Online (Finally), is on the Reed Smith site. Ron says: “I think that…

As nations throughout the world increasingly use the Web to articulate diplomatic positions and mold global opinion on international issues, St. Thomas University School of Law has launched Diplomacy Monitor. The site monitors this international output of communiqués, official statements, press briefings, position papers, interview transcripts and news releases from hundreds of Web…

I’ve received some strong opinions on what not to include, but I’m still seeking suggestions on the 10 best legal Web sites of the last 10 years.…

Opinions of Pennsylvania’s county courts of common pleas are not easy to find online. So four county bar associations joined efforts to collect their local courts’ opinions and publish them on the Web. The result is paopinions.org, a database of opinions from Chester, Lancaster, Monroe and Westmoreland counties. Server space is contributed the

E-Media Tidbits points to a recent Forrester Research study that found that only 2 percent of online households go to a Web log at least once a week. Seventy-nine percent of people surveyed hadn’t even heard of Web logs.…

In a provocative posting, ethicalEsq? argues that efforts by bar advocates in Massachusetts to increase their fees — including use of the Bristol County Bar Advocates’ Web site as an information center — may raise antitrust and ethical concerns.…

Dogpile, a meta-search tool that delivers results from multiple search engines including Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves, unveiled a new look yesterday, and SearchEngineWatch.com reports it is structural as well as cosmetic, including the addition of results grouping by category.…

October is the 10th anniversary of Law Technology News, and editor Monica Bay is planning a special issue to mark the occasion. She has asked me to write a column on the 10 best legal Web sites of the decade. I have no shortage of thoughts on this, but I’d love to hear your…

I awoke this morning to an e-mail from none other than Dave Winer. It said: “As you know we’re giving away 25 BloggerCon seats to members of the weblog community, at absolutely no cost. Yesterday, as scheduled, we ran the script that chose the 25 lucky people at random, and.. You won! Congratulations!…

I have joined Jaffe Associates as vice president of editorial services and director of Jaffe’s WritersForLawyers.com. (Read the formal announcement — I swear I didn’t pick the music.)

Jaffe provides a range of business development services and products to law firms and other professional services firms in North America and Europe.…