The spring 2003 Journal of Appellate Practice and Process has published an informative overview of legal Web logs, Legal and Appellate Weblogs: What They Are, Why You Should Read Them, and Why You Should Consider Starting Your Own. The piece was written by two well-known bloggers, Gary O’Connor of Statutory Construction Zone…

Searchday reports today on the new Lycos “second opinion” search utility that automatically displays Lycos search results in a side panel next to search results from Google, Yahoo or most of the other major services. Called Sidesearch, it is a browser plug in for Internet Explorer that runs whenever you…

Houston lawyer Jeanne Pi recently launched Jeanne Pi’s Texas Elder Law Blawg. She created it to serve as a portal to federal, state and local Web information, resources and services related to Texas elder law. She hopes it will serve as a forum for lawyers and other professionals involved in serving elderly Texans to…

In the six years that Vault.com has surveyed the nation’s most prestigious law firms, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz has been the perennial also-ran, ranking second each year to first-place finisher Cravath, Swaine & Moore. This year, that changed, with Wachtell nudging Cravath out of first place.

Based on a survey of…

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…

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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.…