I/P Updates is a new blog from William F. Heinze of the Atlanta IP firm Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley. Bill provides news and information “for the sophisticated intellectual property practitioners.”

Bill’s firm is a member of the Association of Patent Law Firms, and he pointed me to another blog by…

Micah Buchdahl, otherwise known as the Internet Marketing Attorney, today released his annual Internet Marketing Attorney Awards, featuring thumbnail reviews and scores for the Web sites of each of the 250 largest law firms in the United States. Buchdahl also reviews 25 of the best sites of small- to mid-sized firms and…

In Indiana the next few days for the Indiana State Bar Association Solo & Small Firm Conference. Stop by if you’re in the Lafayette area.…

Ron Friedmann has updated his list of online legal services — law firms, law departments and private companies that use the Web to deliver advice, guidance or legal training to clients. This is a fascinating resource that I had not seen before. In his Strategic Legal Technology blog, Ron offers some

There is a new version 1.3 of Spybot Search & Destroy, one of the best spyware removal tools for PCs, and free to boot. Unlike with earlier updates, the developers recommend uninstalling earlier versions and installing this latest version clean.…

In this month’s Corporate Counsel, my former colleague Anthony Paonita writes a clear and concise primer on legal RSS feeds, titled Feeding Time. He mentions this site, saying: …

Who says lawyers are no fun? Check out zap the lawyers, a game where your goal is to protect your new dot-com from the “suits.” When you finish that, try Beware: Lawyers at Work, a whack-the-mole style game in which you attempt to hammer lawyers as they pop out of manhole covers. Both…

Find out at Totally Absurd Inventions and Patents: America’s Goofiest Patents, where you can see doggie luggage, the cheese-filtered cigarette, the toilet snorkel, and the one I’m going to run right out and buy, the beerbrella. Now here’s a site that needs RSS.…

If not for Network-Lawyers, and, more specifically, Kathy Biehl’s post thereto, I would never have known that Vivisimo provides this interface for clustering search results on FindLaw. I wrote about Vivisimo in 2002 — describing it as a software program that calls on other search engines, extracts the relevant…

I will be attending the Indiana State Bar Association’s Solo and Small Firm Conference June 3-5 in Lafayette. A number of top-notch speakers on the roster, including fellow blogger Tom Mighell, who is speaking on ethics, law-office technology and Internet research. As for myself, I am speaking on “the best legal Web sites,”…

The second edition of my book is due out in June. It can be ordered here: The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, Second Edition.…

Congratulations to Maggie Mulvihill, lawyer and investigative editor at the Boston Herald, who was among the journalists named today as Nieman Fellows at Harvard University.…