On the topic of torture, Alan Dershowitz tells CNN’s Wolf Blitzer:

“We should never under any circumstances allow low-level people to administer torture. If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval…

From Poynter Online comes this helpful Media Map of Iraq, providing a bird’s-eye view of where journalists are, both embedded and independent. Click on an icon for a list of journalists at that location. Click on a journalist’s name to run a Google News search. (Thanks to Doc Searls.)…

The Dallas, Texas, firm Verner & Brumley recently launched a Web log, Texas Family Law Blawg. As the name suggests, it focuses on family law in Texas, tracking all Texas civil appellate opinions relating to family law and posting information about them within within 24 to 48 hours after their release. They also…

I never knew there was an Energy Bar Association, even though it was founded in 1946 and has more than 2,100 members. It will have its 57th annual meeting May 1 in Washington, D.C. Speakers will include FERC Commissioner William L. Massey, FERC Chairman Pat Wood III, and former White House Press Secretary…

The March Law Practice Management magazine includes includes an article I wrote, Top Sites: In Search of Ethics on the Internet.…

Law.com today has my article, Lawyers as Pundits, by Way of the Web. It reviews some of the lawyers who publish blogs “that may touch on the law, but are by no means preoccupied with it.” It is the second-part of last week’s article on law.com, Blawgs: More Than Just Fluff.…

In a posting Dec. 5, I discussed Workplace Fairness, the new Web site devoted to providing information, education and assistance to workers and their advocates. The site has now added its own blog, Today’s Workplace. Written by Paula Brantner, Workplace Fairness program director, it focuses on legal and political information relevant to…

A new Web site promises one-stop shopping for bankruptcy court data nationwide. BankruptcyClearingHouse.com provides bankruptcy filings from courts in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Data for most courts dates back to Jan. 1, 1997, and is current to within a few days. Users can pay by the search, at…

OK, this is kinda cool. The Daily Whirl promises “quick loading headlines from legal news and information sites.” It snags the headlines from a range of legal blogs and news sources and displays them on a single Web page. You get to customize the configuration, meaning that you select the blogs you want displayed…

If the publicity surrounding the death of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler has Ephedra users rushing to find an attorney, there is now a Web site just for them. An Ephedra Attorney For You is designed to help consumers find an attorney in their vicinity with experience in handling matters relating to Ephedra or…

The Wall Street Journal announced yesterday the launch of a new product — Afternoon Report — an add-on that updates with fresh news twice during the day, InternetNews.com reports. It will be available only to subscribers to the WSJ.com site, which charges $79 a year for access (print subscribers pay $39 per year).…

In a post last week about war blogs, I mentioned CNN correspondent’s Kevin Sites’ blog. On Friday, Sites announced that CNN has asked him to suspend his blog. “But I don’t want let you down,” he wrote. “I’m chronicling the events of my war experiences, the same as I always have, and hope…