For his third-year Harvard Law School project in 2002, Carrie Griffin started the Disabled Lawyering Alliance as an online network for lawyers and law students with disabilities. The goal is to bring people together to foster mentoring relationships, professional networking and personal development. The primary way it does this is through QuickTopic discussion…

Lawyers love to debate WordPerfect vs. Word. So what does it mean that Richard Belthoff has changed the site formerly known as “The Legal WordPerfect Page” to The Legal Word Processing Page and now covers Word along with WP?…

Almost missed my own anniversary. My first posting to this blog was on Nov. 19, 2002. Time flies when you’re having fun.…

I was looking to see what Mark J. Welch was up to when I came across a surprise. In the mid-1990s, Mark founded the California Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law Web site. It was a pretty good site with a great collection of celebrities’ wills. He later sold the site to another law firm.…

According to Suffolk Lawyers for Justice, the Federal Trade Commission has cancelled its investigation of the Massachusetts public defenders’ group, initiated in August after lawyers refused to accept appointments to new criminal cases. The SLJ’s announcement says that its board was informed by its attorney, Joseph Kociubes of Bingham McCutchen, that…

A new study of diversity in U.S. law firms, released this week by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, says that women now make up 40 percent of lawyers in medium- and large-sized firms, compared to 14 percent in 1975. The number of Black lawyers in these firms doubled since 1975, to over 4…

Also in the 10th anniversary issue of Law Technology News, I edited this piece, 1993-2013: The Future, the Past, collecting thoughts on the future of legal technology from an array of lawyers and legal professionals, among them such esteemed blawgers as Ron Friedman, Dennis Kennedy, Jerry Lawson, Joy London,…

Who could be so presumptuous as to do something so preposterous as pick the 10 best legal sites of the decade? I am afraid that would be me. But it was for good reason — the 10th anniversary issue of Law Technology News. (You will need to register to read the article, but…

I am sad to say that Tim Robinson died at the age of 58 of complications from colon cancer surgery. Tim was a giant both in legal publishing and in online publishing. A former Washington Post reporter who covered legal affairs, he became editor of the National Law Journal in 1980 and then editor…

Who had the first-ever law blog? Greg Siskind claims the title.…

I missed Eugene Volokh’s day 2 BloggerCon panel on blogs and the law, but Doug Simpson reports that Volokh, commenting on why lawyers blog, said the motive is largely not monetary. Rather, many law blogs are what he called “prof blogs,” written by professors or folks with “professorial behavior patterns.” Not…

“Are you a 10?” Chris Lydon prodded attendees at BloggerCon, measuring the significance they attach to blogging as a phenomenon. I didn’t have to think hard to know I’m somewhere on the high end of the scale. But I did have to think a bit harder about why. Are blogs as significant as…