Reporters on the ground in Iraq as well as news organizations throughout the world are maintaining blogs devoted to war coverage, such as the fascinating text, photo and audio blog by CNN correspondent Kevin Sites. A thorough and regularly updated guide to such blogs is the CyberJournalist.net gallery of great Iraq conflict coverage.…

This week’s National Law Journal has an article I wrote, Outsourced legal writing:

If it’s used with caution, it can be a lifesaver.…

On Feb. 27, I reported the impending launch of a new Web-based service that will search trial transcripts the way other research sites search court opinions. Yesterday, that service, called SocraticLaw, formally launched. Here is an excerpt from the press release:

“Wilmington, DE – 13 March 2003 – A new research-on-demand service that…

Have you been anxious to know the 10 best matrimonial lawyers in New Jersey under age 40? Then 10 Under 40 is the site you have been waiting for. While “40 under 40” lists seem to have become standard editorial fare for legal newspapers, this listing, announced today, seems a bit self-serving, since it…

Some helpful hints on Starting a blog, written about MovableType, but applicable in large part to any blog.…

Almost 40 years ago, attorney Roland Boyd of McKinney, Texas, wrote a letter to his son offering tips on how to be a successful lawyer. When officials of the State Bar of Texas saw the letter, they prevailed upon him to allow the Texas Bar Journal to print it. Boyd agreed and it appeared in…

Wolters Kluwer announced this week that it will take steps to more closely integrate two of its legal publishing arms, Aspen Publishers and CCH Inc. In a letter posted today to law librarians, Aspen CEO Jane Butler and CCH CEO Gene Landoe said the goal “is to better serve our customers by…

Via Corante Internet news comes a pointer to Blogging Goes Corporate, an article from E-Commerce Times that asks whether companies should post Web logs. Many of the points apply to law firms as much as to corporations.…

Thanks to Jerry Lawson’s net.law.blog for pointing out PC Magazine’s top 100 Web sites. But I found it odd that the only law-related site it included was Legal Affairs, the magazine launched last year in cooperation with Yale Law School. Not that this is not a superb magazine — it is. But…

The American Bar Association has posted to the Web The Daily Journal from its Feb. 10-11 midyear meeting in Seattle. The journal reports all actions taken during the meeting by the ABA’s House of Delegates, its governing body.…

The anacubis site also had this Feb. 26 press release about the release of its browser-based viewer for “visual research and analysis” of online information. According to the release, LexisNexis has incorporated the view into its SmartLinx public records link discovery application as a new way to visualize connections between organizations,…

SearchDay reports today that anacubis, a company specializing in uncovering criminal connections and terrorist networks, has released a free visualization tool that reveals hidden relationships in Google search results.

“The anacubis Viewer,” SearchDay says, “automatically represents ‘entities,’ such as people, organizations and locations, as small graphic icons. It then shows the relationships between…