As I noted earlier, ADR Cyberweek begins today. They have announced an intriguing slate of special events, including a mediation conducted live online and discussions about the state of online dispute resolution.…

Lawyers in Maryland, New York and Texas each recently launched Web sites that share one trait in common – they focus on specific areas of law.

— LoanLawyer.com is the site of Gaithersburg, Md., solo Jeffrey P. Marston. It focuses on mortgage banking and real estate finance, and includes a periodic newsletter on mortgage…

Way back in 1995, Dennis Kennedy started a Web site called EstatePlanningLinks.com. On that site in 1997, he put a link to an article I wrote surveying estate planning resources on the Internet. Dennis no longer has anything to do with the estate planning site he founded, having moved on to bigger and…

What? Haven’t had enough of law school? LLM-Guide.com claims to be the most comprehensive directory on the Internet of master of laws programs, listing more than 370 postgraduate law programs in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia/New Zealand. The guide is published by Benjamin & Johannes Kroymann, Berlin, Germany.…

In 1819, a woman slave named Winny filed a lawsuit in St. Louis Circuit Court that would establish an important judicial precedent. Winny sought freedom for herself and her children, charging one Phebe Whitesides with trespass, assault and battery and false imprisonment. On Feb. 13, 1822, a jury agreed and the court declared Winny and…

While the Web is useful to lawyers for legal research, it is even more so for non-legal research — for finding the facts a lawyer can use to back up the legal argument. One of the best sources on the Internet for pure facts is the U.S. Census Bureau, which recently added two reports…

After LLRX.com announced last week that it would no longer publish updates, what did it do? Publish an update, of course. The highlight is Competitive Intelligence (CI) Resources for the Legal Community by LLRX co-founder Sabrina I. Pacifici, author of the beSpacific blog.…

Silicon Valley.com’s Dan Gillmor says today in a special report that Google, which runs the Web’s premier search site, has purchased Pyra Labs, the San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, including the popular Blogger.…

Inter Press reports on a statement issued by groups representing more than 300 international lawyers, jurists and physicians warning that a military attack on Iraq would not only be a blatant violation of international law but could kill over 260,000 people.…

On this day of protest against war, consider the International Appeal by Lawyers and Jurists against the “Preventive” Use of Force.…

Final testing is underway for a new service that will allow lawyers to consult law librarians in real time, via chat, over the Internet. The service, Legal Reference Services Inc., began a six-week pilot Feb. 10 with five law firms in New York City. They are using the service for free to help identify…

Two Washington, D.C., lawyers have each launched Web logs intended to serve as resources for solo and small-firm lawyers.

Jonathan Bender’s site, SohoAttorney, focuses on attorneys practicing from small offices or home offices. More than just a blog, SohoAttorney allows other lawyers to register and participate in developing the site’s content. For example, Bender…