The popular online advertising site Craigslist found itself in the spotlight recently after a Boston medical student was accused of murdering a Boston masseuse who he met through her advertisement on the site. Even before that incident, law enforcement officials sometimes accused Craigslist of enabling prostitution and other unlawful conduct. Last month, the sheriff…
Producing your own Legal Podcast
Good article from Lawyers USA on producing your own podcast. Includes comments from my Lawyer2Lawyer cohost J. Craig Williams.…
Podcast: The Prosecution of the Somali Pirate
This week’s Lawyer2Lawyer podcast looks at the first U.S. piracy prosecution in more than a century:
The first prosecution of a pirate in the U.S. in 100 years! The world watched closely as Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama cargo ship was rescued, after being held hostage by four Somali pirates.
Audio and Video from LegalTech NY
Even if you were not able to attend the just-concluded LegalTech 2009 show in New York, you can sample the sights and sounds thanks to various sources:…
L2L: The Pros and Cons of Twitter
This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we consider the pros and cons of Twitter as a tool for legal professionals:
…The stand-out free social networking and micro-blogging service Twitter has been praised and shunned by legal professionals. What do you think? Law.com bloggers and co-hosts J.
Lawyer2Lawyer: Top Legal Stories of 2008
The editors of two of the top legal periodicals in the United States join us this week to discuss the top legal stories of 2008 on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Our guests are Edward Adams, editor and publisher of the ABA Journal, and Steven Fromm, editor-in-chief of the National Law Journal. Listen…
Official Results: ABA Journal Blawg 100
Earlier this week, I posted my unofficial tally of results for the readers’ choice awards in the ABA Journal Blawg 100. The ABA Journal has now released the official results, and they vary quite a bit from what I reported. It appears that the ABA disqualified significant numbers of votes. So, let me…
Results: ABA Journal Blawg 100
Update 1/7/09: The official results are now in, and they differ from the below. See my post here.
Polling ended yesterday for the readers’ choice awards in the ABA Journal Blawg 100. The ABA Journal has yet to release the official results, but based on the numbers…
One Day Left: Help Us Win Best Podcast
Voting ends tomorrow, Jan. 2, for best legal podcast in the ABA Journal Blawg 100. Our podcast, Lawyer2Lawyer, was in the lead, but has fallen into second place in these waning hours, behind the LexisNexis Legal News and Litigation Report. Voting is easy — all you have to do is click on…
Lawyer2Lawyer: Our 4th Annual Predictions Podcast
This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, our fourth annual predictions show. We also look back at our track record for 2008. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me is our prediction guru, Stephen L. Kaplan, a partner in the Laguna Niguel, Calif., office of Hicks, Mims, Kaplan & Burns. Listen…
Lawyer2Lawyer Named Best Legal Podcast
For the third year running, Dennis Kennedy’s Blawggie Awards have named Lawyer2Lawyer as the best legal podcast. This year, we tied for best with Denise Howell’s This Week in Law. Lawyer2Lawyer also won the Blawggie in 2007 and 2006.
Lawyer2Lawyer was recently selected as a top legal podcast by…