Articles Posted in December, 2007

[The following column originally appeared in print in October 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…

[The following column originally appeared in print in September 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…

[The following column originally appeared in print in April 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…

Over the last several weeks, I’ve received several e-mails informing me that someone I know has requested my trust on Spock. Not knowing anything about it, I ignored them until I could find the time to investigate. Today I found the time — and I am impressed.

Spock is a search tool for finding…

Carl Malamud and his Public.Resource.Org — who I wrote about last month for his project to publish 1.8 million pages of federal case law on the Web — has struck again. This time, as The New York Times reports today, Malamud is teaming up with The Internet Archive to publish millions of…

The New York Times makes it official: Blogging’s a Low-Cost, High Return Marketing Tool for small businesses, including law firms.

All together now: Duh-uh!…

Via the Massachusetts Law Updates blog, the Massachusetts Trial Court Libraries announced today the completion of a project to provide free online access to all Supreme Judicial Court and Mass. Appeals Court cases from 1986 to 1996. (Cases starting in 1997 are already available through Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.) The cases are available…

Law.com today features my most recent Web Watch column for Law Technology News, titled To Get Noticed Online, Blow Your Horn. It is a round-up of recently launched Web sites, including ones to help lawyers get noticed, keep informed, manage contacts and get research help.…

I am honored to report that Lawyer2Lawyer, the weekly legal-affairs podcast I cohost with J. Craig Williams, is the winner for the second year in a row of Dennis Kennedy’s Best of Law-related Blogging Award for Best Legal Podcast. Dennis writes:

“This regular weekly podcast of interviews and panel discussions has a

A federal judge in Seattle yesterday dismissed the class-action complaint filed by two lawyers against lawyer-rating site Avvo. U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik ruled that the opinions expressed through Avvo’s ratings system are absolutely protected by the First Amendment. Here is the money quote from the opinion:

“Rather than seeing the Avvo ratings

Yesterday: St. Croix, U.S.V.I., 84 degrees.

Today: Rockport, Mass., 14 degrees.

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Thanks to the weather in Boston, American Airlines is treating me to an extra night in St. Croix. If you need to be stuck somewhere, this is the place.

I was here to speak at the annual meeting of the Virgin Islands Bar Association. This was the bar’s first CLE program since instituting…