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The Web site of law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice has been named Best Legal Web Site in the Web Marketing Association’s annual WebAward competition. The award judges Web sites using an Internet Standards Assessment Report based on seven criteria: design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copywriting and ease of use. …

I have been testing the beta version of a new search site that delivers results visually, showing pages rather than descriptions of pages. Called Searchme, it is by no means the first search engine to include images of matching Web pages within search results, but I have…

In a post earlier this week, I noted the launch by the online magazine Slate of a legal blog, Convictions, with an array of contributors drawn from all corners of the legal world. Notably, one of those contributors is Nancy Gertner, a U.S. district judge…

The law firm Thompson Hine this week announced the launch of a new Web site devoted to archiving fuel cell patents. From the announcement:

“In an effort to assist the technical community in the advancement and development of fuel cell technology, the law firm Thompson Hine LLP announced that it has launched

EverNote has long been a popular desktop application among lawyers, who use it to store notes, Web page clips, images, ideas, to-do items and whatever. The “ever” in EverNote came from its appearance, storing all your notes and clips in a perpetual, scrolling tape-like window on your desktop. Recently, the company announced the limited,…

Lawyers considered Eliot Spitzer either a hero or a villain. But as the now-former governor of New York faces possible criminal charges, we explore the case against him on this week’s edition of the legal-affairs podcast LegalTalkNetwork. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me to discuss the legal case against Spitzer are:…

The online magazine Slate launched a legal blog this week, Convictions, that will provide commentary from a range of legal professionals, including Slate’s Jurisprudence columnists Dahlia Lithwick and Emily Bazelon as well as practitioners and law professors from across the country. “By launching a law blog, we’re able to post immediate reactions to…

My post yesterday, Case Law Libre!, pointed to the registration-required Law Technology News version of the article. Today, Law.com posted it on the Legal Technology page, where no registration is required.

Also, I heard today from Thomas Smith, the University of San Diego School of Law professor who serves as CEO…

Here is a useful feature that compares and reviews the top 10 e-mail marketing services. Top choice is iContact, followed by Constant Contact and Benchmark.…

My latest Web Watch column for Law Technology News magazine, Case Law Libre (free reg. required), looks at several recent projects to move case law into the public domain, from Public.Resource.Org to Alt-Law to PreCYdent. Here are the opening grafs:

“Feb. 11, 2008 was a day that may forever change

The Connecticut Law Tribune’s Tom Scheffey interviews me for his article today, ‘Duby-ous News’?, which follows up on a controversy I previously wrote about at Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch surrounding a PR consultant’s role in a law firm’s staged news program.

The half-hour program features two partners from Hartford’s Shipman…

The essential role of paralegals in law practice is our topic this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Joining us as guests to discuss this topic are Tita A. Brewster, president of the National Association of Legal Assistants, and Chere Estrin, CEO of