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A head-to-toe redesign was revealed today for the Web site of the ABA Journal. Because I am on vacation where I am short on time and reliable Internet access, I will quote from the announcement from Molly McDonough, the magazine’s assistant managing editor/online (and former associate of mine at ALM), in which she describes…

FindLaw has teamed with National Public Radio’s Justice Talking program to launch the blog Today in Legal History. As the name suggests, each day the blog highlights a historical event related to law or government. The blog appears on both FindLaw and on JusticeLearning, a Web site produced by Justice…

I will be in Boise this week for the annual meeting of the Idaho State Bar, where the theme is law practice management. I am speaking Thursday on the latest in legal research online and Friday on cutting-edge legal marketing. Here is the meeting brochure and agenda. If you are attending the…

Silicon Valley law firm Cooley Godward Kronish opened an office in Boston this week, the Boston Business Journal reports. The office is staffed entirely by lawyers who were all once with Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, a Boston technology firm that dissolved in 2005. More details in Cooley’s press release.…

I ask — and answer — this question in a post today at Legal Blog Watch. I’d love to hear from anyone who thinks I might have it wrong.…

In today’s edition of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we interview the founders of the controversial lawyer rating site Avvo, President and CEO Mark Britton and VP of Products & Marketing Paul Bloom. The two discuss their reasons for founding the site, their responses to criticisms and their future plans. They…

Should I still be living in Greater Boston in seven years, I will save greatly on airfare. The American Bar Association has picked Boston as the venue for its 2014 annual meeting, the Boston Business Journal reports. Mark your calendars for Aug. 7 to 12, 2014.…

Beginning Aug. 1, lawyers in Florida will have their disciplinary history for the previous 10 years posted on the state bar’s Web site. According to this report in the Jacksonville Daily Record, lawyers who have received an admonishment, reprimand, suspension or disbarment in the prior 10 years will have that information noted on…

[The following is the third of a three-part series of columns about Web 2.0 for lawyers originally published almost a year ago in the August, September and October 2006 issues of Law Technology News. Because I receive so many requests for this series, I am republishing it here. I originally intended it to be…

[The following is the second of a three-part series of columns about Web 2.0 for lawyers originally published almost a year ago in the August, September and October 2006 issues of Law Technology News. Because I receive so many requests for this series, I am republishing it here. I originally intended it to be…

[The following is the first of a three-part series of columns about Web 2.0 for lawyers originally published almost a year ago in the August, September and October 2006 issues of Law Technology News. Because I receive so many requests for this series, I am republishing it here. I originally intended it to be…

In what is being portrayed as a story of David vs. Goliath, a young German businessman has won his trademark fight against search giant Google, prohibiting it from using the name “Gmail” in Germany. The businessman, Daniel Giersch, operates a company, G-Mail, that markets a “hybrid mail system.” Gmail is Google’s e-mail…