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With gay marriage comes gay divorce. With emerging technologies comes virtual visitation. With fractured families comes grandparent visitation. These are just some of the current issues in family law that we discuss this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me to discuss the latest developments in…

A new Web site, OpenCongress, draws on a variety of sources — from official government sites to blogs — to provide an in-depth view of “the real story behind what’s happening in Congress.” A joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation, the site allows you to track official…

eWeek writer Jim Rapoza has assembled a slide-show commentary on the worst tech-related bills of all time.…

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Get a traffic ticket in New Jersey and the next thing you receive may be a letter from a lawyer offering his or her services. Lawyers are trolling traffic records and sending solicitation letters to ticketed drivers, and now state legislators have introduced a bill that would criminalize the practice, according to a report today…

Roger Parloff at Legal Pad has a very funny e-mail exchange between a Boston law firm and a potential candidate for employment.…

I have had several occasions recently to speak with Jeff Aresty, the Boston lawyer who is the founder and president of InternetBar.org. Although I had known about the organization, hearing what Jeff had to say has convinced me that InternetBar.org could come to serve a central role in shaping the future of law…

My posts today at Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch:

LawGeek points to an analysis by Mike Monterio and Jason Kottke showing that women speakers are lacking at most Web conferences to an outrageous extent. One notable exception: BlogHer Business ’07, where all the speakers are women.…

The Web site of the Mass. Trial Court Law Libraries has added a page devoted to Law About Electronic Discovery. According to the library’s blog, Massachusetts Law Updates, the new page was added “to provide easy access to the many resources that are now available both online and in print on this…

This week on our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the implications of the Supreme Court’s punitive damages decision, Philip Morris USA v. Williams for big business and big tobacco. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and I are Michael Gerhardt, professor of law at UNC School of Law;…

My latest Web Watch column for Law Technology News explores online resources related to peanut allergies and the law. (Free registration required.)…