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Many large firm Web sites have “media rooms” — pages devoted to news releases, press contacts, factsheets, event listings, logos and other information useful to the news media. But what about the rest of us? A new Web service, MyMediaRoom, enables anyone — individuals and organizations — to add a media room to a…

Thanks to The Lawyer.com for reporting on my poll of your top legal blogs. And thanks for the new title of “blawglord” — with this mantle coming from a U.K. publication, I feel I’ve practically been knighted.…

Google Patent Search is a new Google feature that searches the full text of more than 7 million U.S. patents. It covers the entire collection of USPTO patents, from the 1790s through the middle of 2006. It does not currently include patent applications, international patents, or U.S. patents issued over the last few…

We have a particularly special edition this week of our legal-affairs podcast, Coast to Coast: We interview JAG Major John A. Engels, who speaks to us from his station in Iraq. Major Engels is serving in Iraq as command judge advocate of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division. He supervises an…

The newsletter Marketing The Law Firm, a publication of ALM’s Law Journal Newsletters, today released the results of its second annual MLF 50 — The Top 50 Law Firms of 100+ Attorneys in Marketing and Communications. Topping the list are:…

BlawgSearch.com, the new search engine for legal blogs I reported about here last month, has moved from “alpha” to “beta,” says its developer Tim Stanley of Justia.com, with the addition of RSS feeds for searches, media icons for audio/video posts and a flash player for audio. Also, several hundred more blogs have…

That is the question addressed in a recent Connecticut Supreme Court case, as I report in an article recently published on the Web site of IMS ExpertServices. Excerpt:

The defective ladder is a much-maligned icon of products liability law. But when an engineering expert gives his opinion on why a ladder fell, is

Boston-based law firm Bingham McCutchen is expanding eastward. Last month, it announced the opening of a Hong Kong office, and today the Boston Business Journal reports that Bingham has acquired a 22-lawyer firm in Tokyo, Sakai & Mimura, known for financial restructuring and mergers and acquisitions. The BBJ says that Bingham…

In the December ABA Journal article, Top Ten in Tech, writer Jason Krause surveys “the trends, programs and gadgets that add punch to your practice.” As an example of Web 2.0’s impact on law practice, he features Coast to Coast, the legal-affairs podcast I co-host with California lawyer J. Craig Williams.…

LawMemo has long been a superior site for labor and employment law resources, but now it becomes a supreme site — literally — with the addition of Supreme Court Times. Covering all Supreme Court cases, this new feature compiles information and commentary into a resource that houses virtually everything you might want to…

At podCast411, Rob Welch, author of Tricks of the Podcasting Masters, interviews lawyer Colette Vogele about the Podcasting Legal Guide she co-authored. Vogele reveals that she will soon launch her own podcast that will address the legal questions of podcasters and video bloggers.…

Thanks in part to funding from Bill and Melinda Gates, Pro Bono Net has developed a Web-based platform for law firms to manage and promote their pro bono work. To be launched early in 2007, it is called Pro Bono Manager. An article in the Pro Bono Net newsletter says the software…