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The folks at Blawg Review have handed out their 2005 Blawg Review Awards. I am proud to say that Coast to Coast, the weekly legal news podcast I cohost with J. Craig Williams, won the award for Best Legal Podcast.…

To all those who read this blog, I wish you peace, happiness and prosperity this holiday season and for all to come.…

As part of its special section, Far East, Close to Home, Law.com features a free webcast of a panel discussion, Going Global: What Does It Take? I participated on the panel, along with fellow Law.com bloggers Rees Morrison, senior director of Hildebrandt International, and Bruce MacEwen, law firm consultant. Law.com editor…

Another installment of our legal news podcast, Coast to Coast, was posted today, this time taking on the Legal Battle Over the Blackberry. Joining us is Eric J. Sinrod, a partner in the San Francisco office of Duane Morris LLP, a technology and IP lawyer and columnist who has followed and written…

Bing Crosby couldn’t make it, but equally entertaining is Lawrence Savell, the lawyer, songwriter and performer who joins us for our holiday podcast, Holidays with Lawyers. Savell has recorded three humorous holiday albums for lawyers, all available at Lawtunes.com. Join my cohost J. Craig Williams and me as we listen to samples…

The Internal Revenue Service has unveiled the first major redesign of its Web site since 2002, and eWeek reports that the overhaul succeeds in making the site less taxing.…

Microsoft Corp. last week unveiled a beta version of Windows Live Local, a mapping tool with an array of useful features — plus an almost frightening ability to zoom in for a “bird’s-eye view” of certain locations. While other mapping tools such as Google maps offer straight-down aerial imagery, this new bird’s-eye view is…

What happens to a state law after a court strikes it down as unconstitutional? In Utah, it seems, the law stays on the books. Such was the finding of a report by the The Salt Lake Tribune, Killed by courts, some laws live on in the Utah code.…

The U.S. Department of Labor has redesigned and relaunched its Compliance Assistance Web Portal, a site designed to help workers and employers understand and comply with federal employment laws and regulations.

The redesigned site features enhanced navigation and content. Included within the site are fact sheets on a variety of employment law issues,…

The latest entry in the field of automated, online dispute resolution is The Courthouse Steps. It appears to be similar in operation to one of the older kids on this virtual block, Cybersettle.com, in that offers and demands are compared electronically and the matter is settled if preset parameters are met.

Here is…

Over on my Media Law blog, I report on a case today from Massachusetts’ highest court holding that the First Amendment does not protect against discipline for a lawyer who criticizes a judge in a pending case unless the lawyer has “an objectively reasonable basis” for the criticism.…

Earlier this week, Law.com posted my column proclaiming 2005 as Year of the Podcast. Now we learn that the New Oxford American Dictionary has selected “podcast” as the word of the year. The announcement explains:

“Only a year ago, podcasting was an arcane activity, the domain of a few techies and self-admitted