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Family Law Prof Blog is the latest addition to the Law Professor Blogs Network. It is edited by law professors Barbara Glesner Fines of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Robert E. Oliphant of William Mitchell College of Law and Nancy Ver Steegh of William Mitchell.…

It was on the left coast and I am on the right, so I did not make it to the July 30 BlogHer conference, much as I would have liked to. Fortunately, journalist and blogger J.D. Lasica did attend, and he videotaped interviews with several who were there, including organizer Lisa Stone,…

Law.com today published a virtual roundtable, Taking Stock of ‘Grokster’, from a special issue of the newsletter Internet Law & Strategy devoted to the Grokster decision. I was honored to be among the lawyers invited to participate. Subscribers to the newsletter can download a PDF version of the complete issue here.…

Back from a week in the Maine woods, where even simple dial-up Internet access was a challenge.…

The American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center has released its 2004-2005 Technology Survey on the use of technology within the legal community. The full survey is available only through purchase — the five-volume set is $2,225. You can download the executive summary in PDF format for a mere $150.…

If you needed any evidence that the once simple business of court reporting has grown to mega-scale, the Boston Business Journal reports today that the Boston-based court-reporting and litigation-support firm LegaLink has secured $20 million in venture funding to finance future acquisitions and growth. Would take a lot of depositions to pay that…

In this time of blogs and instant messaging, we tend to forget the once-critical role played by e-mail discussion lists (often referred to by the trademarked name Listserv) in allowing legal professionals to discuss and share ideas. In the mid-1990s, for instance, the net-lawyers list was a virtual town square for lawyers on the Internet,…

I find myself quoted in a Chicago Tribune article on the downsides of blogging. Of interest, the story focuses on marketing consultant Kirsten Osolind’s decision to discontinue her blog. (Many legal bloggers met Kirsten at BlawgConnect in Chicago last March — and I have the photos to prove it.) Kirsten, who runs

Of 154 nominations to the Supreme Court between 1789 and 2004, 34 did not win Senate confirmation, according to a March 21 report, Supreme Court Nominations Not Confirmed, 1789-2004, written by Congressional Research Service analyst Henry B. Hogue. The 34 nominations represent 29 individuals — some nominated more than once. Of those 29, five…

LexisNexis will provide searching and viewing of TV news programs by summer’s end, it announced. It has teamed with Critical Mention, a Web-based TV search and broadcast monitoring service, to provide the feature.

According to the announcement, it will deliver searchable video and print news clips together through its pay-as-you-go research service,…

Is blogosphere real estate a sound investment? Just ask Donald Trump.

“If Donald Trump is blogging, then blogging is about as mainstream as it gets,” Michael Gartenberg, Jupitermedia VP, tells TechWeb.…

As reported yesterday by ZDNet, the U.S. Copyright Office is seeking comments on a new Web filing system that would require use of Internet Explorer versions 5.1 and higher. Users of alternative browsers, such as Netscape, Firefox and Mozilla, would experience problems using the system.

The system relates to preregistration of eligible copyright…