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In a provocative posting, ethicalEsq? argues that efforts by bar advocates in Massachusetts to increase their fees — including use of the Bristol County Bar Advocates’ Web site as an information center — may raise antitrust and ethical concerns.…

Dogpile, a meta-search tool that delivers results from multiple search engines including Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves, unveiled a new look yesterday, and SearchEngineWatch.com reports it is structural as well as cosmetic, including the addition of results grouping by category.…

October is the 10th anniversary of Law Technology News, and editor Monica Bay is planning a special issue to mark the occasion. She has asked me to write a column on the 10 best legal Web sites of the decade. I have no shortage of thoughts on this, but I’d love to hear your…

I awoke this morning to an e-mail from none other than Dave Winer. It said: “As you know we’re giving away 25 BloggerCon seats to members of the weblog community, at absolutely no cost. Yesterday, as scheduled, we ran the script that chose the 25 lucky people at random, and.. You won! Congratulations!…

I have joined Jaffe Associates as vice president of editorial services and director of Jaffe’s WritersForLawyers.com. (Read the formal announcement — I swear I didn’t pick the music.)

Jaffe provides a range of business development services and products to law firms and other professional services firms in North America and Europe.…

My June column, A Brief Summary: Free Briefs on the Web, listed free places to find briefs on the Web, including several state-court sites. I notice that Montana is another state that publishes briefs submitted to its Supreme Court.…

Until last year, Georgia appellate opinions were conveniently offered through a single Web site — and one which was, I believe, an official court site. Go there now and find that Georgia Supreme Court opinions stop as of Oct. 28, 2002, and Court of Appeals opinions stop as of Sept. 6, 2002. The Supreme…

The Web site of the National Law Journal has a new look, but with the redesign comes a subscription wall blocking access to all but one main story a week. The design is more graphically striking than before (and I say that having helped design the prior site) and provides easier navigation to NLJ…

Shootings, stabbings, overdoses, kids hit by cars. Autopsy Report, the blog of a medical examiner intern, is not for the squeamish. But lawyers with an interest in forensic medicine may find they learn something here.…

Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn has launched the newspaper’s first Web log, Breaking Views. The blog, in Zorn’s own words, is “a frequently updated journal containing observations, reports, tips, referrals, tirades and whatever else happens to be in my notebook. My goal is to make Breaking Views useful, provocative and amusing, sometimes all…

Rory Perry reports: “A good sampling of judicial approaches to e-government are included in this year’s top ten court website awards by Justice Served. Taking top honors this year is the Superior Court of Santa Clara County California.”…

News.com reports on the Battle of the blog, pitting Dave Winer and RSS against a project to develop an alternative syndication format.…