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After LLRX.com announced last week that it would no longer publish updates, what did it do? Publish an update, of course. The highlight is Competitive Intelligence (CI) Resources for the Legal Community by LLRX co-founder Sabrina I. Pacifici, author of the beSpacific blog.…

Silicon Valley.com’s Dan Gillmor says today in a special report that Google, which runs the Web’s premier search site, has purchased Pyra Labs, the San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, including the popular Blogger.…

Inter Press reports on a statement issued by groups representing more than 300 international lawyers, jurists and physicians warning that a military attack on Iraq would not only be a blatant violation of international law but could kill over 260,000 people.…

On this day of protest against war, consider the International Appeal by Lawyers and Jurists against the “Preventive” Use of Force.…

Final testing is underway for a new service that will allow lawyers to consult law librarians in real time, via chat, over the Internet. The service, Legal Reference Services Inc., began a six-week pilot Feb. 10 with five law firms in New York City. They are using the service for free to help identify…

Two Washington, D.C., lawyers have each launched Web logs intended to serve as resources for solo and small-firm lawyers.

Jonathan Bender’s site, SohoAttorney, focuses on attorneys practicing from small offices or home offices. More than just a blog, SohoAttorney allows other lawyers to register and participate in developing the site’s content. For example, Bender…

LLRX.com, a consistently outstanding resource for legal professionals who use the Internet ever since its launch in 1996, announced today that it is “going on hiatus.” The site will remain available, but without the twice-monthly webzine or other updates.

Here is the announcement that appeared on the LLRX front page:

Dear LLRX Readers,

This…

Jonas Luster over at J/files posted this enormously helpful item explaining how to make RSS autodiscovery work on a blog or Web page. With autodiscovery, news aggregators such as Newz Crawler and discovery tools such as discover/it can automatically detect whether a blog has an RSS feed and, in the case…

From Ethan Katsh, director of the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution at UMass/Amherst:

“The UMass Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution, in collaboration with the Online Dispute Resolution Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution, is pleased to be holding Cyberweek 2003 this year from February 24-28th. This is the…

I have just finished writing a column about a new Web tool that every trial lawyer who uses expert witnesses should look at. I cannot post the entire column until it appears in print, but I can offer a preview.

As any trial lawyer will tell you, getting expert testimony admitted has been tougher since…

These lawyers know how to handle a pest.…

Declan McCullagh reports on ZDNet that the Bush administration has pulled the plug on a .gov Web site pending an investigation into the authenticity of the organization that controlled it. The site, AONN.gov, called itself the Access One Network Northwest, and was supposedly a cyberwarfare unit supported by the U.S. Department of Defense. But…