Hi Friends,Thanks Google! Google has put FREE US case law online in Google Scholar :) The US Federal case law database includes US Supreme Court opinions since 1 US 1 (pre - 1776), Federal Appeals opinions since 1 F 2d...

Hi Friends, This years ABA Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference is being held in Philadelphia, November 12-13, 2009. Those who register up before August 31, will save $200-400. Above the Law's David Lat will be speaking on image control...

Hi Friends, Tom Bruce, Dan Nagy and Deborah Schaaf from the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School stopped on by for some meetings with folks on new free information projects. The LII gang met with us, Nolo, Stanford...

Hi Friends, A few weeks ago the New York Times floated a rumor/great idea that Carl Malamud, the great hard working free information Internet do-gooder, was being mentioned as a potential candidate for head of the Government Printing Office....

Hi Friends, In early December, Justia and the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School setup a pre-beta version of "Legal Birds" of legal twitterers and their tweets, and integrated twitter feeds into the attorney profile pages in our...

Hi Friends, Justia and the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School have been building a lawyer directory the last few months to help individuals, families and businesses find lawyers and legal service organizations. (See the Justia Lawyer Directory...

President Barack Obama inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America...

President Barack Obama's Win on the Web President Barack Obama Graphic Copyright Charis Tsevis...

Hi Friends, As most of us know, Nolo.com is the best Website for consumer and small business USA legal information. Nolo's lawyers-writers-editors are the best. Nolo.com covers everything from starting a business, employment, real estate, intellectual property, immigration, family...

Hi Friends,As many of you know (at least those in the Open Government & Law Groups), Free Public Information Hero Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.org have been working to get state codes, building codes, electrical codes and other state and city...

Hi Friends,Google's AdWords Keyword Tool now gives the search approximate monthly search volume for different keywords.You can read more about this new feature on the Google AdWords Blog here.And here are a few words and their approximate monthly search volume4,090,000...

Hi Friends, Oregon's Legislative Counsel Committee had a meeting this morning to discuss the copyright claim on the Oregon Revised Statutes. After taking legal counsel from Dexter Johnson, talking with Karl Olson, Carl Malamud, three Oregon citizens and myself, they...

Hi Friends,Dan, Cicely and I flew over Oregon and headed up to LexBlog Country in the great Northwest. We were there to do some interviewing of computer folks... but we also had some fun (Seattle/As game, Vancouver and more :).Dan...

Hi Friends, Last week, the State of Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee sent Justia a notice of copyright infringement and demand to cease and desist. In its letter, Dexter Johnson, the Legislative Counsel, asked us to remove a copy of the...

Hi Friends, As public domain information hero Carl Malamud is working on getting case law online and into the public domain (we have helped a bit :). Carl, donors, and the Public.Resource.org team have done a lot and... more...

Hi Friends,JDSupra has officially launched and opened its site to the public today. The JDSupra site allows legal professionals to upload legal documents, memos, forms, filings and briefs and share them with the legal community. On the marketing front,...

Hi Friends,The team at FastCase have announced the largest free online US case law database at The Public Library of Law at plol.org. The site is GREAT! The database of cases includes all of the Supreme Court cases and...

Hi Friends,Here comes the Legal Commons.Carl Malamud and the team at Public.Resource.org with Larry Lessig and the Creative Commons gang got the FastCase deal done and the case law online. The cases include all of the Federal Court of...

Hi Friends,More free case law has come online. PreCYdent has added 300,000 Federal cases to their database at http://www.PreCYdent.com. They have built in some nice community tools for commenting and rating the cases. And they have a new search...

I found this photo of the U.S. Supreme Court on flickr, the photo-sharing website owned by Yahoo!. Sure, there are a lot of photos on flickr. However, this photo was uploaded by the Library of Congress. Is this the federal...

FCC 700 MHz Band Auction Auction ID: 73 Accepted Applications (Sorted by Applicant) Date of Report: 12/18/2007 01:13 PM ET The following applicants have an Initial filing phase status of "Accepted." FRN Name Bidding CreditRevenue Range 0002805596 Adams Telcom, Inc....

Hi Friends,Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.org have gotten together with Ed Walters CEO of FastCase and are happy to announce that they will be putting online an archive of US Appeal Court decisions since 1950 and all of the US...

We are waiting... but will not wait too long....

Hi Friends,The new Stanford Copyright & Fair Use site is up :) And I have not even gotten on the plane...Mary Minow, Jon Silver and Justia's Cicely, Courtney, Dan, Nick and Vasu made it happen.More info on the site once...

Hi Friends,One of the biggest forces in free online legal information, Tom Bruce, Director of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School stopped by to meet with the gang at Justia. It was great talking through ideas about...

Hi Friends,Last night I had a good "trip" to the cage to add a new fast Web server for the Jurist Community and News Website run by Professor Bernard Hibbitts and his team. Ok... well technically I just watched...

Hi Friends,We recently added the a FREE database of Federal District Court Opinions since 2004 that are available using the opinion report in the Federal Courts' ECF. The database is updated daily.Here is the URL for the Federal District Court...

Hi Friends,Our friend & hero Carl Malamud stopped by the "Justia offices" to talk about his new public interest public information project.... making the case law and codes of the United States of America (state and federal) freely accessible...

Hi Friends,Kevin O'Keefe and the LexBlog team have updated the design and features of the LexBlog's "Real Lawyers Have Blogs" Blog. LexBlog has changed the blog into a resource center for legal bloggers, with a Chicago Cubs look and feel...

Hi Friends,Cicely traveled up to Bellingham, Washington to meet with a new client Anderson, Connell & Carey to check out what the Bellingham work environment of ocean views and clean air is really like.Debra Sheldon stands outside the office :)Riley...

Hi Friends,First, here are the top ten law professor blogs as determined by vistors on .edu networks on BlawgSearch.com. I set this filter up for Professor J. Robert Brown, Jr. and a paper he was writing on blogs and reputation....

Hi Friends,Let me start our new month of blogging with a post on the great new ABA Journal Website. The site went live a few weeks ago, and includes articles from the magazine, updated daily news and a legal blog...

Hi Friends,Ken, Stacy and I are going to get back to blogging... finally :) We have been working on a few legal information projects this summer... which we talk about in the next few weeks.But first, congrats to Appalachian State...

Hi Friends,This years BlawgWorld e-book is out from Neil Squillante, Sara Skiff and the TechnoLawyer Team.The BlawgWorld 2007 ebook has sample posts from a number of blogs, AND a legal technology solutions guide. You can download the ebook here. It...

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York granted a permanent injunction against a number of the amended rules on attorney advertising that had become effective in February, finding portions of the new rules unconstitutional as protected...

Hi Friends,Turner Entertainment Networks has announced plans to re-brand Court TV as truTV starting January 1, 2008. The network will also sport a new logo, new look and expanded line-up focused on the psychographic known as "Real Engagers". truTv plans...

Hi Friends,ALM has been sold for $630 Million to Incisive Media. You can read more about in the press releases here and here.See Bob Ambrogi's post and Mark Obbie's post (found on LawSites) for more info...Peace,Tim :: Peace Frog, Morrison...

Hi Friends,A class action law suit was filed today against Avvo. You can get more information from LexBlog's Kevin O'Keefe's blog and/or read the complaint. Kevin has some additional commentary and resources about the case, so news.justia.com (which is in...

Hi Friends,In the next week, I will be writing a series of posts on making and using video in your Website or blog. Many people, and a few lawyers, are making and uploading video for use on their Websites or...

Hi Friends,Welcome to our take on the blawgosphere in this Blawg Review #112 of the review of blawgs. It has been a fun week of reading blogs and interesting posts. Many thanks to the Blawg Review editors for giving us...

Hi Friends,LexBlog's Kevin O'Keefe called it.... Avvo is live. Nice clean graphics and fonts that look like Google Analytics (bold Arial).The focus is on the attorney, not the law firm, and listings are free. There will be additional advertising and...

Hi Friends,There is a mention on LexBlog's Kevin O'Keefe's Blog that Avvo may release their site tomorrow.Currently neither TechCrunch Attorney Michael Arrington nor ValleyWag has info on the new Avvo site... yet... so confirmation is a leak away. We may...

Hi Friends,Here are the most popular blogs on BlawgSearch.com for May 2007. Above the Law dominated nearly every day.Above the Law [feed]A legal tabloid that provides news and gossip about the profession's colorful personalities and powerful institutions, as well as...

Hi Friends,We have added the ability for you to have BlawgSearch search results on your Website or Blog with your own look and feel.The html code for adding the Blawg Search results to your Website or legal Blog is...

Hi Friends,I initially wrote this up for the LMA list, but after rereading my email I figured it would be a good post. And it has Bellingham Washington in it, which is good.There is a new free service that...

Hi Friends,We have added historical snapshots of the most popular blawgs on a monthly basis since we released BlawgSearch in October of 2006. For each month we have listed the 200 most popular blawgs overall, as well as the top...

Hi Friends,This from Today's New York Times...While no decisions have yet been made, he [Tom Glocer] said Reuters might hire about 50 additional journalists to create a legal news wire, integrating it with Thomson’s current offerings to lawyers.Interesting... and I...

Stacy, Dana and I went to the Contra Costa Bodybuilding, Figure & Fitness Championships on Saturday to cheer our friend Gino Eagle Johnson on in the Ultra Grand Masters category.The Ultra Grand Masters is the division for those over 60....

Hi Friends,Tom Glocer, Reuters' CEO and likely new Thomson CEO to be, has his own blog. Just a few posts, but Tom is posting himself. Click here to read Tom's Blog.Source: WSJ Law Blog CommentPeace,Tim :: HBR IdeaCast from Harvard...

Hi Friends,The new LLRX.com Web site that we worked on for/with Sabrina Pacifici is now live. While it is primarily an editorial research Website, there is a section on law firm marketing, and a lot of tech tips that are...