Robert Ambrogi

The good news: Starbucks is dropping its Wi-Fi partnership with T-Mobile, which charges $9.99 for 24 hours access, and switching to an AT&T; plan that will give Starbucks card holders two hours free a day and AT&T; broadband customers unlimited free access. The bad news: Other customers will still have to pay for Wi-Fi, but…

The LexisNexis-owned Martindale-Hubbell law directory announced this week that it is adding law firm videos to its martindale.com online legal directory and its lawyers.com legal-consumer site. One of the first examples is featured on the lawyers.com listing for the Newtown, Penn., firm Kardos, Rickles, Bidlingmaier…

The day we previewed here last week has arrived: The non-profit organization Public.Resource.Org today released 1.8 million pages of federal case law free of copyright or other restrictions, in a joint venture with Creative Commons. The release includes all Supreme Court cases and all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 on.…

I reported here in November that 1.8 million pages of federal case law would go public early in 2008 through an agreement between Carl Malamud’s nonprofit organization Public.Resource.Org and the legal research company Fastcase. Today, Malamud said the release of those cases is scheduled for next week. The release will include all…

A brief videotaped interview with me at LegalTech New York yesterday is posted on WestBlog.net.…

My Web Watch column this month, Search on Steroids, profiles Collexis, a powerful new search tool making its way into the legal market. The review notes, “The company also is preparing to launch other legal products based on the same search platform, including databases of federal and state case law and U.S. patents.…

Life has many mysteries, among them the identity of the anonymous editor of Blawg Review, who for some reason opts to keep his who-abouts and his whereabouts a secret. I was intrigued when he wrote last week that he would be at LegalTech New York and invited…

CLE providers are linking continuing education with exotic locales, from Paris to Florence to Machu Picchu. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the pros and cons of CLE travel programs. Joining us are Costa Mesa, Calif., lawyer Jamie Duarte, who has been organizing CLE programs in exotic locations such as Machu…

At LegalTech New York tomorrow, ALM and the Courtroom View Network will formally announce the launch of CourtroomLive, a new Web service that broadcasts trials and courtroom proceedings live and on demand.

“CourtroomLive captures courtroom proceedings to deliver live and on-demand video directly to subscribers’ desktops. Viewers can simultaneously view video

I can barely keep up with the efforts of Carl Malamud and his public.resource.org to “liberate” government documents. (See 1.8M Pages of Federal Case Law to Go Public and More Government Docs to Go on Web.) The latest project: Recycle Your Used Pacer Documents!. PACER, of course, is the federal…

Thomson West on Monday will officially announce the launch of WestBlog.net, a blog devoted to covering next week’s LegalTech New York. In conjunction with the new blog, West today released a podcast, Legal Blogging: Trends and Tips, in which I was honored to be one of three guests interviewed by West’s…

I tried a number of feed readers over the years (for reading RSS feeds from blogs and news outlets) and was never happier than when I discovered FeedDemon. Now, FeedDemon’s maker, NewsGator, has taken the price tag off FeedDemon and its suite of RSS readers for Windows, Mac and mobile devices, offering…