Robert Ambrogi

I am proud to report that my “Web Watch” column in Law Technology News has won the 2006 Silver Tabbie Award for best regular column from Trade Association Business Publications International. The editorial and design competition honors English-language publications from throughout the world in 12 editorial categories. About my column, the…

Lawyers who moonlight as Elvis impersonators? Lawyers who run dating services? Lawyers who carry surfboards instead of briefcases?

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast, we look at the fun side of lawyers — lawyers who have lives outside law offices and courtrooms. My cohost J. Craig Williams and I interview:…

Footnote to my post on Skype v. Gizmo: Gizmo is compatible with the secure VoIP service Zfone, developed by Phil Zimmermann, the inventor of PGP encryption. Skype is not.…

Gizmo is a later arrival to the Internet telephony space staked out by Skype. While both offer free telephone calls over the Internet, Gizmo had the price advantage for landline phones, at 1 cent per minute for U.S. calls. But then Skype cut its price to zero, announcing free calling to all…

Man With Faulty Penile Implant Gets $400K: PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A former handyman has won more than $400,000 in a lawsuit over a penile implant that gave him a 10-year erection. Lawyer Objects to Young Age of Jurors: ATLANTA (AP) — A 79-year-old woman accused of fatally shooting her 85-year-old ex-beau is……

Congratulations to J. Craig Williams (my Coast to Coast cohost) for being named Best Individual Weblog in the Southern California Journalism Awards of the Los Angeles Press Club.…

Jurors who lie or conceal information on their jury questionnaires are causing problems in the courts. Should jurors’ backgrounds be checked more carefully? Would deeper checks benefit lawyers? Would they discourage potential jurors? Join my co-host J. Craig Williams and me on the legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast as we discuss these questions with:…

Just when I was finally getting my arms around the concept of six sigma, along comes NineSigma.…

According to Engadget, this USB teddy bear holds data and scares children.…

LexisNexis last week launched a new service that might be considered a genealogy site for the business world. Much as genealogy sites trace family trees, Corporate Affiliations charts corporate ties. It shows linkages among nearly 200,000 major companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions, to the seventh level of corporate linkage. It includes most…

Via beSpacific comes news that the Securities and Exchange Commission has added two enhanced search features: full-text search of the last two years of EDGAR filings and Mutual Fund Search.…

The Reno Gazette-Journal last week launched a blog devoted to tracking developments concerning the Judge Weller shooting. In the initial post, Senior Editor Mark Lundahl explained:

“The shooting of Judge Chuck Weller and stabbing death of Charla Mack has shaken the Reno community to its foundation. A millionaire businessman from a well-known local

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