Robert Ambrogi

What’s new on the UK legal web? reports on two new blogs: Family Lore, from a family law solicitor practicing in England and Wales, and The Landlord Law Blog, offering thoughts on residential landlord and tenant law.…

Via The Volokh Conspiracy comes news of two new lawprof group blogs: Empirical Legal Studies and International Economic Law and Policy Blog.…

In his “On Language” column this week, William Safire takes on Blargon, the lingo of blogging. [Via Depraved Librarian.]…

Remember when your mother used to warn you, “Don’t put that money in your mouth — you don’t know where it’s been!” Well, now you do, thanks to Where’s George?, a site where you can track the travels of paper money. Prefer to track Canadian currency? Use Where’s Willy?.…

If images of gastrointestinal endoscopy or neuroimaging start your heart racing, you are probably a personal-injury lawyer. Medical images are important, both to help you understand the plaintiff’s injuries and as demonstrative evidence to use in the courtroom. Medical Image Databases on the Internet is a useful compilation not of images, but…

Firefox devotees know that sometimes, you just gotta run Internet Explorer. Now, there is a Firefox extension that lets you run IE in a Firefox tab.…

I’ve written before about Googlism, a fun tool that searches Google to arrive at a characterization of a person, place or thing. Now there is something similar for the blogosphere, Opinmind. Type a name or topic in its search box, and it returns two side-by-side lists of pro and con comments from…

In 2002, entrepreneur Bill Sagan bought the complete archives of legendary rock promoter Bill Graham. The archives included Graham’s never-released tapes of thousands of live performances by the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Cream, Jefferson Airplane, Van Morrison, Santana, Otis Redding, Steppenwolf, Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Bob…

Coast to Coast this week looks at the business of law with special guest Reid Trautz, lawyer, blogger, director of the D.C. Bar Practice Management Advisory Service, and nationally recognized author and speaker on law practice management topics.

Coast to Coast is the weekly legal news podcast cohosted by J.…

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Publisher David L. Yas does a great job recounting the tale of the e-mail that roared — a much-forwarded series of e-mails in which a young lawyer turns down a job, in not-quite textbook fashion. To see the e-mail, check out Legal Twilite Zone.…

A new Gallup poll finds that blog readership bogged down in 2005, showing growth in U.S. blog readers to be somewhere between nil and negative between February and December 2005. In fact, the percentage of Internet users who say they never read blogs rose during the period, from 63 percent to 66 percent. “The…

Calling itself “the next generation international corporate law firm,” a Boston start-up, Exemplar Law Partners, claims to be the first corporate law firm in the nation exclusively to use fixed-price billing. The firm managers identified on its Web site are fairly new to the practice of law in Massachusetts — the CEO was