Robert Ambrogi

The Wall Street Journal Online this week launched a law page and a law blog, both intended to provide news and analysis on events and trends important to the legal market. You will have to be a subscriber to access the law page, but the law blog, titled — you guessed it —

LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell today unveiled an enhanced version of its Martindale.com lawyer directory site that includes a tool allowing side-by-side comparisons of lawyers’ credentials. The tool allows users to compare up to four law firms or lawyers based upon criteria such as areas of practice, size of firm, office locations, educational background and attorney bar…

I have written before about blogs as evidence. Here is an Editor & Publisher article about how the blogs of a family involved in a North Carolina murder case are raising ethical issues for news reporters and editors.

Excerpt:

“With so much written about blogging in the past year, it’s amazing that just

Any professional who uses Outlook to manage contacts, appointments and reminders should stop whatever he or she is doing right now and download Anagram. This is an elegantly simple but remarkably useful tool that lets you grab information from anywhere on your computer with a single keystroke and place it into Outlook as a…

I recently came across Jus in Bello, a blog from Pace University School of Law that covers the International Criminal Court, other international criminal tribunals and the law of international criminal prosectuion. The blog is written by Pace law professors Thomas M. McDonnell, Gayl S. Westerman and Mark Shulman. Lawyer…

I wrote Dec. 13 about a new source for online dispute resolution, The Courthouse Steps. I later received a note from the company’s founder, Robert V. Kixmiller, saying that my description of the service’s operation was not quite on point.

With regard to how the service works, I wrote:

“Either party to

In my continuing quest to identify law-related bloggers in Massachusetts, I have come across another: Velvel on National Affairs, written by Lawrence R. Velvel, dean of Massachusetts School of Law.…

Gee, just when I was about to tease Dennis Kennedy for naming his own blog as among his 2005 Best of Legal Blogging Awards, I read that he cites me as precedent for so doing. Whoops.

The fact is, his list is right on in its selections — including his selection of…

By way of John L. Welch’s The TTABlog comes word of a decision by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board denying Reed Elsevier’s application to trademark the name “Lawyers.com.” In the decision, In re Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., the TTAB affirmed an examiner’s refusal of the registration on the ground that…

The process used to identify partial fingerprints is sufficiently reliable to allow courts to admit expert testimony regarding the matching of a partial (or “latent”) impression with a full fingerprint, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled today. Because the process — known as ACE-V (analysis, comparison, evaluation and verification) — is generally accepted by the…

The folks at Blawg Review have handed out their 2005 Blawg Review Awards. I am proud to say that Coast to Coast, the weekly legal news podcast I cohost with J. Craig Williams, won the award for Best Legal Podcast.…

To all those who read this blog, I wish you peace, happiness and prosperity this holiday season and for all to come.…