Robert Ambrogi

Stuck researching government information? Get live, online help from a government information librarian through Government Information Online. This national pilot project, a cooperative effort of more than 30 libraries throughout the United States, provides a virtual reference and information service that specializes in questions concerning government information. All participants are official depository libraries that…

The former SCOTUSBlog is now the new and improved SCOTUSBlog. Written by the Washington, D.C., firm Goldstein & Howe, and with contributions from long-time Supreme Court reporter Lyle Denniston, this is the only blog devoted to tracking litigation before the Supreme Court.…

I wrote a few weeks back about “plawdcasters” — lawyers who have podcasts — and I later posted this follow-up. Via Bag and Baggage comes word of another lawyer/podcaster, Gary A. Kendra of Detroit, whose new blog Adventures in CyberLaw will discuss issues surrounding the convergence of law and technology,…

So says the blog Napsterization, which says that search site Ask Jeeves purchase of Bloglines, a blog search and aggregation site, will be announced tomorrow, and that Ask Jeeves is integrating Bloglines into its search system.…

I felt validated when I saw this article on The Law Marketing Portal, becauses it addresses a topic that has long been a pet peeve of mine — the failure of law firms to list non-lawyers on their Web sites.

As a former reporter and editor, I would often go to a firm’s…

Is your inner Grisham goading you to leave law? Are you convinced you have the talent of Turow? Here is the chance to show your stuff: the National Legal Fiction Writing Competition for Lawyers. [Caution: link is to PDF]. Sponsored by Seak Inc., first prize is a $1,000 gift certificate and lunch with…

To what extent is the geographic location in which a court enters an order a factor in predicting compliance? When the court order concerns desegregation, location would seem highly relevant. Now, Brown University has brought the social-science discipline of spatial analysis to bear on this question, and has put the resulting data on the…

Yahoo! Wednesday introduced a beta version of a dramatic innovation in Web-search technology. Called Y!Q, it is contextual search technology that analyzes the contents of the Web page you are viewing and then gives you a list of search results directly related to that content. Yahoo calls it “an entirely new way to…

When an SUV rollover results in injury or death, attorneys are sure to become involved. Now, the legal community is using the Web to help prevent these rollovers, and the ugly beast shown here — the 6-foot long, 11-foot wide and 10-foot tall ESUVEE — is the mascot of that effort.

The attorneys general of…

PatentCafe today launched its OSS Patent Search Engine, a free tool devoted to making open source software patents searchable using natural language queries. The initial collection includes the 500 OSS patents pledged by IBM early in January. The company has not said for certain whether it will expand the database by adding…

What do blawgers look like in person? I’ve posted some pics of today’s blawgers’ lunch at Legal Tech in NY. You can find them here.…

At Legal Tech New York, I attended the Law Technology News technology awards banquet last night. I was going to report on the award recipients, but I see that LTN editor Monica Bay beat me to the punch. So head over to Monica’s blog and read all about it.…