Robert Ambrogi

If not for Network-Lawyers, and, more specifically, Kathy Biehl’s post thereto, I would never have known that Vivisimo provides this interface for clustering search results on FindLaw. I wrote about Vivisimo in 2002 — describing it as a software program that calls on other search engines, extracts the relevant…

I will be attending the Indiana State Bar Association’s Solo and Small Firm Conference June 3-5 in Lafayette. A number of top-notch speakers on the roster, including fellow blogger Tom Mighell, who is speaking on ethics, law-office technology and Internet research. As for myself, I am speaking on “the best legal Web sites,”…

The second edition of my book is due out in June. It can be ordered here: The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, Second Edition.…

Congratulations to Maggie Mulvihill, lawyer and investigative editor at the Boston Herald, who was among the journalists named today as Nieman Fellows at Harvard University.…

TechnoLawyer today announced its annual legal technology awards, called the TechnoLawyer @ Awards, selected based on voting by subscribers to its various lists.

Here are the results:…

On this 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, AARP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights have teamed up to launch Voices of Civil Rights, a site that collects and preserves personal accounts from the past and present of the civil rights movement. Using text, audio and transcripts, it…

Power searchers rarely rely on a single search engine. Queryster is a tool that puts a new spin on meta-searching – searching across multiple search engines from a single interface. By default, Queryster submits your search to 10 of the most popular search engines – Google, WiseNut, LookSmart, Ask Jeeves,…

Is anything to be gained by searching across multiple sites? If you have any doubt about the answer, visit Thumbshots Ranking, a tool that graphically compares search results on different search engines. It shows you how results compare in ranking and position on each site. You can elect to highlight your own or some…

Declan McCullagh writes about judges turning to search engines to check facts, look up information about companies in litigation, and challenge statistics presented by attorneys in court. Are judges making their own evidentiary records? If so, is this permitted? The answers are less clear than you might expect, the article suggests. (Thanks to Steve…

As a word, soople is said to derive from an early English dialect and mean to soften or make supple. As a Web site, Soople is Google for dummies. Google has a front page so Spartan that the casual user might never suspect that it is home to an array of search power…

Via TalkLeft comes news of new Web site for those who consider themselves politically progressive. Called Moving Ideas, its stated goal is “to improve collaboration and dialogue between policy and grassroots organizations, and to promote their work to journalists and legislators.” The site features research and reports from member organizations, legislative news and…

The Memory Hole has the uncensored version of the National Labor Relations Board’s 10(j) manual, used to guide its attorneys in seeking injunctive against unfair labor practices. This is said to be a “bootleg” of the manual that the NLRB has on its own site in a redacted version.…