How many lawyers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? That’s the joke behind a new marketing video from the Minneapolis law firm Nilan Johnson Lewis. But is the joke on the firm?

Here’s the set-up: In an office-building lobby, a maintenance worker uses a pole to reach…

Toronto-based Credenza Software yesterday announced a new version of its Credenza practice-management software that comes at an unbeatable price — free. Now the company offers two versions of its software — Credenza Basic for free and

Last March, I wrote a post here about LawPivot, a website where companies can pose legal questions and get answers from lawyers. Lawyers are paid nothing to provide these answers. The incentive for participating is that the free answers the…

Wikipedia made its name as an online encyclopedia. Of course, not everyone can be online all the time. So I was interested to read that Wikipedia is beta testing an offline version.

The offline version uses Kiwix, open-source software that allows Web content to be read offline. There…

The editors of the ABA Journal are gearing up to select their annual list of the 100 best legal blogs, the Blawg 100. And they are seeking suggestions of blogs they should include. “Tell us about a blawg—not your own—that you read regularly and think other lawyers should know about,” they…

In a post here last April, I wrote about Justia’s launch of a free service providing daily summaries of federal and state appellate opinions, daily.justia.com.  At the time, the summaries were provided only through an email subscription.

Now, Justia has added an array of…

LexisNexis last week rolled out two significant enhancements to LexisNexis Firm Manager, its Web-based practice management application.  (See my earlier posts about Practice Manager here, here and

Although it was launched in June, it has taken me this long to get around to checking out the Digital Journalist’s Legal Guide created by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Now that I’ve had…

On this week’s Lawyer2Lawyer podcast: The NBA Lockout and the Law. We look at the legal and business issues involved with two great guests:…

Way back in 2007, I wrote a post here entitled, Justia Does FindLaw One Better. In it, I noted an ironic turn of events. Whereas FindLaw had once been the preeminent Internet resource for legal professionals, it’s usefulness had been fading ever since…

The EEOC held a public hearing last week to consider the extent to which criminal background checks form a barrier to employment, particularly for members of minority groups. A recent study by the National Employment…

I happened to notice a flood of press releases over the last couple days announcing a flood of new law firm websites. The press releases all have two things in common. They all announce a single law firm’s launch of multiple websites. And they all come from the same source, Scorpion…