Robert Ambrogi,
a lawyer
in Rockport, MA, is vice president for editorial services at Jaffe Associates and director of WritersForLawyers.

He is author of the book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web

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Zap the lawyer -- and other fun games
Who says lawyers are no fun? Check out zap the lawyers, a game where your goal is to protect your new dot-com from the "suits." When you finish that, try Beware: Lawyers at Work, a whack-the-mole style game in which you attempt to hammer lawyers as they pop out of manhole covers. Both games come courtesy of Out-Law.com, the IT and e-commerce consulting arm of the London-based law firm Masons.
posted by Robert Ambrogi at 7:53 PM :: |

 
What hath the patent office wrought?
Find out at Totally Absurd Inventions and Patents: America's Goofiest Patents, where you can see doggie luggage, the cheese-filtered cigarette, the toilet snorkel, and the one I'm going to run right out and buy, the beerbrella. Now here's a site that needs RSS.
posted by Robert Ambrogi at 10:15 PM :: |

 
Vivisimo's 'secret' FindLaw clustering page
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 information, and then organizes the results into a clear and hierarchical folder structure, much like the folders one would find in a Windows directory. Using the FindLaw interface, Vivísimo sends your query to FindLaw, then parses and clusters the search results, making it easier to zero in on the results that most closely match what you are looking for.
posted by Robert Ambrogi at 10:31 PM :: |

 
See you at Indiana Bar's solo and small firm conference
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," marketing small firms on the Internet, and -- guess what -- blogging. Hope to see you there.
posted by Robert Ambrogi at 10:19 PM :: |

 
New guide to 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.
posted by Robert Ambrogi at 5:04 PM :: |