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Everyone seems to like a "top ten" or "top one hundred" list. PubSub’s Law List is a ranking of law-related weblogs (aka blawgs.) The rankings change frequently, moving up and down quite a bit, depending on the inbound or outbound links and (I assume) other factors. Still it is interesting to look at the rankings.

Freivogel on Conflicts is not  a Website that will be of interest to many non-lawyers. In fact Mr. Freivogel states in his "Ground Rules for Using This Site," that "[t]his site is not designed for non-lawyers. Indeed, lawyers who have not studied or dealt with conflicts of interest rules for lawyers on a regular basis…

From the great team at Cornell’s Legal Information Institute comes Wex. They label it "everyone’s resource for law learning." Wex attempts to harness the collaborative power of wiki technology into an authoritative online legal disctionary and encyclopedia. If you are not familiar with wikis, you should check out Wikipedia as an extremely useful example.

The recently-launched LooksTooGoodToBeTrue website represents a great new effort to help consumers spot Internet fraud. It includes real-life scam tales, new warnings, and quizzes designed to educate consumers. The Web site is a cooperative effort of the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, the postal inspection service, and several private firms, including Monster.com and Target Corporation.

A new law practice management blog has been launched. It is called The Practice. It is the brainchild of three lawyers–Jonathan Stein of Elk Grove, CA, Shane Jimison of Richmond, VA and Barry Kaufman of Jacksonville, FL. For a blog that has been online less than a month, they have a remarkable number…

Here’s a free site with an interesting service. We know how "reverse" databases operate. In an online reverse phone directory, you type in the number to locate the name of the individual who owns the number. (For e.g. See Anywho.com reverse lookup.)  But a reverse lookup dictionary is a more complex concept. Try the…

Joy London was an early blogger. Her archives on her Excited Utterances blog go back to mid-2002, before many of you had even heard of blogs. Excited Utterances focuses on knowledge management ("KM") within law firms. KM was the big buzz in corporate circles a few years back and still is an important subject for…

It started out as a Website catering mainly to the interests of the legal academic community. Then, with vision and the hard work of a dedicated group of law student volunteer citizen journalists and editors, it grew into a great legal news Website. Now Jurist, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is…

Rarely would I use a beta site for my Website of the Week. But Rollyo is such a clever idea that I wanted to pass it along. A mini-search engine that you design yourself sounds like fun. Well, OK, maybe it only sounds like techno-geek fun. Basically you can collect up to 25 web addresses…