Lawyer chat rooms .  I have never had any luck finding a good chat rooms for lawyers and people with questions.  If you find one, e-mail me the link. 

Non-lawyer chat rooms .  See the links page for Newcomer type chat rooms and newsgroups, and instructions for downloading a chat client.

Law newsgroups .   I go to several lawyer newsgroups where questions can be posted by anyone and answered by me or any other attorney who happens to look in.  I  use the nicknames Greyprof and McGyver.   When using the following information, remember that newsgroups open and close, and go private, all the time.  If the following information doesn't work, e-mail me and I'll get you the latest.

My favorite is misc.legal on usenet.  If you are not familiar with newsgroups, and you use Outlook Express for e-mail, go here and register (free): http://news.fu-berlin.de/ then set up a new account in Outlook Express using the password the news service will give you by e-mail, then click this link to get to the newsgroup: news://cis.dfn.de/misc.legal .  If all of that is Greek to you, you can post a question here about newsgroups and I or one of the techies will help: http://communities.msn.com/ComputingSolutionsCenter .
Naturally, you can use any other newsreader and any other news server.

A less active board (in message board format rather than newsgroup) is: http://communities.msn.com/LawandCourtroom/1.msnw