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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Blog

Posted on February 16, 2010
As long as there are bacteria causing harm to humans, Bill Marler and the Marler Clark firm will be building blogs to talk about them. One of the latest is the Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Blog - you may know it better as MRSA, the drug-resistant staph bacteria. The blog discusses MRSA information, outbreaks, and other relevant topics.

Blawg of the Day - Pennsylvania DUI Blog

Posted on February 15, 2010
As you might expect, the Pennsylvania DUI Blog provides detailed and relevant discussion regarding DUI and related charges in the Keystone State. It's published by the McShane Law Firm, which is located in Harrisburg.

This Week's Issue.....

Posted on February 13, 2010
....of the Internet Legal Research Weekly is available and ready for your reading pleasure.

Blawg of the Day - The Shriver Brief

Posted on February 12, 2010
Here's a blog from the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law - The Shriver Brief is promoting health, safety, and a chance to prosper for low-income people. You'll find a number of topics related to poverty law, as well as a few that don't appear to be so related; child care, climate change, financial protection, food stamps, subsidized housing, asset building, and more.

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Blawg of the Day - Health Care Law Reform

Posted on February 11, 2010
From McDermott Will & Emery comes this timely blog: Health Care Law Reform is designed to provide updates on U.S. health care law developments, and how reforms will affect the health care industry and how stakeholders might respond. You'll find posts here on health IT, life sciences, managed care, reimbursement, and taxes, among others.

Blawg of the Day - Northwest Indian Law & Business Advisor

Posted on February 10, 2010
A niche blog from the Northwest for you today. The Seattle, Washington firm of Williams Kastner publishes the Northwest Indian Law & Business Advisor, dedicated to providing information on debt financing, corporate structure, economic development, natural resources, gaming, and tribal-state and inter-local agreements affecting Indian tribes.

Blawg of the Day - The Policyholder Perspective

Posted on February 09, 2010
Today's blog comes from big firm Reed Smith - The Policyholder Perspective provides just about what you would expect: updates and thoughts on the full range of insurance coverage issues affecting commercial policyholders. The main contributor there is Ann Kramer - she and others are discussing topics including environmental liability coverage, bankruptcy, insurance insolvency, regulation, first party property, and general insurance market news.

Blawg of the Day - Asset Protection Law Journal

Posted on February 08, 2010
The Asset Protection Law Journal helps "individuals and businesses take advantage of asset protection laws." It's published by Kenneth Laino, of the Cleveland firm Schneider, Smeltz, Ranney & LaFond. He's discussing business protection, creditors' rights, domestic asset protection trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, physician asset protection, Swiss bank accounts, and more.

Presentations from your Smartphone

Posted on February 08, 2010
I've never been a fan of giving PowerPoint presentations from my phone - I like more control over the program I'm using to give the presentation. However, with MightyMeeting I might just have to give it another try. MightyMeeting has a different take on the whole "presentation by smartphone" thing: instead of loading the presentation on your phone, you upload it to the MightyMeeting server. You can then send your attendees a link to the file when you're ready to present - but it's actually a link to the presentation that you can control remotely from your phone. When you move slides on your phone, it changes on everyone else's computer. This service is designed more for presentations to remote attendees, but there's no reason why you can't use it for a live presentation, and use your phone as a remote control - you'll need an Internet connection, though...

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Posted on February 08, 2010
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Blawg of the Day - Mixed Martial Arts Law Blog

Posted on February 05, 2010
Here's a niche blog I'll bet you haven't seen before: the Mixed Martial Arts Law Blog covers legal issues surrounding the full contact combat sport. It's authored by David Nelmark, a partner in the Des Moines, Iowa firm of Belin McCormick. He's discussing civil suits and criminal proceedings surrounding MMA, promoters, state athletic commissions, and the Police Blotter, among other things.

Blawg of the Day - The Canadian Business Law Blog

Posted on February 04, 2010
Another blog from Canada today - The Canadian Business Law Blog is brought to you by Shane McLean, a Canadian business lawyer based on Ottawa. He's discussing topics such as business structure, cleantech, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and more.

Is an iPad in Your Tech Future?

Posted on February 03, 2010
Well, after months and MONTHS of speculation, Apple finally unveiled its vaunted iPad tablet computing device. Does it signal a game change in the way mobile technology is designed, or is it just an oversized iPod Touch? Will lawyers use it as device for fun and games, or does it have real application for the legal profession? Those are some of the questions we tackle in the latest episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, entitled The iPad: Gadget or Game-Changer? We had a lot of fun in this episode, and we also briefly discussed the debut this week of WestLawNext, from Thomson Reuters. Give us a listen.

Blawg of the Day - Donna Neff's Law Blog

Posted on February 03, 2010
Donna Neff is a Ottawa lawyer I met last year, when she first spoke at ABA TECHSHOW. She's a lawyer who gets technology, but at her self-titled blog, Donna Neff's Law Blog, she's only talking a little bit about technology. She's spending a lot of time talking about her main area of practice, probate law. Give it a look!

Blawg of the Day - Trade Lawyers Blog

Posted on February 02, 2010
Here's a great idea for a group blog. The Trade Lawyers Blog is a forum for well-known and respected international trade lawyers around the world to share information about international trade developments. Current contributors include Cyndee Cherniak (Canada), Susan Ross (U.S.), and Andrew Hudson (Australia). They're discussing a plethora of trade law issues, including money laundering, anti-dumping, Buy America, export controls and economic sanctions, and the WTO, among others.

Instantly PDF a Web Page

Posted on February 01, 2010
I'm a bit behind in covering this site, but it's such a great idea I wanted to mention it. PDFmyURL allows you to almost instantly create a PDF from any page on the Internet. Just type in the URL of any web page, click the button, and wham! Instant PDF of that page. There are also some advanced options that allow you to format the style of the PDF - landscape orientation, header/footer, table of contents, margins, page size, and more. One thing I really like about this tool, and one thing I'm not wild about: -- PDFmyURL provides a bit of code that allows you to use the tool on your own website. Just insert the code into any page on your website, and a link reading "download this page as PDF" will be created. It's a great way to provide this functionality to your readers without going to a lot of trouble...

Blawg of the Day - Martin Felsky

Posted on February 01, 2010
Here's an electronic discovery blog I hadn't previously heard about - the self-titled Martin Felsky is an Ontario lawyer who now consults on electronic discovery for companies and their firms. Some recent topics he's discussed include Do-It-Yourself E-Discovery, preservation technology, email, and more.

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Posted on February 01, 2010
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Extra! Extra!

Posted on January 31, 2010
The latest issue of the Internet Legal Research Weekly is available now for your reading pleasure.

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Posted on January 29, 2010
Why Amazon won't launch its own tablet, but will use Apple's iPad for Lawyers? - Ernie The Attorney

Blawg of the Day - LLC Law Monitor

Posted on January 29, 2010
The LLC Law Monitor does exactly what its title says - it provides insight and commentary on the law of limited liability companies. Doug Batey at Stoel Rives in Seattle is discussing all things LLC, including dissolution, fiduciary duties, income taxes, operating agreements, piercing the veil, and more.

Blawg of the Day - Fair Housing Defense

Posted on January 28, 2010
Here's another blog from Fox Rothschild. Fair Housing Defense features on and compliance with the Fair Housing Act. It's edited by Scott Badami with two other contributing authors, all from the firm's Blue Bell, Pennsylvania office.

Blawg of the Day - ABS Investor Advocate

Posted on January 27, 2010
The ABS Investor Advocate is published by Grais & Ellsworth, a New York City firm that represents investors in asset-backed securities and other structured instruments. They're discussing such topics as mortgage modifications, securitization, and the servicer safe harbor, among others.

Blawg of the Day - Dallas Divorce Law Blog

Posted on January 26, 2010
Today, a blog from my backyard here in Dallas. The Dallas Divorce Law Blog is brought to you by the firm of O'Neil Anderson, and they're discussing the usual topics you'd imagine in a family law blog - child support, parenting, division of property, and more.

Blawg of the Day - Clostridium Difficile Blog

Posted on January 25, 2010
We haven't featured a food-borne illness blog from the Marler Clark firm in some time, so I'm happy to be talking about the Clostridium Difficile Blog today. For those of you who don't know, c. difficile is a bacteria that causes bad things to happen in your gut - I won't go into details. The blog provides information on outbreaks and how to avoid an infection, among other things.

SlideFinder Helps with Your Next Presentation

Posted on January 25, 2010
I don't know about you, but sometimes I'm preparing a presentation, and I'm completely at a loss about where to begin, or where to start on a particular topic within the presentation. Surely others have done presentations on my topic before - wouldn't it be cool if I could tap into their experiences? With SlideFinder, you can get pretty far. SlideFinder is a PowerPoint presentation search engine - it catalogs publicly available slide decks and indexes them by content. Just type in some words from your presentation, and you'll instantly see other PowerPoint presentations that include those words. Pretty slick. Granted, you can probably just go to Google and type in "[keywords] filetype:ppt," but with SlideFinder, why bother?

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Posted on January 24, 2010
The Blueprints, reference image database, with more than 38000 blueprints, templates, 3/4/5-views and drawings 50states.com - States and Capitals AgEcon Search: Home Free Full-text Online Law Review/Law Journal Search Engine

What I Followed on Twitter this Week

Posted on January 24, 2010
Here's a listing of some of my tweets on Twitter this past week, with links to helpful and interesting articles/sites. -- Best of ABA TECHSHOW: Capturing Quicksilver: Records Management for All That Other Stuff http://bit.ly/4t3tF4 -- Microsoft to Purge User Data on Bing After 6 Months - http://nyti.ms/6LfiRK -- Our latest Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast: From Early Adopters to Late Adopters and Everyone In Between http://is.gd/6C5Oj -- Practice Management and Ethics Issues, Plus Choosing a Litigation Support Vendor http://ow.ly/1nhemN -- The January issue of Law Practice Today is all about ABA TECHSHOW. Check out the articles. http://tiny.cc/c7n9V -- LPM members get discounts on ABA TECHSHOW. http://tiny.cc/BW5Tn -- Is 123456 your password? Might as well make it "HackMePlease": http://bit...

Blawg of the Day - USA Inbound Acquisitions & Investments Blog

Posted on January 22, 2010
Today's blog occupies an interesting niche - mergers, acquisitions and investments by foreign businesses. The blog is logically titled USA Inbound Acquisitions & Investments Blog, and it's authored by Bill Newman in the New York office of Sullivan Worcester.

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Posted on January 22, 2010
Stay away from OpenOffice.org until Oracle shows commitment, analyst says

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