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The Madoff Social Network Map
Posted on November 19, 2009To pull off a $20 billion ponzi scheme, you need a broad web of social and business connections. In the case of Bernard Madoff, the network of feeder funds and sub-feeder funds that funneled investors' money his way was particularly complex. For a striking visual depiction of this complex network of funds, check out this interactive network map: <a href="http://orgnet...
Twitter's New 'Retweet' Feature
Posted on November 19, 2009<a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a> has now rolled out its beta retweet feature to most users. Not all of them are happy about it. You will know if you have it when you go to your Twitter home page, where you will find a notice describing the new feature...
Google Gets into Legal Research
Posted on November 19, 2009In a post earlier today at Legal Blog Watch, <a href="http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/11/the-google-gorilla-enters-the-research-game.html">The Google Gorilla Enters the Research Game</a>, I wrote about Google's<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><a href="http://googleblog...
ABA Journal Features 'LawSites' as Blawg of Week
Posted on November 18, 2009We are honored to be the featured blog this week on the <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs/">ABA Journal's Blawg Directory</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh6...
Lawyer2Lawyer: The Impact of Civil Gideon
Posted on November 18, 2009The Supreme Court's 1963 decision, Gideon v. Wainwright, guaranteed that criminal defendants unable to afford their own lawyer would have one appointed at the public's expense. Should there be a corollary right in certain types of civil cases that involve basic human needs, such as when a person faces eviction from a home or the loss of parental rights? California recently made history by enacting a pilot program to appoint lawyers in certain civil cases and other pilot programs are underway elsewhere in the country...
Sponsor the Bar Foundation's 45th Anniversary
Posted on November 18, 2009The <a href="http://www.massbarfoundation.org/">Massachusetts Bar Foundation</a> is celebrating its <a href="http://www.massbarfoundation.org/news/2009/mbf-celebrates-45th-anniversary">45th anniversary</a> this year. I am honored to serve as <a href="http://www...
Help Support the Bar Foundation's 45th Anniversary
Posted on November 11, 2009The Massachusetts Bar Foundation is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year. I am honored to serve as a trustee of this important charitable organization, which is dedicated to ensuring equal access to justice and to enhancing the administration of justice and understanding of the law...
Standard-Times Asks DA to Probe Wareham Meetings
Posted on November 11, 2009From the Standard-Times: The Standard-Times has asked the Plymouth County district attorney to investigate the Board of Selectmen's heavy use of executive sessions in the hiring of a new town administrator.In response, Assistant District Attorney Mary Lee on Wednesday sent a letter to the town's legal counsel, asking for explanations and for minutes of all meetings involved with the search, both public and private...
YouLaw Video Review: Traffic Ticket Lawyer
Posted on November 10, 2009I am on the "back bench" for this Technolawyer review of a law firm marketing video by traffic-ticket lawyer Jason Diamond: <a href="http://blog.technolawyer.com/2009/11/youlaw-traffic-ticket-team.html">YouLaw: Compelling Screenplay Deserves a Reshoot</a>...
Shepardize? There's an App for That
Posted on November 06, 2009It's true. LexisNexis <a href="http://blog.martindale.com/need-to-get-cases-and-shepardize-weve-got-an-app-for-that">today announced</a> the release of its application for the iPhone. It is called "Get Cases and Shepardize" and it lets you, well, get cases and Shepardize them simply by entering a citation...
Lawyer2Lawyer: E-mail and the 4th Amendment
Posted on November 06, 2009Does the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures extend to e-mail and data stored in "the cloud"? Surprisingly, the question remains unsettled in the courts. On this week's legal-affairs podcast <a href="http://legaltalknetwork...
Avvo Readies Roll Out of Enhanced 'Avvo Pro'
Posted on October 31, 2009Lawyer-rating site <a href="http://www.avvo.com/">Avvo</a> will introduce a premium version next week that will enhance lawyers ability to customize their profiles, enhance their visibility in other Avvo sections, and provide them with more detailed analytics...
MassINC Publishes Lawmakers Financial Records
Posted on October 31, 2009Many government documents are designated "public" but are not easily available to the public. <a href="http://www.massinc.org/">MassINC</a>, publisher of <span style="font-style: italic;">CommonWealth</span> magazine, has launched an initiative, <a href="http://www...
SJC To Hear Key Open Meeting Case
Posted on October 28, 2009An important case interpreting the Massachusetts open meeting law comes up for argument before the Supreme Judicial Court on Monday. The case, District Attorney v. Wayland School Committee, presents the question of whether a school committee violated the law when it met in closed session to discuss the performance evaluation of the school superintendent...
Anti-SLAPP Case Comes Before SJC Monday
Posted on October 28, 2009A case that could decide whether the Massachusetts anti-SLAPP statute applies to journalists comes up for argument Monday before the Supreme Judicial Court. The case, Fustolo v. Hollander, involves a libel lawsuit filed by real estate developer Steven C...
Discount for Marketing Strategies Conference
Posted on October 27, 2009As a follow-up to my <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2009/10/law-firm-marketing-strategies.html">post earlier today</a> on the <a href="http://www.abanet.org/lpm/marketingconference/">ABA Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference</a>, I am now able to offer readers of this blog a special "friends and colleagues" discount off the registration price...
Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference
Posted on October 27, 2009Sorry that I will not be able to attend, because the <a href="http://www.abanet.org/lpm/marketingconference/">ABA Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference</a> looks like it will be a great program. Check out the <a href="http://www.abanet...
ODR Cyberweek Starts Today
Posted on October 27, 2009The seminal annual event in online dispute resolution, <a href="http://cyberweek.umasslegal.org/">ODR Cyberweek</a>, kicks off today and continues through Friday. This free-of-charge and entirely online event features an array of discussions, simulations, demonstrations and other activities related to ODR...
Court Denies Order Banning Man from All Women in Mass.
Posted on October 22, 2009Remember former state senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._James_Marzilli,_Jr.">James Marzilli</a>? He resigned from the senate in the wake of his arrest for allegedly sexually assaulting women he approached walking on the streets in Lowell...
Casemaker vs. Fastcase: Another View
Posted on October 22, 2009After publishing my <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2009/06/head-to-head-review-casemaker-vs.html">head-to-head review</a> comparing <a href="http://www.casemaker.us/">Casemaker</a> and <a href="http://www.fastcase.com/">Fastcase</a>, I noted in <a href="http://www...
A 'Top 100' Honor I Can Do Without
Posted on October 20, 2009Today I received two separate e-mails, each purporting to congratulate me for having my blog selected as a top 100 legal blog. Each came from a company that operates a network of legal Web sites that includes Laws.com, NewLawyer.com, Attorney.org, LawSchool...
Gov 2.0: New Sites from DOJ, USPTO, GPO
Posted on October 20, 2009Both the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched significantly redesigned Web sites, each with nods to Web 2.0 and social media. Around the same time, the Government Printing Office relaunched the Federal Register in an updated format...
A Smart Time Capture Tool
Posted on October 20, 2009What did I do today? If you have ever asked yourself that question, you may be a candidate for Smart Time, a Web-based time capture and entry application. Smart Time works in your browser but culls data from all your key applications to provide a detailed report of your daily work...
New Sites: From Research to Pro Bono
Posted on October 20, 2009My latest <a href="http://www.lawtechnews.com/r5/showkiosk.asp?listing_id=3372569">Web Watch column</a> is up at Law Technology News (free registration required). This month's column reviews:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www...
State Bar Admission is Irrelevant
Posted on October 20, 2009That is what I argue in <a href="http://www.legalrebels.com/posts/bob_ambrogi_state_bar_admission_is_irrelevant/">this essay</a>, posted as part of this week's <a href="http://www.legalrebels.com/24hours">24 Hours of Rebels</a> at the ABA Journal's <a href="http://www...
Lawyer2Lawyer: The FTC's Blogger Guidelines
Posted on October 20, 2009This week on the legal-affairs podcast <a href="http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/lawyer-2-lawyer/2009/10/the-ftcs-new-guidelines-the-blogosphere/">Lawyer2Lawyer</a>, we try to sort fact from fiction regarding the Federal Trade Commission's <a href="http://www...
View from Killington Mountain, Vermont
Posted on October 20, 2009<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/m4uHI8XQuisShqQVZFFUkw?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_iHYDAo93tQY/StaAvesBRwI/AAAAAAAAF-I/tWNrQb8j6Yo/s400/IMG_4685.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="http://picasaweb...
Taftsville, Vt., Covered Bridge
Posted on October 20, 2009<table style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/S41Fs2lCBW7YHP-nod56AA?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_iHYDAo93tQY/StaBp5yExDI/AAAAAAAAF-M/HDXCbpleZlQ/s400/IMG_4681-1...
Bloomberg Readies Launch of Legal Research Service
Posted on October 20, 2009The business-news network <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a> will launch a new legal research service later this month, <a href="https://www.bloomberglaw.com/login.htm">Bloomberg Law</a>, to compete head-on with those other giants of legal research, <a href="http://www...
On the Language of Death: Tiptoing through the Tulips
Posted on October 20, 2009Back when I was a young journalism student, I handed in a story that said someone had "passed away." My journalism professor nearly ... well ... killed me. "Pass away," he bellowed, "is a weak euphemism used by those who let their discomfort with death get in the way of their reporting on it...
Social Media Copyright Quiz
Posted on October 20, 2009Here is the Social Media Copyright Quiz I presented at the recent program, <a href="http://www.corpcounsel.com/socialmedia">Social Media: Risks and Rewards</a>. A larger-format version of the presentation is <a href="http://docs.google...
Photo: Anonymous Blawg Review Editor Exposed!
Posted on October 20, 2009The editor of <a href="http://www.blawgreview.com/">Blawg Review</a> keeps his identity a secret. In this exclusive photo, LawSites finally reveals his face. <br /><br /><table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb...
Casemaker Fights Back Over Loss in Oregon
Posted on October 20, 2009Over the summer, I <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2009/06/head-to-head-review-casemaker-vs.html">wrote a review</a> (also <a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202432654587">here</a>) comparing <a href="http://www...
Clio's Anniversary Edition (and a Discount)
Posted on October 20, 2009In a <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2008/06/new-web-based-practice-management-tool.html">June 2008 post here</a>, I previewed the beta version of <a href="http://www.goclio.com/">Clio</a>, a Web-based practice management tool...
Debt to Town No Reason to Deny Records Request
Posted on October 19, 2009Can a town deny a public-records request on the grounds that the requester still owes money for an earlier request?No, according to a ruling made by Alan Cote, the Massachusetts supervisor of public records. As reported by the Brockton Enterprise, Cote has decided that Rockland Town Administrator Allan Chiocca was wrong to deny a resident's public records request for the reason that he still owed the town payment for past requests...
The Week's Open Meeting Law News
Posted on October 18, 2009Some items in the news this week regarding the Massachusetts open meeting law:A Cape Cod Times editorial calls for the state legislature to put teeth in the open meeting and public records laws. "Pick up the phone and call your state senator and representative...
Podcast: The FTC?s Blogger Guidelines
Posted on October 16, 2009This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we try to sort fact from fiction regarding the Federal Trade Commission's new guidelines on product endorsements and reviews by bloggers. The FTC wants bloggers to disclose free products or payments they receive from companies for reviewing their products...
Jury Verdict in Noonan v. Staples
Posted on October 12, 2009Remember Noonan v. Staples? That was the 1st Circuit decision I described as the most dangerous libel decision in decades. In it, the court upended the bedrock principle of libel law that truth is an absolute defense. It said that even a true statement can be subject to a libel lawsuit if it was said with actual malice...
Under Pressure, Selectmen Meet in Public -- Sort Of
Posted on October 07, 2009The board of selectmen in Charlton, Mass., should be commended for conducting its evaluation of the town administrator in an open meeting. It did not have a lot of choice, as the Telegram & Gazette reports. Complaints filed by the newspaper against the town last year resulted in a ruling by the Worcester County district attorney that the selectmen violated the open meeting law in 2007 and 2008 when it conducted the administrator's evaluations behind closed doors...
Legislation Would Help Save the Paper Boy (and Girl)
Posted on October 06, 2009Massachusetts state Sen. Stanley C. Rosenberg of Northampton said today he would file a bill to help save the jobs of newspaper carriers. His statement followed the announcement earlier in the day that Northampton's newspaper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, and its sibling paper, the Greenfield Recorder, would end their long-standing custom of having boys and girls deliver the newspaper to neighborhood homes...
Web 2.0 Panel at Boston Bar
Posted on September 30, 2009I will be a panelist tomorrow for a program on <a href="https://www.bostonbar.org/ebusiness/Meetings/EventDetail.aspx?ID=3487">Web 2.0 and social media</a> at the <a href="http://www.bostonbar.org/">Boston Bar Association</a>. Also on the panel are <a href="http://www...
Justice Breyer and Me
Posted on September 25, 2009After Justice Breyer <a href="http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/09/breyer-urges-judges-to-engage-the-public.html">spoke Tuesday evening</a> at the commemorative dinner for the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Superior Court, I approached him, hoping for a cell-phone photo...
Legal Blogging: How, Why and What's Next
Posted on September 17, 2009<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.legalmarketing.org/capital/chapter-news/newsletter/capital-ideas-newsletter-summer-2009/image_mini" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www...
When What Happens Online Ends Up in Court
Posted on September 17, 2009An article I wrote for the e-newsletter of IMS ExpertServices, <a href="http://www.ims-expertservices.com/newsletters/sept/when-what-happens-online-ends-up-in-court-091509.asp">When What Happens Online Ends Up in Court</a>, discusses 10 cases where involvement in social media came back to haunt lawyers, judges, jurors or witnesses...
Lawyer2Lawyer: The Legal Rebels Project
Posted on September 17, 2009This week on the legal-affairs podcast <a href="http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/lawyer-2-lawyer/2009/09/inside-the-aba-journals-legal-rebels-project/">Lawyer2Lawyer</a>, we discuss the ABA Journal's <a href="http://www.legalrebels...
Reminder: Discount on Social Media Conference
Posted on September 16, 2009In a post here <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2009/09/discount-on-social-media-conference.html">earlier this month</a>, I told you how you can get a discount off the registration for a stellar conference coming up on Monday, Sept. 21, <a href="http://www...
Resources on Death Penalty Cases
Posted on September 15, 2009As part of its programming to help judges better manage death-penalty cases, the <a href="http://www.judges.org/">National Judicial College</a> has developed a Web site, <a href="http://www.capitalcasesresources.org/">Capital Cases Resources</a>...
Our Interview with the Legal Rebels Tour
Posted on September 15, 2009The folks from the ABA Journal's <a href="http://www.legalrebels.com/tour">Legal Rebels Tour</a> stopped by the <a href="http://www.legaltalknetwork.com/">Legal Talk Network</a> studio today to record an episode of our podcast <a href="http://legaltalknetwork...
Discount on QuickJump Final Release
Posted on September 15, 2009In a post here in May, <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2009/05/new-tool-jumps-to-right-windows-folder.html">New Tool Jumps to Right Windows Folder</a>, I told you about <a href="http://www.techhit.com/QuickJump/">QuickJump</a>, a simple but clever little utility for Windows that lets you quickly find the right folder with just a few key strokes...
Free Site Enables Document Assembly
Posted on September 14, 2009The document-assembly site <a href="http://www.whichdraft.com/">WhichDraft.com</a> enables automatic assembly of contracts and other legal documents. Users start by finding the type of document they want and then they fill them out by answering a series of simple questions...
SJC Hears Fair Report Case
Posted on September 09, 2009The Supreme Judicial Court today heard oral arguments in Howell v. The Enterprise Publishing Co., a defamation case arising out of a series of newspaper articles regarding a town's termination of an employee. The case is particularly important because it could define the scope of the fair report privilege in Massachusetts...
Bing Hasn't Heard of Jerry Lewis
Posted on September 08, 2009Microsoft's new search engine, <a href="http://www.bing.com/">Bing</a>, has an xRank feature that shows the day's most popular searches. So with it being Labor Day weekend and comedian Jerry Lewis hosting the <a href="http://www.mda.org/telethon/">Muscular Dystrophy telethon</a> as he has for as long as I can remember, it makes sense that the name Jerry Lewis is at the top of the day's most popular searches...
Casemaker Previews New Digest Service
Posted on September 08, 2009The legal research service <a href="http://www.lawriter.net/">Casemaker</a> has launched a new case-digest service providing summaries of the most recent cases decided by the courts. Called <a href="http://www.casemakerdigest.com/">CASEMAKERdigest</a>, this initial roll-out of the service covers only state and federal courts in Texas...
Plaxo's New Terms of Service
Posted on September 08, 2009Logged on to <a href="http://www.plaxo.com/">Plaxo</a> today to find this notice regarding its new terms of service: <br /><blockquote>On October 6, 2009, we will move to a common Privacy Policy and Terms of Service across Plaxo and several other Comcast properties...
New Jersey Courts Employ Social Media
Posted on September 08, 2009Thanks to the blog <a href="http://socialmedialawstudent.com/twitter/new-jersey-judiciary-now-tweeting/">Social Media Law Student</a> for the heads-up about <a href="http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/pressrel/pr090818a.htm">the announcement</a> from the New Jersey judiciary that it is adopting an array of social-media tools to keep lawyers, litigants and the public better informed of court developments...
Weekend Special: Free iPhone Law School App
Posted on September 04, 2009A few weeks ago in a post at <a href="http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/08/picking-a-law-school-theres-an-app-for-that.html">Legal Blog Watch</a>, I wrote about the new iPhone and iPod Touch app that ranks the 100 best law schools in the United States...
New Site for Sharing Legal Documents
Posted on September 04, 2009I received an e-mail yesterday informing me of the launch of <a href="http://www.examplemotion.com/">ExampleMotion</a>, a Web site where lawyers can share -- or even sell -- pleadings, motions and other legal documents. Here is what the e-mail says:<br /><blockquote>ExampleMotion...
One Town's 'Secret Government'
Posted on September 03, 2009In all my years of tracking open meeting cases in Massachusetts, this one is clearly in the running for the prize for most outrageous. Reporting in The Salem News, writer Steve Landwehr describes the selectmen in the town of Hamilton as operating "a near 'secret government,' with selectmen privately discussing a wide range of personnel and policy issues that are not exempt from the requirements of the Open Meeting Law...
Discount on Social Media Conference
Posted on September 02, 2009<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.legaline.com/uploaded_images/socialmedia_580x1501-783708.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="107" src="http://www...
Three New Web Sites Target Legal Pros
Posted on September 01, 2009<a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/index.jsp">Law.com Legal Technology</a> features my article, <a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202433476930">Three New Web Sites Target Legal Pros</a>...
Watch Your Phone Bill Carefully
Posted on September 01, 2009When I received my most recent Verizon phone bill, I was surprised to see a charge of $14.95 to <a href="http://www.ildteleservices.com/">ILD Teleservices Inc.</a> I had no idea what the company was or what the charge was for. I looked back over my recent bills...
Guest on Law Technology Now Podcast
Posted on August 31, 2009Thanks to Monica Bay for inviting me to be a guest on her podcast, <a href="http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/law-technology-now/2009/08/sea-of-possibility-new-%e2%80%9cuber-search-tools-sneak-preview-of-%e2%80%9csocial-media-risks-rewards%e2%80%9d/">Law Technology Now</a>...
Lawyer2Lawyer: Credit Card Consumers and Arbitration
Posted on August 31, 2009This week on the legal-affairs podcast <a href="http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/lawyer-2-lawyer/2009/08/credit-card-consumers-arbitration/">Lawyer2Lawyer</a>, we look at the controversy over mandatory arbitration of consumer credit-card disputes...
Editorial: Pension board violates Open Meeting Law
Posted on August 31, 2009Editorial: Pension board violates Open Meeting Law — again - EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MAPosted using ShareThis
iPhone App Tests Bar Exam Readiness
Posted on August 26, 2009Earlier this month at <a href="http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/08/picking-a-law-school-theres-an-app-for-that.html">Legal Blog Watch</a>, I wrote about the <a href="http://www.lawschool.biz/">Law School 100</a>, an iPhone app for aspiring law students that ranks the 100 best law schools in the United States...
Lawyer2Lawyer: 101 Year Old Lawyer Jack Borden
Posted on August 21, 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.legaline.com/uploaded_images/JackBorden-771816.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 154px; height: 229px;" src="http://www...
Test, ignore
Posted on August 20, 2009Test, ignore.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3958829-6750299471448701926?l=www.legaline.com%2Flawsites.html'/></div>
Lawyer2Lawyer: 'Crowdsourcing' Patent Reviews
Posted on August 20, 2009The <a href="http://www.uspto.gov/">U.S. Patent and Trademark Office</a> is understaffed and overwhelmed. Could the answer to its problems lie in crowdsourcing the patent-review process? Could crowdsourcing result in better patents?<br /><br />This week on the legal-affairs podcast <a href="http://legaltalknetwork...
Scholar Considers Lessons Learned from Gates-gate
Posted on July 30, 2009We are honored to have <a href="http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Jack_Greenberg">Jack Greenberg</a> as our guest this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer to share his thoughts on the lessons to be learned from last week's arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr...
Text of New Open Meeting Law
Posted on July 30, 2009Contained within Chapter 28 of the Acts of 2009, signed into law by Gov. Patrick July 1, is a major overhaul of the Massachusetts open meeting law. Because the full bill is massive and addresses a range of matters relating to ethics and lobbying, I have extracted the portions relating to open meetings for ease of reference...
An Egregious Open Meeting Violation
Posted on July 28, 2009I constantly hear the refrain that government officials never intentionally violate the open meeting law. When they do violate the law, these people say, it is only because of an innocent mistake. I urge any who believes that to read this report by The Salem News about the Essex Regional Retirement Board...
New Sites of Note, 7.23.09
Posted on July 24, 2009<li><a href="http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/soldier/database/index.php">The Soldier in later Medieval England.</a> This one has only the slightest to do with law but it is immensely cool nonetheless. This new British database provides access to the detailed service records of some 250,000 medieval soldiers who served between 1369 and 1453...
Legal Issues in Health Care Reform
Posted on July 23, 2009As President Obama pushes Congress to reform our nation's health care system, this week's edition of the legal-affairs podcast <a href="http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/lawyer-2-lawyer/2009/07/the-great-debate-over-health-care-reform/">Lawyer2Lawyer</a> considers the legal issues raised by the reform proposals...
Video: Behind the Scenes at Legal Talk Network
Posted on July 22, 2009Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the <a href="http://www.legaltalknetwork.com">Legal Talk Network</a>, the folks who produce the legal-affairs podcast I cohost, <a href="http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/lawyer-2-lawyer/">Lawyer2Lawyer</a>...
A National Database of Freelance Attorneys
Posted on July 20, 2009A new Web site, still in beta testing, aims to connect freelance lawyers and other legal professionals with law firms and legal departments needing temporary help. The site, <a href="http://www.freelancelaw.com/">FreelanceLaw.com</a>, will allow freelance attorneys, paralegals, court reporters, interpreters and other legal professionals to post their qualifications...
More on Casemaker vs. Fastcase
Posted on July 20, 2009Earlier this month, I published here <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2009/07/casemaker-responds-to-my-review.html">the letter I received</a> from Steve Newsom, general manager of <a href="http://www.lawriter.net/">Lawriter</a>, the company that produces Casemaker, responding to my review of <a href="http://www...
Top Five Expert Rulings (So Far) of 2009
Posted on July 14, 2009Halfway through, 2009 is already shaping up to be a year of significant appellate rulings involving expert witnesses. An article I wrote for the e-newsletter of IMS ExpertServices looks back over the first six months of 2009 and highlights the five most important expert rulings handed down this year -- at least so far: <a href="http://www...
Another New Networking Site for Lawyers
Posted on July 13, 2009A new online networking site for lawyers and other professionals, <a href="http://www.hubstreet.com/">HubSTREET</a>, is unusual in that it evolved out of a bricks-and-mortar networking event. The site's founder, <a href="http://www.bizdevsuccess...
Casemaker Responds to my Review
Posted on July 12, 2009In response to my review of <a href="http://www.lawtechnews.com/r5/showkiosk.asp?listing_id=3262694">Casemaker vs. Fastcase</a> published this month in <a href="http://www.lawtechnews.com/">Law Technology News</a>, I received an e-mail yesterday from Steve Newsom, general manager of <a href="http://www...
Legal Issues in Michael Jackson's Will
Posted on July 10, 2009This week on the legal-affairs podcast <a href="http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/lawyer-2-lawyer/2009/07/legal-issues-in-michael-jacksons-will/">Lawyer2Lawyer</a>, we delve into the legal issues surrounding Michael Jackson's will and family trust...
New Sites of Note, 7.7.09
Posted on July 07, 2009<li><a href="http://www.braininjuryfaq.com/">Brain Injury Lawyer FAQ</a>. New York personal injury lawyer <a href="http://www.newyorkinjurycases.com/">John Hochfelder</a>, author of the <a href="http://www.newyorkinjurycasesblog...
Governor Signs Bill to Reduce Transparency
Posted on July 07, 2009Dan Ring, State House reporter for The Republican, has a report on the latest move by the state to cut the public out of public works projects: Measure Will Affect Newspaper Advertising.The kicker is near the end, where Cynthia M. Roy, a spokeswoman for Gov...
Site Aggregates Corporate Legal Resources
Posted on July 06, 2009Every year, the nation's largest law firms produce thousands of client alerts, briefing papers and memoranda on a range of corporate, regulatory and industry issues. What if someone pulled together the links to all these materials and organized them in a way to make them more useful and more readily accessible?<br /><br />That, in a nutshell, is the idea behind the recently launched site, <a href="http://mycorporateresource...
New Sites of Note, 7.2.09
Posted on July 06, 2009New Web sites and blogs of note for legal professionals:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/">Typography for Lawyers</a>. Graphic designer turned <a href="http://www.buttericklaw.com/">civil litigator</a> Matthew Butterick says that for a profession that depends so heavily on writing, legal typography is often poor...
New Sites of Note, 7.1.09
Posted on July 02, 2009New Web sites and blogs of note:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.legalholds.typepad.com/">Legal Holds and Trigger Events</a>, a blog dedicated to cases, insights, developments and best practices relating to the development and implementation of legal holds, writeen by John J...
New Sites Offer Help for Laid Of Lawyers
Posted on July 02, 2009The two major U.S. legal research companies, West and LexisNexis, both separately announced new initiatives and new Web sites to help laid off lawyers as they make the transition to new jobs. I have more details in a post I published today at Legal Blog Watch, <a href="http://legalblogwatch...
In Idaho, A Tougher Open Meeting Law
Posted on July 02, 2009A revised open meeting law took effect yesterday in Idaho. Notably, the bill toughens the penalties imposed on public officials who violate the law. Under the new law:A board member who conducts or participates in an unlawful meeting is subject to a civil penalty of $50...
Head-to-Head Review: Casemaker vs. Fastcase
Posted on June 30, 2009Two legal research services are in a head-to-head competition to win the loyalty of America's lawyers. If you think I'm talking about Westlaw and LexisNexis, think again. This battle is between <a href="http://www.casemaker.us/">Casemaker</a> and <a href="http://www...
I Am Now a COLPM Fellow-Elect
Posted on June 29, 2009I am extremely honored to announce that I have been elected as a fellow in the <a href="http://www.colpm.org/home.asp">College of Law Practice Management</a>. The letter I received from COLPM President <a href="http://www.hollandhart.com/peopleprofile...
Two Opinion Pieces on Open Meeting 'Deform'
Posted on June 28, 2009As I wrote here Friday, the ethics bill passed this week by the Massachusetts legislature had the ironic effect of weakening the open meeting law. Two opinion pieces published over the weekend make this point in no uncertain terms:Hired guns shoot up Open Meeting law, an op-ed by Larry McDermott, publisher of The Republican...
Podcast: Air France Crash Legal Issues
Posted on June 26, 2009On May 31, Air France flight 447, out of Rio de Janeiro bound for Paris, seemed to vanish into thin air. A frantic search for passengers and the black boxes turned up some of the bodies and scattered parts, but no black boxes.<br /><br />This week on the legal-affairs podcast <a href="http://legaltalknetwork...
How Facebook Fueled My Birthday Karma
Posted on June 18, 2009Yesterday was one of my most memorable birthdays ever. And it was all thanks to social networking -- and some amazingly thoughtful and generous people. I was going to write a lengthy blog post all about it, but then Molly McDonough at the ABA Journal <a href="http://www...
MA Lawyers: Free Guides to Data Privacy Compliance
Posted on June 13, 2009As of Jan. 1, 2010, Massachusetts lawyers will be required to comply with the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act, a strict new law requiring businesses to encrypt personal data and adopt written policies for data and file storage. The <a href="http://www...
Sotomayor's Top Five Rulings on Expert Witnesses
Posted on June 10, 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.legaline.com/uploaded_images/Sonia_Sotomayor_6_sitting,_2009-789766.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 135px; height: 200px;" src="http://www...
Top 10 Innovative Twitterers
Posted on June 10, 2009Thanks for Jay Shepherd for including me on his list of <a href="http://www.clientrevolution.com/2009/04/top-ten-twitterers-innovative-lawyers-must-follow.html">top 10 Twitterers for innovative lawyers</a>. And sorry for it taking me two months to realize I was named...
Governor Pushes for Secrecy in Public Contracts
Posted on June 08, 2009An op-ed I wrote appeared in several Massachusetts newspapers this weekend. Here it is in The Eagle-Tribune: Governor pushes for veil of secrecy in government contracts.
Reasons to Get into Journalism
Posted on June 08, 2009The blog GoodMorningGloucester has a video interview with Richard Gaines, a reporter for the Gloucester Daily Times and formerly for the Boston Phoenix. I love what he says about why to go into journalism:"It's a calling. If you enjoy fighting with bullies, if you enjoy fighting with hypocrites, if you enjoy finding people who have inspiring stories to tell...
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Posted on June 04, 2009I will be speaking at two events in the next month:<br /><br />On Thursday, June 11, I will be on a panel at the Massachusetts Bar Association's <a href="http://www.massbar.org/for-attorneys/professional-development/continuing-legal-education/cle-programs?p=985">Solo & Small Firm Law Practice Management Symposium</a>...
L2L: College Athletes vs. EA Sports and NCAA
Posted on June 04, 2009This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we consider the class-action lawsuit filed by college football and basketball players against EA Sports and the NCAA. The lawsuit claims that electronic games unlawfully appropriate the likenesses of these student athletes...
A Different Business Model for Newspapers?
Posted on June 02, 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.legaline.com/uploaded_images/PIC-0020-740260.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 452px; height: 339px;" src="http://www...
Podcast: The Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor
Posted on June 02, 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.legaline.com/uploaded_images/L2L_2009_300x300-762404.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 105px;" src="http://www...
This Weekend: Chelsea Art Walk
Posted on May 29, 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.legaline.com/uploaded_images/awlogo-771974.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 71px;" src="http://www...
A Titillating Tell-All for Small-Firm Lawyers
Posted on May 29, 2009I have all the steamy details at <a href="http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/05/a-tellall-book-for-smallfirm-lawyers.html">Legal Blog Watch</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger...
JD Supra Unveils 'Law Centers'
Posted on May 26, 2009The document-sharing site <a href="http://www.jdsupra.com/">JD Supra</a> will formally launch a new feature tomorrow that makes finding and following information on specific topics much easier. The new addition -- already available on the site -- is a series of <a href="http://www...
From Suicides to Layoffs: The Impact of the Recession on Lawyers
Posted on May 22, 2009This week on the legal affairs podcast <a href="http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/lawyer-2-lawyer/">Lawyer2Lawyer</a>, we look at the <a href="http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/lawyer-2-lawyer/2009/05/the-impact-of-the-recession-on-law-firms-and-lawyers/">impact of the recession on lawyers</a> and the legal profession...
New Site Manages the Deal-making Process
Posted on May 21, 2009Transactional lawyers are the target users of a new Web site, <a href="https://www.transactionspace.com/">TransactionSpace</a>, that aims to make the deal-making process more efficient, intuitive and transparent. The site's tagline sums up its purpose: "You do the lawyering...
Free Case Law - and a History Lesson
Posted on May 16, 2009<a href="http://www.law.com/">Law.com</a> this week published my article, <a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202430593400">Get Your Free Case Law on the Web</a>. No sooner did it appear than I received an e-mail from a reader questioning how several of the sites discussed in the article could claim to have U...
QuickJump: Correcting the Download Code
Posted on May 14, 2009My post earlier today, <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2009/05/new-tool-jumps-to-right-windows-folder.html">New Tool Jumps to Right Windows Folder</a>, contained a type in the code for the download key. I've corrected the post to reflect the correct key, which is: ll908384573...
New Tool Jumps to Right Windows Folder
Posted on May 13, 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.legaline.com/uploaded_images/QuickJump_main_window-767729.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 490px; height: 234px;" src="http://www...
10 Sites that Provide Free Case Law
Posted on May 05, 2009Free is good. But free is not necessarily equal. In my latest Web Watch column for <a href="http://www.lawtechnews.com">Law Technology News</a>, I review <a href="http://www.lawtechnews.com/r5/showkiosk.asp?listing_id=3184967">10 Web sites that provide free access to case law</a>...
Memorial Fund for Judge's Family
Posted on May 05, 2009I wrote last week at <a href="http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/04/judges-suicide-leaves-only-questions.html">Legal Blog Watch</a> about the sad news of the suicide of Francis J. D'Eramo, a Superior Court judge in the U...
Our Latest 'YouLaw' Lawyer Video Review
Posted on May 05, 2009Here is the latest in TechnoLawyer's YouLaw series of lawyer-video reviews: <a href="http://blog.technolawyer.com/2009/05/youlaw-blake-payne.html">"Aw Shucks" Lawyer Achieves What You Cannot</a>. Gerry Oginski writes the main review and I am one of the lawyers who adds comments as part of the "back bench...
Lawyer2Lawyer: Craigslist's Legal Liability
Posted on May 04, 2009The popular online advertising site <a href="http://www.craigslist.com/">Craigslist</a> found itself in the spotlight recently after a Boston medical student was accused of murdering a Boston masseuse who he met through her advertisement on the site...
Editor's Blog Survives Editor's Layoff
Posted on May 02, 2009One of my blogosphere indulgences is <a href="http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/">You Don't Say</a>, a blog about language, usage and journalism by John E. McIntyre, veteran copyeditor at The Baltimore Sun. But earlier this week, "the grim economics of the newspaper business" abruptly gave McIntyre "an early parole...
Producing your own Legal Podcast
Posted on April 29, 2009Good article from <a href="http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2009/04/27/producing-your-own-legal-podcast/">Lawyers USA</a> on producing your own podcast. Includes comments from my <a href="http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/lawyer-2-lawyer/">Lawyer2Lawyer</a> cohost <a href="http://www...
State Bar Associations on Facebook
Posted on April 27, 2009I am in the process of researching how bar associations are using social media. Here is a list of state bar associations I have found with <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a> pages. Not included in this list are national and local bars...
Bar Association Twitter Feeds
Posted on April 27, 2009I have been researching how bar associations are using social media. One aspect of that is identifying bar associations with <a href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a> feeds. Here is what I have found so far. Please let me know of others. As you will see, some are active, some are not...
Fun Idea: Personalized Legal Cartoons
Posted on April 27, 2009Here is a fun idea for decorating your office wall or sending a gift to another lawyer: <a href="http://www.yournameherecartoons.com/">Your Name Here Cartoons</a>. The concept is simple: Pick out the cartoon you like and have it customized with your name or your law firm's name in the caption...
Bar Associations on LinkedIn
Posted on April 27, 2009Here are the bar associations I have found with pages on <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/">LinkedIn</a>. With the exception of the International Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Associations, I include only U.S. bar associations. Let me know of others that I have missed...
Mount Etna, Europe's Largest Active Volcano
Posted on April 24, 2009Note the lava in the foreground. <br /><table style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/vUkH0G6g2u0-MVaxYOTyxw?feat=embedwebsite"><img style="width: 426px; height: 320px;" src="http://lh3...
Greek theater, Taormina, Sicily
Posted on April 24, 2009Originally built in 300 B.C.<br /><br /><table style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/hL-FJi47-o42oFOuq3PviA?feat=embedwebsite"><img style="width: 414px; height: 311px;" src="http://lh5...
Now on the iPhone: Black's Law Dictionary
Posted on April 24, 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.legaline.com/uploaded_images/BlacksAppscreen1-703172.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 128px; height: 247px;" src="http://www...
Podcast: The Prosecution of the Somali Pirate
Posted on April 23, 2009This week's <a href="http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/lawyer-2-lawyer/2009/04/legal-case-against-a-pirate/">Lawyer2Lawyer</a> podcast looks at the first U.S. piracy prosecution in more than a century:<br /><blockquote>The first prosecution of a pirate in the U...
Track and Capture Time Spent on E-mail
Posted on April 23, 2009How much time do you spend every day on e-mail? As you read through your inbox and write and respond to messages, how much of that time are you tracking? My guess is that lawyers lose track of significant chunks of time spent on e-mail. A new plug-in for Outlook aims to capture that lost time by tracking and recording your activities in Outlook...
The Amalfi Coast, Italy
Posted on April 23, 2009<table style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/TXkM9yAuPckZnodTBb1SYg?feat=embedwebsite"><img style="width: 455px; height: 366px;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_iHYDAo93tQY/SeXtYmU2ajI/AAAAAAAAEww/sAHguKdjhaQ/s400/IMG_4095...
Amalfi, Italy
Posted on April 23, 2009<table style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/okccjWicIcQhEPllKV1Reg?feat=embedwebsite"><img style="width: 466px; height: 351px;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_iHYDAo93tQY/SeXT_Y1jW3I/AAAAAAAAErc/TmkMcxgguFs/s400/IMG_4122...
Positano, Italy, Along the Amalfi Coast
Posted on April 23, 2009<table style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/ambrogi/RomeApril2009?feat=embedwebsite#5324894318823170898"><img style="width: 466px; height: 352px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_iHYDAo93tQY/SeXTK6PzY1I/AAAAAAAAErM/MeKDiT1snbM/s800/IMG_4051...
Rome: The Pope on Easter Sunday
Posted on April 23, 2009<table style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/ambrogi/RomeApril2009?feat=embedwebsite#5324893776089937378"><img style="width: 439px; height: 331px;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_iHYDAo93tQY/SeXSrUaHdeI/AAAAAAAAErE/OcaOyEJBQSA/s400/IMG_3986...
The Pantheon, Rome
Posted on April 23, 2009<table style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/viLtiqj-o5C4A2H0eYijtw?feat=embedwebsite"><img style="width: 448px; height: 338px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_iHYDAo93tQY/SeJN4YnEmJI/AAAAAAAAEpc/M50sMktM1PQ/s400/IMG_3785...
The Coliseum, Rome
Posted on April 23, 2009<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/_06sf_pKeFtfapMsWmvmHg?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_iHYDAo93tQY/SeJKZ4tanAI/AAAAAAAAEoA/Vss_6GrFbuA/s400/IMG_3958.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="http://picasaweb...
Great Series of Techshow Video Interviews
Posted on April 23, 2009At <a href="http://www.techshow.com">ABA Techshow</a> last week, Rob LaGatta and Colin O'Keefe of <a href="http://www.lexconference.com">LexConference</a> recorded a <a href="http://www.lexconference.com/articles/aba-techshow-2009/">series of video interviews</a> with organizers, speakers and attendees...
Library of Congress Launches Blawg Archive
Posted on April 23, 2009The <a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/">Law Library of Congress</a> this week unveiled a <a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/find/web-archive/legal-blawgs.php">Web archive of legal blogs</a>. The library began archiving selected legal blogs in 2007 and now has archives for more than 100 blogs covering a range of legal topics...
Why Bother with Online Networking?
Posted on April 23, 2009In conjunction with this week's official launch of <a href="http://www.martindale.com/connected">Martindale-Hubbell Connected</a>, the professional networking site asked several legal bloggers to be part of a week-long series on social and professional networking...
Martindale's Networking Site Comes out of Beta
Posted on April 23, 2009Last July, I posted one of <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2008/07/exclusive-first-look-martindale-hubbell.html">the first reviews</a> of the beta version of Martindale-Hubbell's professional networking site, <a href="http://www.martindale...
New Legal Site Targets LGBT Community
Posted on April 23, 2009A new Web site launched today, <a href="http://www.legalout.com/">LegalOut</a>, to provide access to legal documents designed to address the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. LegalOut differs from other legal document sites, according to <a href="http://www...
Four Hours of 'Che' this Weekend ...
Posted on April 23, 2009... and look what happened to me. (A <a href="http://www.che-movie.co.uk/">spectacular movie</a> though.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.legaline.com/uploaded_images/che-761840...
A Round-up of New Legal Sites
Posted on April 23, 2009<span style="font-style: italic;">[The following column originally appeared in print in <span style="font-weight: bold;">October 2008</span>. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an <a href="http://www...
Super-Powered Web Sites
Posted on April 23, 2009<span style="font-style: italic;">[The following column originally appeared in print in <span style="font-weight: bold;">April 2008</span>. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an <a href="http://www.legaline...
Social Networking for Lawyers (Part Two of Two)
Posted on April 23, 2009<span style="font-style: italic;">[The following column originally appeared in print in <span style="font-weight: bold;">June 2008</span>. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an <a href="http://www.legaline...
Social Networking for Lawyers (Part One of Two)
Posted on April 23, 2009<span style="font-style: italic;">[The following column originally appeared in print in <span style="font-weight: bold;">May 2008</span>. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an <a href="http://www.legaline...
Tweet 16: 16 Ways Lawyers Can Use Twitter
Posted on April 23, 2009<span style="font-style: italic;">[The following column originally appeared in print in <span style="font-weight: bold;">November 2008</span>. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an <a href="http://www...
Blog Considers Future of Legal Information
Posted on April 23, 2009If you don't know what is meant by "legal informatics," I suggest this quote as an oversimplified definition: "Everywhere, more and more courts, legislatures, and agencies are putting information on the Internet in more and better ways using improved technologies...
How Lawyers Use the Web to Network
Posted on April 23, 2009<span style="font-style:italic;">Chicago Lawyer</span> magazine today has this piece by reporter Olivia Clarke on lawyers <a href="http://www.chicagolawyermagazine.com/2009/03/06/using-the-web-to-network/">using the Web to network</a>...
New Blog Tracks Bankruptcy Cases
Posted on April 23, 2009The <a href="http://www.abiworld.org/">American Bankruptcy Institute</a> and <a href="http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/graduate/law">St. John's University School of Law</a> have teamed up to launch the <a href="http://stjohns...
Mass. AG Launches into Social Media
Posted on April 23, 2009The attorney general of Massachusetts, Martha Coakley, has launched a blog called <a href="http://blog.ago.state.ma.us/blog/">At Issue & In Focus</a>. The <a href="http://blog.ago.state.ma.us/blog/2009/03/at-issue-in-focus.html">introductory post</a> says:<br /><blockquote>This blog is designed to help residents to understand and participate in the work of their government...
Clear Those Business Cards Off Your Desk
Posted on April 23, 2009Yesterday I posted <a href="http://twitter.com/bobambrogi/status/1254930724">this question</a> to Twitter: "Can anyone recommend reliable low cost software to scan biz cards into Outlook (without having to buy scanner/software combo)?" I was trying to avoid a product such as <a href="http://www...
Blog Takes Clever Approach to E-Discovery
Posted on April 23, 2009Thanks to the <a href="http://www.discoveryresources.org/electronic-discovery-community/e-lessons-learned/legaltech-09-bloggers-welcome/">shameless plugging</a> of Frank Gonnello Jr., I learned about the e-discovery blog <a href="http://www...
Lawyer2Lawyer Named Best Legal Podcast
Posted on December 22, 2008For the third year running, a href="http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/2008/12/dennis_kennedys_2008_lawrelated_blogging_awar.html"Dennis Kennedy's Blawggie Awards/a have named a href="http://www.legaltalknetwork.com/modules.php?name=Newsnew_topic=15"Lawyer2Lawyer/a as the best legal podcast...
Lawyer2Lawyer: Brockovich and Girardi on Gardasil
Posted on December 18, 2008Erin Brockovich of film fame and noted plaintiffs' lawyer Tom Girardi are our guests on this week's episode of the legal-affairs podcast a href="http://www.legaltalknetwork.com/modules.php?name=Newsamp;file=articleamp;sid=334"Lawyer2Lawyer/a. Here the description of the show:blockquoteYou may have heard about the Gardasil vaccine for teenage girls, but you may not have heard about the serious side effects allegedly affecting some young women...
Top 10 Expert Witness Cases of 2008
Posted on December 12, 2008I wrote this for IMS ExpertServices: a href="http://www.ims-expertservices.com/newsletters/dec/top-10-expert-witness-cases-of-2008-120908.asp"Top 10 Expert Witness Cases of 2008/a. I read a lot of cases and heard from a variety of sources. Let me know if you agree with my picks or if there are others you would add.
Lawyer2Lawyer: Diversity in the Legal Profession
Posted on December 11, 2008This week on the legal-affairs podcast a href="http://www.legaltalknetwork.com/modules.php?name=Newsamp;file=articleamp;sid=333"Lawyer2Lawyer/a, we look at the state of diversity within the legal profession. Here is the show description:blockquotePeople are making a difference in the legal community...
The Most Important Vote You Can Cast ...
Posted on December 10, 2008... is not this one. But our Lawyer2Lawyer podcast is neck and neck for first place in the readers' choice balloting for best podcast in the ABA Journal's a href="http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs/blawg100_2008/podcasts"Blawg 100/a. We're up against a podcast from some company called LexisNexis...
Sixteen Reasons to Tweet on Twitter
Posted on December 05, 2008Law.com today published my article, a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202426490041"Sixteen Reasons to Tweet on Twitter/a. This is the same article I mentioned last week, a href="http://www.legaline.com/2008/12/tweet-16-16-ways-lawyers-can-use...
Lawyer2Lawyer: The Economy's Effect on UK Law Firms
Posted on December 04, 2008This week on the legal-affairs podcast a href="http://www.legaltalknetwork.com/modules.php?name=Newsamp;file=articleamp;sid=331"Lawyer2Lawyer/a:br /blockquoteThe failing economy is having an impact on law firms, and not just in the U.S. Firms are cutting staff and scrapping bonuses -- and some law firms are even collapsing...
ABA Launches (Buggy) Networking Site
Posted on December 02, 2008The a href="http://www.abanet.org/"American Bar Association/a has jumped on the social-networking bandwagon with a networking site of its own, a href="http://legallyminded.com/"Legally Minded/a. I wrote about it earlier today at a href="http://legalblogwatch...
Two Awards from ABA Blawg 100
Posted on December 01, 2008Two projects of mine, a blog and a podcast, are included on the ABA Journal's second annual listing of a href="http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/blawg_100_2008/"The Blawg 100/a, the editors' picks of the best legal blogs. a href="http://legalblogwatch...
Tweet 16: 16 Ways Lawyers Can Use Twitter
Posted on December 01, 2008Law Technology News has posted my latest column, a href="http://www.lawtechnews.com/r5/showkiosk.asp?listing_id=2807641"Tweet Sixteen: 16 Ways Lawyers Can Use Twitter/a. (LTN requires registration to read articles, but it is free. blockquoteWhen it comes to social media, I tend to be an evangelist...
First Look: Martindale-Hubbell Connected
Posted on November 24, 2008span style="font-style: italic;"[The following column originally appeared in print in span style="font-weight: bold;"August 2008/span. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an a href="http://www.legaline.com/articles.html"archive of my published columns/a...
10 Essential Podcasts for Lawyers
Posted on November 24, 2008span style="font-style: italic;"[The following column originally appeared in print in span style="font-weight: bold;"September 2008/span. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an a href="http://www.legaline.com/articles.html"archive of my published columns/a...
Lawyer2Lawyer: Legal Issues in the Auto Bailout
Posted on November 20, 2008Bailout or bankruptcy for U.S. automakers? On this week's legal-affairs podcast a href="http://www.legaltalknetwork.com/modules.php?name=Newsamp;new_topic=15"Lawyer2Lawyer/a, we discuss the legal and policy issues surrounding a bailout or bankruptcy for the Big Three automakers...
JD Supra Launches Facebook App
Posted on November 20, 2008The document-sharing site a href="http://www.jdsupra.com/"JD Supra/a is launching a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=26217609291"an application/a for a href="http://www.facebook.com/"Facebook/a today that lets its members stream their documents and professional profile information into their Facebook profiles...
My Blog Turns Six
Posted on November 19, 2008It was six years ago today that I a href="http://www.legaline.com/2002/11/welcome.html"launched this blog/a. Right from the start, the best part about blogging has been the people it has helped me meet and the friends it has helped me make. Thanks to all who follow along.
Firm's Site Highlights its Twitter Feeds
Posted on November 17, 2008a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.legaline.com/uploaded_images/jackson-twitter-787309.png"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 151px;" src="http://www...
Lawyer2Lawyer: The Plight of Public Defenders
Posted on November 14, 2008With public defenders' offices in seven states a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/us/09defender.html?blamp;ex=1226379600amp;en=d53c43c58015c0b6amp;ei=5087%0A"refusing to take on new cases/a or suing to limit their caseloads, this week's legal-affairs podcast a href="http://www...
Free Web Makeover for Boston-area Nonprofit
Posted on November 13, 2008I pass along the following from a friend of a friend:blockquoteMakeovers are all the rage, and one lucky Boston-area non-profit organization stands to benefit from the trend. An international group of website designers is looking for a local non-profit that is interested in having its website redesigned -- at no charge...
Join Me at LMA New England Annual Conference
Posted on November 12, 2008I am honored to be among the presenters next week at the a href="http://www.lmanewengland.org/2008annual/index.asp"2008 Annual Conference/a of the a href="http://www.lmanewengland.org"New England Legal Marketing Association/a. My program, on Friday, Nov...
Attorneys Flocking to Twitter for Marketing
Posted on November 12, 2008I am among the lawyers interviewed by Justin Rebello for this a href="http://lawyersusaonline.com/index.cfm/archive/view/id/432177"Lawyers USA piece/a about lawyers using a href="http://twitter.com"Twitter/a.blockquoteThe difference between Twitter and a blog is akin to the difference between a haiku and a ballad, said Ambrogi...
Martindale Listings to Include Chambers Rankings
Posted on November 12, 2008Beginning in February 2009, the a href="http://www.martindale.com/"Martindale.com/a lawyer directory will include rankings and commentary from London-based a href="http://www.chambersandpartners.com/"Chambers amp; Partners/a, Martindale's parent, a href="http://www...
Nominations Open for eLawyering Award
Posted on November 11, 2008I pass along this noteworthy notice:blockquotea href="http://www.abanet.org/lpm/award/jimkeane/index.shtml"The James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering/a is awarded once a year by the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association at the Annual a href="http://www...
Podcast: Wyeth v. Levine and FDA Preemption
Posted on November 10, 2008On this week's legal-affairs podcast a href="http://www.legaltalknetwork.com/modules.php?name=Newsamp;file=articleamp;sid=324"Lawyer2Lawyer/a, we consider span style="font-style: italic;"Wyeth v. Levine/span, the case argued before the Supreme Court last week that raises the issue of whether FDA prescription drug labeling authority preempts a state law product liability claim...
Round-up of New Legal Web Sites
Posted on November 06, 2008Law.com has my latest column, a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202425845155"Tour the Legal Web's New Sites/a, which rounds up several new sites of interest to lawyers.
For the Green Lawyer With Green to Spare
Posted on November 03, 2008The first a href="http://www.dsehybrid.com/"hybrid yacht/a.br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.legaline.com/uploaded_images/DSe_Wind202-738811.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://www...
Martindale's In-Visibility Rankings
Posted on October 31, 2008Here is something strange about lawyer listings on a href="http://www.martindale.com/"Martindale.com/a. I noticed that a href="http://www.martindale.com/Robert-J-Ambrogi/689814-lawyer.htm"my listing/a included something called a "Visibility Ranking," which is supposedly based on "the total number of weekly profile views...
LOC, Google Digitize Congressional Hearings
Posted on October 31, 2008The a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/"Law Library of Congress/a and a href="http://www.google.com/"Google/a have teamed up in a collaborative project to digitize 75,000 volumes of printed a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/find/hearings.html"Congressional Hearings/a...
Article on Social Networking Sites for Lawyers
Posted on June 08, 2008Law.com has my Law Technology News column for this month, Social Networking May Pay Off in the End. This is the first of two parts looking at social networking sites of interest to legal professionals. This month's focuses on sites open to a range of members...
Did I Say That??
Posted on June 08, 2008Interesting quote attributed to me on this not-so-interesting blog: "Jivatma assume this is trekking in passage to breathe perpetual on those vaginal cases that becomes to a degree a pass inward restricting the brevet above this end."Better yet, I am identified as a "preponderance-based figurehead...
Biz Journal: Lawyers Look to Podcasts for Marketing
Posted on June 06, 2008The Boston Business Journal today features this piece, Lawyers Looking to Podcasts as Potent Marketing Tool, that highlights our podcast, Lawyer2Lawyer, and the company that produces it, the Legal Talk Network. The reporter who wrote the story, Lisa van der Pool, is interviewed this morning on New England Cable News about lawyer podcasting...
A Unique Plug for our Podcast
Posted on June 02, 2008This Italian blog, Studenti Inglese Legale, devoted to the teaching of "legal English," recommends that students practice their listening skills through the legal podcasts of the Legal Talk Network. "My favourite," the author writes, "is Lawyer2Lawyer...
West Revamps Its Corporate Site
Posted on June 02, 2008This just in: West today unveiled a major redesign of its corporate Web site and online store, with the goal of making it easier to find and purchase legal information. The site has been given a new look and also a new organization. Users are invited to search for products and services according to the type of organization in which they work -- solo and small firm, mid-sized and large firm, government and education, corporate and nonprofit, law schools and law students...
CLE this Week: Public Law Conference
Posted on June 02, 2008I will be a panelist this week at the Massachusetts Bar Association's Second Annual Public Law Conference. The conference is focused on lawyers who represent government bodies and those who appear before government agencies. The day's keynote speaker will be Suzanne M...
'Beautiful Lawyers' Calendar Seeks Candidates
Posted on June 02, 2008If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then behold the Massachusetts lawyer. Coming later this year to a calendar store near you, the first-ever Beautiful Lawyers calendar will feature 12 months of Massachusetts lawyers and judges, "decked out in glamorous attire and stunningly photographed in their 'natural element...
Using Adobe.com to Embed Documents
Posted on June 02, 2008A nice feature of the new Adobe.com, which I just wrote about in an earlier post today, is the ability to embed documents in Web pages and blog posts. Here is an example, showing the Adobe.com User Guide.
Adobe's Great Leap Forward
Posted on June 02, 2008Adobe today today a major leap from the desktop to the Web with its introduction of Acrobat.com, a suite of hosted services available for free as a public beta. The suite combines word-processing, Web conferencing, PDF creation, file sharing and file storage in a stylish and functional package built using Adobe Flash technology...
The 100 Best Products of 2008
Posted on May 30, 2008Whatever you do, stay away from PC World's picks of The 100 Best Products of 2008. If you're not already familiar with all of these, you could easily fritter away the rest of your afternoon exploring the list.[Hat tip to Al Nye The Lawyer Guy.]
Take Control of Your Outlook Inbox
Posted on May 30, 2008Binge and purge, binge and purge. Until recently, that's been my approach to managing my Outlook inbox. I'd realize the clutter had reached several thousand messages, then spend time over days, even weeks, weeding and filing to get it back down to manageable size...
ABA Journal Adds Blawg Search, Other Features
Posted on May 29, 2008The ABA Journal has added new features to its Web site and also has moved into the social networking sphere. New features announced this week are:Blawg search. The magazine has partnered with Justia.com to create a search engine covering all of the 1,800-plus blogs listed in its directory...
My Posts Today at Legal Blog Watch
Posted on May 29, 2008Here is what I wrote about earlier today in my posts at Law.com's Legal Blog Watch:Same Sex Marriage in... New York?The Lawyer Who Was Dropped From a WindowEven More on the Mess in MinnesotaTwo Useful Guides for Summer InternsThat last item includes information on an interesting podcast series put together by Suffolk University Law School.
Two Podcasts: 'Gay Marriage' and 'New Books'
Posted on May 29, 2008Having never gotten around to blogging last week's episode of our weekly legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, and with this week's now in the can, I have a two-fer to report:The California ruling and the gay marriage debate. On May 15, California's Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in that state, making it only the second state after Massachusetts to recognize gay marriage...
Today at Legal Blog Watch
Posted on May 27, 2008I am posting today at Legal Blog Watch:List du Jour: Law's Most Creative Moments.Memorial Day Blawg Review.The Most Influential Minority Lawyers.In BC Speech, Mukasey Defends Yoo.Federal Judge an Unlikely Blogger.ABA Announces Silver Gavel Awards.
Legal Writing Winners Announced
Posted on May 27, 2008Winners were announced today of the 2008 Burton Awards for legal writing, presented by the Association of Legal Administrators in association with the Law Library of Congress. This year's winners are:Best Law Firm Advertisement: Morrison & Foerster for "Conundrum," June 2007...
The David Lat Fitness Quest
Posted on May 27, 2008By way of Debra Cassens Weiss at the ABA Journal, I learned of David Lat's Project Truman Show. Lat is known among legal bloggers as author of the legal gossip blog Above the Law, where he often delves into other people's private moments. But via his personal blog, he is now promising to expose his own weighty matters and belly up to the privacy bar -- and I mean that literally...
Video History of the Legal Information Institutes
Posted on May 25, 2008The launch of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School in 1992 was the first giant step towards making legal information available to the public via the Internet. A year later, inspired by Cornell's LII, the Canadian LII was born. Today, there are 14 Legal Information Institutes throughout the world...
A New Design for this Blog
Posted on May 25, 2008I got very tired of the white text on dark background I'd had for awhile, so I've switched to a new template. It is based on a Web page design by Andreas Viklund, which was turned into a Blogger template by Carl Galloway, and further modified by me into a three column layout with a few other tweaks...
Gunmen Invade Hospital, Murder Patient
Posted on May 22, 2008This is a horrifying story from The Virgin Islands Daily News, with no coverage that I've seed from the mainland media. Five gunmen forced their way into a hospital, past multiple layers of security, and shot a patient to death in his bed.
Zittrain and Me at Berkman@10
Posted on May 22, 2008IMG_0838, originally uploaded by arcticpenguin.In a post earlier this week at Legal Blog Watch, I wrote about the 10th anniversary conference of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Harvard's "courtship" of Jonathan Zittrain to accept a tenured position on its faculty...
Super-Powered Web Sites
Posted on May 19, 2008Law.com today has a piece I wrote, Super-Powered Web Sites Hit the Jackpot, which reviews Web sites that help you "build memory stronger than an elephant's, have the vision to search across the Web, and develop the ability to communicate from the afterlife...
Legal Channels: Video for Law Firms
Posted on May 18, 2008Law.com and LegalTalkNetwork.com have collaborated to launch Legal Channels, a service that produces professional-quality marketing and informational videos for lawyers and law firms. The videos are produced by Emmy award winning broadcast professionals (these are the folks who produce my Lawyer2Lawyer podcast) and the finished videos are posted on both Law...
My Powerpoint on Russian Courts and Media
Posted on May 11, 2008It was a year ago tomorrow that I left for my trip to Russia. A year later, the trip stands out as one of the most memorable events of my life. After I returned, I gave a presentation in Boston on Russian courts and the news media. I have converted that presentation to Flash and posted it here, should anyone be interested in viewing it...
Lawyer2Lawyer: The Am Law 100
Posted on May 08, 2008Our topic this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer is the Am Law 100, which reports that total revenues for the nation's highest-grossing law firms reached $64.5 billion. We discuss the survey and what it reveals about the state of the legal profession with Aric Press, editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer magazine, and Bruce MacEwen, consultant to law firms on strategic and economic issues and author of the blog Adam Smith, Esq...
OUT-LAW, ABA Journal Win Webbys
Posted on May 06, 2008Winners of the 2008 Webby Awards have been announced, honoring excellence in Web sites in more than 100 categories, and in the law category, the Webby Award winner is OUT-LAW.COM, the IT and e-commerce legal-help site of the international law firm Pinsent Masons...
Lawyer2Lawyer: Case Law in the Public Domain
Posted on May 05, 2008Legal publishing is a $5 billion industry. Now, the portion of that industry that focuses on publishing and selling court opinions is facing a threat from movements on several fronts to put all federal and state case law in the public domain (a topic I've written about here on several occasions)...
My op-ed today on open meetings
Posted on May 03, 2008The Boston Globe today published an op-ed I wrote on current efforts to reform the Massachusetts open meeting law: Open the doors to public meetings.
Updates on Two E-Discovery Sites
Posted on April 30, 2008Updates to two of the sites I discussed in my recent two-part article, "Discovering E-Discovery on the Web" (Part One, Part Two):First, I wrote in the article that DiscoveryResources.org "may be the leading e-discovery portal" and that its Sound Evidence blog, written by e-discovery expert Mary Mack, is "one of the best known e-discovery blogs...
Free AmLaw 100 Webinar Today
Posted on April 29, 2008Aric Press, editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer, presents a free webinar today in which he previews the results of this year's Am Law 100. The 15-minute program begins at 3 p.m. Eastern time. Register for it at this page.
Lawyer2Lawyer: Polygamy and the Law
Posted on April 27, 2008The raid of a polygamist compound in West Texas has raised difficult and troubling issues concerning the interplay between the state, religion and the rights of children, women and families. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, I discuss the events in Texas with two guests: Betsy Branch, a family-law attorney with the Dallas firm of McCurley, Orsinger, McCurley, Nelson & Downing, who serves as attorney ad litem for several children in the West Texas case, and lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer, who has written about the civil liberties aspects of the case at the blogthefreeforall...
Updates on Free Case Law
Posted on April 21, 2008I've had several posts in recent months about various efforts to move caselaw into the public domain and, once there, to make it more accessible. I also had a recent article about this in Law Technology News, Online Legal Research Revolution. Now, some updates:IT Conversations interviews Carl Malamud, the man behind Public...
Instant Legal Bliss?
Posted on April 18, 2008That's what a new Web site, SueEasy.com, promises consumers. But one lawyer calls the site "the worst lawyer idea ever." See my post today at Legal Blog Watch.
Lawyer2Lawyer: The Case for the Shield Law
Posted on April 18, 2008On our legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer this week, we discuss the federal shield bill pending in Congress. I have complete details about the show at my Media Law blog.
Mass. Open Meeting Bill
Posted on April 18, 2008At my Media Law blog, I have this post about the open meeting bill reported out yesterday by a committee of the Mass. legislature. I have also posted the text of the bill. Here are two news reports in which I comment on the bill:Lawmakers ax fines for meeting violations...
Boston Blawger Meetup a Success
Posted on April 17, 2008Amy Campbell has this picture from last night's meetup of Boston blawgers at Emmets Pub. The occasion was the Boston visit of Kevin O'Keefe, president of lexBlog. Among other bloggers who attended were Diane Levin of MediationChannel.com, Leanna Hamill of Massachusetts Estate Planning and Elder Law, Joshua Paulin of Boston Immigration and Nationality Blog, Doug Cornelius of KM Space, Aaron Silverstein and Matthew Saunders of Saunders Silverstein & Booth, Jessica Foley of Massachusetts Driving Laws, and others that I know I am forgetting...
Boston Massacre Trial Documents
Posted on April 15, 2008Recently at Law.com's Legal Blog Watch, in a post titled Massacring the Boston Massacre Trial, I wrote about bloggers' critiques of the dramatization of that trial in the recent HBO miniseries, John Adams. Now you can obtain a less dramatic and perhaps more historically accurate perspective, by way of the Law Library of Congress, which has posted details about its collection of documents related to the trial -- some of which are full text versions in PDF.
Boston Blawger Meetup Wednesday
Posted on April 14, 2008Kevin O'Keefe, president of LexBlog, is coming all the way from Washington state to Boston this week, so the least we can do is get some blawgers and blawgees together to buy him a beer. Our meetup will be this Wednesday, April 16. Tentative time is 6-ish and tentative place is Emmet's Pub...
Lawyer2Lawyer: Law Firms Go Green
Posted on April 14, 2008With global warming and environmental issues plaguing the world, the legal community is doing its part by going green. This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility within the legal profession...
Two New Sites Simplify Life after Death
Posted on April 08, 2008Savvy estate-planning lawyers help their clients prepare for every contingency that may arise after they leave this life. This week brought announcements of two new Web sites, each aimed at simplifying the process of settling a decedent's affairs, even when no estate planning was done...
Hillary Would be Happy With These Results
Posted on April 04, 2008A new search engine, Picollator, purports to search for images on the Web that match images you upload. It uses pattern recognition to look for matching visual objects in other images. In this way, it claims, is helps "find photos of people more easily than any existing text-based search system...
Google Docs to Enable Offline Use
Posted on April 04, 2008The problem with using Google Docs as a word processor is that you have to be connected to the Internet. Not a problem anymore. According to this report in The New York Times, Google will start over the next several weeks making its Web-based software available offline...
More on Avvo's Arrival in Mass.
Posted on April 03, 2008As a follow-up to my post Monday, Avvo Expands to Mass., Florida, here is a report from the Boston Herald: Lawyers Caught in Web of Scrutiny.
Perfect for Lawyers: Gmail Custom Time
Posted on April 01, 2008Ever wish you'd e-mailed that pleading to the court a few minutes or even a few days earlier? Ever regret having missed the deadline for exercising that option? Ever wish you'd e-mailed a birthday wish to your partner on the actual birthday? Never again miss a deadline -- or at least never again appear to miss a deadline -- thanks to a feature launched today as part of Google's Gmail called Gmail Custom Time...
Avvo Expands to Mass., Florida
Posted on March 31, 2008Lawyer-rating site Avvo expands this week to Massachusetts and Florida, bringing its coverage to 60 percent of licensed U.S. attorneys and spanning 11 states and the District of Columbia. Launched in June 2007, Avvo's goal is to serve as a consumer resource by rating and profiling every U...
Even More on 'Duby-ous' Firm Video
Posted on March 27, 2008I mentioned in this March 17 post that I'd been interviewed by Connecticut Law Tribune reporter Tom Scheffey for his article, Duby-ous News?, about the controversy surrounding a law firm's staged news program. Now Law.com Legal Technology has picked up the story.
I Have More EverNote Invites
Posted on March 27, 2008Following up on my post about EverNote beta (EverNote Beta: Never Forget Anything), I have more invitations available. To request one, send me a note at ambrogi-at-gmail.com.
Award Honors Best Legal Web Site
Posted on March 27, 2008The Web site of law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice has been named Best Legal Web Site in the Web Marketing Association's annual WebAward competition. The award judges Web sites using an Internet Standards Assessment Report based on seven criteria: design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copywriting and ease of use...
Searchme: Search Goes Visual
Posted on March 25, 2008I have been testing the beta version of a new search site that delivers results visually, showing pages rather than descriptions of pages. Called Searchme, it is by no means the first search engine to include images of matching Web pages within search results, but I have never seen one do it so smoothly and seamlessly...
Law Firm Launches Fuel Cell Patent Site
Posted on March 21, 2008The law firm Thompson Hine this week announced the launch of a new Web site devoted to archiving fuel cell patents. From the announcement:"In an effort to assist the technical community in the advancement and development of fuel cell technology, the law firm Thompson Hine LLP announced that it has launched a fuel cell patent website containing an archive of U...
EverNote Beta: Never Forget Anything
Posted on March 21, 2008EverNote has long been a popular desktop application among lawyers, who use it to store notes, Web page clips, images, ideas, to-do items and whatever. The "ever" in EverNote came from its appearance, storing all your notes and clips in a perpetual, scrolling tape-like window on your desktop...
Boston's Blogging Judge
Posted on March 21, 2008In a post earlier this week, I noted the launch by the online magazine Slate of a legal blog, Convictions, with an array of contributors drawn from all corners of the legal world. Notably, one of those contributors is Nancy Gertner, a U.S. district judge who sits in Boston and who may be Massachusetts' first blogging judge...
Lawyer2Lawyer: Spitzer and the Law
Posted on March 20, 2008Lawyers considered Eliot Spitzer either a hero or a villain. But as the now-former governor of New York faces possible criminal charges, we explore the case against him on this week's edition of the legal-affairs podcast LegalTalkNetwork. Joining my cohost J...
Slate Launches Legal Blog
Posted on March 19, 2008The online magazine Slate launched a legal blog this week, Convictions, that will provide commentary from a range of legal professionals, including Slate's Jurisprudence columnists Dahlia Lithwick and Emily Bazelon as well as practitioners and law professors from across the country...
Update on Case Law Libre!
Posted on March 18, 2008My post yesterday, Case Law Libre!, pointed to the registration-required Law Technology News version of the article. Today, Law.com posted it on the Legal Technology page, where no registration is required.Also, I heard today from Thomas Smith, the University of San Diego School of Law professor who serves as CEO of the experiment legal search engine PreCYdent, which I discuss in the article...
Case Law Libre!
Posted on March 17, 2008My latest Web Watch column for Law Technology News magazine, Case Law Libre (free reg. required), looks at several recent projects to move case law into the public domain, from Public.Resource.Org to Alt-Law to PreCYdent. Here are the opening grafs:"Feb...
More on 'Duby-ous' Law Firm Video
Posted on March 17, 2008The Connecticut Law Tribune's Tom Scheffey interviews me for his article today, 'Duby-ous News'?, which follows up on a controversy I previously wrote about at Law.com's Legal Blog Watch surrounding a PR consultant's role in a law firm's staged news program...
Lawyer2Lawyer: Paralegals and Law Practice
Posted on March 17, 2008The essential role of paralegals in law practice is our topic this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Joining us as guests to discuss this topic are Tita A. Brewster, president of the National Association of Legal Assistants, and Chere Estrin, CEO of Estrin LegalEd and author of the blog, The Estrin Report...
E-mail Marketing Services Compared
Posted on March 17, 2008Here is a useful feature that compares and reviews the top 10 e-mail marketing services. Top choice is iContact, followed by Constant Contact and Benchmark.
Video: How to Use PreCYdent
Posted on March 12, 2008I recently wrote here about PreCYdent, a sophisticated search engine for public-domain law. Now, the project's CTO, Antonio Tomarchio, has posted this video showing how to use it and comparing it against commercial legal research tools.
Troll Tracker Sued for Libel
Posted on March 11, 2008As I wrote here Feb. 25, efforts to unmask the anonymous author of the Patent Troll Tracker blog ended in the author revealing himself to be Rick Frenkel, a lawyer who works inhouse at Cisco. Now, the Daily Journal newspaper is reporting that two Texas patent attorneys, T...
Westcast: 2008 Legal Technology Trends
Posted on March 10, 2008Kevin Hunt, corporate communications guru for Thomson North American Legal, filmed interviews at LegalTech New York with Law Technology News Editor Monica Bay, Legal Tech Newsletter Editor Adam Schlagman and me. Now he's woven them together in this video about current trends in legal technology...
Lawyer2Lawyer: 'Me Too' Evidence in Bias Cases
Posted on March 10, 2008This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the recent Supreme Court decision Sprint/United Management Co. v. Mendelsohn, involving the admissibility of "me too" evidence in employment discrimination cases. Our guests are three employment lawyers: Michael Ketchmark, from Davis Ketchmark & McCreight in Kansas City, Mo...
Panel Tomorrow in Boston
Posted on March 04, 2008I will be participating tomorrow in Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education's 6th Annual Municipal Law Conference. I am on a panel beginning at 11:15, "Open Government Issues: Public Records and Open Meeting Law," together with Assistant Attorney Generals Lorraine A...
Lawyer2Lawyer: Competence and the Immigration Bar
Posted on March 01, 2008A recent decision of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opened with these words: "With disturbing frequency, this Court encounters evidence of ineffective representation by attorneys retained by immigrants seeking legal status in this country." This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my cohost J...
JD Supra Launches Tomorrow
Posted on February 25, 2008I first wrote in August about the planned launch of JD Supra and then told you in November that it had scheduled its launch for December. Now word comes from founder Aviva Cuyler that tomorrow, Feb. 26, will be the official launch, and this time it looks as if all systems are go...
Troll Tracker Revealed!
Posted on February 25, 2008I recently wrote an article and also a blog post about Chicago plaintiffs' lawyer Raymond P. Niro's efforts to unmask the anonymous author of the Patent Troll Tracker blog with his offer of a $10,000 reward. Well, it worked. On Saturday, the blog's author unmasked himself as Rick Frenkel, a lawyer who works inhouse at Cisco...
Lawyer2Lawyer: The Lawyer Candidates
Posted on February 22, 2008With the Democratic race for president down to two lawyers, how well did the legal careers of Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton prepare them to become our nation's chief executive. That is the topic this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, as my cohost J...
Low-cost Web Sites - Plus Content to Add
Posted on February 21, 2008Legal supplies and services company BlumbergExcelsior today announced the launch of Law Site Builder, a low-cost Web site development and hosting service for small- and medium-sized firms. Using a selection of pre-designed templates, Blumberg will create a Web site of up to 10 pages for a flat fee of $350 and then host it for a monthly fee of $75...
Podcast: Interviews from LegalTech
Posted on February 18, 2008At the recent LegalTech New York, I played roving reporter and, armed with a Zoom H2 MP3 recorder, walked around the show interviewing exhibitors, attendees and show organizers. For this week's episode of the weekly legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my cohost J...
Demoulas Law Clerk Speaks Out
Posted on February 15, 2008Paul Walsh, the former law clerk who was the target of the bizarre scheme that led to last week's disbarment of two prominent Boston lawyers, breaks his silence about the case in a post yesterday at Boston Magazine's Boston Daily Blog. Now working for an international law firm in Hong Kong, Walsh said reading the Supreme Judicial Court's two disbarment decisions "brought back a lot of painful memories...
CT Puts Criminal Convictions Online
Posted on February 14, 2008Via ResearchBuzz comes word that Connecticut now has an online database of criminal convictions, even including motor vehicle infractions.
Fastcase Unveils 'Largest Free Law Library'
Posted on February 13, 2008There's something happening here. Just two days after Public.Research.Org published 1.8 million pages of copyright-free federal case law online (see my post), the company that provided it with those cases, Fastcase, unveiled an even larger free library of cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and legal forms...
Starbucks to Switch to Free Wi-Fi, Sort Of
Posted on February 11, 2008The good news: Starbucks is dropping its Wi-Fi partnership with T-Mobile, which charges $9.99 for 24 hours access, and switching to an AT&T plan that will give Starbucks card holders two hours free a day and AT&T broadband customers unlimited free access...
Martindale Enters the YouTube Era
Posted on February 11, 2008The LexisNexis-owned Martindale-Hubbell law directory announced this week that it is adding law firm videos to its martindale.com online legal directory and its lawyers.com legal-consumer site. One of the first examples is featured on the lawyers.com listing for the Newtown, Penn...
D-Day: 1.8M Pages of Case Law Released
Posted on February 11, 2008The day we previewed here last week has arrived: The non-profit organization Public.Resource.Org today released 1.8 million pages of federal case law free of copyright or other restrictions, in a joint venture with Creative Commons. The release includes all Supreme Court cases and all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 on...
Sighted: Anonymous Blawg Review Editor
Posted on February 07, 2008Life has many mysteries, among them the identity of the anonymous editor of Blawg Review, who for some reason opts to keep his who-abouts and his whereabouts a secret. I was intrigued when he wrote last week that he would be at LegalTech New York and invited e-mails from anyone interested in meeting him...
Federal Cases to Go Public Next Week
Posted on February 07, 2008I reported here in November that 1.8 million pages of federal case law would go public early in 2008 through an agreement between Carl Malamud's nonprofit organization Public.Resource.Org and the legal research company Fastcase. Today, Malamud said the release of those cases is scheduled for next week...
My Video Interview at WestBlog
Posted on February 07, 2008A brief videotaped interview with me at LegalTech New York yesterday is posted on WestBlog.net.
Search Company Acquires Casemaker
Posted on February 07, 2008My Web Watch column this month, Search on Steroids, profiles Collexis, a powerful new search tool making its way into the legal market. The review notes, "The company also is preparing to launch other legal products based on the same search platform, including databases of federal and state case law and U...
New Site 'Recycles' PACER Documents
Posted on February 04, 2008I can barely keep up with the efforts of Carl Malamud and his public.resource.org to "liberate" government documents. (See 1.8M Pages of Federal Case Law to Go Public and More Government Docs to Go on Web.) The latest project: Recycle Your Used Pacer Documents!...
Lawyer2Lawyer: Fun, Sun and CLE
Posted on February 04, 2008CLE providers are linking continuing education with exotic locales, from Paris to Florence to Machu Picchu. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the pros and cons of CLE travel programs. Joining us are Costa Mesa, Calif., lawyer Jamie Duarte, who has been organizing CLE programs in exotic locations such as Machu Picchu for more than 20 years, and Maryann McCool, lawyer and director of CLE Abroad, which has study courses in France, Italy, Spain and other European locations...
Watch Trials Live and On Demand
Posted on February 04, 2008At LegalTech New York tomorrow, ALM and the Courtroom View Network will formally announce the launch of CourtroomLive, a new Web service that broadcasts trials and courtroom proceedings live and on demand."CourtroomLive captures courtroom proceedings to deliver live and on-demand video directly to subscribers' desktops...
West Unveils LegalTech Blog, Podcast
Posted on February 01, 2008Thomson West on Monday will officially announce the launch of WestBlog.net, a blog devoted to covering next week's LegalTech New York. In conjunction with the new blog, West today released a podcast, Legal Blogging: Trends and Tips, in which I was honored to be one of three guests interviewed by West's Gretchen DeSutter, along with Monica Bay, editor-in-chief of Law Technology News, and Ashby Jones from The Wall Street Journal...
The Best Feedreader is Now Free
Posted on January 31, 2008I tried a number of feed readers over the years (for reading RSS feeds from blogs and news outlets) and was never happier than when I discovered FeedDemon. Now, FeedDemon's maker, NewsGator, has taken the price tag off FeedDemon and its suite of RSS readers for Windows, Mac and mobile devices, offering them all for free...
New Online Companion to Columbia Law Review
Posted on January 31, 2008The Columbia Law Review today announced the launch of an online publication, Sidebar, which will serve as a forum for shorter, more informal pieces to complement the Law Review's print edition. The announcement explains: "The term "sidebar" has different meanings in different contexts...
Law.com to Highlight Legal Tech Bloggers
Posted on January 31, 2008With LegalTech New York ready to go next week, affiliates Law.com and Law Technology News today announced a special platform to showcase those who will blogging from or about the Feb. 5-7 event. As many of you know, I coauthor Law.com's Legal Blog Watch together with Carolyn Elefant...
Sophisticated Search for Public Domain Law
Posted on January 30, 2008I wrote here in November about plans by Public.Resource.Org to publish 1.8 million pages of public-domain federal case law sometime this year and its goal of eventually creating a public-domain repository of all federal and state case law. More recently, in an article of mine published on Law...
LegalTech New York
Posted on January 29, 2008If you have not signed up for next week's LegalTech New York, whaddya waiting for? The conference -- Feb. 5 to 7 at the New York Hilton -- continues year after year to be one of the two top annual legal technology events (along with ABA Techshow). The line-up of programs and speakers is impressive...
Lawyers as Bloggers as Writers
Posted on January 29, 2008Thanks to Laura Orr at Oregon Legal Research for including this blog in a pair of thoughtful posts on the art and practice of blogging for lawyers: Blogging for Lawyers and Blawgers as (real) Writers. In the first post, she covers the fundamentals of getting started in blogging...
Get Paid for Job Interviews
Posted on January 29, 2008A new career site that marked its official launch this week is targeted at professionals who are not looking for a new job. In a new twist on playing hard to get, the site's tantalizing premise is that your lack of interest in a new job combined with your stellar credentials will add up to employers wanting to pay to talk to you...
My Posts Today at Legal Blog Watch
Posted on January 28, 2008My posts today at Law.com's Legal Blog Watch:Firm Under Fire for Staged 'News Report'.School Seeks Fees from 'Bong Hits' Plaintiff.2L's Sleuthing Makes Man's Day.Must AutoAdmit Case Admit Defeat?.Mukasey Headed to Law School.
Lawyer2Lawyer: Virtual Law Firms
Posted on January 28, 2008Almost since the earliest days of the Internet, lawyers have been experimenting with virtual firms to increase efficiency and lower costs. More recently, virtual firms have taken on greater levels of sophistication and complexity. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss this phenomenon with the principals of two virtual firms and a business-development consultant...
The Year's Most Notable Legal Sites
Posted on January 23, 2008Law.com today features my recent column, Changing the Online Legal Landscape. Here's the intro:Fire up the Klieg lights and tidy up your tux. It is time to honor the five most notable legal sites of 2007. We focus on the sites that made news or should have made news -- not necessarily the best or the worst, but the ones that most altered the online legal landscape...
Lawyer2Lawyer: Social Networking and the Law
Posted on January 23, 2008This week on our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my co-host J. Craig Williams and I look at the topic, Social Networking and the Law. We have an insightful conversation with three guests who have very different perspectives on the topic: Chris Carfi, co-founder of business-networking company Cerado; Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law; and Kara Swisher, co-executive editor of All Things Digital...
First Woman Jury - And Other Amazing Photos
Posted on January 22, 2008This 1911 photograph of the first all-woman jury is from an amazing collection of some 3,000 copyright-free photos posted by the Library of Congress to photo-sharing site Flickr. With these photos, the LOC and Flickr are joining forces to launch a new initiative, The Commons, to enhance understanding of these photos through public tagging and commenting...
New Blog Deals With Business that 'Divorce'
Posted on January 17, 2008A new blog focuses on break-ups between businesses, particularly in New York. Called New York Business Divorce, it is written by Peter A. Mahler, a partner in the Manhattan office of the firm Farrell Fritz. The blog provides information for lawyers and others on dissolution and other disputes among owners of corporations, LLCs and partnerships.
Today at Legal Blog Watch
Posted on January 16, 2008My postings today at Legal Blog Watch:Of Steamy Sex and Speech in Stalls.Blawgs: A Lawyer's First Reader.Lawyer/Lawmaker Kicks up Controversy.Judges' Guide to Keeping Secrets.
Thomson Enters Social Networking Market
Posted on January 16, 2008The Thomson Corporation, parent of Westlaw, announced yesterday its first step into the B2B social networking market with its acquisition of Boston-based Contact Networks, a provider of relationship management technology for large law firms and other professional-services enterprises...
Webcast Live From Anywhere
Posted on January 15, 2008A new service enables anyone with a 3G mobile video phone to broadcast live video to the Web and archive the video for later viewing. Called ComVu PocketCaster, it works with Windows Mobile and Symbian smartphones (list of supported phones). Literally with the push of one button on your phone, PocketCaster begins streaming video to the Web, either to a ComVu page or to your own blog or other preselected Web page...
L2L: New Books from Elefant, Dershowitz
Posted on January 15, 2008This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we feature interviews with two lawyers who each have new books out: Washington, D.C., lawyer Carolyn Elefant and Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz.Elefant, author of the blog MyShingle.com, is releasing her new book this month, Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be...
ISP Woes
Posted on January 11, 2008Thank you to everyone who pointed out that my Web site and blogs disappeared this morning. Something went wrong with my ISP. The best information I could obtain came from its Web site, which said, "We're currently experiencing issues with customer websites being served correctly...
A Vote for Firefox 2.0 over IE 7
Posted on January 06, 2008[The following column originally appeared in print in December 2006. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...
Helpful Sites for Smaller Firms
Posted on January 06, 2008[The following column originally appeared in print in April 2006. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...
My LexBlog Q&A
Posted on January 06, 2008Thanks to Rob La Gatta at Real Lawyers Have Blogs, the blog of LexBlog, for publishing this Q&A with me.
School of Podcasting
Posted on January 03, 2008[The following column originally appeared in print in October 2006. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...
Zeitgeist to Zillow: A Round-up of New Sites
Posted on January 02, 2008[The following column originally appeared in print in May 2006. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...
Column: Round-up of Recently Launched Sites
Posted on January 02, 2008[The following column originally appeared in print in January 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...
Battle of the Blawging Behemoths
Posted on January 02, 2008Today is the last day of voting for the readers' favorites among the ABA Journal Blawg 100. While my own blog's tally in the vote has been paltry (I'm in the Lawyer's Toolkit section, should you wish to soothe my embarrassment), some others have been rallying the vote with great success...
'Transparent' Search Tool Sets Jan. 7 Launch
Posted on January 01, 2008The founder of Wikipedia has set Jan. 7 as the launch date for his new search engine, Wikia, according to a report in The Washington Post. The site, which is already operating in beta, hopes to challenge search giant Google by distinguishing itself through four organizing principles:Transparency...
Column: What's New on the Legal Web
Posted on January 01, 2008[The following column originally appeared in print in May 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...
Column: Legal Technology Buying Guides
Posted on January 01, 2008[The following column originally appeared in print in March 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...
Column: Food Allergies and the Law
Posted on January 01, 2008[The following column originally appeared in print in February 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...
Part Two: Discovering E-Discovery on the Web
Posted on December 29, 2007[The following column originally appeared in print in October 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...
Part One: Discovering E-Discovery on the Web
Posted on December 29, 2007[The following column originally appeared in print in September 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...
Where There's a Wiki, There's a Way
Posted on December 29, 2007[The following column originally appeared in print in April 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...
The Better People Search Tool
Posted on December 28, 2007Over the last several weeks, I've received several e-mails informing me that someone I know has requested my trust on Spock. Not knowing anything about it, I ignored them until I could find the time to investigate. Today I found the time -- and I am impressed...
More Government Docs to Go on Web
Posted on December 27, 2007Carl Malamud and his Public.Resource.Org -- who I wrote about last month for his project to publish 1.8 million pages of federal case law on the Web -- has struck again. This time, as The New York Times reports today, Malamud is teaming up with The Internet Archive to publish millions of pages of historical U...
Low Cost, High Return Marketing Tool
Posted on December 27, 2007The New York Times makes it official: Blogging?s a Low-Cost, High Return Marketing Tool for small businesses, including law firms. All together now: Duh-uh!
Free Access to Older Mass. Cases
Posted on December 27, 2007Via the Massachusetts Law Updates blog, the Massachusetts Trial Court Libraries announced today the completion of a project to provide free online access to all Supreme Judicial Court and Mass. Appeals Court cases from 1986 to 1996. (Cases starting in 1997 are already available through Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly...
Round-up of Recently Launched Sites
Posted on December 26, 2007Law.com today features my most recent Web Watch column for Law Technology News, titled To Get Noticed Online, Blow Your Horn. It is a round-up of recently launched Web sites, including ones to help lawyers get noticed, keep informed, manage contacts and get research help.
Lawyer2Lawyer Named Best Legal Podcast
Posted on December 26, 2007I am honored to report that Lawyer2Lawyer, the weekly legal-affairs podcast I cohost with J. Craig Williams, is the winner for the second year in a row of Dennis Kennedy's Best of Law-related Blogging Award for Best Legal Podcast. Dennis writes:"This regular weekly podcast of interviews and panel discussions has a new name for 2007, but is once again the clear choice as best legal podcast...
Federal Court Tosses Case Against Avvo
Posted on December 19, 2007A federal judge in Seattle yesterday dismissed the class-action complaint filed by two lawyers against lawyer-rating site Avvo. U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik ruled that the opinions expressed through Avvo's ratings system are absolutely protected by the First Amendment...
Paradise Lost: A Matter of Degrees
Posted on December 18, 2007Yesterday: St. Croix, U.S.V.I., 84 degrees.Today: Rockport, Mass., 14 degrees.
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