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LTNY 2009: Conference Reports From Legal Bloggers

Posted on February 03, 2009
Bloggers were given free passes to attend LegalTech this year, and prime space with electrical outlets in the front row of every conference session. While there were a few problems with WiFi access, several legal bloggers have managed to post...

LTNY 2009: Blawg Review #197

Posted on February 02, 2009
This presentation of Blawg Review is brought to you from LegalTech New York, where the anonymous editor of Blawg Review is attending in person along with many other tweeps and blawging lawyers who are arriving in droves in response to...

LTNY 2009: Early Reports Say Show Is Packed, in Spite of Economy

Posted on February 02, 2009
The first day of LegalTech New York is typically the most hectic, as vendors scramble to finish setting up their booths in the exhibition halls, visitors wait in line to check in and get their badges and the conference tracks...

LTNY 2009: Twitter Topples Electronic Discovery

Posted on February 02, 2009
It's official: Twitter has de-throned "electronic discovery" as the most buzzworthy term at LegalTech. While the ratio of EDD vendors at the show is still extremely high, much of the talk surrounding the show revolves around Twitter and its uses...

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LegalTech New York 2009 Coverage on Legal Blog Watch

Posted on January 30, 2009
A quick programming note: We'll be interrupting Legal Blog Watch's regularly scheduled posts Feb. 2, 3 and 4 to present our blogosphere (and this year, Twitter too) coverage of LegalTech New York 2009, Incisive Media's annual law technology blowout. As...

Bankruptcy Lawyer Advertising Spike Follows CLE Mad Dash

Posted on January 30, 2009
Total Attorneys Inc., a Chicago-based company that provides services like office management and business development for solo and small firm lawyers, runs a number of practice-specific blogs -- from lemon law to DUI. The sites, which are sponsored by law...

'Economic Hell' and the Billable Hour

Posted on January 30, 2009
Big firm economic hell is upon us, do not pass purgatory, do not collect $200. According to legal marketer Larry Bodine: Two leading advisors to major law firms predicted a declining demand for legal services, a 15% drop in net...

New York Lawyers in Trouble

Posted on January 29, 2009
This week's news brings two stories of New York lawyers in big trouble. First, the New York Times reports on the indictment of New York lawyer Steven Rondos, for stealing over $1 million from the disabled clients for whom he...

Obama Signs Ledbetter Legislation

Posted on January 29, 2009
When Lilly Ledbetter tried to file a claim for unequal pay against her employer after 19 years on the job, the Supreme Court ruled against her her, holding that her claim fell outside the 180-day statute of limitations. While Ledbetter...

Can Blogs Survive Twitter?

Posted on January 29, 2009
Blogging is a conversation, Kevin O'Keefe of LexBlog is fond of saying. But how can you have a conversation if others can't join in through comments? Recently, the editors of popular legal blogs The Volokh Conspiracy and Above the Law...

California Wants Malpractice Coverage for All, Except Heller

Posted on January 29, 2009
For some time, law practice expert Ed Poll has been blogging about the California Bar's efforts to force lawyers to procure malpractice insurance, most recently by requiring lawyers to disclose to clients their lack of malpractice insurance. Poll's primary objection...

To Tweet or Not To Tweet?

Posted on January 28, 2009
The debate continues among lawyers: Is Twitter the greatest thing since sliced bread or a complete and utter waste of time? I weighed in on the pro-Twitter side last month with my article, "Sixteen Reasons to Tweet on Twitter." Now...

A Bunch of Wine-y Lawyers

Posted on January 28, 2009
How do I get a job like this, at once full-bodied and complex? The North Bay Business Journal, a newspaper located in the heart of California's wine country, has published its first-ever listing of "Who?s Who in Wine Law." The...

Hawaii's Proposed Practice Rules Make Waves

Posted on January 28, 2009
It's lawyers versus realtors, accountants, architects, title insurers and a slew of other professions as the Hawaii Supreme Court considers a proposal to tighten the state's definition of law practice. As a matter of fact, even many lawyers now say...

Malia Is Marvelous, Sasha Is Sweet, but Are They Legal?

Posted on January 27, 2009
Michelle Obama may have once been a copyright lawyer, but in criticizing Ty Inc.'s Obama-inspired "Marvelous Malia" and "Sweet Sasha" dolls, Obama was wearing her mom hat, not her lawyer hat. In a recent statement, Mrs. Obama's press secretary asserted...

How the Economy Is Affecting Electronic Discovery

Posted on January 27, 2009
With the economy in a tailspin, what's the future of electronic data discovery? Over at Law Technology News, columnist Craig Ball writes that, like any other company in this recession, EDD vendors are vulnerable to bankruptcy or business failure. For...

Are Ethics Rules What's Killing Biglaw?

Posted on January 27, 2009
Over the past few months, we've seen a stream of stories -- like this one -- on how the the economy is driving law firms to stop billing by the hour because clients can no longer afford it. Even Evan...

Race Matters and Eric Holder's Nomination as Attorney General

Posted on January 27, 2009
Yolanda Young, author of the blog On Being A Black Lawyer, stirred up some controversy in the blogosphere last year with an expos� in the Huffington Post describing her treatment as a black staff attorney at Covington and Burling as...

Former Dean in Running to Lead University

Posted on January 26, 2009
The former dean of Northeastern University School of Law in Boston and former provost of Northeastern University is one of two finalists under consideration to become president of the University of the Virgin Islands. David Hall, now a professor of...

E-mail Scam Still Snaring Lawyers

Posted on January 26, 2009
In September, in a post here entitled, "The Great Lawyer E-mail Scam," we wrote: If you think lawyers are too savvy to fall prey to an e-mail scam, think again. One lawyer who fell victim to it estimates that the...

How Lawyers and Technology Matter

Posted on January 26, 2009
Last month, my colleague in writing this blog, Carolyn Elefant, celebrated the sixth anniversary of her other blog with an essay contest. As she announced then at the blog, My Shingle, she would award an Asus subnotebook computer to a...

You to Heaven, Your Practice to Hell?

Posted on January 26, 2009
In the latest issue of the ABA Law Practice Management Section e-zine Law Practice Today, lawyers Courtney Kennaday and Reid Trautz consider a topic most of us prefer not to think about: "When You Go to Heaven, Will Your Practice...

India Considers Opening Its Doors to Foreign Law Firms, Again

Posted on January 23, 2009
Since 1995, international law firms have been banned from practicing law in India. Though some global firms have tried to establish a presence in India's booming legal market by creating partnerships with domestic firms, the official ban remains in effect...

The Difference Between Clinton and Obama? Their Law Schools

Posted on January 23, 2009
How much of a difference does the law school you attend really have on your career or your life? Plenty, contends Noam Scheiber of The New Republic -- that is, if you're Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. Contrasting the differences...

New York's Advertising Rules and the Problem of Ethics Laundering

Posted on January 23, 2009
You'd expect a personal injury attorney to flatly oppose any restrictions on anti-solicitation rules. But not New York Personal Injury Attorney Eric Turkewitz. In this post, Turkewitz criticizes New York's controversial 2007 advertising rule, which the Second Circuit hears today,...

Jury Slaps Lawyer for Workers' Compensation Malpractice

Posted on January 22, 2009
An injured worker whose workers' compensation claim was dismissed due to his lawyer's negligence will recover after all, thanks to an Illinois jury verdict this week ordering the St. Louis lawyer and her firm to pay him $338,000. The worker,...

The Hearing Will Not Be Televised

Posted on January 22, 2009
"The revolution will not be televised," musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron recited on his 1970 debut album, "Small Talk at 125th and Lenox." Nor will be the proceedings in U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner's courtroom, at least not today. After...

Not Bad for First Day on the Job

Posted on January 22, 2009
President Obama had plenty to do yesterday on his first full day in office, including a precautionary do-over of the flubbed oath of office. But one act he took officially yesterday and another he hinted at leave me feeling as...

Allen & Overy Muzzles Lawyer's Erotic Fiction

Posted on January 22, 2009
One of the world's largest law firms, Allen & Overy, has ordered a senior lawyer in its Moscow office to stop publishing erotic fiction on her personal Web site. A spokesman for the firm told news reporters that the saucy...

Obama's First Hundred Minutes

Posted on January 21, 2009
Obama has been president a little over 24 hours, and already executive orders and policy pronouncements have come streaming out of his office. Initiatives announced today include:-- A pay freeze for White House staffers who earn over $100,000 a year....

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