Miscellaneous

Real lawyers should network
Robert Ambrogi has written the first of two articles on social networking for lawyers for law.com’s Legal Technology News. In the first, Social Networking May Pay Off in the End he starts off by saying that “social networking web sites are just glorified directories”...

Webcast on Social Networking for Lawyers Set fro Tuesday, Dec. 9
From West Legal Ed Center: "If you?re a legal professional and you?re not taking advantage of social networking yet, the time is now. Legal blogs, Web sites and publications have been buzzing for months about the benefits social networks offer...

Social Networking Sites Boost Business
Networking has always been an important means of building and maintaining a legal practice. With online social networking sites, this is easier than ever before. The Canadian Bar Association reports that: “Social networking sites bring the kind of interaction that lawyers and other professionals enjoy in live business, industry, professional, civic, religious, charitable and [...

"I hate" forums raise legal issues
The Guardian considers how hate groups could expose social networking sites to legal liability: Social networking forums, where users give full vent to their gripes about everyone from gas providers and airline companies to the local bus operator, have caught the eye of media lawyers, who warn that such postings...

Berkeley Conference on Social Networks -- Legal and Ethical Issues
Panels here; description of conference here. I'll be on this panel: Can Lawyers ?Tweet? About Their Work? Confidentiality & Legal Professionalism in the Age of Social Media Lawyers? uses of social media tools and networks raise distinct challenges to the...

Social Networking for Lawyers
My colleague Bob Ambrogi offers the first installment of a two-part series on social networking tools for lawyers at Law Technology News. As Ambrogi cautions, these social networking sites offer real promise for marketing a practice, but like any other...