Articles Posted in September, 2003

Law Practice Today, the monthly Webzine of the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Section, introduced a new look and new content this month. I like the new look, and I also like the special focus of this month’s issue — gadgets.…

Yesterday I mentioned Mathew Gross, Howard Dean’s staff blogger. Today, it was announced that he’s

been added as a presenter at the Oct. 4-5 BloggerCon.…

Jeffrey Beard, national practice group technology liaison at Quarles & Brady, Milwaukee, yesterday launched Lawtech Guru Blog. A well-known speaker and writer on legal technology, Jeff will be covering legal technology (of course), mobile devices, strategic planning and law practice management, Web technologies, as well as privacy and security issues and interesting blogging…

As more and more law firms launch Web logs, I’ve wondered whether they will begin to hire writers to maintain them. Along those lines, I found yesterday’s Boston Globe story, A hired gun who muses with fingertips, intriguing. It tells the story of Mathew Gross, 31, the former rock band drummer, Colorado River boatman,…

The Washington Business Journal reports today on the demise of Web sites devoted to providing online legal information in Failed Internet law sites guilty of too much optimism. The article features this quote from Brian Dunn, a professor at Santa Clara State University: “The Web wasn’t really the place for pet food or lawyers.”…

Ron Friedmann blogs a story I wrote for The American Lawyer about the 50 State HIPAA Privacy Study Web site developed by Reed Smith for the Healthcare Leadership Council. The full text of the story, Making Money Online (Finally), is on the Reed Smith site. Ron says: “I think that…

As nations throughout the world increasingly use the Web to articulate diplomatic positions and mold global opinion on international issues, St. Thomas University School of Law has launched Diplomacy Monitor. The site monitors this international output of communiqués, official statements, press briefings, position papers, interview transcripts and news releases from hundreds of Web…

I’ve received some strong opinions on what not to include, but I’m still seeking suggestions on the 10 best legal Web sites of the last 10 years.…

Opinions of Pennsylvania’s county courts of common pleas are not easy to find online. So four county bar associations joined efforts to collect their local courts’ opinions and publish them on the Web. The result is paopinions.org, a database of opinions from Chester, Lancaster, Monroe and Westmoreland counties. Server space is contributed the

E-Media Tidbits points to a recent Forrester Research study that found that only 2 percent of online households go to a Web log at least once a week. Seventy-nine percent of people surveyed hadn’t even heard of Web logs.…

In a provocative posting, ethicalEsq? argues that efforts by bar advocates in Massachusetts to increase their fees — including use of the Bristol County Bar Advocates’ Web site as an information center — may raise antitrust and ethical concerns.…

Dogpile, a meta-search tool that delivers results from multiple search engines including Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves, unveiled a new look yesterday, and SearchEngineWatch.com reports it is structural as well as cosmetic, including the addition of results grouping by category.…