Articles Posted in July, 2004

Now available online is the 30th anniversary issue of Law Practice, the magazine of the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association. It includes an outstanding assortment of writers and articles, including a compelling feature by editor Merrilyn Astin Tarlton, “Lawyer Dreams,” profiling seven lawyers who have made their…

The headline for this post, “Fight spam and win,” is the motto of InBoxer, a spam filter for Outlook. After using it for five months, I’m a believer. InBoxer is amazingly accurate in blocking spam while not interfering with legitimate e-mail. Unlike some spam filters that block specific domains or addresses, InBoxer is a…

On the listserv of the Legal Marketing Association, someone posted this query:

“I’m wondering if anyone can provide me with examples of websites that contain interesting and/or unique attorney headshots.”

The replies offer an intriguing survey of the diverse and unique ways law firms present their attorneys’ images on their Web sites. Among the…

This is a fact: Sales of the second edition of my book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, have surpassed all previous records for sales of the second edition of my book. Better get one before they run out.…

Speaking of Sabrina, she reports that FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell has launched a blog hosted by the AlwaysOn Network.…

If time were my friend — which it is not — it would allow me to get over Tuesday to hear Sabrina Pacifici and Glenn Reynolds preach the gospel of blogging at the AALL annual meeting.…

So no browser is perfect. Read: What Mozilla users should know about the shell: protocol security issue. Then install the patch or download the latest version.…

U.S. Law Schools News Brief is a new Web site devoted to publishing the latest news releases from U.S. law schools nationwide. It includes an RSS feed. The site is a service of St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami, the same folks who bring you DiplomacyMonitor.com, which I wrote about in…

From the New York Law Journal, via law.com, comes Written on the Wind, an article urging caution when citing to the Internet in legal documents. The article is written by Ken Strutin, an attorney and the director of legal information services for the New York State Defenders Association in Albany. “The Internet is…

Jim Calloway, director of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Management Assistance Program, sent me a note about a useful Web resource. His note bears repeating here:

Oklahoma lawyer Doug Loudenback has created a quite remarkable WordPerfect resource and placed it on the web for others to use at no charge. It is called

I am honored to be included among the 50 best blawgs as selected by EDDix, a new research and publishing firm focusing exclusively on electronic data discovery. The listing of best blawgs is part of a beta launch of the EDDix Web site, which features categorized news pages and links to content at…

I wrote an article last year about outsourced legal writing, and, in particular, about one legal writing company, BriefMasters. For that story, I interviewed BriefMasters’ co-founder, Adam E. Quarles, and subsequently exchanged e-mails with him on various occasions. Thus, it was with sadness that I learned of Adam’s death June 5 at the young…