Articles Posted in November, 2006

Results of the July 2006 New York bar exam are posted today at New York Lawyer.…

A new search engine for legal blogs was introduced in beta today and will be officially unveiled in the next day or two. Called BlawgSearch, it was created by Tim Stanley and his team at Justia. BlawgSearch currently indexes some 600 blawgs, with “many more” to be added, Stanley said. The emphasis so…

Adobe Systems today introduced a new service that should be of interest to lawyers in firms of any size. Called the Adobe Document Center, it is a secure, hosted service for sharing documents in Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel formats. It allows you to control who has access to your documents,…

If you think You Tube is the only game in town for video searching online, think again. This article, Video Search Made the Internet Star, from SearchEngineWatch, provides a round-up of sites for searching videos, including meta-searchers and video hosting sites.…

Great news. An e-mail I received today informs me that this blog has been selected for the “Feaured law blog Award” (their spelling, not mine) on a site called BreakingLegalNews.com. Funny thing is, the award-giver apparently selected my blog without knowing anything about it, because in order to accept, I have to tell them…

Be sure to read this page: Known Issues for Blogger in Beta.

I mentioned some earlier today. Here’s another: The handy little BlogThis! button on the Google toolbar does not work with the “upgraded” Blogger. This is the button that lets you easily blog about a Web page, opening a pop-up editing window with…

I am having RSS problems since switching last night to the “upgraded” Blogger beta. I can read my feed using FeedDemon, but I’ve had trouble with other RSS readers. IE 7 will not display the feed at all and returns an error message. Bloglines won’t update to posts added subsequent to the upgrade.

So,…

If you subscribe to my RSS feed, please excuse the flood of items this morning. I switched last night to Blogger Beta, and apparently the first time publishing with the new system resends the most recent 25 posts. Much to my surprise, this included drafts not ready for publication — in fact, they were…

Over at LawTunes, lawyer Lawrence Savell has just released his third CD of humorous holiday music with a legal theme. The latest CD, “Merry Lexmas From the Lawtunes,” join Savell’s two earlier compilations, “Legal Holidaze” and “The Lawyer’s Holiday Humor Album.” From the announcement:

The 15 songs on the new holiday CD continue

From today’s Chicago Tribune:

“The marketing potential, whether explicit or not, of law-related blogs–or ‘blawgs’ as some attorneys have come to call their online journals–is raising some tricky ethical questions for the profession, which regulates lawyer advertising.

“Those issues have come to the forefront in recent months, after ethics monitors in Kentucky found

With major upgrades released for Internet Explorer and Firefox, which should get your vote this election day? I offer my opinion in an article today on Law.com’s Legal Technology Center, Cast Your Browser Vote: Firefox 2.0 or IE 7?…

I’m talking about my poll seeking your picks of the top legal blog. Details here, or simply fill out the form to the right.…