Articles Posted in August, 2008

Here are some of the new legal blogs that I have come across recently:…

A new Web site, Mygazines.com, encourages users to upload PDFs of entire magazines in order to share them with others. Apparently, the site’s founder never bothered to consult with a copyright lawyer before launching his new venture.

“It’s pretty hard to see how it’s anything other than a straightforward set of copyright violations,”

Several bloggers are talking today about a blog post saying that FindLaw violated Google’s guidelines by selling links. That post accused FindLaw of scamming customers. My reaction was: Is this the pot calling the kettle black?

The blog post comes from a site called GetLawyerLeads.com. This is a company that creates shell…

Legendary trial lawyer Gerry Spence is our special guest this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Spence came to national prominence for handling the Karen Silkwood case and was most recently in the news for winning an acquittal for Michigan lawyer Geoffrey Fieger. He has…

Law.com today published Social Networking: For Lawyers Only? This is the second installment in my two-part look at social and professional networking sites for lawyers. The first part, published in June, is available here. This second part focuses on networking sites designed specifically for legal professionals. See also my review last week…

A new Web site for pairing consumers with attorneys will be rolled out at the American Bar Association annual meeting in New York this week, although it will not formally launch to consumers until September. Called WhoCanISue.com, it is being developed by a Florida lawyer-turned-entrepreneur named Curtis Wolfe. The site is not yet operating,…