Articles Posted in December, 2008

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, our fourth annual predictions show. We also look back at our track record for 2008. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me is our prediction guru, Stephen L. Kaplan, a partner in the Laguna Niguel, Calif., office of Hicks, Mims, Kaplan & Burns. Listen…

The Washington bureau of McClatchy Newspapers has launched a legal-affairs blog, Suits & Sentences. The blog is written by reporter Michael Doyle, a former Knight Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School and an adjunct instructor in journalism at The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs.…

For the third year running, Dennis Kennedy’s Blawggie Awards have named Lawyer2Lawyer as the best legal podcast. This year, we tied for best with Denise Howell’s This Week in Law. Lawyer2Lawyer also won the Blawggie in 2007 and 2006.

Lawyer2Lawyer was recently selected as a top legal podcast by…

Erin Brockovich of film fame and noted plaintiffs’ lawyer Tom Girardi are our guests on this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Here the description of the show:

You may have heard about the Gardasil vaccine for teenage girls, but you may not have heard about the serious side effects allegedly affecting some

I wrote this for IMS ExpertServices: Top 10 Expert Witness Cases of 2008. I read a lot of cases and heard from a variety of sources. Let me know if you agree with my picks or if there are others you would add.…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at the state of diversity within the legal profession. Here is the show description:

People are making a difference in the legal community. The American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession recently announced their selection of judges,

… is not this one. But our Lawyer2Lawyer podcast is neck and neck for first place in the readers’ choice balloting for best podcast in the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100. We’re up against a podcast from some company called LexisNexis. Ever heard of it? In any event, all of us at Lawyer2Lawyer would…

Law.com today published my article, Sixteen Reasons to Tweet on Twitter. This is the same article I mentioned last week, Tweet Sixteen, that was first published in Law Technology News. The version published today does not require registration or a log-in.…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer:

The failing economy is having an impact on law firms, and not just in the U.S. Firms are cutting staff and scrapping bonuses — and some law firms are even collapsing. Across the pond in the UK, law firms are facing similar troubles. Law.com bloggers

The American Bar Association has jumped on the social-networking bandwagon with a networking site of its own, Legally Minded. I wrote about it earlier today at Legal Blog Watch. As I said then, a bug in the site is preventing me from completing my registration. Fred Faulkner, the ABA’s manager of interactive…

Two projects of mine, a blog and a podcast, are included on the ABA Journal’s second annual listing of The Blawg 100, the editors’ picks of the best legal blogs. Legal Blog Watch, the Law.com-sponsored blog I cowrite with Carolyn Elefant, won recognition in the News category, and Lawyer2Lawyer,…

Law Technology News has posted my latest column, Tweet Sixteen: 16 Ways Lawyers Can Use Twitter. (LTN requires registration to read articles, but it is free.

When it comes to social media, I tend to be an evangelist. But even I could not grasp why so many lawyers were all atwitter over Twitter.