Articles Posted in October, 2009

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we try to sort fact from fiction regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s new guidelines on product endorsements and reviews by bloggers. The FTC wants bloggers to disclose free products or payments they receive from companies for reviewing their products. How far do the guidelines reach, what…

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The business-news network Bloomberg will launch a new legal research service later this month, Bloomberg Law, to compete head-on with those other giants of legal research, Westlaw and LexisNexis. I have more details about this in a post today at Legal Blog Watch: Bloomberg Takes on Wexis With New Research…

Back when I was a young journalism student, I handed in a story that said someone had “passed away.” My journalism professor nearly … well … killed me. “Pass away,” he bellowed, “is a weak euphemism used by those who let their discomfort with death get in the way of their reporting on it.” …

Here is the Social Media Copyright Quiz I presented at the recent program, Social Media: Risks and Rewards. A larger-format version of the presentation is available here.

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The editor of Blawg Review keeps his identity a secret. In this exclusive photo, LawSites finally reveals his face.

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Over the summer, I wrote a review (also here) comparing Casemaker and Fastcase. Each of these legal research services markets itself as a member benefit to state and local bar associations. In my review, I said that “both are worthwhile services with many similarities.” But I gave Fastcase the edge for…

In a June 2008 post here, I previewed the beta version of Clio, a Web-based practice management tool. One year ago today, it came out of beta with the release of its full version, which I picked as one of 10 tech stars at LegalTech NYC.

To mark its anniversary today, Clio…