Articles Posted in October, 2010

If you find yourself in the unfortunate position of being fired or laid off from your job and in need of legal advice, there is an app for that — but only if you are in the United Kingdom. The iPhone app, I’ve Been Fired, helps terminated workers understand their legal rights and…

If David Pogue can write a love letter to a camera, I don’t see why I shouldn’t write one to my laptop — or, actually, to a family of laptops, the Thinkpad.

I just bought what will be my third Thinkpad. It hasn’t even arrived yet, so I should be cautious about singing its…

Forty percent of state court judges use social media profile sites, with the majority of them on Facebook. Even so, nearly half of judges strongly believe that they cannot participate professionally in social networking sites without compromising judicial ethics.

These are among the findings of fascinating survey conducted over the summer by the Conference…

This is a good list of 25 business law blogs compiled by the LexisNexis Corporate & Securities Law Community.…

PC or Mac? It is a question lawyers have long debated and debated and debated even more. Now, a survey seeks to put some meat on the bones of the debate, aiming to determine whether there is clear evidence of trend towards Macs within the legal industry.

The survey is being conducted…

In a post earlier this year, I wrote about Onit, the Web-based project management tool introduced as a beta at LegalTech in February. Designed for managing projects of any size, Onit includes a Legal Edition for legal matters and cases. “The beauty of Onit is its simplicity,” I wrote then, not to mention its…

“You don’t own anything until you give it away.” – Ernest Hemingway

It is Pro Bono Week. In its observance, I’ve joined a group of bloggers, organized by Kate Bladow, who’ve pledged to blog about what pro bono means to them. Kate will keep track of people’s posts…

On the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer this week, we follow up on the Wall Street Journal investigation that found that several popular Facebook applications may be inappropriately using users’ personal information. We discuss the legal implications of this with two guests: Kimberley Isbell, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and…

Just south of Boston, in the city where John Adams, John Quincy Adams and John Hancock were born, a somewhat run-down courthouse is about to become a cutting-edge laboratory for social media in the courts.

As I reported here in June, a project called Order in the Court 2.0 was one of 12…

The Wikimedia Foundation, the San Francisco-based, nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and a variety of related projects all built using the MediaWiki software, has started a search for a new general counsel.

The search raises the question of what happened to Mike Godwin, Wikimedia’s GC since 2007. Wikimedia Executive Director

From the Canadian firm Heenan Blakie, Entertainment & Media Law Signal is a recently launched blog that provides information and observations on the newest developments in entertainment and media law. Two members of the firm’s Entertainment Law Group, Bob Tarantino and Paul Chodirker, serve as its editors and several others are contributors.

“Though…

A new website, launched in a beta version last month, seeks to democratize access to source materials of the Constitution so that anyone can more easily research and learn from the history that led to its creation, ratification and amendments. The site, ConSource. represents a major redesign and relaunch of the site of the…