Robert Ambrogi BlogThe Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program (LOMAP) is hosting a free, one-hour webinar this Friday, April 29, at noon, at which I will present on “The Power of Social Media.” Full details available here.…
Casemaker Prepares to Roll Out Major Upgrade of its Interface
In close to 20 years of writing about legal technology and the Web, one article of mine stands head and shoulders above all others for the impassioned feedback I received. That article was my head-to-head review of Casemaker vs. Fastcase, the two legal research services that market themselves to…
Blog Seeks to Extend the ‘Enrichment’ of Law School Beyond Graduation
A group of 18 soon-to-graduate Harvard Law School students so fear the approaching loss of “the discussions we’ve had over bagels and coffee” that they have started a blog in the hopes of perpetuating their exchanges, if only virtually. The blog, Just Enrichment, is wide ranging in its coverage. In less than a month of…
‘Free Law Reporter’ Puts Searchable Opinions Online
A newly launched website, The Free Law Reporter, provides free access to a searchable index of recent federal and state court opinions. Developed by the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), the site describes itself as an “electronic case reporter” that makes the opinions searchable and also provides them as ebook collections.…
Maps of My Travels, Courtesy of My Snooping iPhone
No doubt you’ve heard the news by now: Your iPhone is snooping on you, regularly recording data about your whereabouts. My response to this news is similar to David Pogue’s, So what? Of course, there are real forensics implications here, as these hidden files pop up as Exhibit A in divorce…
Courtroom Social Media Lab Readies for May 2 Launch
An innovative experiment that will turn a working Massachusetts courtroom into a test lab for social media in the courts is gearing up to launch on May 2.
Once it starts, most of what happens in the courtroom at Quincy District Court will be streamed live over the Web for anyone to see. In addition,…
Ed Adams Resigns as ABA Journal Editor and Publisher
The editor and publisher of the ABA Journal, Edward A. Adams, announced today that he is resigning, effective May 27. He has been publisher of the Journal since 2006. In 2010, he also took on the job of overall publisher for the ABA, supervising books, periodicals, websites and CLE.
Before joining the ABA,…
Justia Launches Daily Summaries of Court Opinions
Justia today launched a service providing free, daily summaries of federal and state court opinions. The service, daily.justia.com, covers all federal circuit courts of appeal and select state supreme courts. Additional state courts will be added in the coming weeks.
The daily summaries provide brief descriptions of each decision and are tagged…
Bar Suspends Law Clerk Who Sold Term Papers
In a post I wrote in November 2009 at Legal Blog Watch, Appeals Court Lawyer ‘Traffics’ in Term Papers, I told you about Damian R. Bonazzoli, then a senior staff attorney for the Massachusetts Appeals Court who advertised himself on Craigslist as available to write term papers for a fee, even though it is against…
Thanks to Adobe for Fixing my Problem with Acrobat X
Just a few days ago, I titled a post here, Maybe I Need to Give Up on Adobe Acrobat X Pro. As I explained there and in an earlier post, I was never able to install and run Adobe Acrobat X Pro. Try as I might, it crashed every time I tried to…