Articles Posted in May, 2013

Below is a screenshot I grabbed from the ABA Journal Blawg Directory. At first glance, it looks like a typical screenshot. But something is different — the hyperlinks are all live. Go ahead, click on one. Do you want to use the same screenshot? Click on the kwout name beneath the screenshot and…

A website launched yesterday claims to be the largest freely searchable database of contracts extracted from the SEC’s EDGAR database. Called Law Insider, it says that it has indexed and made searchable more than 250,000 contracts, ranging from business loan agreements to employment agreements to redemption agreements.

Contracts can be searched…

It has been three years since LexisNexis introduced Lexis for Microsoft Office, a product that integrates the legal research tools of Lexis.com directly within Microsoft Word and Outlook. In the years since, Lexis also 

If you’re planning to launch a blog, you can take either of two routes to get there. One is to pay someone to start it for you. The other is to be a skinflint like me and do it yourself. The do-it-yourself route is surprisingly easy and can result in a blog every bit as…

A new guide to the legal protections available to reporters in Massachusetts was published this week by the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School.

The PDF guide, Newsgathering in Massachusetts, covers core topics related to news…

The Women’s Legal History website is home to a searchable database of articles and papers on pioneering women lawyers in the United States. It also houses the indexes and bibliographic notes for the book, Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz, the story of the first woman admitted to the California bar, written…

The Massachusetts Probate and Family Court, together with the Massachusetts Justice Project and others, today announced the launch of an online resource designed to help self-represented litigants more easily complete court forms in Massachusetts child support cases.

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The free site uses…

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The popular notion of the Web and social media is that, once something’s out there, it will never disappear. The truth, however, is that much of what exists on the Web and social media is fleeting and constantly changing. The website or…

Back in November, I announced here the final episode of our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. After seven years of weekly shows, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I were calling it quits, due to the closing down of the company that had…

I do not usually review consumer hardware here, but I am making an exception for the Sony RDPX200iP speaker dock for iPads and iPhones. I’ve been wanting a new speaker dock for awhile and have researched several popular options, including the highly recommended Bose SoundDock Series II. But the reviews kept leading me back to…

The Third Annual Super Marketing Conference, with a focus on web marketing, is taking place in Boston on Thursday, May 16. The conference is presented by the Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program, the Massachusetts Bar Association, Suffolk University Law School and Avvo, together with a variety of other sponsors.

The…

I read a lot of blogs. I am often impressed by the quality of the posts. Many lawyers consistently write thoughtful, insightful posts about their practices and interests. Even so, I often notice simple mistakes in lawyers’ blogs that can detract from their ability to build readership. Here are five common mistakes that you can…