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I gave two presentations at the Rhode Island Bar Association annual meeting June 15. The first, on cloud computing for lawyers, I posted here. Below is the second, “20 Tips for Seizing the Power of Social Media.” The first half covers marketing, the second half covers ethics.

I was interviewed about this question by Melissa DiMercurio at the blog, Legal Technology Observer.…

What’s going on today? First, both CNN and Fox get it wrong on the health care ruling. And then the ABA Techshow blog declares, “ABA TECHSHOW 2007 Begins to Take Shape.”

Five years after the event, it begins to take shape?

That, anyway, was the update that came across the Techshow blog’s RSS…

That is how co-founder Claudio Dunkelman describes his new lawyer-client matching site, LawZam. The site aims to connect consumers with attorneys by facilitating free, face-to-face consultations conducted live via videoconferencing.

“LawZam is like speed dating for the legal world,” Dunkelman, a Los Angeles lawyer, says in a

Now you can get an advanced degree in tax law without ever leaving your desk. Boston University School of Law has launched a program for an Online LL.M. in Taxation, based on the bricks-and-mortar version of its Graduate Tax Program.

From the program website:

Our renowned LL.M. program,

Here’s a sign of the times. This morning, an ad appeared on Boston Craigslist, Virtual Law Firm Seeks Lawyers. For further details, it said, go to www.wenhamlaw.com. Within a short time after the ad went up, the site went down. Visits to the URL…

Here are some recent articles I recommend:

The SCOTUSblog Success Story

I’ve written several times about SCOTUSblog (most recently here and here), which stands out among legal blogs as one of the best, if not…

At the American Bar Association annual meeting in August, the House of Delegates will take up the recommendations of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20. The commission spent three years conducting an in-depth review of whether advances in technology requires changes to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct.…

I blogged earlier today about how Fastcase is disrupting the legal publishing field, providing free access to core legal research materials. In much the same way, Lawline.com has been disrupting the CLE industry. Last year, it began offering

Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal, the founders of Fastcase, seem to revel in disrupting long-held notions of how legal publishing is supposed to operate. For two guys who are in the business of selling legal research, they can’t seem to find enough ways to give away access to core legal…

Here are the slides from the presentation I gave Friday at the annual meeting of the Rhode Island Bar Association.

[Update: See Will Hornsby’s perspective on the Hunter case.]

A three-judge panel in Virginia has issued a decision that is important for lawyer-bloggers everywhere. The panel ruled that  a lawyer has a First Amendment right to blog about his own cases, at least…