Law.com today published my Law Technology News review of Solo Practice University, a website that offers a mix of practical legal-education courses and professional networking targeted at solo and small-firm lawyers. Here’s the summary of my opinion:
…Overall, I was impressed. SPU offers a varied selection of practical courses taught by an accomplished
Fast Company has published its list of the 100 most creative people in business. One of those 100 people is Lisa Stone, who gave up writing a legal blog to found and run BlogHer, thereby earning her place on this list.
BlogHer is a publishing and events network for women…
Until yesterday, the URL www.electronicdiscoveryblog.com led to a blog on e-discovery law written by lawyer W. Lawrence Wescott II. Today, that blog is gone. Wescott took it down after a lawyer from LexisNexis threatened legal action over a claimed unauthorized use of LexisNexis cases. The blog was among the…
It now seems almost ludicrous. But until fairly recently, legal publishing giant West claimed that it owned the copyright to federal court decisions. I’m not talking about the headnotes West writes or the key numbering it adds, I’m talking about basic information such as the name of the case, the date of the case, the…
I am a bit behind the curve in writing about The Law Street Journal, a Web site and blog created for law students by law students. Launched in January, the site aims to be a comprehensive resource for current and prospective law students.
…This website is geared towards the questions that can only
Now intellectual property lawyers can search and file patents and trademarks, research IP law, and follow IP blogs, all from their iPhone. The new app, Apptorney: IP, released this week, is designed to provide easy access to a range of Internet resources commonly used by IP lawyers.
The app collects and organizes links…
Here is the perfect app for the mobile Supreme Court scholar or for any student of constitutional law: PocketJustice. The app turns your iPhone into a portable repository of Supreme Court jurisprudence, with details about its decisions and its justices and even the audio of oral arguments.
The free version of the app…
I attended last night’s blogger meet-up at Lucky’s Lounge in Boston, held in conjunction with the INTA annual meeting currently underway here in Bean Town. John Welch posted a couple pictures of the event at The TTABlog. In the top photo, over on the left, I’m the guy with the silver hair.
It…
With the International Trademark Association convening its annual meeting this week in Boston, what better time than now to launch a trademarks blog? The new blog is called Trademarks + Brands and it is being launched by the trademark research company CT Corsearch.
The blog is intended to be a resource…
Winners have been announced of the 2010 Burton Awards for legal writing. Given annually by The Burton Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress, the awards honor lawyers and law students “who use plain, clear and concise language and avoid archaic, stilted legalese.”
Unfortunately, lawyers qualify for the awards only if they are…
The North Carolina State Bar recently published for comment a proposed legal ethics opinion approving lawyers’ use of cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service. In this week’s edition of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the ethics of cloud computing with two guests:…
Martindale-Hubbell Connected's new front page.
One year after its official launch, the professional-networking site Martindale-Hubbell Connected is preparing to roll out a relaunch, with a new design, new features and enhanced functionality. Well before its official launch, I posted one of the first reviews of the beta site.…
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