I will be speaking at two events in the next month:
On Thursday, June 11, I will be on a panel at the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Solo & Small Firm Law Practice Management Symposium. I am on the 3 p.m. panel, “45 Tips in 45 Minutes,” together with Rodney Dowell and Alan…
My cellphone pic of this 1843 newspaper is too blurry to read. But in the upper-left hand corner, it bears this notice regarding forms of payment: “Produce of all kinds taken in exchange for the paper.”
This old newspaper was on exhibit at the Cape Ann Museum as…
A former law clerk to Sonia Sotomayor, Jenny Rivera, now law professor at CUNY School of Law, and Supreme Court expert Stephen Wermiel, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and now adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law, discuss the Sotomayor nomination on this week’s…
John Kennard, one of the best photographers I know and THE best photographer of lawyer portraits, alerts me to a not-to-be-missed event this weekend for anyone in the Boston area. It is the first-ever Chelsea Art Walk. John, a principal organizer, says it is “a great opportunity…
I have all the steamy details at Legal Blog Watch.…
The document-sharing site JD Supra will formally launch a new feature tomorrow that makes finding and following information on specific topics much easier. The new addition — already available on the site — is a series of Law Centers that organize documents by topics and areas of interest. These topics are arranged…
This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at the impact of the recession on lawyers and the legal profession.
In the first segment of the program, we discuss the recent rash of lawyer suicides and the problem of depression among lawyers. Joining us to discuss this is
Transactional lawyers are the target users of a new Web site, TransactionSpace, that aims to make the deal-making process more efficient, intuitive and transparent. The site’s tagline sums up its purpose: “You do the lawyering. Let TransactionSpace manage the process.”
The site takes the three primary steps of a transaction — negotiation, document drafting…
Law.com this week published my article, Get Your Free Case Law on the Web. No sooner did it appear than I received an e-mail from a reader questioning how several of the sites discussed in the article could claim to have U.S. Supreme Court cases from before there was a Supreme Court. In…
My post earlier today, New Tool Jumps to Right Windows Folder, contained a type in the code for the download key. I’ve corrected the post to reflect the correct key, which is: ll908384573. (It should start with the letters “ll” not the numbers “11”.…
Last year, in a post entitled, Take Control of Your Outlook Inbox, I wrote about a San Francisco company, TechHit, and its three simple Outlook add-ons for cutting down on e-mail clutter: SimplyFile, EZDetach and MessageSave. Today, the company is releasing the public beta…
I wrote last week at Legal Blog Watch about the sad news of the suicide of Francis J. D’Eramo, a Superior Court judge in the U.S. Virgin Islands (where I am an inactive member of the bar). A memorial fund has now been established for the benefit of his children. Anyone wishing to contribute…
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