On the Internet there is no rule against perpetuities. To the contrary our perpetuation seems assured. Latest case in point: the new Legal Blawgs Web Archive from the Library of Congress. Yes, just as the LOC is archiving all…

Not long ago, I served as chairperson of a tripartite arbitration panel. Near the close of the complicated case, one of the arbitrators indicated he was having trouble understanding the sequence of events. At his suggestion, we asked the parties to provide timelines. They proved extremely helpful in enabling us

The latest issue of Law Practice magazine is focused on “big ideas” and includes my article, As the World Goes Mobile, Is Your Marketing Up to Speed? This is a great issue overall, packed with thoughtful articles by an array of well-known authors, including a cover story by legal futurist Richard…

The main page features a ‘wall’ showing the user’s updates.

Thomson Reuters announced something last week that I cannot think of any other vendor having done in the legal industry – the launch of a social network tied exclusively to a group of products. The Thomson Reuters Elite Community, as it is…

After talking about it for more than a year, Thomson Reuters Elite is preparing to launch Workspace within the next month. Workspace is Elite’s attempt to bring together distinct but related products within an environment where they share a common workflow and a common look and feel, across both web…

I spent a couple days this week at Vantage 2013, the conference for users of Thomson Reuters Elite. The most fascinating presentation I attended there was by Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer at the cyber-security consulting company Mandiant.

Bejtlich painted a terrifying view of…

Legal news company ALM today rolled out a set of apps for iPhones and iPads covering 14 of its national and regional publications.

The apps, which can be downloaded from at.law.com/apps, cover the the following publications:…

Personal Audio and its founder Jim Logan created and patented a technology which, they say, covers podcasting. The Electronic Frontier Foundation calls Personal Audio a patent troll and has launched a campaign to invalidate the patent. We hear from both sides on the latest episode of our podcast, Lawyer2Lawyer.

“This…

History does not bode well for the prospects for success for legal-networking sites. As regular readers of this blog have heard before, many legal-networking sites have been launched over the years, but few have survived. The ABA’s social networking site, LegallyMinded, shut down in 2011 after barely two years…

A lawyer’s offer to barter for a headshot.

A website launched this week, Barterball, enables lawyers and others to barter their services in exchange for other services they may need, such as accounting or website design. The site is open to anyone, not just lawyers, but it was founded…

Feedly works seamlessly across devices.

When Google announced that it would shut down Google Reader effective July 1, it was a double-whammy for me. Not only did I use Google Reader, but I also used a desktop program, FeedDemon, that synchronized with Google Reader. Right…

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Two experts in legal research have developed…