Another question in my Legal Internet Trivia Challenge was, “Which court was the first to make its opinions available in electronic format?” Here, I messed up in the phrasing of the question. What I meant to ask was, “Which court was the first to make…
The First Law Firm Ever to Launch a Website
Which law firm was first to have a website? I asked this in my recent Legal Internet Trivia Challenge. Congratulations to Edward Granger of Marketing on Trial for providing the correct answer.
So which firm was it? (Drum roll.) The…
Legal Internet Trivia Challenge: Win a Product Key
Update: Nos. 1 and 3 have been correctly answered. No 2 is still up for grabs.
Here is your chance to answer a trivia challenge and win a prize.
In a post here last November, I wrote about Trend Micro’s SafeSync for Business,…
Mass. Ethics Panel Rules on Ethics of Cloud Computing
Read a post I wrote about the ruling here: Mass. Joins Other States in Ruling that Cloud Computing is Ethical for Lawyers.…
Presentation on Social Media Marketing and Ethics
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.
…How Can a Lawyer Develop Expertise in Legal Technology?
I was interviewed about this question by Melissa DiMercurio at the blog, Legal Technology Observer.…
ABA Techshow Blog Pulls a CNN-like Blunder
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…
LawZam: ‘Like Speed Dating for the Legal World’
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
BU Launches Online Program for LL.M. in Tax
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,
A New Virtual Law Firm, Based in Mass.
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…
Podcast: Legal Ethics and Technology: Proposals of the ABA Ethics 20/20 Commission
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.…