No, the legal profession is not about to be taken over by automatons carrying briefcases. But an increasing number of lawyers are forsaking their BlackBerrys and iPhones and moving to mobile devices using Google’s Android operating system. And now there’s a blog to help them along the way.

The Droid Lawyer…

In my recent post, Popular Legal Directories, Ranked by Traffic, I looked at how several online lawyer directories stack up in Alexa.com traffic rankings. One comment said that Compete.com, another site that tracks website statistics, ranked the sites in a different order.

So I checked and, sure enough, the…

[See also this follow-up: Legal Directory Rankings: An Alternate View.]

Which online lawyer directories get the most traffic? To find out, I checked Alexa.com, which tracks statistics for all major websites. Based on those statistics, it assigns each site a global rank as well as…

Sitting at a desk all day can kill you. Sitting for prolonged periods, even if you exercise regularly, increases your risk of death from heart disease and other factors.

So what’s a geek lawyer to do? One answer is the GeekDesk, a motor-operated adjustable-height desk.…

Do corporate counsel still use the Martindale-Hubbell legal directory? Or are they now more likely to turn to LinkedIn or any of a number of other online directories?

A new survey of corporate legal departments concludes that Martindale-Hubbell is still the most prominent legal directory among corporate counsel in…

A new legal wiki, Standardforms.org, has been launched to provide a free depository of sophisticated legal documents. Notably, the site is not intended to serve as a cache of ready-to-use legal forms. Instead, its founder hopes that the wiki feature — which allows anyone to add and edit forms — will provide…

I was fortunate to have been one of the speakers last week at the Super Marketing Conference put on in Boston by the good people at the Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program (LOMAP). Now, those same good people have put the entire conference online for free, with video of the speakers as well…

Having figured out last night how to rescue files from a corrupt Windows computer, I thought I’d share it in the event anyone else faces a similar situation.

The situation is this: Your Windows computer will not boot and it has files you need desperately.

This happened to my wife’s Acer netbook, running Windows XP.…

For lawyers and law students looking for useful apps for your mobile device, try Mobile Applications for Law Students and Lawyers. Part of the website of the UCLA School of Law library, the site lists a variety of apps, all selected because “they might be of interest to law students and lawyers.” The…

LTN, as seen on my iPhone

I have been a columnist for Law Technology News for so long that my debut may have predated the invention of the Internet. Monica Bay brought me on right after she became editor. Over the years, as…

Just last week, I wrote a post about “Benesch Apportunity,” the new iPhone and iPad recruiting app from the law firm Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff. Benesch is but the latest of a growing number of law firms that are creating apps as tools for marketing and client development. Now, a new…

Justia announced this week the launch of Justia Cuba, a website that complies most of Cuba’s legal resources. It includes Cuba’s constitution, laws, resolutions and other legal documents.

“This project posed some unique challenges,” Justia’s Gabriel Saldana writes, “in that some of the material was hard to find, Cuban web…