The 165-lawyer law firm Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff has created an iPhone and iPad app that sends out an alert any time a job opens at the firm. The free app, called “Benesch Apportunity,” is a recruiting tool for law students and laterals who may be interested in joining the firm, which…

If an online docket service offers access to a docket that isn’t online, is it really an online service?

That is but one of the philosophical questions you may ask yourself after reading The Existential Exercise of Finding State Court Materials Online, a post by Rachael Samberg at Legal Research…

Tom Mighell

I’ve been meaning to write a post about iPad 4 Lawyers, the new blog from Tom Mighell, a self-described “technology nut” who is one of the smartest people I know when it comes to the practical uses of technology in law practice. Tom was a litigator for 18 years who used…

Sony Corporation suffered a huge security breach in its video game online network with names, addresses and credit card numbers of 100 million PlayStation and PC game network users stolen by hackers.  This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the legal obligations of companies to protect consumer data and the rights…

A global search is underway for ingenuity and innovation in law practice management. It is the seventh-annual InnovAction Awards sponsored by the College of Law Practice Management. With the June 1 entry deadline fast approaching, you don’t have much time to submit your nomination.

Any lawyer or law firm anywhere in the world is…

For workers who wonder whether their employers are paying them what the law requires, the enforcement tool they need may be right in their pockets. The U.S. Department of Labor has created a free timesheet app for the iPhone and iPad that is designed to help employees…

At the PLI seminar on social media I attended yesterday in New York, one of the speakers, Kelly Hoey, remarked, “I don’t ever again want to have to fill out another social media profile.” Well Kelly, meet Lawford, a new professional networking site for lawyers that fills out your…

I am participating Wednesday in a PLI live seminar and webcast, Lawyers’ Guide to Using Social Media for Professional and Client Development. There is a full-day line-up of panels as well as a keynote presentation by Steve Rubel, SVP and director of insights for Edelman Digital. The program is chaired by Kevin O’Keefe, founder of…

Has technology rendered the First Amendment obsolete? Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, made that case in a recent speech at Golden Gate University School of Law. This…

The Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program (LOMAP) is hosting a free, one-hour webinar this Friday, April 29, at noon, at which I will present on “The Power of Social Media.” Full details available here.…

In close to 20 years of writing about legal technology and the Web, one article of mine stands head and shoulders above all others for the impassioned feedback I received. That article was my head-to-head review of Casemaker vs. Fastcase, the two legal research services that market themselves to…

A group of 18 soon-to-graduate Harvard Law School students so fear the approaching loss of “the discussions we’ve had over bagels and coffee” that they have started a blog in the hopes of perpetuating their exchanges, if only virtually. The blog, Just Enrichment, is wide ranging in its coverage. In less than a month of…