Last March, I wrote a post here about LawPivot, a website where companies can pose legal questions and get answers from lawyers. Lawyers are paid nothing to provide these answers. The incentive for participating is that the free answers the…
Use Wikipedia, Even When You’re Offline
Wikipedia made its name as an online encyclopedia. Of course, not everyone can be online all the time. So I was interested to read that Wikipedia is beta testing an offline version.
The offline version uses Kiwix, open-source software that allows Web content to be read offline. There…
ABA Journal Seeks ‘Blawg 100’ Nominees
The editors of the ABA Journal are gearing up to select their annual list of the 100 best legal blogs, the Blawg 100. And they are seeking suggestions of blogs they should include. “Tell us about a blawg—not your own—that you read regularly and think other lawyers should know about,” they…
Opinion Summaries via Twitter, Facebook, RSS
In a post here last April, I wrote about Justia’s launch of a free service providing daily summaries of federal and state appellate opinions, daily.justia.com. At the time, the summaries were provided only through an email subscription.
Now, Justia has added an array of…
‘Firm Manager’ Adds Client Portal, Enhances Contacts
LexisNexis last week rolled out two significant enhancements to LexisNexis Firm Manager, its Web-based practice management application. (See my earlier posts about Practice Manager here, here and
A Legal Guide for Digital Journalists
Although it was launched in June, it has taken me this long to get around to checking out the Digital Journalist’s Legal Guide created by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Now that I’ve had…
Podcast: The NBA Lockout and the Law
On this week’s Lawyer2Lawyer podcast: The NBA Lockout and the Law. We look at the legal and business issues involved with two great guests:…
Justia Launches Site for Legal Commentary
Way back in 2007, I wrote a post here entitled, Justia Does FindLaw One Better. In it, I noted an ironic turn of events. Whereas FindLaw had once been the preeminent Internet resource for legal professionals, it’s usefulness had been fading ever since…
Podcast: Are Criminal Background Checks Discriminatory?
The EEOC held a public hearing last week to consider the extent to which criminal background checks form a barrier to employment, particularly for members of minority groups. A recent study by the National Employment…
Multiple Websites for a Single Firm: Smart Marketing or SEO Spam?
I happened to notice a flood of press releases over the last couple days announcing a flood of new law firm websites. The press releases all have two things in common. They all announce a single law firm’s launch of multiple websites. And they all come from the same source, Scorpion…
Seven Great Legal Technology Law Blogs
Natalie Huha
A big thanks to Natalie Huha for including this blog in 7 Great Legal Technology Law Blogs, a feature in the July 2011 Law Practice Today. It is a good list and I’m honored to be in the company of the other…
Permit a Proud Parent to Gloat
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming here at LawSites for a message from a proud father, via this story in today’s Gloucester Times: Rockport Hails Teens Who Found Missing Girl. Yes, one of those teens (the one in the blue shirt, second from right) is my son Matt.…
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