In a post here in May, I wrote about GroupESQ, a site that aims to deliver group-buying power to lawyers, even in small firms. Now, another site, Prime Advantage Legal, is offering a similar service for small- and mid-sized law…
JD Supra and LinkedIn, Like Peanut Butter and ??
I wrote last week about the news that JD Supra is Now Linked Up to LinkedIn. After writing that, I came across a post from Martha Sperry in which she said that JD Supra and LinkedIn go together like peanut butter and jelly. Now I read, via Jayne Navarre’s Virtual Marketing Officer…
We Interview the Dean of the New UMass Law School
Robert V. Ward
On this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we interview Robert V. Ward Jr., dean of the new University of Massachusetts School of Law, the first public law school in the state. He talks about why the school is important, how it will be financed, and its…ABA Technology Survey on Social Networking
The ABA Legal Technology Resource Center is out with its 2010 Legal Technology Survey Report. The six-volume survey looks at legal-technology trends in various aspects of law practice. Reliable statistics about lawyers’ use of technology are hard to come by, but this annual survey has proven to be a fairly good indicator of overall…
Technology’s Effect on the Legal Profession
In thinking about my presentation next week for the ACLEA annual meeting about “How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law … and CLE,” I suddenly remembered that I had once written a magazine article on this very topic. Way back in 1995, I wrote, Empowered or Enslaved: Technology’s Effect on…
Speaking Next Week at ACLEA Annual Meeting
I hope to see you at the ACLEA Annual Meeting in New York next week. I am speaking twice, both times on Tuesday, July 27. From 10 to 11:15 a.m., I will present the plenary session, “How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law … and CLE.” Later that day, from 3:10 to 4:10 p.m.,…
FindLaw Launches Across the Pond
Legal website FindLaw today launched FindLaw UK, a site for individuals and businesses in the U.K. seeking information on legal topics and help finding solicitors.
The site provides articles, FAQs, blogs and other information on various legal topics. It also offers Contact Law, a service designed to connect people with recommended solicitors.…
A Law Firm Run by Two Robots?
Will there ever come a day when robots will replace lawyers? Judging by the website of the firm Robot Robot & Hwang, that day has already arrived. The two senior partners in the three-member firm are both computers, one named Apollo Cluster and the other named Daria XR-1029.
According to his bio, Cluster…
Need a Screencast? I’ve Got Your Guy
If you need someone to create a screencast for your product or service, I’ve got just the guy. Sure, he happens to be my son. Ben Ambrogi. But he does good work. Below are some examples. If you’d like to get in touch with him, let me know (ambrogi-at-gmail.com).…
JD Supra is Now Linked Up to LinkedIn
For lawyers, this is a marriage made in social-networking heaven: JD Supra, a leading site for sharing legal content, is now partnering with LinkedIn, the leading professional-networking site, so that JD Supra content will now be seamlessly integrated into LinkedIn.
The integration will involve two primary features.
First, any lawyer who is a registered user…
Site offers Better Access to Federal Rulemaking
For any lawyer who follows or participates in federal rulemaking, the U.S. government’s launch a few years ago of Regulations.gov was a great leap forward. Finally, from a single site, you could find and track proposed rules from nearly 300 federal agencies and even submit formal comments.
But Regulations.gov is difficult to use for…
New Site Crowdsources the Legal Treatise
Spindle Law describes itself as “a new kind of legal research and writing system.” Its goal is to make legal research “faster and smarter.” It seeks to do this in two ways: by structuring information more intuitively and by building on the knowledge of the lawyers who use it.
Spindle Law resembles a treatise…