Jamie Daigle is a Portland, Ore., trial lawyer who loves to use his iPad in court. But he also knows the iPad can be clumsy to hold or stand up. No sooner did he first get his iPad than he started trying to build a better case for it. Using…
Tickle Your Clients from the Cloud with NotifyWorks
Elephants never forget. Unfortunately, attorneys and clients sometimes do. Consider the new web service NotifyWorks a virtual elephant for the law office. It remembers to remind your clients of important events that they otherwise might miss.
Say, for example, you represent a small business in negotiating a commercial lease that contains an option to renew that…
Lexis Launches Advance, its Next-Generation Research Platform
LexisNexis today is formally launching its next-generation legal research platform, Lexis Advance. As WestlawNext did for Westlaw, Lexis Advance does for Lexis.com, incorporating a streamlined, simplified, Google-like search bar that searches universally across all libraries and then lets you use smart filters to zero…
ABA Blawg 100 Names ‘LawSites’ for Fourth Year
Forgive a guy a little blowing of my own horn here, but I am thrilled and honored to report that the ABA Journal has again included this blog in its annual Blawg 100, its selection of the 100 best law blogs by lawyers, for lawyers. This…
Website Offers Legal Help for Military and Veterans
Even though it was launched a year ago, I only recently learned about Stateside Legal, the first website in the U.S. to focus exclusively on the unique legal issues faced by military members, veterans and their families. The site was created by two legal services organizations,
Groupon for Lawyers: MyLegal.com Delivers Legal Deals
Websites offering coupons and daily deals are all the rage. Why should lawyers be left out? No longer need they be, thanks to a new feature of MyLegal.com that offers special deals on products and services targeted to lawyers, paralegals, legal secretaries and legal administrators.
MyLegal.com already provided a directory of legal vendors and, early…
Two New Ethics Opinions on Cloud Computing
I have published a post about them at the Catalyst E-Discovery Search Blog: Two New Legal Ethics Opinions Suggest Clear Skies Ahead for Cloud Computing.…
Former Tesla GC Launches ZipCourt, an ‘Online Courtroom Service’
Can a lawyer who helped bring zip to electric cars do the same for online dispute resolution?
Craig Harding, the former general counsel of Tesla Motors, now hopes to bring speed and style to ODR with the launch of an “online courtroom service” called ZipCourt. It will be…
FindLaw Launches Legal News Site: ‘Legal Pulse’
FindLaw and Lawyers.com are among the most highly trafficked lawyer directories and consumer-facing legal sites. Now it appears that both are taking steps to beef up their coverage of legal news — no doubt in order to further…
Nine Years of Blogging Here at LawSites
This week marked the ninth birthday of this blog. Here was my first post, on Nov. 19, 2002: Welcome to My Blog.
I sure wasn’t the first legal blog. After some snooping a few years ago, I concluded that honor belonged to Walter Olson at Overlawyered. But…
SafeSync Offers an Alternative to Dropbox
Many lawyers love the convenience of Dropbox but worry about its security. If you are looking for an alternative file-syncing application, consider Trend Micro’s SafeSync for Business. A new version released just today offers new features and functionality that make it easier to use and compatible across all devices.
Like…
Lawyers Diary is Now Online and Mobile
For lawyers in certain states, the Lawyers Diary and Manual — popularly known as the Red Book — is one of those legacy print volumes you probably still have close to your desk. So what if I told you that you could get it in more convenient electronic formats…
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