If you are researching social media policies for a company or law firm, here are two sources that each have compiled dozens of links to corporate and law firm policies on blogging, tweeting and more:…
The Legal Content Companies that Matter Most
Thanks to Joe Hodnicki at Law Librarian Blog for the pointer to EContent’s latest list of the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry. The list includes a fair number of companies that provide content to the legal community, including Bloomberg, BNA, Reed Elsevier, Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer.
That…
Rocket Matter is Now Integrated with Dropbox
Rocket Matter, the Web-based legal practice management and time-and-billing application, today announced its integration with Dropbox, an Internet document backup and synchronization service that is gaining popularity within the legal community.
The integration enables Rocket Matter users to associate client matters with Dropbox folders, allowing them to view documents associated with a…
LawSites Named to ABA Blawg 100 for Third Year
I am proud to announce that this blog has been named to the 2010 ABA Journal Blawg 100, a listing of the top 100 best law blogs by lawyers, for lawyers, as selected by the editors of the ABA Journal.
This is the fourth time the ABA Journal has selected the Blawg 100 and the…
SJC Proposes New Rule on Technology in the Courts
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today published a proposed rule that would broaden the use of technology in the state’s courtrooms and that would address the rights of bloggers and citizen journalists — as well as of traditional journalists — to use technology and video in the state’s courtrooms. The court is seeking public comment…
Blawgers Get Free Passes to LegalTech New York
LegalTech New York, one of the top legal technology events of the year, is just around the corner. Again this year, ALM, the company that presents the conference, is offering complimentary passes to legal bloggers. These are full-show passes, allowing access to all programs and exhibits.
LegalTech takes place Jan. 31 to…
Lawyer/Journalist Sparks Public Official’s Conscience
[Update 11/28/10: In a tragic turn of events, the sheriff who was the subject of the story I wrote about below was found dead of an apparent suicide over the weekend. Read more from The Boston Globe.]
For those of you in Massachusetts, you can skip this post, because you probably know the…
Podcast: Full-Body Scans, Pat Downs and the TSA
This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we uncover the revealing facts about full-body scans and do a full pat-down of the legal issues surrounding the TSA’s controversial screening practices.
Joining us to discuss this issue are Patrick Smith, the airline pilot and author who writes the Salon.com column, Ask the Pilot and…
Today is this Blog’s Eighth Anniversary
I launched this blog on Nov. 19, 2002.
That was 2,375 posts ago, or about 297 posts a year. Not a huge output compared to some. Still, during these years, I also wrote roughly 1,700 posts for Legal Blog Watch, 562 posts for my Media Law blog and roughly 90 monthly columns…
Podcast: A Test Lab for Social Media in the Courts
The Order in the Court 2.0 project will turn a Massachusetts courtroom into a test lab for how courts deal with social media, electronic journalism and digital technology. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss this pioneering project with John Davidow, the WBUR.org executive editor who helped WBUR win a…
Law Clerk’s Killer Gets 20-Year Sentence
In a post two years ago at Legal Blog Watch, I reported the murder of Gabriel Lerner, a 27-year-old Georgetown University Law School graduate who worked in the U.S. Virgin Islands as a law clerk to a Superior Court judge. Lerner was murdered on his way to bible study by two hitchhikers he picked…
Judge Creates Web TV Series to Teach Family Law
A family law judge in Ontario has launched an online video talk show to teach the public about family law issues. In the show, Family Matters, Judge Harvey Brownstone acts as host and interviews guests from various sectors of the legal community, including lawyers, mediators and social workers.
“This is a new…
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