Winners have been announced of the 2010 Burton Awards for legal writing. Given annually by The Burton Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress, the awards honor lawyers and law students “who use plain, clear and concise language and avoid archaic, stilted legalese.”
Unfortunately, lawyers qualify for the awards only if they are…
The North Carolina State Bar recently published for comment a proposed legal ethics opinion approving lawyers’ use of cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service. In this week’s edition of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the ethics of cloud computing with two guests:…
Martindale-Hubbell Connected's new front page.
One year after its official launch, the professional-networking site Martindale-Hubbell Connected is preparing to roll out a relaunch, with a new design, new features and enhanced functionality. Well before its official launch, I posted one of the first reviews of the beta site.…
The organization OpenTheGovernment.org has launched a blog, Evaluating Open Gov, as part of its larger effort to track and evaluate the federal government’s progress towards fulfilling President Obama’s commitment to “creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.”
Under the administration’s Open Government Directive, agencies were required to file…
The law firm Crowell & Moring has launched Government Contracts Legal Forum, a blog providing news and commentary on legal issues relating to government contracts. The blog has nearly a dozen contributors from the firm’s Government Contracts Group. It will cover such issues as the False Claims Act, cost accounting, public-private partnerships and…
The Federal Judiciary unveiled a significantly redesigned Web site this week at U.S. Courts.gov. The redesign is intended to make the site more attractive, accessible and useful, an announcement said. In the process, it added new Web 2.0 features such as RSS feeds, podcasts and multimedia. In fact, the Federal Judiciary now…
Anyone who has ever shopped at a warehouse discount store knows that buying in bulk can save you money. A new Web site extends that concept to lawyers, enabling even solo attorneys to buy goods and services at bulk discounts. And to help build up the critical mass of buyers needed to achieve those discounts,…
Here’s a story that has all the elements: a crusading solo, a muckraking lawyer-turned-journalist, an FBI cover-up, and even a tie-in to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.
Victor J. Garo is the kind of lawyer the rest of us only hope to be. This Medford, Mass., solo devoted some 30 years of his career, without…
I posted here a couple days ago about the new survey of compensation paid to law firm media professionals. It found salaries ranging from $50,000 to $375,000. That prompted a follow-up post from Mike Mintz at the Martindale.com Blog and an invitation from Mike to post about it in the Legal Management forum…
A just-published compensation survey of law firm media professionals offers an inside look not only at what these professionals earn, but also at their firms’ use of social media. The survey was conducted by the organization Law Firm Media Professionals in conjunction with Hellerman Baretz Communications.
Three-quarters of the 116 people…
Shortly after Solo Practice University celebrated its first-year of operation in March, I spent a few days touring its virtual campus and sitting in on some of its classes. I’ve written a full review that will appear in next month’s Law Technology News. Out of fairness to my editors, I won’t…
This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we take on the legal issues surrounding the lost iPhone 4G prototype that ended up in the hands of an editor at Gizmodo.com. Helping us sort through the legal issues in the case are this week’s guests Sam Bayard, assistant director…
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