The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has launched a podcast series discussing landmark Supreme Court cases. The series, Supreme Court Landmarks, discusses cases that have shaped American life.
Each episode features a law professor presenting a brief discussion of a landmark case. The professor explains the case’s background, the key arguments, the decision,…
Amy Howe, editor of SCOTUSblog, and Tony Mauro, Supreme Court correspondent for The National Law Journal, ALM and Law.com review the just-concluded Supreme Court term as our guests this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Listen to…
In two posts I wrote about Bloomberg Law — one earlier this month and one when it launched — I cited something that Bloomberg emphasizes as a key selling point, its flat-fee pricing of…
Novelist Elmore Leonard once said about his writing, “I leave out the parts that most people skip.” His statement, at once so simple and so quizzical, could as easily have come from either Buddha or Yogi Berra. Leonard’s point, however, is clear. Lean writing is strong writing.
Bloomberg Law today released what it describes as “the next evolution” of its legal research platform. Changes include a redesigned interface, enhanced search capabilities, new practice centers and enhanced collaboration and workflow features. One thing that is not changing is Bloomberg Law’s flat-fee, all-inclusive pricing — something the company believes…
The folks at Rocket Matter today released the first installment in a planned three-part, free e-book, The Law Firm of Tomorrow. Based on articles originally published at Rocket Matter’s Legal Productivity blog that have been revised and updated, the book’s first installment focuses on social media…
In two recent posts here, I explored which online lawyer directories get the most traffic. (Popular Legal Directories, Ranked by Traffic and Legal Directory Rankings: An Alternate View.) Using two different ranking sources, Alexa.com and Compete.com, I concluded that the top…
On Wednesday, the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 issued its initial report (PDF) on whether ethics rules should be changed to address lawyers’ use of technology for marketing and advertising.
As you may recall, when the commission first announced its plans to…
In this week’s episode of the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at online law schools. For reasons ranging from finances to lifestyle, increasing numbers of lawyers-to-be are opting to get their legal education online. In addition, at least one online law school now also offers an LLM program for lawyers who want to…
No, the legal profession is not about to be taken over by automatons carrying briefcases. But an increasing number of lawyers are forsaking their BlackBerrys and iPhones and moving to mobile devices using Google’s Android operating system. And now there’s a blog to help them along the way.
In my recent post, Popular Legal Directories, Ranked by Traffic, I looked at how several online lawyer directories stack up in Alexa.com traffic rankings. One comment said that Compete.com, another site that tracks website statistics, ranked the sites in a different order.
So I checked and, sure enough, the…
[See also this follow-up: Legal Directory Rankings: An Alternate View.]
Which online lawyer directories get the most traffic? To find out, I checked Alexa.com, which tracks statistics for all major websites. Based on those statistics, it assigns each site a global rank as well as…
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