Sitting at a desk all day can kill you. Sitting for prolonged periods, even if you exercise regularly, increases your risk of death from heart disease and other factors.

So what’s a geek lawyer to do? One answer is the GeekDesk, a motor-operated adjustable-height desk.…

Do corporate counsel still use the Martindale-Hubbell legal directory? Or are they now more likely to turn to LinkedIn or any of a number of other online directories?

A new survey of corporate legal departments concludes that Martindale-Hubbell is still the most prominent legal directory among corporate counsel in…

A new legal wiki, Standardforms.org, has been launched to provide a free depository of sophisticated legal documents. Notably, the site is not intended to serve as a cache of ready-to-use legal forms. Instead, its founder hopes that the wiki feature — which allows anyone to add and edit forms — will provide…

I was fortunate to have been one of the speakers last week at the Super Marketing Conference put on in Boston by the good people at the Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program (LOMAP). Now, those same good people have put the entire conference online for free, with video of the speakers as well…

Having figured out last night how to rescue files from a corrupt Windows computer, I thought I’d share it in the event anyone else faces a similar situation.

The situation is this: Your Windows computer will not boot and it has files you need desperately.

This happened to my wife’s Acer netbook, running Windows XP.…

For lawyers and law students looking for useful apps for your mobile device, try Mobile Applications for Law Students and Lawyers. Part of the website of the UCLA School of Law library, the site lists a variety of apps, all selected because “they might be of interest to law students and lawyers.” The…

LTN, as seen on my iPhone

I have been a columnist for Law Technology News for so long that my debut may have predated the invention of the Internet. Monica Bay brought me on right after she became editor. Over the years, as…

Just last week, I wrote a post about “Benesch Apportunity,” the new iPhone and iPad recruiting app from the law firm Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff. Benesch is but the latest of a growing number of law firms that are creating apps as tools for marketing and client development. Now, a new…

Justia announced this week the launch of Justia Cuba, a website that complies most of Cuba’s legal resources. It includes Cuba’s constitution, laws, resolutions and other legal documents.

“This project posed some unique challenges,” Justia’s Gabriel Saldana writes, “in that some of the material was hard to find, Cuban web…

The 165-lawyer law firm Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff has created an iPhone and iPad app that sends out an alert any time a job opens at the firm. The free app, called “Benesch Apportunity,” is a recruiting tool for law students and laterals who may be interested in joining the firm, which…

If an online docket service offers access to a docket that isn’t online, is it really an online service?

That is but one of the philosophical questions you may ask yourself after reading The Existential Exercise of Finding State Court Materials Online, a post by Rachael Samberg at Legal Research…

Tom Mighell

I’ve been meaning to write a post about iPad 4 Lawyers, the new blog from Tom Mighell, a self-described “technology nut” who is one of the smartest people I know when it comes to the practical uses of technology in law practice. Tom was a litigator for 18 years who used…