Dan Schwartz has issued a challenge: Tweet your favorite U.S. Supreme Court case. Schwartz, author of the Connecticut Employment Law Blog, is organizing an April 9 educational program at UConn Law School on how technology is changing the practice of law.
To help build buzz for the event, he is issuing this…
Legal-technology company Catalyst Repository Systems has launched a blog devoted to electronic discovery law, technology and best practices. I will be one of the contributors to the blog, along with several of the company’s legal and technology professionals. Others who will contribute posts include:
(For any confused readers, yes, this is a revised version of my earlier post, which complained that the piece listed the wrong links for my blogs and podcast. The school corrected the links within minutes of being informed of the errors.)
My law school, Boston College, today sent out an eBrief blast with an…
I have moved my Media Law blog from its old address to this new one: http://medialaw.legaline.com. Anyone who subscribes to the feed for that blog will have to update their subscriptions to this new feed address: http://medialaw.legaline.com/feeds/posts/default.
As I’ve posted here and here, I have been pondering what to…
The state of Washington is now the 11th to close its ethics investigation of Total Attorneys with no finding of wrongdoing. Washington State Bar Association Senior Disciplinary Counsel Jonathan Burke issued a letter saying the state would not pursue complaints filed against 13 Washington attorneys over their use of Total Attorneys for Internet…
My musings and those of Venkat Balasubramani over whether to shut down our blogs and start afresh with new ones garnered some attention from other legal bloggers, among them Bruce Carton today at Legal Blog Watch, Colin Samuels at Infamy or Praise, Kevin O’Keefe at Real Lawyers Have Blogs, and…
Lawyer rating and directory site Avvo has received $10 million in a new round of financing, led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm DAG Ventures. Current Avvo investors, Benchmark Capital and Ignition Partners, also invested in this round. The funds will enable Avvo to further expand and enhance its products and services…
Could it be that Venkat Balasubramani can read my mind? In response to something I tweeted today, he quite lucidly set out the debate I’ve been having with myself. Turns out he’s been having the same debate with himself.
The question for both of us is: Does it make sense to make a…
Introduced as a beta at LegalTech in February, Onit is a Web-based project management tool described as being for “anyone and everyone who manage projects – big, small, business, legal.” It specifically includes a Legal Edition designed for legal matters and cases. During its beta period, the system is free for anyone to use.…
Join me tomorrow and Friday at the Massachusetts Bar Association Annual Conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Tomorrow, I am chairing a plenary session at 1 p.m., “Social Media for Lawyers: How to Boost Your Practice and Avoid Pitfalls.” On Friday at 3:15, I will be on a Law Practice Management panel,…
Morrison & Foerster may be one of the largest law firms in the world, but now you can carry it in your pocket, thanks to an iPhone app the firm launched yesterday. The free app, MoFo2Go, provides information and news about the…
I wrote here last week about BestAttorneysOnline.com, the dubious new lawyer-rating site that can’t seem to get lawyers’ practice areas or even their locations straight, listing lawyers as among the top 10 in practices they have nothing to do with and in states in which they have no ties. I followed that with…
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