I will be a panelist this week at the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Second Annual Public Law Conference. The conference is focused on lawyers who represent government bodies and those who appear before government agencies. The day’s keynote speaker will be Suzanne M. Bump, secretary of labor and workforce development in Massachusetts. I am…

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then behold the Massachusetts lawyer. Coming later this year to a calendar store near you, the first-ever Beautiful Lawyers calendar will feature 12 months of Massachusetts lawyers and judges, “decked out in glamorous attire and stunningly photographed in their ‘natural element.'”

No, it is not…

A nice feature of the new Adobe.com, which I just wrote about in an earlier post today, is the ability to embed documents in Web pages and blog posts. Here is an example, showing the Adobe.com User Guide.

https://share.acrobat.com/adc/flex/mpt.swf…

Adobe today today a major leap from the desktop to the Web with its introduction of Acrobat.com, a suite of hosted services available for free as a public beta. The suite combines word-processing, Web conferencing, PDF creation, file sharing and file storage in a stylish and functional package built using Adobe Flash technology. The…

Whatever you do, stay away from PC World’s picks of The 100 Best Products of 2008. If you’re not already familiar with all of these, you could easily fritter away the rest of your afternoon exploring the list.

[Hat tip to Al Nye The Lawyer Guy.]…

Binge and purge, binge and purge. Until recently, that’s been my approach to managing my Outlook inbox. I’d realize the clutter had reached several thousand messages, then spend time over days, even weeks, weeding and filing to get it back down to manageable size. Then I installed three Outlook add-ons from a San Francisco company,…

The ABA Journal has added new features to its Web site and also has moved into the social networking sphere. New features announced this week are:…

Here is what I wrote about earlier today in my posts at Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch:

That last item includes information on an…

Having never gotten around to blogging last week’s episode of our weekly legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, and with this week’s now in the can, I have a two-fer to report:…

I am posting today at Legal Blog Watch:

Winners were announced today of the 2008 Burton Awards for legal writing, presented by the Association of Legal Administrators in association with the Law Library of Congress. This year’s winners are:…

By way of Debra Cassens Weiss at the ABA Journal, I learned of David Lat’s Project Truman Show. Lat is known among legal bloggers as author of the legal gossip blog Above the Law, where he often delves into other people’s private moments. But via his personal blog, he is now promising…