Having just participated in an “un-conference” for the Law Practice Management Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, I am sold on the un-conference format. I suppose that different un-conference organizers orchestrate these in different ways, but here is how it worked in N.C. We kicked off in the morning with a featured speaker,…

The current issue of the Boston Bar Journal (PDF) is devoted to Web 2.0. It includes a brief essay of mine, “The Future of Online Networking” (page 18 of the journal and page 20 of the PDF). The gist of my essay is summed up in this:

The future of these sites, at

Law.com has my review of LegallyMinded, the ABA’s new online networking site: ABA Social Network Fails to Connect. Here is a paragraph that sums it up:

Ambitious as it is, the site falls short on execution. It jettisons features that should be central and weighs itself down with others that are useless or

Harvard University Press this week announced the launch of the Journal of Legal Analysis, an open-access law journal published in cooperation with the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics and Business at Harvard Law School. JLA’s editors say their plan is to publish “the best legal scholarship from all disciplinary…

Join me next Friday for the North Carolina Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Annual Meeting and “Un”conference. This is a first-of-its-kind program for the NCBA, with a series of informal un-conference sessions sandwiched between two feature presentations. As the brochure says, the program is “about energizing your practice in hard economic times.”

The featured…

Even if you were not able to attend the just-concluded LegalTech 2009 show in New York, you can sample the sights and sounds thanks to various sources:…

I will be at LegalTech New York through Wednesday. While there, I will participate in two panels. On Monday at 3 p.m., I will introduce (and possibly tweet) the panel, What is Twitter and How Do I Use It? On Tuesday at 2:30, I will moderate the panel, Best Practices for Online…

Here is a good article from The Plain Dealer on lawyers’ use of Twitter: Twitosphere drawing in a steady stream of twittering lawyers. I am among the twittering lawyers reporter Alison Grant interviewed for the piece.…

The professional networking site LinkedIn today launched a private beta of a new feature, Connections, that allows you to better manage your lists of LinkedIn connections. The key feature is the ability to group your connections by assigning tags to them. Once grouped, you can then send messages to the entire group simply by…

The full video of the North Carolina disbarment hearing against former Durham County District Attorney Michael B. Nifong is now online and available in the public domain. The 31.5 hours of video were donated to Public.Resource.Org by Courtroom Connect. The video is available at The Internet…

In response to various competitions and rankings of the best legal blogs, the Avvo Blog has created an auto-updating list of the top 300 legal blogs, ordered by their traffic rankings as shown by Web information company Alexa. Because the list is regularly updated, the rankings vary. At the moment, this blog,…

There is now a Twitter feed for news from the U.S. Supreme Court. The blog Law Tech Review suggests that this feed comes directly from the court, which uses it to disseminate information about its latest activities. But I strongly doubt that the feed is from the court. If it is from…