This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at the impact of the recession on lawyers and the legal profession.
In the first segment of the program, we discuss the recent rash of lawyer suicides and the problem of depression among lawyers. Joining us to discuss this is
Transactional lawyers are the target users of a new Web site, TransactionSpace, that aims to make the deal-making process more efficient, intuitive and transparent. The site’s tagline sums up its purpose: “You do the lawyering. Let TransactionSpace manage the process.”
The site takes the three primary steps of a transaction — negotiation, document drafting…
Law.com this week published my article, Get Your Free Case Law on the Web. No sooner did it appear than I received an e-mail from a reader questioning how several of the sites discussed in the article could claim to have U.S. Supreme Court cases from before there was a Supreme Court. In…
My post earlier today, New Tool Jumps to Right Windows Folder, contained a type in the code for the download key. I’ve corrected the post to reflect the correct key, which is: ll908384573. (It should start with the letters “ll” not the numbers “11”.…
Last year, in a post entitled, Take Control of Your Outlook Inbox, I wrote about a San Francisco company, TechHit, and its three simple Outlook add-ons for cutting down on e-mail clutter: SimplyFile, EZDetach and MessageSave. Today, the company is releasing the public beta…
I wrote last week at Legal Blog Watch about the sad news of the suicide of Francis J. D’Eramo, a Superior Court judge in the U.S. Virgin Islands (where I am an inactive member of the bar). A memorial fund has now been established for the benefit of his children. Anyone wishing to contribute…
Here is the latest in TechnoLawyer’s YouLaw series of lawyer-video reviews: “Aw Shucks” Lawyer Achieves What You Cannot. Gerry Oginski writes the main review and I am one of the lawyers who adds comments as part of the “back bench.” My take was that this guy is the “Mister Rogers of the legal profession.”…
Free is good. But free is not necessarily equal. In my latest Web Watch column for Law Technology News, I review 10 Web sites that provide free access to case law.…
The popular online advertising site Craigslist found itself in the spotlight recently after a Boston medical student was accused of murdering a Boston masseuse who he met through her advertisement on the site. Even before that incident, law enforcement officials sometimes accused Craigslist of enabling prostitution and other unlawful conduct. Last month, the sheriff…
One of my blogosphere indulgences is You Don’t Say, a blog about language, usage and journalism by John E. McIntyre, veteran copyeditor at The Baltimore Sun. But earlier this week, “the grim economics of the newspaper business” abruptly gave McIntyre “an early parole.” Fortunately for fans of his blog, he is back to blogging,…
Good article from Lawyers USA on producing your own podcast. Includes comments from my Lawyer2Lawyer cohost J. Craig Williams.…
Here is a fun idea for decorating your office wall or sending a gift to another lawyer: Your Name Here Cartoons. The concept is simple: Pick out the cartoon you like and have it customized with your name or your law firm’s name in the caption. One, for example, shows a lawyer in front…
Robert Ambrogi Blog