I am once again on the “back bench,” adding my quick impressions to Gerry Oginski’s YouLaw video reviews on the TechnoLawyer Blog This week’s review: Fast Talking Attorney Jodi Ginsberg Wants to Host a Talk Show.…

I’m tempted to say that this week’s episode of our podcast Lawyer2Lawyer is for the birds. We take on Twitter, the social-networking and microblogging phenomenon where everything happens in 140 characters or fewer. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me to discuss Twitter’s place in legal marketing are Brian Carter, director…

The Defense Research Institute, the organization that is to the civil-defense bar what the American Association for Justice is to the plaintiffs’ bar, recently launched a blog, For the Defense, as an adjunct to the organization’s magazine of the same name.

I learned about the blog through a comment added to a…

Another post of mine at Legal Blog Watch today should be of interest to readers of this blog: A preliminary audit conducted by Public.Resource.Org of publicly accessible documents from 32 federal district courts found 1,669 containing Social Security numbers and other personal information.…

I posted about this today at Legal Blog Watch. Short version: Wanting to simplify his life, he burned his Harvard Law diploma — and of course posted the video online. Check out the full post for more.…

Peter Shankman, founder of The Geek Factory, on the future of public relations (as reported by Andrew Ratner at BaltimoreSun.com):

The press release will die. Better yet, kill it. Instead, have your CEO write a blog. Transparency is good. Facebook will become ubiquitous. News tickers will be replaced by personal lifestreams.

Interesting…

From Rockport and Cape Ann

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From Rockport and Cape Ann

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From Rockport and Cape Ann

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Greg Lambert at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog has pulled together a fascinating overview of large law firms on LinkedIn. He explains:

I broke out my “researcher” cap and started delving through the LinkedIn Groups page to see how many of the top 100 law firms had some type of Alumni or

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I have long been a fan of the legal research service VersusLaw, which provides federal and state legal research for just $13.95 a month. Now VersusLaw is taking a giant step backward in price, all the way to zero, with the launch of its free legal research service,…

Tired of law practice? Looking for a change of career? Then here is the Web site for you: Alternative Lawyer Jobs. This new site posts job listings that offer lawyers a way out from their ruts. Listings include those posted directly by employers and others collected from elsewhere on the Web. Jobs listed here…