School of legal podcasting

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Law Technology News has my most recent Web Watch column, School of Podcasting (free registration required). Here’s the beginning:

Ever considered a career in the lucrative and rewarding field of legal podcasting? Ever wish you could send your colleagues your deepest thoughts in digital format? Ever wear headphones with those pinstripes? If you

‘Mock Jury’ Site Readies Launch

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A Web site offering mock juries where lawyers can test their cases is now online and preparing for a formal launch in January. Called TrialJuries, the site will allow lawyers to submit their cases and have them “decided” by online jurors similar to those who would serve on an actual jury at trial. From…

NLJ 250 podcast: Does size matter?

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The big keep getting bigger. The nation’s largest 250 law firms grew by 4 percent in 2006, according to this year’s NLJ 250, the National Law Journal’s annual ranking of the largest U.S. firms based on number of lawyers. The largest of the lot, Baker & McKenzie, has more than 3,500 lawyers. So is…

This blog’s fourth anniversary

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Hard to believe, but Sunday will mark the fourth anniversary of this blog. Here was my first post on Nov. 19, 2002.

If nothing else, an anniversary is an apt occasion to thank everyone who has read and linked to this blog over the years. It is also an appropriate moment to say how…

Law firm upgrades; blog watches

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It is an experiment that could be instructive for lawyers everywhere: A law firm goes through a major technology upgrade as a blog follows its progress with posts and videos. This is the premise of RealLawyerNews, a blog written by Texas technology consultant Jamie Parks as he and others work with the Zivley

Site lets you ‘see’ demographic data

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If you work at all with demographic data — or even if it simply interests you — check out Social Explorer. Developed at Queens College of the City University of New York, the site’s objective is “to help visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S. through the use of interactive maps and…

New blawg-only search tool

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A new search engine for legal blogs was introduced in beta today and will be officially unveiled in the next day or two. Called BlawgSearch, it was created by Tim Stanley and his team at Justia. BlawgSearch currently indexes some 600 blawgs, with “many more” to be added, Stanley said. The emphasis so…

Legal spam of the day

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Great news. An e-mail I received today informs me that this blog has been selected for the “Feaured law blog Award” (their spelling, not mine) on a site called BreakingLegalNews.com. Funny thing is, the award-giver apparently selected my blog without knowing anything about it, because in order to accept, I have to tell them…