From The New York Times:
…“H. Donald Wilson, who prepared the original business plan for what became Mead Data Central and its pioneering Lexis-Nexis database, died on Nov. 12 at his home in Mitchellville, Md. He was 82.
“The cause was a heart attack, said his daughter Edith R. Wilson.
“Mr. Wilson, a lawyer
Call me a prude, but I agree with those who say that the suit-as-aphrodisiac ad was inappropriate for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, as reported today in The Boston Globe and noted at the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog. MLW’s editor, Dave Yas, initially called…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Results of the July 2006 New York bar exam are posted today at New York Lawyer.…
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…
Adobe Systems today introduced a new service that should be of interest to lawyers in firms of any size. Called the Adobe Document Center, it is a secure, hosted service for sharing documents in Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel formats. It allows you to control who has access to your documents,…
If you think You Tube is the only game in town for video searching online, think again. This article, Video Search Made the Internet Star, from SearchEngineWatch, provides a round-up of sites for searching videos, including meta-searchers and video hosting sites.…
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