Coast to Coast this week looks at the business of law with special guest Reid Trautz, lawyer, blogger, director of the D.C. Bar Practice Management Advisory Service, and nationally recognized author and speaker on law practice management topics.
Coast to Coast is the weekly legal news podcast cohosted by J.…
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Publisher David L. Yas does a great job recounting the tale of the e-mail that roared — a much-forwarded series of e-mails in which a young lawyer turns down a job, in not-quite textbook fashion. To see the e-mail, check out Legal Twilite Zone.…
A new Gallup poll finds that blog readership bogged down in 2005, showing growth in U.S. blog readers to be somewhere between nil and negative between February and December 2005. In fact, the percentage of Internet users who say they never read blogs rose during the period, from 63 percent to 66 percent. “The…
Calling itself “the next generation international corporate law firm,” a Boston start-up, Exemplar Law Partners, claims to be the first corporate law firm in the nation exclusively to use fixed-price billing. The firm managers identified on its Web site are fairly new to the practice of law in Massachusetts — the CEO was
Via Dennis Crouch comes word of what looks to be a seminar well worth attending, Blog Law & Blogging for Lawyers, which Dennis is co-chairing with Cathy Kirkman. Unfortunately, the seminar is April 20 and 21 in San Francisco, the very same days much of the legal blogosphere will be gathered in…
A Web site launched earlier this week will serve as an online national clearinghouse and research center to help fight fraud and other economic crimes. The site, Fraud Update, will track government actions throughout the United States against fraud and other practices that victimize consumers, businesses and government. The Web site will also provide…
Google this week released version 3.0 of its Google Desktop Search. Its most significant enhancement over earlier versions could also be a significant headache for lawyers.
The feature in question sounds pretty nifty, particularly for the road warriors among us. It allows you to search across multiple computers provided they are all tied…
With a bow to Shakespeare, Diane Levin stages Blawg Review #43.…
The Law Library of Congress yesterday announced a new section of its Web site devoted to the trial of Saddam Hussein. Here is the announcement:
“Through this Web site, the Law Library intends to monitor, analyze and report legal developments related to the relevant trials. Additionally, the Law Library is providing researchers
Released yesterday, Hyperwords is a nifty extension for Firefox that makes every word on a Web page a potential hyperlink to an array of search, reference, blogging and other tools. Simply highlight a word or group of words, and a pop-up menu appears offering options to search,…
Our legal news podcast Coast to Coast this week looks at Diversity in Law, discussing whether progress has been made since 1999, when the chief legal officers of 500 large corporations agreed to push their outside law firms to hire more minorities and women. Joining us to discuss this topic are Veta Richardson, executive…
Google today began rolling out a feature that automatically enables instant messaging within Gmail. Some users will find the chat feature enabled already, others will see it over the next few weeks. Chats can be saved, searched, forwarded and printed.…
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