From Ethan Katsh, director of the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution at UMass/Amherst:
“The UMass Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution, in collaboration with the Online Dispute Resolution Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution, is pleased to be holding Cyberweek 2003 this year from February 24-28th. This is the…
I have just finished writing a column about a new Web tool that every trial lawyer who uses expert witnesses should look at. I cannot post the entire column until it appears in print, but I can offer a preview.
As any trial lawyer will tell you, getting expert testimony admitted has been tougher since…
These lawyers know how to handle a pest.…
Declan McCullagh reports on ZDNet that the Bush administration has pulled the plug on a .gov Web site pending an investigation into the authenticity of the organization that controlled it. The site, AONN.gov, called itself the Access One Network Northwest, and was supposedly a cyberwarfare unit supported by the U.S. Department of Defense. But…
BriefMasters, a service that writes briefs and other documents for lawyers, is noted here, here, and probably elsewhere, following its mention on TechnoLawyer. Such services are neither new nor unique — in fact they seem to be springing up with increasing frequency. I have written before about one of the more…
Lawyer Micah U. Buchdahl, operator of the Internet Marketing Attorney Web site, today released his 2003 Internet Marketing Attorney Awards. This is the second year in which Buchdahl has reviewed and scored the Web sites of each of the 250 largest firms in the U.S., much as Erik Heels and Rick…
Lawyers turn to Google every day to get information on potential clients, opposing parties and adverse witnesses. But is Google turning us into a nation of voyeurs? Writing in the Boston Globe Magazine, reporter Neil Swidey looks at the good and the bad of how Google has changed what we can find out about…
My column last month looked at what I called “practical” blogs — those that focus on law or law practice. Not wanting to overlook the many lawyers who publish blogs that may touch on the law, but are by no means preoccupied with it, I devoted this month’s column to them. Some are…
Fairfax, Va., solo David Z. Kaufman may have the only Web site devoted to martial arts law, KarateLaw.com. A sixth-degree black belt, Kaufman counsels karate instructors and students on liability, contracts and a host of related issues. He also serves as an expert witness in cases involving the martial arts. I was ready to…
A product introduced to the legal market at the recent LegalTech in New York takes an almost blog-like approach to Web site management, making it easy for lawyers with no knowledge of HTML to create and modify pages on their Web sites, much as blogging tools make it easy to update pages without coding.…
I was at least partly facetious yesterday when I suggested the possibility of bloggers setting up exhibit booths at tech trade shows. But now comes this Guardian article, New biz on the blog, all about cashing in on blogging, and I wonder, Was I so far off?…
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