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Posted on October 18, 2010
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Extra! Extra!

Posted on October 17, 2010
The latest issue of the Mighell Marker is out and ready for your reading pleasure.

Let's Meet Up in Washington, D.C.!

Posted on October 17, 2010
Dennis Kennedy and I will be in Washington, D.C. this week for the ABA Law Practice Management Section Fall Meeting. It has been awhile since Dennis and I have been in the same town at the same time, along with a lot of other legal technology folks. So we decided to have a meetup where we could get together, have a drink or a bite, and talk blogging, twitter, legal technology, or whether my Texas Rangers actually have a chance of beating the Yankees. Here are the details: Date: October 22, 2010 Time: Officially, maybe 7:00-ish, but really whenever two or more people show up. Place: Lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC (looks like there's lobby seating and a lounge) - this is the meeting hotel for the ABA LPM meeting...

Blawg of the Day - Legal Research Plus

Posted on October 15, 2010
Now here's a blog that's right up my alley - Legal Research Plus. It's published by a number of librarians and lecturers at Stanford Law School, and this is the space where they intend to share a bit of what they've learned. You'll find recent posts on topics like informal international police networks, WIPO Lex, Francophone African legal links, and more.

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Blawg of the Day - Employment-Law.Ca

Posted on October 14, 2010
Another Canadian blog for you today, this one on employment law. Employment-Law.Ca is published by the Ontario firm of Haber & Associates, and they are discussing recent topics like intolerable work conditions, employer risk management, inducement, and the Employment Standards Act.

Blawg of the Day - Dynamic Lawyers

Posted on October 13, 2010
Michael Carabash is a GTA business lawyer and the founder and President of Dynamic Lawyers. The blog of the same name helps people to understand, draft, negotiate and resolve disputes over business agreement. Carabash practices in Toronto.

Blawg of the Day - Continuing Legal Education Today

Posted on October 12, 2010
Pincus Professional Education publishes Continuing Legal Education Today, a blog more about how to provide than to receive CLE. The company specializes in providing coaching on public speaking, and Faith Pincus is discussing these issues on the blog.

Blawg of the Day - Flat Fee IP

Posted on October 11, 2010
Flat Fee IP aims to be at "The Frontlines of IP Litigation[/url], and as a sustainable flat fee IP litigation firm, they are definitely up near the front. Confluence Law Partners, a Silicon Valley firm, will provide progress reports and community comments on how or hot not to practice law under the new alternative fee paradigm, and how and when a high-tech business should use a flat fee litigation firm.

This Week's Issue.....

Posted on October 09, 2010
....of The Mighell Marker, a Legal Technology Weekly - specifically, Issue #381 - is up and available for your reading (and subscribing - please subscribe!) pleasure.

Blawg of the Day - Sports Law Scoreboard

Posted on October 08, 2010
It's Friday, and what better way to start off a football weekend than to talk about the Sports Law Scoreboard, an "inside look into the legal and business side of sports." It's part of mega-blogging firm Fox Rothschild's large collection of blogs, with most of the posts being written by editor Jeffrey Kravitz. He's discussing topics like education, family law, intellectual property, and privacy issues - all in the context of the sports world.

Blawg of the Day - Florida Probate, Trust & Estate Blog

Posted on October 07, 2010
Clark Skatoff, P.A. is a trusts and estates boutique located in Palm Beach, Boca Raton, and Treasure Coast, Florida. At the firm's Florida Probate, Trust & Estate Blog they're discussing inheritance theft by fiduciaries, paternity in probate litigation, a primer on will contests in Florida, and real estate litigation issues.

Blawg of the Day - Corporate Law Monitor

Posted on October 06, 2010
The New York/New Jersey/Delaware firm of Cole Schotz has a couple of blogs, and the Corporate Law Monitor is one of them. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated in about a month - what's up with that? When they *are* blogging, they're talking about governance, legislation, and securities laws and regulations.

Blawg of the Day - e2 Law Blog

Posted on October 05, 2010
The "Es" in the e2 Law Blog are "environmental" and "energy." It's Greenberg Traurig's blog on environmental and energy issues nationwide. They're discussing carbon credits, climate change, oil & gas, politics, state regulation, and other topics.

Blawg of the Day - PitbLAWg

Posted on October 04, 2010
Pitblado LLP is a leading business law firm located in Winnipeg. Their semi-self-titled blog PitbLAWg is dedicated to facilitating a conversation with its audience regarding timely and relevant legal issues regarding business. This is a group blog, with a LOT of contributors, writing on topic including deleting emails, obligations to sick employees, condominium conversions, and the cost of smoking - an eclectic collection of posts!

Blawg of the Day - IP Law Alert

Posted on October 01, 2010
Another day, another intellectual property blog. Today we take a look at IP Law Alert, which provides "practical perspectives on intellectual property legal developments." It's published by Gibbons, a firm with offices in New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, and Delaware. You'll find recent posts on topics including false marketing litigation, the Bilski decision, and buying more time to commercialize your invention, among others.

Blawg of the Day - LoTempio Law Blog

Posted on September 30, 2010
The self-titled LoTempio Law Blog is published by Vincent LoTempio, an attorney with the Buffalo firm Kloss, Stenger & LoTempio. An IP lawyer, Vincent is talking about patents, trademarks, copyright and other interesting stuff, including posts on topics like "50 Years of Invention," the USPTO Patent Dashboard Tracking Tool," "Patent Pending Provisional Rights," and others.

Blawg of the Day - Toronto Estates & Trusts Monitor

Posted on September 29, 2010
Megan Connolly is a Toronto-based lawyer who practices trusts and estates law. At her Toronto Estates & Trusts Monitor, she's discussing topics relating to her areas of practice, including beneficiary designations, capacity law, estate administration and litigation, guardianship, retirement and tax planning, and much more. Check it out!

Blawg of the Day - Class Action Countermeasures

Posted on September 28, 2010
Andrew Trask works for McGuire Woods, and he has participated in the defense of more than 100 class action lawsuits. That makes him well-suited to publish Class Action Countermeasures, a blog discussing the strategic considerations involved in class action defense. He's discussing such topics as what makes a "common question" common, how to oppose FLSA collective actions, and the strategic dilemma of bad class action settlements.

Blawg of the Day - Greg Gowe's Labour & Employment Law Blog

Posted on September 27, 2010
By the spelling of today's blog, you know that we're headed back to Canada. This time we're taking a look at Greg Gowe's Labour & Employment Law Blog, which started as the author's way to compile his articles and presentations while an associate lawyer at Lawson Lundell. He's now using the blog as a convenient vehicle to track Canadian (and sometimes U.S.) labour and employment law issues, developments and case.

Links for 2010-09-26 [del.icio.us]

Posted on September 27, 2010
Interceder: real time news Glaucoma Research Foundation Guide to Law Online - Law Library of Congress (Library of Congress) Home - Statute Law Database American College of Trust and Estate Counsel | Home EdocZA.com - Ebooks, Flash, Word, Powerpoint, Excel Online Search Engine Indiana State Police - Limited Criminal History Search Corporate Counsel - IP Insider LegiStorm: Transparency's Sidekick - Congressional Staff Salaries and More Map Builder::Rapid mashup development tool for Google and Yahoo maps!

Blawg of the Day - Our Family Business at Odds

Posted on September 24, 2010
Now here's a great niche topic for a blog, one that I haven't seen covered elsewhere in the legal blogosphere. Our Family Business at Odds is dedicated to the "unique issues of helping family members in family businesses avoid, mediate, and litigation (if you must) family business disputes." It's published by the Boston Firm of Tarlow Breed Hart & Rodgers and unlike a lot of law blogs these days, they're actually encouraging conversation and comment - so join in!

Blawg of the Day - Climate Change Report

Posted on September 23, 2010
Climate Change Report describes itself as "a blog covering business opportunities and legal issues impacted by awareness of climate change - aimed at both traditional and innovative tech companies, as well as the public sector." It's authored by big firm K&L Gates, and they are talking about financing, innovation, intellectual property, policy and legislation, all as it relates to climate change. This is another blog that hasn't updated recently - I hope that changes soon.

Blawg of the Day - Minnesota Labor & Employment

Posted on September 22, 2010
Our next location-specific blog this week is Minnesota Labor & Employment. a blog "serving the legal needs of Minnesota employers." It's published by Abrams & Schmidt, a firm in Arden Hills. Discussions there include such employment-related subjects as at-will employees, the EEOC, employee misconduct, FLSA, FMLA, personnel files, sexual harassment, and litigation avoidance, among others.

Signing PDFs from Your iPhone

Posted on September 22, 2010
I've been playing around with Sign It!, a great little app for the iPhone, this past week. Sign It allows you to open PDF files from multiple locations - from your email, from a URL, from your computer, or from a drop created at Drop.io. Once you open the file, you can do a couple of things with it - you can insert text, a signature, a custom stamp, or a date and time. After you have saved it, you can then attach it to an email, upload it to a Drop.io drop, or sync it to your computer. I wish there was a way to attach the signed PDF to the original email, but so far that's not an option with the iPhone. Still, this is a nifty tool to use if you need to sign or other wise annotate a PDF file but you're not anywhere near your computer.

Blawg of the Day - Staten Island Injury Law

Posted on September 21, 2010
We are on a run of law blogs from specific geographic areas, and today we're heading to New York to take a look at Staten Island Injury Law. It's written by Frank Dito of the Staten Island (natch) firm of Decker, Decker, Dito & Internicola. He heads up the firm's personal injury, Social Security and Workers' Compensation Practice, and he's talking about those practice areas on his blog, in addition to posts on school, homeowner, and transportation safety.

Does Bad Technology Make Your Law Practice Harder?

Posted on September 21, 2010
This past week, Dennis Kennedy and I recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, titled Does Poor Technology Equal Poor Morale? We're discussing a recent AmLaw 100 Mid-Level Associate Survey that found a great deal of unhappiness with the state of technology at mid-size and big law firms. Very interesting topic this week - give it a listen!

Hot off the Presses....

Posted on September 20, 2010
....is the latest issue - in this case, Issue #379 - of The Mighell Marker, a Legal Technology Weekly.

Blawg of the Day - Virginia Business Law Update

Posted on September 20, 2010
Here's another blog on a great topic that could be updated more frequently, but isn't. The Virginia Business Law Update features news and legal developments affecting Virginia business, with posts on such topics as business incorporation, intellectual property, non-competes, startups, trade secrets, and best practices, among others. It's brought to you by The PCT Law Group, a firm based in Alexandria.

Links for 2010-09-19 [del.icio.us]

Posted on September 20, 2010
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Blawg of the Day - Alabama Litigation Review

Posted on September 17, 2010
Today's blog hasn't posted in nearly 2 months, which is pretty close to me declaring it a "dead" or "dormant" blog - but I get so few blogs from Alabama, I decided to mention it in the event that this might get them going again. Alabama Litigation Review is published by Jeff Blackwell, of the Huntsville firm of Hornsby, Watson, Hornsby, Blackwell & McKown. As you might imagine, Jeff provides insights and commentary on developments in Alabama litigation, on topics like civil procedure, class actions, consumer claims, defective products, health insurance, punitive damages, workers' compensation, and more.

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