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Blawg of the Day - Cyberlaw Cases

Posted on April 30, 2010
I'm always a fan of blogs on the intersection of technology and the law, and today's is a good example of that. Cyberlaw Cases provides information on "the top pending cyberlaw cases." It's a group effort from both professors and lawyers alike, including Brian Carver (professor, U.C.-Berkeley), Joe Gratz (lawyer, Durie, Tangri), Aaron Perzanowski (professor, Wayne State), and Jason Schultz (professor, U.C.-Berkeley). In addition to cyberlaw cases, they'll also discuss copyright, trademark, and patent cases that have a significant connection to networked environments or computer software. Make sure you check out the "Top 10 Pending Cases" page, which provides links to case information, as well as a brief synopsis of the status of each case.

Blawg of the Day - PMATips

Posted on April 29, 2010
Practice Management Advisors (PMAs) are some of my favorite people - they recognize that lawyers are lacking in education for some of the most important aspects of running a law practice - finance, marketing, technology, and basis management skills. Twenty-one states (and many Canadian provinces) offer some type of practice management assistance - every state should have a practice management program, in my opinion. Many PMAs have their own blog, but PMA Tips appears to be a joint effort of many of them - or not. It's hard to tell who's authoring this blog. Nonetheless, it's a great collection of tips for lawyers, primarily in the area of technology. For useful tips, it would be a good move to subscribe to this blog.

Blawg of the Day - Henderson Valley Eggs

Posted on April 28, 2010
Now, you wouldn't expect a blog called Henderson Valley Eggs to be a law-related blog. But there you would be wrong. This is a law librarian blog, characterized as a "themed information collective." The 6 contributing editors are all self-described "spring chicken" full-time law librarians who are writing about law library and related issues. Quirky, yes, but there's good stuff here - I just wish they were posting more often!

Getting Started with Social Media, or Improving Your Presence Online

Posted on April 28, 2010
I'm a big fan of Chris Brogan, who along with Julien Smith wrote Trust Agents, a book on using the web to build influence, improve your reputation, and earn trust. He continues that conversation over at his self-titled blog, Chris Brogan. One of my favorite recent posts is titled Social Media Projects You Could Start Today; it's basically a collection of some of his previous articles on getting started using social media. Probably my favorite of the articles is on creating a simple presence framework. It's a simple framework, really - developing a Home Base (your blog, website, wherever you want people to come), Outposts (places where you interact with people, with the hope that they might visit your Home Base to continue the conversation), and Passports (profiles you keep on various online sites, without a lot of participation)...

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Blawg of the Day - Consumer Advocate Legal Update

Posted on April 27, 2010
From the firm Khorrami, Pollard & Abir comes the Consumer Advocate Legal Update, providing insight and commentary on legal issues impacting consumers nationwide. The Los Angeles firm is discussing consumer topics as catastrophic personal injury, consumer fraud, insurance, mass torts, pharmaceuticals, products liability, and wage & hour, among others.

Blawg of the Day - Customs & International Trade Law Blog

Posted on April 26, 2010
The Customs & International Trade Law Blog is brought to you by the firm of Becker & Poliakoff, a Fort Lauderdale/Miami firm. Peter Quinter and Jennifer Diaz are the primary authors, and they're writing about such topics as currency seizure, C-TPAT, freight forwarding, FDA issues, counterfeiting, customs brokers, and more.

The Internet as Your Next Operating System

Posted on April 26, 2010
At The Kennedy-Mighell Report, we like to keep on top of the latest in technology topics. But our latest podcast was a little bit on the abstract side, even for me. In The Internet Operating System, Dennis and I discuss the idea that with more and more data and computing moving online, the structure is actually coming to resemble an operating system. This post by Tim O'Reilly on The State of the Internet Operating System was the launchpad for our discussion, so give it a read for more information. In any event, I learned a lot from prepping for the podcast, so I hope you learn something, too.

Links for 2010-04-25 [del.icio.us]

Posted on April 26, 2010
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Extra! Extra!

Posted on April 25, 2010
The latest issue of the Mighell Marker is up, and available for your reading pleasure.

Blawg of the Day - Global Financial Market Watch Blog

Posted on April 19, 2010
Mega-firm K&L Gates has pushed out another law blog, and this one has an international reach. The Global Financial Market Watch Blog focuses on legal, policy, and regulatory analysis related to global financial markets. Looks like it's mostly just a release of news stories, with no real input or analysis from K&L Gates lawyers, though.

Blawg of the Day - China-U.S. Trade Law

Posted on April 16, 2010
This may be the first bilingual law blog I've seen. China-U.S. Trade Law features posts (some, but not all) in both english and chinese, on topics concerning active trade disputes between China and the United States. It's published by big firm Baker Hostetler, and looks to be a group effort by several of the firm's lawyers.

Blawg of the Day - New Jersey Estate Planning & Elder Law Blog

Posted on April 15, 2010
From Australia yesterday we travel to the U.S. east coast for the New Jersey Estate Planning & Elder Law Blog. It's published by Deirdre Wheatley-Liss, of the Parsippany/Toms River-based firm of Fein, Such, Kahn & Shepard. Deirdre is talking up the usual estate planning and elder law issues here, with a New Jersey twist.

Blawg of the Day - West Australian Medical Negligence Law Blog

Posted on April 14, 2010
It has been awhile since I featured a blog from another country (besides Canada, that is), so today we'll head Down Under. The West Australian Medical Negligence Law Blog provides insights on medical negligence issues from the Perth area and throughout Australia. It's published by Julian Johnson, a Subiaco lawyer who has represented injured people in medical malpractice claims for some time. You'll find posts relating to cosmetic surgery, loss of chance, cerebral palsy, cancer, causation, and other topics.

The Kennedy-Mighell Report at ABA TECHSHOW

Posted on April 13, 2010
I'm still catching up on telling you about some of the recent Kennedy-Mighell Report podcasts, and the one we released on April 1 was a lot of fun. It was our first video podcast, and it took place at ABA TECHSHOW 2010, the premier legal technology educational conference for lawyers. In the episode Inside ABA TECHSHOW 2010, Dennis and I got to interview some of the great faculty from the show - judges, practice management advisors, and others. If you've ever been wondering what goes on at ABA TECHSHOW, watch this podcast and then join us next year!

Blawg of the Day - First Responder Liability

Posted on April 13, 2010
It has been awhile since I featured an interesting niche blog here at Inter Alia, so here goes: First Responder Liability provides commentary on legal issues facing emergency services. It's published by Fred Simon of Lexington, Kentucky, who in addition to being a lawyer also serves as a volunteer firefighter - making him uniquely qualified to write on this subject.

Collaboration for Today's Lawyer

Posted on April 12, 2010
Wow - I'm way behind in promoting our recent Kennedy-Mighell Report podcasts - so I'll spin all of them out over the next couple of days. Back on March 16, we released Smart Ways to Work Together in 2010, to discuss how lawyers are collaborating with each other a few years after the release of our book The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies. Surprisingly, we're finding that although hundreds of great tools and technologies have been released over the past few years to help lawyers and other legal professionals collaborate with each other, very few of those us are actually using these tools. We discuss the reasons for this, and provide some great tips on getting started using collaboration technologies.

Blawg of the Day - Houston DWI Law Blog

Posted on April 12, 2010
Today, a blog from my home state - the Houston DWI Law Blog provides insights and commentary from experienced Houston DWI defense lawyers. It's brought to you by Johnson, Johnson & Baer, and they're discussing such DWI-related topics as blood and breath tests, expungement, and drivers licenses, among others.

Blawg of the Day - Climate Change and Clean Technology Blog

Posted on April 09, 2010
It has been a while since I featured a site from blogging pioneer Sheppard Mullin here, so today we have the Climate Change and Clean Technology Blog, which highlights issues such as greenhouse gases, public financing, renewable energies, and making technology "cleaner."

Blawg of the Day - Hunton Immigration & Nationality Law Blog

Posted on April 08, 2010
We return today to a big firm blog, this one from Hunton & Williams. The Hunton Immigration & Nationality Law Blog discusses topics like asylum, E-Verify, I-9s, Real ID, immigrant and non-immigrant visas, processing, and much more.

Blawg of the Day - Nova Scotia Car Accident Law Blog

Posted on April 07, 2010
We'll finish our recent slew of Canadian blogs with the Nova Scotia Car Accident Law Blog. It's published by David Brannen, a personal injury lawyer in Halifax. As you might expect, the content discusses car accidents, personal injury and insurance matters.

Blawg of the Day - Fired Without Cause

Posted on April 06, 2010
Here's a blog with a bold title: Fired Without Cause comes with the tag line "empower yourself." It's brought to you by Paradigm Shift Solutions out of Vancouver, British Columbia - which doesn't sound like a law firm, but which does develop web-enabled legal services. As you might expect, the blog covers the usual employment law issues, from the employee standpoint.

Blawg of the Day - Blogosaurus Lex

Posted on April 05, 2010
Another blog from Canada for you today - it's Blogosaurus Lex, dedicated to chronicling the evolution of public legal education. It's published by the folks at the Legal Resource Centre of Alberta, a non-profit company that helps to enhance the accessibility and quality of justice realized in Canada.

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Posted on April 04, 2010
Public Records Searches - State of California Lexology Conservation Almanac Upload and Search Theses and Dissertations - OpenThesis International Institute for Sustainable Development - Reporting Services (IISD RS) - "Linkages" - A Multimedia Resource for Environment and Development Negotiations Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms easily defined on MedTerms U.S. Department of Labor - Wage and Hour Division (WHD) - Minimum Wage Laws in the States Business Intelligence Online Resources | LLRX.com

Blawg of the Day - Bizop News

Posted on April 02, 2010
I can't tell whether the name of Michael Webster's blog is called Bizop News or "Misleading Advertising Law," because both titles appear at the top. In any event, Mr. Webster is a commercial litigator practicing in Toronto, and he's discussing business law issues, with a heavy emphasis on due diligence.

Blawg of the Day - Michigan Estate Planning Law Blog

Posted on April 01, 2010
Today's blog is brought to you by the Wall Law Group, of Shelby Township, Michigan. The Michigan Estate Planning Law Blog provides commentary on estate planning and probate issues impacting Michigan residents.

Blawg of the Day - FindGreatLawyers.com

Posted on March 31, 2010
The website FindGreatLawyers.com is an Illinois service that provides lawyer referrals and other legal guidance. On their blog they are talking about criminal defense and family law issues, along with personal injury and other litigation issues.

Blawg of the Day - Gay Couples Law Blog

Posted on March 30, 2010
The Gay Couples Law Blog features new developments in family law and estate planning for same sex couples. It's published by Gideon Alper, a 3rd-year law student at Emory University. He's discussing the usual family law and estate planning issues, but all from a same-sex couples perspective - this kind of information is relatively hard to find online.

Blawg of the Day - Lending Law Report

Posted on March 29, 2010
Today's blog is timely in terms of our current financial crisis. Big firm Reed Smith publishes the Lending Law Report, featuring insights and information on legal issues affecting corporate financial transactions. You'll find posts on collateral, intercreditor issues, mezz lending, private equity deals, secured and syndicated loans, and much more.

Blawg of the Day - Banking & Finance Law Report

Posted on March 26, 2010
Big firm Porter Wright publishes the Banking & Finance Law Report, featuring current developments in the area. You'll find posts on such topics as bank regulation, collection and foreclosure, commercial lending, leases, ERISA, regulation and compliance, and more.

Blawg of the Day - Connecticut Business Litigation Blog

Posted on March 25, 2010
From N. Kane Bennett comes the Connecticut Business Litigation Blog. He's providing commentary on lawsuits and legal issues impacting Connecticut Businesses, and his posts are covering such topics as class actions, compliance issues, fraud, privacy laws, undue influence, and unfair trade practices, among others.

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