Miscellaneous

The Art and Science of Lawyer Bios

Posted on August 27, 2010
I’ve given a lot of thought over the years to the very mundane topic of lawyer bios. Having done so, I am compelled to file this dissent to Matt Homann’s clever but off-base Venn diagram about lawyer bios (Your Clients Don’t Care Where You Went to Law School)...

Podcast: F. Lee Bailey on the Clemens Indictment

Posted on August 26, 2010
Legendary criminal defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey and New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt join us to discuss the indictment of Roger Clemens on this week’s installment of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. You can listen to the program in your browser or download the MP3 file from the Legal Talk Network...

Google Unveils Realtime Search for Twitter, Blogs and More

Posted on August 26, 2010
Google today unveiled Google Realtime Search, a new search interface for real-time results from social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, blogs and elsewhere. (That link may not yet work for everyone. If it doesn’t, use this link to the development page...

Podcast: Justice Denied in the Markoff Case?

Posted on August 20, 2010
Three great guests join us on this week’s Lawyer2Lawyer to discuss the prison suicide of accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff and what it means for the case, the victims’ families and the criminal justice system. Our guests are: Douglas Berman, professor of law at Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University and author of the blog [...

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?The Virtual Chase? Rises from the Ashes

Posted on August 19, 2010
Two years ago in a post here, I bemoaned the shuttering of The Virtual Chase, a website devoted to enhancing the research skills of legal professionals. Founded in 1995 by Genie Tyburski, a law librarian at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia, the site was a top destination for legal researchers, until Genie announced she would no [...

Site Tracks Federal Judicial Vacancies

Posted on August 18, 2010
Both the president and Congress are often criticized for moving too slowly to fill federal judicial vacancies. But where are these vacancies and what has been done to fill them? The answers to these and other questions can be found at  JudicialNominations...

What?s in a Blawg?s Name? Audience Appeal, Perhaps

Posted on August 18, 2010
I’ll admit it: I’m a sucker for a clever pun or play on words.  Among legal blogs, there’s been a minor run on clever names lately, with several new blogs carrying clever turns of phrases as their names. Clever names are nothing new for legal blogs, of course...

Defense Bar Launches Web Portal

Posted on August 17, 2010
The Defense Research Institute, an international association of civil defense attorneys and corporate counsel, has launched DRI Today, which it describes as “a one-stop online information portal for the legal community.” So far, it is nowhere near being a one-stop information source...

Lawyer2Lawyer podcast: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Elena Kagan

Posted on August 13, 2010
Well, maybe not everything. But on this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the newest member of the Supreme Court and the impact she might ultimately have there. Joining us are two experts on the court: Tony Mauro, Supreme Court correspondent for The National Law Journal and ALM Media and a veteran journalist [...

An App for Searching Patents, Trademarks

Posted on August 10, 2010
I wrote last May about Apptorney IP, an app that facilitated patent and trademark searching on an iPhone by providing direct links to the appropriate sections of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website. Now comes an app that takes that to the next level, enabling more seamless searching of patents and trademarks...

Lawyer2Lawyer Looks at the Prop 8 Ruling

Posted on August 09, 2010
In a landmark decision last week, U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker in San Francisco struck down California’s controversial and highly debated Proposition 8. Approved by the state’s voters in November 2008, Prop 8 overturned a state supreme court ruling that resulted in the legalization of same-sex marriage...

A Bevy of Notable New Blawgs

Posted on August 06, 2010
Several legal blogs of note have launched recently: The ZRG Blog. For roughly a decade, legal researcher Andrew Zimmerman has published Zimmerman’s Research Guide, an online encyclopedia for legal researchers. Last month, he launched this blog to keep his readers informed of updates to the guide...

A Legend in My Own Time?

Posted on August 05, 2010
When applied to human beings, “legendary” is a word best reserved for outlaws and truly accomplished people such as Carol Burnett and Daniel Schorr. Thus, I am particularly grateful to Gina Roers (a/k/a CLE Gina) for her very kind review of my recent talk at the ACLEA annual meeting...

An iPhone App for Finding Lawyers Worldwide

Posted on August 04, 2010
Looking for a lawyer in Latvia? Need an accountant in Australia? Well, you guessed it, there’s an app for that. The MSI Global Alliance, an international association of 250 independent law and accounting firms in 105 countries, yesterday released Advisors2Go, an iPhone app that provides a directory of its member firms and of key contacts within [...

Another ALM Veteran Joins Thomson Reuters

Posted on August 03, 2010
Interesting to see, via Romenesko, that Thomson Reuters has hired Eric Effron as editor for law of the new Thomson Reuters Professional News Center. Effron is the former editor and publisher of Legal Times, the former ALM-owned Washington, D.C., legal newspaper that ALM recently folded into its national legal newspaper, The National Law Journal...

ABA Technology Survey on Lawyer Websites

Posted on July 29, 2010
In a post here last week, I wrote about findings on social networking from the 2010 Legal Technology Survey Report of the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center. The six-volume survey looks at legal-technology trends in various aspects of law practice. Volume IV of the survey covers Web and communication technology...

How Technology is Rewiring Lawyers? Brains

Posted on July 28, 2010
At the ACLEA annual meeting in New York City yesterday, I gave a plenary talk on the topic, “10 Ways Technology is Rewiring Lawyers’ Brains … and What it Means for CLE.” Embedded below are the slides from my presentation. To view the presentation in a larger window, click this link: How_Technology_is_Rewiring_Lawyers_Brains.

Another Site Offers Group Buying for Small Firms

Posted on July 26, 2010
In a post here in May, I wrote about GroupESQ, a site that aims to deliver group-buying power to lawyers, even in small firms. Now, another site, Prime Advantage Legal, is offering a similar service for small- and mid-sized law firms, but on a broader scale and with more consistent discounts...

JD Supra and LinkedIn, Like Peanut Butter and ??

Posted on July 24, 2010
I wrote last week about the news that JD Supra is Now Linked Up to LinkedIn. After writing that, I came across a post from Martha Sperry in which she said that JD Supra and LinkedIn go together like peanut butter and jelly. Now I read, via Jayne Navarre’s Virtual Marketing Officer blog, that Ron [...

We Interview the Dean of the New UMass Law School

Posted on July 22, 2010
On this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we interview Robert V. Ward Jr., dean of the new University of Massachusetts School of Law, the first public law school in the state. He talks about why the school is important, how it will be financed, and its goal of encouraging students to pursue careers in [...

Technology?s Effect on the Legal Profession

Posted on July 20, 2010
In thinking about my presentation next week for the ACLEA annual meeting about ?How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law ? and CLE,? I suddenly remembered that I had once written a magazine article on this very topic. Way back in 1995, I wrote, Empowered or Enslaved: Technology’s Effect on the Legal Profession (PDF), the [...

Speaking Next Week at ACLEA Annual Meeting

Posted on July 20, 2010
I hope to see you at the ACLEA Annual Meeting in New York next week. I am speaking twice, both times on Tuesday, July 27.  From 10 to 11:15 a.m., I will present the plenary session, “How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law … and CLE...

FindLaw Launches Across the Pond

Posted on July 19, 2010
Legal website FindLaw today launched FindLaw UK, a site for individuals and businesses in the U.K. seeking information on legal topics and help finding solicitors. The site provides articles, FAQs, blogs and other information on various legal topics. It also offers Contact Law, a service designed to connect people with recommended solicitors.

A Law Firm Run by Two Robots?

Posted on July 19, 2010
Will there ever come a day when robots will replace lawyers? Judging by the website of the firm Robot Robot & Hwang, that day has already arrived.  The two senior partners in the three-member firm are both computers, one named Apollo Cluster and the other named Daria XR-1029...

JD Supra is Now Linked Up to LinkedIn

Posted on July 16, 2010
For lawyers, this is a marriage made in social-networking heaven: JD Supra, a leading site for sharing legal content, is now partnering with LinkedIn, the leading professional-networking site, so that JD Supra content will now be seamlessly integrated into LinkedIn...

Need a Screencast? I?ve Got Your Guy

Posted on July 16, 2010
If you need someone to create a screencast for your product or service, I’ve got just the guy. Sure, he happens to be my son. Ben Ambrogi. But he does good work. Below are some examples. If you’d like to get in touch with him, let me know (ambrogi-at-gmail...

Site offers Better Access to Federal Rulemaking

Posted on July 13, 2010
For any lawyer who follows or participates in federal rulemaking, the U.S. government’s launch a few years ago of Regulations.gov was a great leap forward. Finally, from a single site, you could find and track proposed rules from nearly 300 federal agencies and even submit formal comments...

New Site Crowdsources the Legal Treatise

Posted on July 12, 2010
Spindle Law describes itself as “a new kind of legal research and writing system.” Its goal is to make legal research “faster and smarter.” It seeks to do this in two ways: by structuring information more intuitively and by building on the knowledge of the lawyers who use it...

Former Sun GC Bikes ? and Blogs ? Cross Country

Posted on July 08, 2010
In legal-blogging circles, Mike Dillon is known as the first Fortune 500 general counsel to launch a blog. That was in 2006, when Dillon was GC of Sun Microsystems. Earlier this year, Oracle acquired Sun. With Sun’s demise, so went Dillon’s blog (although the archives remain up)...

The WSJ Reports on Bloomberg Law

Posted on July 08, 2010
Last February, Law.com published my review of Bloomberg Law, in which I wrote, “Bloomberg’s biggest challenge may lie in convincing the legal market that it needs another high-end research service.” That is essentially the same conclusion reached by Wall Street Journal reporter Russell Adams, who writes about the service today in a piece titled, Bloomberg Hangs [...

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