Miscellaneous

My Video Interview at WestBlog

Posted on February 07, 2008
A brief videotaped interview with me at LegalTech New York yesterday is posted on WestBlog.net.

Search Company Acquires Casemaker

Posted on February 07, 2008
My Web Watch column this month, Search on Steroids, profiles Collexis, a powerful new search tool making its way into the legal market. The review notes, "The company also is preparing to launch other legal products based on the same search platform, including databases of federal and state case law and U...

New Site 'Recycles' PACER Documents

Posted on February 04, 2008
I can barely keep up with the efforts of Carl Malamud and his public.resource.org to "liberate" government documents. (See 1.8M Pages of Federal Case Law to Go Public and More Government Docs to Go on Web.) The latest project: Recycle Your Used Pacer Documents!...

Lawyer2Lawyer: Fun, Sun and CLE

Posted on February 04, 2008
CLE providers are linking continuing education with exotic locales, from Paris to Florence to Machu Picchu. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the pros and cons of CLE travel programs. Joining us are Costa Mesa, Calif., lawyer Jamie Duarte, who has been organizing CLE programs in exotic locations such as Machu Picchu for more than 20 years, and Maryann McCool, lawyer and director of CLE Abroad, which has study courses in France, Italy, Spain and other European locations...

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Watch Trials Live and On Demand

Posted on February 04, 2008
At LegalTech New York tomorrow, ALM and the Courtroom View Network will formally announce the launch of CourtroomLive, a new Web service that broadcasts trials and courtroom proceedings live and on demand."CourtroomLive captures courtroom proceedings to deliver live and on-demand video directly to subscribers' desktops...

West Unveils LegalTech Blog, Podcast

Posted on February 01, 2008
Thomson West on Monday will officially announce the launch of WestBlog.net, a blog devoted to covering next week's LegalTech New York. In conjunction with the new blog, West today released a podcast, Legal Blogging: Trends and Tips, in which I was honored to be one of three guests interviewed by West's Gretchen DeSutter, along with Monica Bay, editor-in-chief of Law Technology News, and Ashby Jones from The Wall Street Journal...

The Best Feedreader is Now Free

Posted on January 31, 2008
I tried a number of feed readers over the years (for reading RSS feeds from blogs and news outlets) and was never happier than when I discovered FeedDemon. Now, FeedDemon's maker, NewsGator, has taken the price tag off FeedDemon and its suite of RSS readers for Windows, Mac and mobile devices, offering them all for free...

New Online Companion to Columbia Law Review

Posted on January 31, 2008
The Columbia Law Review today announced the launch of an online publication, Sidebar, which will serve as a forum for shorter, more informal pieces to complement the Law Review's print edition. The announcement explains: "The term "sidebar" has different meanings in different contexts...

Law.com to Highlight Legal Tech Bloggers

Posted on January 31, 2008
With LegalTech New York ready to go next week, affiliates Law.com and Law Technology News today announced a special platform to showcase those who will blogging from or about the Feb. 5-7 event. As many of you know, I coauthor Law.com's Legal Blog Watch together with Carolyn Elefant...

Sophisticated Search for Public Domain Law

Posted on January 30, 2008
I wrote here in November about plans by Public.Resource.Org to publish 1.8 million pages of public-domain federal case law sometime this year and its goal of eventually creating a public-domain repository of all federal and state case law. More recently, in an article of mine published on Law...

LegalTech New York

Posted on January 29, 2008
If you have not signed up for next week's LegalTech New York, whaddya waiting for? The conference -- Feb. 5 to 7 at the New York Hilton -- continues year after year to be one of the two top annual legal technology events (along with ABA Techshow). The line-up of programs and speakers is impressive...

Lawyers as Bloggers as Writers

Posted on January 29, 2008
Thanks to Laura Orr at Oregon Legal Research for including this blog in a pair of thoughtful posts on the art and practice of blogging for lawyers: Blogging for Lawyers and Blawgers as (real) Writers. In the first post, she covers the fundamentals of getting started in blogging...

Get Paid for Job Interviews

Posted on January 29, 2008
A new career site that marked its official launch this week is targeted at professionals who are not looking for a new job. In a new twist on playing hard to get, the site's tantalizing premise is that your lack of interest in a new job combined with your stellar credentials will add up to employers wanting to pay to talk to you...

My Posts Today at Legal Blog Watch

Posted on January 28, 2008
My posts today at Law.com's Legal Blog Watch:Firm Under Fire for Staged 'News Report'.School Seeks Fees from 'Bong Hits' Plaintiff.2L's Sleuthing Makes Man's Day.Must AutoAdmit Case Admit Defeat?.Mukasey Headed to Law School.

Lawyer2Lawyer: Virtual Law Firms

Posted on January 28, 2008
Almost since the earliest days of the Internet, lawyers have been experimenting with virtual firms to increase efficiency and lower costs. More recently, virtual firms have taken on greater levels of sophistication and complexity. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss this phenomenon with the principals of two virtual firms and a business-development consultant...

The Year's Most Notable Legal Sites

Posted on January 23, 2008
Law.com today features my recent column, Changing the Online Legal Landscape. Here's the intro:Fire up the Klieg lights and tidy up your tux. It is time to honor the five most notable legal sites of 2007. We focus on the sites that made news or should have made news -- not necessarily the best or the worst, but the ones that most altered the online legal landscape...

Lawyer2Lawyer: Social Networking and the Law

Posted on January 23, 2008
This week on our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my co-host J. Craig Williams and I look at the topic, Social Networking and the Law. We have an insightful conversation with three guests who have very different perspectives on the topic: Chris Carfi, co-founder of business-networking company Cerado; Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law; and Kara Swisher, co-executive editor of All Things Digital...

First Woman Jury - And Other Amazing Photos

Posted on January 22, 2008
This 1911 photograph of the first all-woman jury is from an amazing collection of some 3,000 copyright-free photos posted by the Library of Congress to photo-sharing site Flickr. With these photos, the LOC and Flickr are joining forces to launch a new initiative, The Commons, to enhance understanding of these photos through public tagging and commenting...

New Blog Deals With Business that 'Divorce'

Posted on January 17, 2008
A new blog focuses on break-ups between businesses, particularly in New York. Called New York Business Divorce, it is written by Peter A. Mahler, a partner in the Manhattan office of the firm Farrell Fritz. The blog provides information for lawyers and others on dissolution and other disputes among owners of corporations, LLCs and partnerships.

Today at Legal Blog Watch

Posted on January 16, 2008
My postings today at Legal Blog Watch:Of Steamy Sex and Speech in Stalls.Blawgs: A Lawyer's First Reader.Lawyer/Lawmaker Kicks up Controversy.Judges' Guide to Keeping Secrets.

Thomson Enters Social Networking Market

Posted on January 16, 2008
The Thomson Corporation, parent of Westlaw, announced yesterday its first step into the B2B social networking market with its acquisition of Boston-based Contact Networks, a provider of relationship management technology for large law firms and other professional-services enterprises...

Webcast Live From Anywhere

Posted on January 15, 2008
A new service enables anyone with a 3G mobile video phone to broadcast live video to the Web and archive the video for later viewing. Called ComVu PocketCaster, it works with Windows Mobile and Symbian smartphones (list of supported phones). Literally with the push of one button on your phone, PocketCaster begins streaming video to the Web, either to a ComVu page or to your own blog or other preselected Web page...

L2L: New Books from Elefant, Dershowitz

Posted on January 15, 2008
This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we feature interviews with two lawyers who each have new books out: Washington, D.C., lawyer Carolyn Elefant and Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz.Elefant, author of the blog MyShingle.com, is releasing her new book this month, Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be...

ISP Woes

Posted on January 11, 2008
Thank you to everyone who pointed out that my Web site and blogs disappeared this morning. Something went wrong with my ISP. The best information I could obtain came from its Web site, which said, "We're currently experiencing issues with customer websites being served correctly...

A Vote for Firefox 2.0 over IE 7

Posted on January 06, 2008
[The following column originally appeared in print in December 2006. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...

Helpful Sites for Smaller Firms

Posted on January 06, 2008
[The following column originally appeared in print in April 2006. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...

My LexBlog Q&A

Posted on January 06, 2008
Thanks to Rob La Gatta at Real Lawyers Have Blogs, the blog of LexBlog, for publishing this Q&A with me.

School of Podcasting

Posted on January 03, 2008
[The following column originally appeared in print in October 2006. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...

Zeitgeist to Zillow: A Round-up of New Sites

Posted on January 02, 2008
[The following column originally appeared in print in May 2006. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...

Column: Round-up of Recently Launched Sites

Posted on January 02, 2008
[The following column originally appeared in print in January 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as described, some may have changed...

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