Miscellaneous

Rocket Matter is Now Integrated with Dropbox

Posted on November 30, 2010
Rocket Matter, the Web-based legal practice management and time-and-billing application, today announced its integration with Dropbox, an Internet document backup and synchronization service that is gaining popularity within the legal community. The integration enables Rocket Matter users to associate client matters with Dropbox folders, allowing them to view documents associated with a given client case...

LawSites Named to ABA Blawg 100 for Third Year

Posted on November 29, 2010
I am proud to announce that this blog has been named to the 2010 ABA Journal Blawg 100, a listing of the top 100 best law blogs by lawyers, for lawyers, as selected by the editors of the ABA Journal. This is the fourth time the ABA Journal has selected the Blawg 100 and the third time [...

SJC Proposes New Rule on Technology in the Courts

Posted on November 29, 2010
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today published a proposed rule that would broaden the use of technology in the state’s courtrooms and that would address the rights of bloggers and citizen journalists — as well as of traditional journalists — to use technology and video in the state’s courtrooms...

Blawgers Get Free Passes to LegalTech New York

Posted on November 29, 2010
LegalTech New York, one of the top legal technology events of the year, is just around the corner.  Again this year, ALM, the company that presents the conference, is offering complimentary passes to legal bloggers. These are full-show passes, allowing access to all programs and exhibits...

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Lawyer/Journalist Sparks Public Official?s Conscience

Posted on November 24, 2010
For those of you in Massachusetts, you can skip this post, because you probably know the story already. But for others, please read on to find out how a lawyer/journalist caused a public official to stop a double-dipping scheme before it even got started...

Podcast: Full-Body Scans, Pat Downs and the TSA

Posted on November 24, 2010
This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we uncover the revealing facts about full-body scans and do a full pat-down of the legal issues surrounding the TSA’s controversial screening practices. Joining us to discuss this issue are Patrick Smith, the airline pilot and author who writes the Salon...

Today is this Blog?s Eighth Anniversary

Posted on November 19, 2010
I launched this blog on Nov. 19, 2002. That was 2,375 posts ago, or about 297 posts a year. Not a huge output compared to some. Still, during these years, I also wrote roughly 1,700 posts for Legal Blog Watch, 562 posts for my Media Law blog and roughly 90 monthly columns for Law Technology News, and [...

Podcast: A Test Lab for Social Media in the Courts

Posted on November 18, 2010
The Order in the Court 2.0 project will turn a Massachusetts courtroom into a test lab for how courts deal with social media, electronic journalism and digital technology. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss this pioneering project with John Davidow, the WBUR...

Judge Creates Web TV Series to Teach Family Law

Posted on November 17, 2010
A family law judge in Ontario has launched an online video talk show to teach the public about family law issues. In the show, Family Matters, Judge Harvey Brownstone acts as host and interviews guests from various sectors of the legal community, including lawyers, mediators and social workers...

Law Clerk?s Killer Gets 20-Year Sentence

Posted on November 17, 2010
In a post two years ago at Legal Blog Watch, I reported the murder of Gabriel Lerner, a 27-year-old Georgetown University Law School graduate who worked in the U.S. Virgin Islands as a law clerk to a Superior Court judge. Lerner was murdered on his way to bible study by two hitchhikers he picked up...

A Smart Resource for Smart Litigators

Posted on November 15, 2010
Legal media company ALM has rather quietly launched a new Web resource for litigators, Smart Litigator. The site is intended for litigators in New York state but will become the template for the eventual roll-out of similar sites in other states where ALM has offices...

Mass. Supreme Court Website Down After Failing to Renew Domain Name

Posted on November 15, 2010
The website that posts opinions of Massachusetts appellate courts was shut down this morning because no one renewed the site’s domain name. The domain name for the site, massreports.com, expired Nov. 8, reports The Boston Globe. The site is jointly operated by the state and West legal publishing...

ABA Prez Discusses Social Media, Civics and More

Posted on November 11, 2010
ABA President Stephen N. Zack is our guest this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Amid controversy among legal bloggers over the ABA’s recent issues paper on lawyers’ use of the Internet, I ask Zack for his perspective on the issue...

The First Arbitration in the U.S.?

Posted on November 09, 2010
Arbitration in 1623? So says this historical marker at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester, Mass.

Governor Names Ireland to Succeed Marshall as SJC Chief

Posted on November 04, 2010
Did not take long after the election for Gov. Patrick to name his nominee to succeed Margaret Marshall as chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. Today he announced that he is nominating Justice Roderick L. Ireland. Ireland is an associate justice of the SJC and a former Appeal Court and Juvenile Court judge...

Law.com, All Over Again

Posted on November 04, 2010
The legal news and information site Law.com got a major facelift this week, and the new look is more than skin deep. In addition to a cleaner and more consistent design throughout, the revamped Law.com features a broader array of news and voices, from both within and without the network of ALM, Law...

Project that Crowdsources Patent Review Gets a Second Life

Posted on November 03, 2010
You may remember the Peer To Patent pilot project, an innovative collaboration between  the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and the Center for Patent Innovations at New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy. The pilot, which ran from 2007 to 2009, used crowdsourcing and the power of the Internet at large to help vet [...

FindLaw Gets Stuck in 2008

Posted on November 03, 2010
After reading today that FindLaw had launched a mobile version of its website, I decided to check it out. In the course of doing that, I discovered that FindLaw has no listing for me. I knew it once did, so I followed the link to edit my profile. Sure enough, it had a username for [...

Lawyer-Rating Site Avvo Adds Doctor Ratings

Posted on November 01, 2010
The lawyer-rating site Avvo.com is taking on a whole new profession with its launch today of doctor ratings. As of today, Avvo is adding an entirely new section of its site that contains profiles and ratings of medical doctors from all 50 states. As it does with lawyers, Avvo is rating doctors on a scale of [...

Fired and Need Legal Advice? There?s an App for That

Posted on October 31, 2010
If you find yourself in the unfortunate position of being fired or laid off from your job and in need of legal advice, there is an app for that — but only if you are in the United Kingdom. The iPhone app, I’ve Been Fired, helps terminated workers understand their legal rights and determine what [...

A Love Letter to a Laptop

Posted on October 29, 2010
If David Pogue can write a love letter to a camera, I don’t see why I shouldn’t write one to my laptop — or, actually, to a family of laptops, the Thinkpad. I just bought what will be my third Thinkpad. It hasn’t even arrived yet, so I should be cautious about singing its praises...

Survey Measures Mac Use by Lawyers

Posted on October 27, 2010
PC or Mac? It is a question lawyers have long debated and debated and debated even more. Now, a survey seeks to put some meat on the bones of the debate, aiming to determine whether there is clear evidence of trend towards Macs within the legal industry...

Major Redesign for Project Management Tool Onit

Posted on October 26, 2010
In a post earlier this year, I wrote about Onit, the Web-based project management tool introduced as a beta at LegalTech in February. Designed for managing projects of any size, Onit includes a Legal Edition for legal matters and cases. “The beauty of Onit is its simplicity,” I wrote then, not to mention its price tag, [...

What Pro Bono Means to Me

Posted on October 25, 2010
“You don’t own anything until you give it away.” – Ernest Hemingway It is Pro Bono Week. In its observance, I’ve joined a group of bloggers, organized by Kate Bladow, who’ve pledged to blog about what pro bono means to them...

Wikimedia Seeks New General Counsel, as Godwin Leaves

Posted on October 22, 2010
The Wikimedia Foundation, the San Francisco-based, nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and a variety of related projects all built using the MediaWiki software, has started a search for a new general counsel. The search raises the question of what happened to Mike Godwin, Wikimedia’s GC since 2007...

Courthouse to be Laboratory for Social Media

Posted on October 22, 2010
Just south of Boston, in the city where John Adams, John Quincy Adams and John Hancock were born, a somewhat run-down courthouse is about to become a cutting-edge laboratory for social media in the courts. As I reported here in June, a project called Order in the Court 2...

New Blog Covers Entertainment, Media Law

Posted on October 21, 2010
From the Canadian firm Heenan Blakie, Entertainment & Media Law Signal is a recently launched blog that provides information and observations on the newest developments in entertainment and media law. Two members of the firm’s Entertainment Law Group, Bob Tarantino and Paul Chodirker, serve as its editors and several others are contributors...

Site Seeks to ?Democratize? Constitutional History

Posted on October 20, 2010
A new website, launched in a beta version last month, seeks to democratize access to source materials of the Constitution so that anyone can more easily research and learn from the history that led to its creation, ratification and amendments. The site, ConSource...

Webcast Friday of Workshop on Open Access Law Journals

Posted on October 19, 2010
On Friday, the Harvard Law School Library and Duke Law School?s J. Michael Goodson Law Library and Center for the Public Domain will present a day-long workshop, Implementing the Durham Statement: Best Practices for Open Access Law Journals. The event is live, with most of it taking place at Duke and a wrap-up session at Harvard...

Former Lexis CEO Takes Helm of Bloomberg Law

Posted on October 18, 2010
This should be interesting: Lou Andreozzi, the former president and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, has been named chairman of Bloomberg Law, the company announced this morning. Also, Larry D. Thompson, the former VP of business development, strategy and marketing and global chief marketing officer for LexisNexis, has joined Bloomberg Law as COO...

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