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El Nombre del Sitio Web es México Justia

Posted on October 18, 2010
The U.S. legal portal Justia has launched a legal portal for Mexico, Justia Mexico. As Justia does for the U.S., Justia Mexico does for that country, providing legal information and resources for lawyers and consumers, all without cost. The Justia Mexico site provides access to Mexican federal and state constitutions, laws, codes and regulations...

Law School Blog Focuses on Legal Journalism

Posted on October 17, 2010
In 1884, two Portuguese men who could not speak a word of English wrote a guide to conversational English, English as She is Spoke. The result was so hilariously absurd that Mark Twain said of it, “Its immortality is secure.” The blog Legal As She Is Spoke, a project of the Program in Law and Journalism [...

On Lawyer2Lawyer, the Real Betty Anne Waters

Posted on October 15, 2010
In the film Conviction, which opens today, Hilary Swank plays Betty Anne Waters, a wife and mother of two who put herself through high school, college and ultimately law school, in an 18-year-long crusade to prove her brother Kenny?s innocence after he is convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole...

Mary Mack Leaves Fios, Joins ZyLAB

Posted on October 14, 2010
Mary Mack, longtime corporate technology counsel to e-discovery company Fios and author of its featured blog, Sound Evidence, is leaving that company to join another e-discovery company, ZyLAB, as enterprise technology counsel and part of the leadership team charged with developing its North American business...

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Clio Announces Google Apps Integration

Posted on October 12, 2010
In a post two weeks ago about Clio, the cloud-based law practice management application, I said the company had a major enhancement in the works. Well, here it is. Today, Clio and Google announced Clio’s integration with Google Apps, Google’s cloud-based suite of office tools for businesses that includes Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs...

LexisNexis Rolls Out Lexis Advance for Solos

Posted on October 08, 2010
A busy schedule has kept me from reviewing Lexis Advance for Solos, the new LexisNexis legal research platform for one- and two-lawyer firms that LexisNexis released earlier this week. Today, I finally had a chance to sit down (in the virtual sense) with Lexis executives for a tour...

COLPM Futures Conference Explores How Lawyers Can ?Reset?

Posted on October 07, 2010
“The very definition of insanity,” Albert Einstein said, is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” If so, then, for the legal profession, it is time to stop the insanity. That, in short, is the idea of the upcoming 2010 Futures Conference and Symposium (PDF) of the College of Law [...

On Janis Joplin and Blawg Review

Posted on October 04, 2010
I was glad to see that Mark Bennett of Defending People dedicated his editorship of Blawg Review #284 to the 40th anniversary of the Oct. 4, 1970, death of Janis Joplin. However, he left off the two sings that I think are her best — “Ball and Chain” and “Summertime...

Lawyer2Lawyer Looks at the Supreme Court Term

Posted on October 04, 2010
It’s the first Monday in October and you know what that means. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look ahead at the new Supreme Court term and the docket of cases the court will hear. Our guests this week are Wilson R. Huhn, professor of law and constitutional law research fellow at the University of Akron [...

Clio Turns Two, As Lawyers Ease Into the Cloud

Posted on October 01, 2010
Today marks the second anniversary of Clio, the Web-based practice-management suite. This milestone is notable because it signifies the legal profession’s increasing comfort with and use of cloud-based applications. I first wrote about Clio in June 2008, when it came out in beta...

Clio, Me and the FTC

Posted on October 01, 2010
After I published my post this morning, Clio Turns Two, As Lawyers Ease Into the Cloud, a reader wrote to ask why I hadn’t complied with the FTC’s endorsement guidelines and disclosed that Clio is an advertiser. Lest anyone think I am being in any way deceptive, let me address this...

WilmerHale Wins Award for Best Legal Website

Posted on September 27, 2010
Every year, the Web Marketing Association’s WebAward honors websites in a variety of industries that it determines to be sites that set a high standard for Internet marketing. This year’s awards are now out, and the award for Best Legal Website went to the law firm WilmerHale for its WilmerHale Careers site...

Vote for Minnesota?s Best Legal Blog

Posted on September 23, 2010
Inspired by the ABA Journal Blawg 100, the editors of practicelaw.org, the Minnesota State Bar Association’s online legal-resource center, have launched a contest to name the top 25 Minnesota blawgs. Anyone can nominate a blog, but the blog must satisfy two conditions: The author must be a Minnesota lawyer or judge...

Thomson Unveils Global Hub for Free Legal Help

Posted on September 22, 2010
At an event today in New York City, Thomson Reuters will formally announce the launch of TrustLaw, a Web-based service that is intended to promote “the culture and practice of pro bono” around the world. The key feature of the site is a platform called TrustLaw Connect, which is designed to allow non-governmental organizations and social [...

Cadwalader?s International Site: Good Idea, Unevenly Executed

Posted on September 21, 2010
When I saw today that the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft had launched a new International Practice mini site, I was hopeful that it would be a truly useful resource and not some mere marketing site. After all, in its own announcement, the firm described itself as “one of the world’s most prominent law [...

The Federal Government?s Very Own App Store

Posted on September 20, 2010
Want to track product recall alerts on your Android phone? Need to find the nearest U.S. embassy as you travel in a foreign country? Can’t wait until you’re back in your office to get the latest list of the FBI’s 10 most wanted? You can do any of these and more on your mobile phone with [...

A Handy App for Bankruptcy Lawyers

Posted on September 17, 2010
A recently released iPhone and iPad app designed for bankruptcy lawyers, Bankruptcy II, describes itself as a “complete reference for the working bankruptcy attorney.” It is an overstatement to call it complete, because it does not have cases...

New Blog on Justice Brennan is Companion to Book

Posted on September 13, 2010
In October, exactly two decades after Justice William J. Brennan Jr. retired from the Supreme Court, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish a new biography of him, Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, written by journalists Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel...

On This 9/11, My Remembrance of that Unthinkable 9/11

Posted on September 11, 2010
I was in New York on that horrible 9/11. Four years ago, I posted my own remembrance of the day. The images of the day remain clear in my memory — the burning towers, the grey-white ash, the panicked crowds early in the day and then the eerily deserted city later...

New Site Protects Trademarks in Social Networks

Posted on September 10, 2010
A new website, TM.Biz, has been launched with the goal of helping trademark owners protect themselves in a sea of social networks. The service searches and monitors the 500 most popular social networks for occurrences of a trade name as a user name. It then provides detailed, downloadable reports of its findings...

The Group Blog v. The Personal Blog

Posted on September 09, 2010
Good overview of this issue by Adrian Dayton at Above the Law — and I’m not just saying that because he quotes me.

OK, Give ?em to Me: Let Me Know the Blogs I Missed

Posted on September 09, 2010
I have received a number of e-mails and read several blog posts in response to my recent column on Law.com, Legal Blogs Are Dead! Long Live Legal Blogs! Some applauded me, some criticized me. Of those who criticized me, they fell into two camps. In one camp were those who were unhappy with the blogs [...

Pledge a Blog Post to Support Pro Bono

Posted on September 09, 2010
Kate Bladow has issued a challenge to the legal community: publish one blog post in support of pro bono. As she explains at her blog Technola, Bladow is asking lawyers to pledge to publish one blog post between Oct. 24 and Oct. 30 in honor of the 2010 National Pro Bono Celebration...

New Site Celebrates Solos, Through Videos

Posted on September 08, 2010
If solos are the downtrodden and under-appreciated laboring masses of the legal profession, then Carolyn Elefant is their Spartacus. First through her blog, myShingle.com, then through her book, Solo by Choice, Carolyn has championed the cause of the sole practitioner...

A Legal Podcasting Milestone: Five Years and 250 Episodes

Posted on September 03, 2010
With today’s episode of the Lawyer2Lawyer podcast, we reach a milestone: our 250th episode and the end of our fifth year of weekly shows. This makes Lawyer2Lawyer the longest continually running legal podcast. Our first show was on  Aug. 31, 2005...

Law School Offers Free Online Course in Health Reform Law

Posted on September 03, 2010
I am a bit late in posting this, given that the class started Aug. 26, but it is not too late to join in. The University of Iowa College of Law is offering free online access this semester to a colloquium on the health care reform act. Starting Aug. 26 and ending Dec...

Legal Blogs Are Dead! Long Live Legal Blogs!

Posted on September 02, 2010
Law.com has my latest column posted today: Legal Blogs Are Dead! Long Live Legal Blogs!

Panels on Which I?m Speaking this Month

Posted on August 31, 2010
I am scheduled to be a panelist in two programs this month, both in Boston: Sept. 13, 4-5:30 p.m., Ginsburg & Friends: Conversations on Professional Relationships: The Press, the Courts, the Profession. Retired Judge Edward Ginsburg is a legend in Massachusetts for all he’s done both on and off the bench...

A Rapid Rise in Social Media Use by Older Lawyers?

Posted on August 30, 2010
A report this week on social media use by older adults has important implications for the legal profession — even though it never mentions the legal profession or any other profession. A study by Pew Internet, Older Adults and Social Media, finds that social-networking use among Internet users aged 50 and older nearly doubled in the [...

Off Topic: A GPS Tracker for the iPhone

Posted on August 28, 2010
This post has nothing to do with law, unless you are a lawyer who likes to bike or hike or run or ski or sail or do any kind of outdoor activity. I like to bike and hike and I’ve been looking for a GPS app for my iPhone that would track my routes...

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