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Blawg of the Day - Global Immigration Blog

Posted on September 16, 2010
Big firm Jackson Lewis is out with another blog, this one on a hot topic these days. The Global Immigration Blog is authored by Sean Hanagan, William Manning, and Harry Joe. They're providing insight, news and strategy on immigration matters around the world, on topics such as the USCIS and visas.

Blawg of the Day - Condo Law Blog

Posted on September 15, 2010
The Condo Law Blog is brought to you by Fine & Deo, barristers and solicitors based in Ontario, Canada. They're talking about occupier's liability, mortgage rules, condo corporation bylaws, home renovation tax credits, the "McMahon Hot Tub Case," and more.

Blawg of the Day - Clicklaw Blog

Posted on September 14, 2010
Clicklaw is a site that provides legal information, education, and help for British Columbians - its companion Clicklaw Blog aims to keep you informed with what's new on Clicklaw.

Working with Images in Google Docs

Posted on September 14, 2010
My Google tip of the week deals with images in Google Docs. It used to be that inserting images in Google Docs was a primitive affair, but the service has steadily improved its functionality in this area. True, it's still not as sophisticated as Word or WordPerfect, or Pages, but it gets the job done. To learn more, check out this article on Using Images in Google Documents.

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Blawg of the Day - Florida Foreclosure Defense Lawyers Blog

Posted on September 13, 2010
Yet another blog today from Jacksonville lawyer David M. Goldman. This one is the Florida Foreclosure Defense Lawyers Blog, a topic that unfortunately many folks are dealing with nowadays. He's posting on topics including foreclosure alternatives, defense, counterclaims, scams, terms, mediation, and more.

The latest issue....

Posted on September 13, 2010
....of The Mighell Marker, a Legal Technology Weekly, is out now and ready for your reading pleasure. You can read Issue #378 here.

Blawg of the Day - Immigration Law Blog

Posted on September 10, 2010
The Ranchod Law Group of San Francisco (and Santa Clara, and Santa Barbara as well) publishes the Immigration Law Blog, with tips and information on immigration law issues. The posts you'll read there deal mostly with the different types of visas (E2, F1, H1B, J2, L1, etc.), immigration reforms, green cards, and more.

Blawg of the Day - Taxidermy

Posted on September 09, 2010
Taxidermy: getting under the skin of tax law (love the name!) hails from across the pond in the United Kingdom. Ann's firm provides bespoke tax advice, and she's trying to make tax more interesting in her blog. She takes what should be dull, confusing tax information and definitely makes it more lively and interesting to read. Great stuff!

Blawg of the Day - The Massachusetts Real Estate Law Blog

Posted on September 08, 2010
Today, a blog for you from one of my favorite states - The Massachusetts Real Estate Law Blog is authored by Richard Vetstein and Marc Canner of the Vetstein Law Group in Needham and Framingham. They're discussing condominiums, closings, Fannie Mae, the FHA, foreclosures, landlord-tenant, purchase and sale, and many other real estate topics. They also feature guest posts from other professionals in the real estate sphere.

Best Places for Free Online Storage

Posted on September 07, 2010
If you have read this blog and/or have a pulse, you know how much I love Dropbox as an online file storage and syncing tool. But the free version of Dropbox only offers 2GB of storage - what if you want to store more files online? Well then, check out these 4 Best Sites to Get 10GB Free Online Backup and Storage. The author mentions four great sites, including: - Windows Live Skydrive, which offers a whopping 25GB of free storage - IDrive gives you 2GB at first, but will bump up your account with 10GB more if you refer the service to your friends. - Humyo, which was recently acquired by Trend Micro, offers 10GB of "free forever" storage - Binfire is a service I don't know much about - it's branded as a project management site, but with 10GB of online storage...

Blawg of the Day - Food Poisoning Law Blog

Posted on September 07, 2010
I'm glad to see that Bill Marler's series of food-borne illness blogs has finally got some competition. The Food Poisoning Law Blog is brought to you by Fred Pritzker and Pritzker Olson, which is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As you might expect, posts cover such topics as e. coli, campylobacter, botulism, hepatitis, listeria, norovirus, salmonella, shigella, and outbreaks of these illnesses.

Hot off the Presses....

Posted on September 06, 2010
...it's the latest issue of the Mighell Marker, a Legal Technology Weekly. In this case, it's Issue #377

Blawg of the Day - Not-For-Profit/Exempt Organizations Blog

Posted on September 06, 2010
Today's blog is on a topic near and dear to my heart, despite the fact that the blog's title is not very elegant. The Not-For-Profit/Exempt Organizations Blog is a group effort from the lawyers at Proskauer Rose. Some of the discussions you might find here center on charitable giving, endowments, governance, healthcare organizations, pro bono, religious organizations, and more.

Links for 2010-09-05 [del.icio.us]

Posted on September 06, 2010
Researching Attorney Discipline - Learn About the Law North Dakota State Government - Home Legal Jobs, Attorney Jobs, Law & Paralegal Jobs, Lawyer Employment – martindale.com EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center DRI Today

Blawg of the Day - Fashion Law Blog

Posted on September 03, 2010
For all you lawyers interested in an interactive discussion of the business of fashion, check out the Fashion Law Blog. It's authored by the Fashion lawyers at uber-blogging firm Fox Rothschild. They're discussing topics like the Design Piracy Prohibition Act, fashion intellectual property, licensing, and other fashion business issues. A great niche to blog about!

Blawg of the Day - Keep Home Your Own

Posted on September 02, 2010
It's refreshing to find blogs with titles that are more creative than "the [insert state name here] [insert practice area here] blog," and Keep Home Your Own is one of such blog. It provides insight and commentary for people at risk of losing their home through no fault of their own, and it's published by Richard Rubin of the Garden City, NY firm of Rubin & Licatesi. Much of the content deals with loan modification, foreclosure, mortgages, and tax credits.

Blawg of the Day - Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives

Posted on September 01, 2010
I don't know if I've ever seen a blog's title trademarked, but such is the case with Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives. It's published by Hunton's Class Actions Task Force, and they're discussing such employment and labor topics as age discrimination, ERISA, employee privacy, FMLA, the NLRB, Title VII, trade secrets, and whistleblowers, among others.

New features from Google Docs

Posted on August 31, 2010
Want to grab the text from a PDF and throw it into a Google Doc? Well, now you can. When you upload PDF files to Google Docs, you'll now have the ability to convert text from PDFs or even images and store the text in a Google Docs document. It's not a perfect process, and there are definitely more efficient ways of doing this if you have to OCR (many people have turned the term Optical Character Recognition into a verb) a large number of documents.

Blawg of the Day - Southeast Real Estate Advisor

Posted on August 31, 2010
A real estate blog for you today: the Southeast Real Estate Advisor is published by Kevin Caiaccio, of the Caiaccio Law Firm in Atlanta. He's discussing real estate acquisitions, finance, investing, retail listing, and more.

Blawg of the Day - Education Law Blog

Posted on August 30, 2010
And the Canadian blogs just keep on coming! Today it's the Education Law Blog, which is published by Noah Sarna, an Associate at Boughton Law Corporation in Vancouver. The blog covers the issues, cases, and events of interest to British Columbia's educational community, but I'll bet there are some topics that would be useful to people in other areas, too.

The latest issue....

Posted on August 30, 2010
...of the Mighell Marker - in this case, Issue #376 - is ready for your review.

Blawg of the Day - Practical Compliance

Posted on August 27, 2010
Practical Compliance is a blog generally focused on technology, law, government, and management practices for small businesses and nonprofits. It's published by Lewis Kinard, who in addition to having been a general counsel and C-Level executive for corporations, has also served as a criminal judge and radio talk show host.

Blawg of the Day - The KF Modified Blog

Posted on August 26, 2010
Another Canadian blog for you today, and one in a very specific niche area. The KF Modified Blog is for current users and others interested in the KF Classification Method for use in Canadian Law Libraries. You'll find posts here on the method's history, usage tips, and future directions. It's published by F. Tim Knight.

Blawg of the Day - Chaudhary Law Office

Posted on August 25, 2010
Another Canadian blog for you today - Chaudhary Law Office is published by, as you might imagine, M. Max Chaudhary, a Toronto Barrister and Solicitor. He's an immigration lawyer, so you'll find posts here on arranged employment opinions, completing immigration forms, skilled worker cases, and more.

Blawg of the Day - Florida Foreclosure Defense Lawyers Blog

Posted on August 24, 2010
Foreclosure is certainly a hot legal topic these days, and the Apple Law Firm in Jacksonville Florida wants to tell you more about it. At the firm's Florida Foreclosure Defense Lawyers Blog, they're discussing a number of interesting foreclosure related topics, including foreclosure fraud, foreclosure mills, strategic foreclosure, alternatives to foreclosure, and much more.

Blawg of the Day - California Law Report

Posted on August 23, 2010
The California Law Report is published by John Corcoran, who practices with Plastiras & Terrizzi in San Rafael. The scope of the blog is pretty wide, focusing on general civil litigation, real estate, small and medium-sized businesses, cleantech, and environmental law. The goal, as it should be of all legal blogs, is to assist individuals and businesses with understanding legal developments by explaining new legislation, case law, and political events in a clear and straightforward way.

Catching Up with The Kennedy-Mighell Report

Posted on August 23, 2010
Over the past few weeks Dennis Kennedy and I have recorded two episodes of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, on two topics near and dear to our hearts. In "A Podcast Listener's Guide," we offer some practical advice on how to subscribe to podcasts (in iTunes or your favorite music device), as well as some suggestions for the right podcasts to select. This past week, we released "The Siteless Web Presence," where we discuss whether a lawyer or firm can exist online without a website or blog, and simply through a presence on various social media sites (my answer: you can't, really). Head over to the Legal Talk Network and give them a listen - and then subscribe to the podcast!

Links for 2010-08-21 [del.icio.us]

Posted on August 22, 2010
British and Irish Legal Information Institute PolicyTool - Now Available Free Social Media Policy Generator TrustLaw - A Thomson Reuters Foundation Service - TrustLaw CCFA.org: Home Knowledge Mosaic OpenRegs.com eLaw Copyright Renewal Database: Welcome CrimeReports | The National Crime Map U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Spindle Law

Issue #375.....

Posted on August 21, 2010
...of The Mighell Marker, a legal technology weekly, is on newsstands now.

This Week's Issue.....

Posted on August 14, 2010
...of the Mighell Marker - specifically Issue #374 - is hot off the presses.

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