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Links for 2009-12-24 [del.icio.us]

Posted on December 25, 2009
10 Web trends to watch in 2010 - CNN.com Iowa Judicial Branch State of California - Board of Chiropractic Examiners - Disciplinary Guidelines Welcome to The Codicil: An Online Companion Homepage | The Wilderness Society Academic software for research papers | Mendeley Xyggy Homepage TN.gov USFA: Hotel/Motel Fire-Safe List Vital Records - Birth Certificates, Death Records, Marriage Licenses and more DeepDyve - Research. Rent. Read.

Blawg of the Day - Democracy Law Blog

Posted on December 24, 2009
A Canadian blog for you today - the Democracy Law Blog is dedicated to stimulating discussion and providing news, resources and legal analysis on the laws that govern the functioning of democracy in Canada, including election law, campaign finance, lobbying and conflicts of interest. It's published by Clayton Whitman, a lawyer in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Blawg of the Day - California Employment Law Advocate

Posted on December 23, 2009
The California Employment Law Advocate provides news and ideas on employment law, from a California perspective. It's published by The Ottinger Firm and Robert Ottinger, who's actually a California attorney. He's discussing age discrimination, retaliation, and wage and hour topics, among others.

Blawg of the Day - Pennsylvania Injury Law Report

Posted on December 22, 2009
Gee, Pennsylvania has been pouring on the law blogs lately! Today's PA. blog is the Pennsylvania Injury Law Report, which is published by Stuart Carpey of Kreithen, Baron & Carpey in Philadelphia. Like most personal injury blogs, they're discussing the usual: auto law, medical malpractice, and products liability, among other topics.

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Create Your Own Podcast Feeds

Posted on December 22, 2009
While listening to this week's episode of my favorite podcast, This Week in Google, I learned about a cool new tool called Huffduffer. This nifty tool addresses a need I have had for some time: the ability to create your own podcast feed out of any audio file you find on the Internet. I subscribe to a lot of different podcasts, and I love that new podcasts are automatically downloaded to my computer as they are available. However, occasionally I'll find an audio interview or random podcast that doesn't have an RSS feed, so I can't program it to download to my PC. Huffduffer was designed for those random files. After you register, you'll get a bookmarklet for your browser - when you see an audio file you'd like to keep, just "Huffduff it," and the file will get added to a special RSS feed...

Blawg of the Day - Life, Health and Disability Insurance Blog

Posted on December 21, 2009
The (primarily) California firm of Barger & Wolen publishes the Life, Health & Disability Insurance Blog, which covers both ERISA and non-ERISA issues with a special emphasis on California law and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. It's edited by Robert McKennon, with posts authored by other B&W attorneys.

The Past Week's Microblog Updates

Posted on December 21, 2009
Here are a few stories and headlines that I mentioned on my Twitter account, and are worth reprinting for you here: 10 Ways Social Media will Change in 2010: http://bit.ly/7XzayK Hmmm: Simon & Schuster imposing a 4-month delay on e-book versions of major releases: http://bit.ly/5GoRXm Top 10 Real-Time Technologies of 2009: http://bit.ly/8TuVn6 (How many of these are YOU using?) Why It Pays to Purge on Twitter - When and How to Unfollow: http://bit.ly/6Ln5eD Nice review of new Dragon dictation app for iPhone by David Pogue: http://bit.ly/7YBuCn Coming Soon in Outlook 2010: The Outlook Social Connector http://bit.ly/3NLJwH (This could get me back to using Outlook more) 2010 Litigation Support And eDiscovery Trends | The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel http://tinyurl...

Blawg of the Day - Bay Area Wills, Trusts & Probate Report

Posted on December 18, 2009
We'll travel to the other side of the country today to visit Karen Meckstroth's Bay Area Wills, Trusts & Probate Report. An attorney based in Campbell, California, Karen serves clients in San Jose, Los Gatos, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, & San Mateo Counties, and throughout the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. She's discussing topics such as charitable gifts, special needs trusts, and gift taxes, among others.

Links for 2009-12-17 [del.icio.us]

Posted on December 18, 2009
The five technologies that CEOs will spend money on next year | Mobile | silicon.com

Blawg of the Day - Lancaster Law Blog

Posted on December 17, 2009
Looks like this is the week for law blogs from the Keystone State. Today it's the Lancaster Law Blog, brought to you by the firm of Russell, Krafft & Gruber. The goal of the blog is to provide Lancaster County and Pennsylvania residents in general with a comprehensive legal resource drawing on their years of experience in business law, employment law, estate planning, family law, real estate, and other practice areas.

Blawg of the Day - The Rockford Litigation Lawyer

Posted on December 16, 2009
Tim Whitham is Of Counsel at the firm of Schlueter Ecklund, which is located in Rockford, Illinois. So it makes sense that his blog is called The Rockford Litigation Lawyer. His practice specializes in litigation of personal injury claims, workers compensation, and general litigation services for business, so you can find blog posts on these topics.

Blawg of the Day - Pennsylvania Law Monitor

Posted on December 15, 2009
Another day, another law blog from Pennsylvania. Stark & Stark publishes the Pennsylvania Law Monitor, which provides news and commentary on...you guessed it, legal developments in Pennsylvania. You'll find articles on business law, community associations, medical malpractice and other personal injury issues, trusts and estates, and more.

Blawg of the Day - HumanRacehorses

Posted on December 14, 2009
Today's blog has a name that does not automatically make you think "law blog" - HumanRacehorses features "a look at the legal aspects of the employment relationship - slightly irreverent but hopefully frequently helpful." It's authored by Harold Goldner, a Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania employment lawyer with more than 30 years of trial experience.

Links for 2009-12-13 [del.icio.us]

Posted on December 14, 2009
10 Predictions for 2010 - PC World

The Latest Issue of the....

Posted on December 12, 2009
....Internet Legal Research Weekly, Issue #351 is available for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

2009: Rise of the Mobile Platform

Posted on December 10, 2009
When we look back on 2009 in terms of technology trends, one of the most important, surely, will be the meteoric rise of mobile technology. Clearly, "there's an app for that" will go down as one of the big catchphrases of the year. That's why Dennis Kennedy and I wanted to do a podcast on the importance of the mobile platform for lawyers, and our latest episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report is called Going Mobile: The Rise of the Mobile Platform. We also had a special guest on the show - Jeremy Diviney of Bill4Time talked about how Software as a Service (SaaS) is critical to the success of mobile technologies. And we ended, as usual, with our Parting Shots, this time with holiday gift suggestions for smartphones and Twyla Tharp on collaboration...

ABA's Blawg 100: Vote! (For Me, or Someone Else)

Posted on December 09, 2009
I am honored and privileged to have been named to the ABA Blawg 100 for the third straight year. The list represents "the 100 best web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal." The legal blogs have been broken down into ten categories, Legal News, Legal Theory, IMHO, Geo (Location-Specific), Practice-Specific, Business, Careers, Tech, Justice, and Lighter Fare. As you might imagine, I am one of 10 listed in the Tech category. Although I'm pleased to have been included, I'm also a bit shocked; after all, in the past few years the blog has devolved to pretty much the "Blawg of the Day" channel, as I haven't had the time to do more than feature some of the great new law blogs that come out weekly on the Internet...

Blawg of the Day - Environmental, Energy and Resources Law

Posted on December 09, 2009
Another Canadian blog for you today - Environmental, Energy & Resources Law is published by Davis, LLP, a big firm with offices throughout Canada and in Tokyo. The six blog authors are talking about mining, carbon emissions, land stewardship, and waste to fuel facilities, among other topics.

Maintaining a Positive Outlook

Posted on December 08, 2009
If you use Outlook as your primary email program, I'd wager that you spend a lot of your average day working in that program. And Microsoft would prefer it that way - that's why it takes care of most of the things you need during the work day - email, calendars, contacts, and tasks. But for something that we use so often, most of us don't use it properly, or make the most of its capabilities. Microsoft wants to help us out with that. They've published a great 40-page document called Best Practices for Microsoft Outlook 2007. It's a really good collection of tips and tricks for using Outlook 2007 in more productive ways. The Outlook team that published this article also put together some basic principles of good time management that are worth reprinting here: Basic principles of good time management Outlook 2007 is a tool to help you manage your e-mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks...

Blawg of the Day - Res Ipsa Loquitur

Posted on December 08, 2009
I'm always intrigued when I find a big-firm blogger operating her own, non-firm-branded blog. One such new blog is Res Ipsa Loquitur, otherwise known as "The Canadian Law Blog that Speaks for Itself." It's published by Pamela Pengelley, a lawyer with Cozen & O'Connor. The topics covered are pretty general, from a Canadian perspective - civil litigation, discovery, insurance, juries, subrogation, privacy, and more.

Micro-Blog Links of the Week

Posted on December 07, 2009
Over the past week, I've been posting helpful snippets of information over on my Twitter profile. Here's some of the things I've been sharing: -- RT @LawPracticeTips: Tech Tool Review ? Jump Like Jack Flash: Get to Windows Folders Faster Using QuickJump http://tiny.cc/n0mG4 -- RT @ltrc: On the blog: Apps, Apps, Apps - Smartphone App Roundup. http://bit.ly/5Igw5v -- RT @LawPracticeTips: ABA TECHSHOW 2010 Keynote Annouced - Hear from Ari Kaplan on The New Big Bang! http://tiny.cc/Z0JyT -- Collaboration is hot: why now? http://bit.ly/6QpCSg -- RT @Rex7: Best of ABA TECHSHOW: E-Discovery for the Rest of Us: http://bit.ly/6SDd9m -- RT @complexd: The Three Stooges of Early Case Assessment - http://bit.ly/7lmAIp -- RT @ExpertParalegal: "33 Things You Won't Need If You Have an Iphone" from @themaclawyer http://bit...

Blawg of the Day - The Ethical Quandary

Posted on December 07, 2009
My LPM Section colleague Mike Downey is blogging, along with other Hinshaw & Culbertson lawyers, at The Ethical Quandary, a legal ethics and litigation blog written by attorneys, for attorneys. The Hinshaw Ethics group is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) in the country, and those folks know what they're talking about. You can read on topics from Advertising to Withdrawal.

Links for 2009-12-06 [del.icio.us]

Posted on December 07, 2009
Google Scholar Iowa.gov – The Official Website of the State of Iowa Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Information on the Internet Palawlibrary.com: Pennsylvania county cases, court rules, legal news The Supreme Court Database Jotwell - The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) Race, Racism and the Law GlobaLex - UPDATE: Researching the Law of the Vatican City State Society Of Interventional Radiology - Nonsurgical Treatments Traffic Division Metroon.com - Legal Research Suite - Texas & County Court Records - Probate, Marriage & Divorce Records Singapore Statutes OnLine SC Judicial Department Statutes at Large: Main Page OCR Terminal: Online OCR - Convert PDF to Word, JPEG to Word,

Links for 2009-12-04 [del.icio.us]

Posted on December 05, 2009
A Week in the Clouds Without a Notebook - The Steve Rubel Lifestream Gift Guide 2009: Smartphones The 2009 Holiday Smartphone Gift Guide Engadget's Holiday Gift Guide: Smartphones -- Engadget

The latest issue of....

Posted on December 05, 2009
...The Internet Legal Research Weekly is up and available for your review.

Blawg of the Day - Hospitality Law Blog

Posted on December 04, 2009
Another blog from uber-blogging firm Davis Wright & Tremaine today; this one is the Hospitality Law Blog, which as you might imagine discusses legal issues of interest to the hospitality industry. You'll find recent posts on energy drinks, lottery commissions, franchising, and alcoholic beverages, to name a few.

Blawg of the Day - Arizona Accident Information Law Blog

Posted on December 03, 2009
A personal injury law blog for you today, from the firm of Solomon & Relihan in Phoenix. The Arizona Accident Information Law Blog features posts on cell phones and driving, highway design, independent medical examinations, insurance companies, and settlements, among many other topics.

Blawg of the Day - Startup Company Blog

Posted on December 02, 2009
Here's a nifty business law blog for you today: the Startup Company Blog provides insights for founders of and investors in emerging and startup companies. It's published by multi-blog big firm Davis Wright & Tremaine.

Blawg of the Day - Virginia IP Law

Posted on December 01, 2009
The Richmond firm Troutman Sanders is blogging about patent, trademark and copyright law at Virginia IP Law. It's edited by seven of the firm's lawyers, and they're discussing false advertising, Bilksi, and a roundup of Virginia IP cases, among other things.

Blawg of the Day - Green Building & Environmental Trends

Posted on November 30, 2009
Green Building & Environmental Trends is published by Rich Cartlidge, a recent law school grad and LEED AP. He's discussing trends in the fields of green building, construction and environmental law.

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