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Podcast: Upheaval at the NLRB

Posted on April 13, 2010
Recently, President Obama caused a stir when he used his recess-appointment authority to name two union lawyers, Craig Becker and Mark Pearce, to the National Labor Relations Board. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court recently heard arguments in a case that questions whether nearly two years’ worth of decisions by the two sitting members constituted a legally [...

'The eminence grise of the law/media/technology space'

Posted on April 12, 2010
That's what Nick Montgomery, editor of <a href="http://mycorporateresource.com/">myCorporateResource.com</a>, calls me in a piece he wrote about my blogging, <a href="http://mycorporateresource.com/content/view/48658/548/">The Site Stuff</a>...

Lawyers' Site Offers to Fix Your Traffic Ticket

Posted on April 12, 2010
Given that it was announced April 8, not April 1, this appears not to be an April Fool's hoax, even though it might sound like one.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.texasticketfix...

Tax Deadline Extended for Eastern Mass.

Posted on April 12, 2010
If you live in Eastern Massachusetts, you have extra time to file and pay your taxes this year. Because of the recent severe storms and flooding in the region, both the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the Mass. Department of Revenue have extended the April 15 deadline to May 11...

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Lawyers? Site Offers to Fix Your Traffic Ticket

Posted on April 12, 2010
Given that it was announced April 8, not April 1, this appears not to be an April Fool’s hoax, even though it might sound like one. A Texas law firm has launched a site that offers to fix your traffic ticket for just $45 in lawyer fees. The site, texasticketfix...

?The eminence grise of the law/media/technology space?

Posted on April 12, 2010
That’s what Nick Montgomery, editor of myCorporateResource.com, calls me in a piece he wrote about my blogging, The Site Stuff. You don’t have to read the piece, but you must check out the photo.

Friday: How Technology is Changing Law Practice

Posted on April 08, 2010
Join me this Friday in Hartford, Conn., for the Connecticut Bar Foundation symposium, <a href="http://www.ctemploymentlawblog.com/uploads/file/L%20%20T%20Symposium%20Response%20Form.pdf">Flash Forward or Lost: How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law, and What's Next?</a> This full-day program features a great line-up of programs and speakers on the future of legal technology and social media...

Even More on 'Best Attorneys'

Posted on April 08, 2010
Remember <a href="http://www.bestattorneysonline.com/">BestAttorneysOnline.com</a>, the site that describes itself as "an independent authority on the best attorneys at law." As I wrote about it <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2010/03/beware-new-best-attorneys-site...

Even More on ?Best Attorneys?

Posted on April 08, 2010
Remember BestAttorneysOnline.com, the site that describes itself as “an independent authority on the best attorneys at law.” As I wrote about it on March 4 and again on March 5, the site says it uses an “experienced research team” to pick the best lawyers in various fields...

Friday: How Technology is Changing Law Practice

Posted on April 07, 2010
Join me this Friday in Hartford, Conn., for the Connecticut Bar Foundation symposium, Flash Forward or Lost: How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law, and What’s Next? This full-day program features a great line-up of programs and speakers on the future of legal technology and social media...

New Site 'Cloud E-Law' Does All a Lawyer Needs

Posted on April 01, 2010
APRIL 1, 2010--A new cloud-based legal site unveiled today, <a href="http://www.cloudylaw.com/">Cloud E-Law</a>, does virtually everything a lawyer could want and does it all entirely for free. The Software-as-a-Service site promises to be a soup-to-nuts, one-stop-shopping site for everything from legal research to social networking to e-discovery...

Comprehensive Resource on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Posted on March 29, 2010
The law firm of <a href="http://www.shearman.com/">Shearman & Sterling</a> has launched a <a href="http://fcpa.shearman.com/">comprehensive Web site</a> designed to serve as a one-stop resource on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act...

Legal Tech Pioneer Ed Flitton Has Died

Posted on March 29, 2010
Ed Flitton, the former managing partner of <a href="http://www.hollandhart.com/index.cfm">Holland & Hart</a> in Denver, died Saturday. A council member of the <a href="http://www.abanet.org/lpm/about/home.shtml">Law Practice Management Section</a> of the American Bar Association, he died while attending ABA TechShow in Chicago...

Where to Find The Secret FBI Files Reported in the Globe

Posted on March 29, 2010
A Boston Globe article today, <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/03/29/fbi_cracks_open_door_to_special_file_room/">FBI Gives a Glimpse of its Most Secret Layer</a>, discusses a special set of files kept in a separate location by the FBI that are its most secret (or most embarrassing)...

Challenge: Sum Up a SCOTUS Case in 140 Characters

Posted on March 24, 2010
Dan Schwartz has <a href="http://www.ctemploymentlawblog.com/2010/03/articles/hr-issues/can-you-tweet-your-favorite-us-supreme-court-case-help-publicize-the-bar-foundations-technology-symposium/">issued a challenge</a>: Tweet your favorite U...

A New E-Discovery Blog

Posted on March 23, 2010
Legal-technology company <a href="http://www.catalystsecure.com/">Catalyst Repository Systems</a> has <a href="http://catalystsecure.com/blog/">launched a blog</a> devoted to electronic discovery law, technology and best practices...

BC Law 'eBrief' Features my Blogs, Podcasts

Posted on March 23, 2010
<i>(For any confused readers, yes, this is a revised version of my earlier post, which complained that the piece listed the wrong links for my blogs and podcast. The school corrected the links within minutes of being informed of the errors.)</i><br /><br />My law school, <a href="http://www...

My 'Media Law' Blog Has Moved

Posted on March 22, 2010
I have moved my <a href="http://medialaw.legaline.com/">Media Law</a> blog from <a href="http://www.legaline.com/medialaw.html">its old address</a> to this new one: <a href="http://medialaw.legaline.com/">http://medialaw...

Another Ethics Panel Clears Total Attorneys

Posted on March 19, 2010
The state of Washington is now the 11th to close its ethics investigation of <a href="http://www.totalattorneys.com/">Total Attorneys</a> with no finding of wrongdoing. <a href="http://www.wsba.org/info/operations/odc/default.htm">Washington State Bar Association</a> Senior Disciplinary Counsel Jonathan Burke issued a letter saying the state would not pursue complaints filed against 13 Washington attorneys over their use of Total Attorneys for Internet marketing, according to a <a href="http://www...

DA says Rockland Selectmen Violated Open Meeting Law

Posted on March 19, 2010
The Plymouth County district attorney's office has found that selectmen in Rockland, Mass., violated the open meeting law in the process of hiring a full-time accountant, The Patriot Ledger reports. A town accountant search committee also violated the law.

More on Whether to Scrap my Blog

Posted on March 18, 2010
<a href="http://www.legaline.com/2010/03/should-i-shut-down-lawsites-and-start.html">My musings</a> and those of <a href="http://spamnotes.com/2010/03/15/looking-for-a-little-help-from-readers-and-blog-consultants.aspx">Venkat Balasubramani</a> over whether to shut down our blogs and start afresh with new ones garnered some attention from other legal bloggers, among them Bruce Carton today at <a href="http://legalblogwatch...

Lawyer-rating Site Avvo Raises $10 Million Financing

Posted on March 18, 2010
Lawyer rating and directory site <a href="http://www.avvo.com/">Avvo</a> has received $10 million in a new round of financing, led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm DAG Ventures. Current Avvo investors, <a href="http://www.benchmark...

Towns prepare for substantial changes in Open Meeting Law

Posted on March 18, 2010
"The state's Open Meeting Law requires that meetings of governmental boards and committees be conducted in sessions open to the public, with few exceptions which are strictly limited. The goal of the law is to eliminate as much of the secrecy around discussions and decisions of public policy, by requiring that discussion to be done in a public meeting...

Under the Open Meeting Law, e-mail can be a double-edged sword

Posted on March 18, 2010
On Beacon Hill and in municipal buildings across the state, government officials are getting the message that e-mail can be a double-edged sword, writes State House reporter Dan Ring in The Republican of Springfield.

Should I Shut Down LawSites and Start Anew?

Posted on March 16, 2010
Could it be that Venkat Balasubramani can read my mind? In response to something I <a href="http://twitter.com/bobambrogi/status/10516662383">tweeted today</a>, he <a href="http://spamnotes.com/2010/03/15/looking-for-a-little-help-from-readers-and-blog-consultants...

Legal Project Management in the Cloud

Posted on March 15, 2010
Introduced as a beta at LegalTech in February, <a href="http://www.onit.com/">Onit</a> is a Web-based project management tool described as being for "anyone and everyone who manage projects big, small, business, legal." It specifically includes a Legal Edition designed for legal matters and cases...

MoFo? Now There's an App Even for That

Posted on March 10, 2010
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.legaline.com/uploaded_images/mofoapp-721956.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www...

More Evidence 'BestAttorneys' is Clueless about Attorneys

Posted on March 10, 2010
I <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2010/03/beware-new-best-attorneys-site.html">wrote here</a> last week about <a href="http://www.bestattorneysonline.com/">BestAttorneysOnline.com</a>, the dubious new lawyer-rating site that can't seem to get lawyers' practice areas or even their locations straight, listing lawyers as among the top 10 in practices they have nothing to do with and in states in which they have no ties...

Join Me This Week at the MBA Annual Conference

Posted on March 10, 2010
Join me tomorrow and Friday at the <a href="http://www.massbar.org/for-attorneys/calendar/mba-events/annual-conference-2010">Massachusetts Bar Association Annual Conference</a> at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Tomorrow, I am chairing a plenary session at 1 p...

Video Highlights the Work of the Mass. Bar Foundation

Posted on March 09, 2010
As regular readers of this blog might know, I am a trustee of the <a href="http://www.massbarfoundation.org/">Massachusetts Bar Foundation</a>, the premiere legal charity in Massachusetts devoted to increasing access to justice for all, regardless of income or status...

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