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Avvo's Favorite Legal Blogs of 2009

Posted on December 11, 2009
I am honored to say that this blog is included among <a href="http://avvoblog.com/2009/12/10/avvos-favorite-legal-blogs-of-2009/">Avvo's Favorite Legal Blogs of 2009</a>. I appreciate the honor and appreciate being included among such a stellar lot of legal blogs...

My Live Tweets from Future of Legal Industry Panel

Posted on December 09, 2009
As I <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2009/12/debate-on-future-of-law-firm-business.html">mentioned I would do</a>, I live tweeted last week's <a href="http://www.lexisnexis.com/">LexisNexis</a>-sponsored panel, "Evolution or Revolution? The Future of the Law Firm Business Model...

My Review of Google Wave

Posted on December 08, 2009
Here is my prediction about Google Wave: It will be slow to catch on among legal professionals -- but it will catch on. I explain in <a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202435899044&Googles_Wave#">my review of Google Wave</a> published in Law Technology News...

This Blog Turns Seven

Posted on December 04, 2009
Just noticed that Nov. 19 was the seventh birthday of this blog. Here is my <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2002/11/welcome.html">first post</a> from 2002.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger...

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Debate on Future of Law Firm Business Model

Posted on December 04, 2009
I am attending a debate in New York City tomorrow, Dec. 3, entitled "Evolution or Revolution? The Future of the Law Firm Business Model." I plan to live-tweet during the debate and later to sum it up in a blog post.<br /><br />The program is sponsored by <a href="http://www...

ABA Journal Names Third Annual Blawg 100

Posted on December 04, 2009
The <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/">ABA Journal</a> has released its <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/third_annual_aba_journal_blawg_100/">Third Annual Blawg 100</a>, its listing of the best legal blogs as selected by the Journal's editors...

Lawyer2Lawyer: Giving Back to Those in Need

Posted on December 04, 2009
On this week's Thanksgiving edition of the legal-affairs podcast <a href="http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/lawyer-2-lawyer/2009/11/thanksgiving-edition-giving-back-to-those-in-need/">Lawyer2Lawyer</a>, we talk to representatives of three organizations about the work they do to help those in need in their communities:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www...

Reviews: Bloomberg Law, Smart Time and Gov. 2.0

Posted on December 04, 2009
Law.com publishes <a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202435556719&Is_It_a_Contender&hbxlogin=1">my column</a> that reviews <a href="http://www.bloomberglaw.com">Bloomberg Law</a>, the new online research service from Bloomberg; Smart Time, the new time-capture tool from <a href="http://www...

The Madoff Social Network Map

Posted on December 04, 2009
To pull off a $20 billion ponzi scheme, you need a broad web of social and business connections. In the case of Bernard Madoff, the network of feeder funds and sub-feeder funds that funneled investors' money his way was particularly complex. For a striking visual depiction of this complex network of funds, check out this interactive network map: <a href="http://orgnet...

Twitter's New 'Retweet' Feature

Posted on December 04, 2009
<a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a> has now rolled out its beta retweet feature to most users. Not all of them are happy about it. You will know if you have it when you go to your Twitter home page, where you will find a notice describing the new feature...

Google Gets into Legal Research

Posted on December 04, 2009
In a post earlier today at Legal Blog Watch, <a href="http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/11/the-google-gorilla-enters-the-research-game.html">The Google Gorilla Enters the Research Game</a>, I wrote about Google's<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><a href="http://googleblog...

ABA Journal Features 'LawSites' as Blawg of Week

Posted on December 04, 2009
We are honored to be the featured blog this week on the <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs/">ABA Journal's Blawg Directory</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh6...

Lawyer2Lawyer: The Impact of Civil Gideon

Posted on December 04, 2009
The Supreme Court's 1963 decision, Gideon v. Wainwright, guaranteed that criminal defendants unable to afford their own lawyer would have one appointed at the public's expense. Should there be a corollary right in certain types of civil cases that involve basic human needs, such as when a person faces eviction from a home or the loss of parental rights? California recently made history by enacting a pilot program to appoint lawyers in certain civil cases and other pilot programs are underway elsewhere in the country...

Sponsor the Bar Foundation's 45th Anniversary

Posted on December 04, 2009
The <a href="http://www.massbarfoundation.org/">Massachusetts Bar Foundation</a> is celebrating its <a href="http://www.massbarfoundation.org/news/2009/mbf-celebrates-45th-anniversary">45th anniversary</a> this year. I am honored to serve as <a href="http://www...

YouLaw Video Review: Traffic Ticket Lawyer

Posted on December 04, 2009
I am on the "back bench" for this Technolawyer review of a law firm marketing video by traffic-ticket lawyer Jason Diamond: <a href="http://blog.technolawyer.com/2009/11/youlaw-traffic-ticket-team.html">YouLaw: Compelling Screenplay Deserves a Reshoot</a>...

Shepardize? There's an App for That

Posted on December 04, 2009
It's true. LexisNexis <a href="http://blog.martindale.com/need-to-get-cases-and-shepardize-weve-got-an-app-for-that">today announced</a> the release of its application for the iPhone. It is called "Get Cases and Shepardize" and it lets you, well, get cases and Shepardize them simply by entering a citation...

Lawyer2Lawyer: E-mail and the 4th Amendment

Posted on December 04, 2009
Does the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures extend to e-mail and data stored in "the cloud"? Surprisingly, the question remains unsettled in the courts. On this week's legal-affairs podcast <a href="http://legaltalknetwork...

Avvo Readies Roll Out of Enhanced 'Avvo Pro'

Posted on December 04, 2009
Lawyer-rating site <a href="http://www.avvo.com/">Avvo</a> will introduce a premium version next week that will enhance lawyers ability to customize their profiles, enhance their visibility in other Avvo sections, and provide them with more detailed analytics...

MassINC Publishes Lawmakers Financial Records

Posted on December 04, 2009
Many government documents are designated "public" but are not easily available to the public. <a href="http://www.massinc.org/">MassINC</a>, publisher of <span style="font-style: italic;">CommonWealth</span> magazine, has launched an initiative, <a href="http://www...

Discount for Marketing Strategies Conference

Posted on December 04, 2009
As a follow-up to my <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2009/10/law-firm-marketing-strategies.html">post earlier today</a> on the <a href="http://www.abanet.org/lpm/marketingconference/">ABA Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference</a>, I am now able to offer readers of this blog a special "friends and colleagues" discount off the registration price...

Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference

Posted on December 04, 2009
Sorry that I will not be able to attend, because the <a href="http://www.abanet.org/lpm/marketingconference/">ABA Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference</a> looks like it will be a great program. Check out the <a href="http://www.abanet...

ODR Cyberweek Starts Today

Posted on December 04, 2009
The seminal annual event in online dispute resolution, <a href="http://cyberweek.umasslegal.org/">ODR Cyberweek</a>, kicks off today and continues through Friday. This free-of-charge and entirely online event features an array of discussions, simulations, demonstrations and other activities related to ODR...

Court Denies Order Banning Man from All Women in Mass.

Posted on December 04, 2009
Remember former state senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._James_Marzilli,_Jr.">James Marzilli</a>? He resigned from the senate in the wake of his arrest for allegedly sexually assaulting women he approached walking on the streets in Lowell...

Casemaker vs. Fastcase: Another View

Posted on December 04, 2009
After publishing my <a href="http://www.legaline.com/2009/06/head-to-head-review-casemaker-vs.html">head-to-head review</a> comparing <a href="http://www.casemaker.us/">Casemaker</a> and <a href="http://www.fastcase.com/">Fastcase</a>, I noted in <a href="http://www...

A 'Top 100' Honor I Can Do Without

Posted on December 04, 2009
Today I received two separate e-mails, each purporting to congratulate me for having my blog selected as a top 100 legal blog. Each came from a company that operates a network of legal Web sites that includes Laws.com, NewLawyer.com, Attorney.org, LawSchool...

Gov 2.0: New Sites from DOJ, USPTO, GPO

Posted on December 04, 2009
Both the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched significantly redesigned Web sites, each with nods to Web 2.0 and social media. Around the same time, the Government Printing Office relaunched the Federal Register in an updated format...

A Smart Time Capture Tool

Posted on December 04, 2009
What did I do today? If you have ever asked yourself that question, you may be a candidate for Smart Time, a Web-based time capture and entry application. Smart Time works in your browser but culls data from all your key applications to provide a detailed report of your daily work...

Web 2.0 Panel at Boston Bar

Posted on September 30, 2009
I will be a panelist tomorrow for a program on <a href="https://www.bostonbar.org/ebusiness/Meetings/EventDetail.aspx?ID=3487">Web 2.0 and social media</a> at the <a href="http://www.bostonbar.org/">Boston Bar Association</a>. Also on the panel are <a href="http://www...

Justice Breyer and Me

Posted on September 25, 2009
After Justice Breyer <a href="http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/09/breyer-urges-judges-to-engage-the-public.html">spoke Tuesday evening</a> at the commemorative dinner for the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Superior Court, I approached him, hoping for a cell-phone photo...

Legal Blogging: How, Why and What's Next

Posted on September 17, 2009
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