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Lawyer2Lawyer: The Plight of Public Defenders

Posted on November 14, 2008
With public defenders' offices in seven states a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/us/09defender.html?blamp;ex=1226379600amp;en=d53c43c58015c0b6amp;ei=5087%0A"refusing to take on new cases/a or suing to limit their caseloads, this week's legal-affairs podcast a href="http://www...

Free Web Makeover for Boston-area Nonprofit

Posted on November 13, 2008
I pass along the following from a friend of a friend:blockquoteMakeovers are all the rage, and one lucky Boston-area non-profit organization stands to benefit from the trend. An international group of website designers is looking for a local non-profit that is interested in having its website redesigned -- at no charge...

Join Me at LMA New England Annual Conference

Posted on November 12, 2008
I am honored to be among the presenters next week at the a href="http://www.lmanewengland.org/2008annual/index.asp"2008 Annual Conference/a of the a href="http://www.lmanewengland.org"New England Legal Marketing Association/a. My program, on Friday, Nov...

Attorneys Flocking to Twitter for Marketing

Posted on November 12, 2008
I am among the lawyers interviewed by Justin Rebello for this a href="http://lawyersusaonline.com/index.cfm/archive/view/id/432177"Lawyers USA piece/a about lawyers using a href="http://twitter.com"Twitter/a.blockquoteThe difference between Twitter and a blog is akin to the difference between a haiku and a ballad, said Ambrogi...

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Martindale Listings to Include Chambers Rankings

Posted on November 12, 2008
Beginning in February 2009, the a href="http://www.martindale.com/"Martindale.com/a lawyer directory will include rankings and commentary from London-based a href="http://www.chambersandpartners.com/"Chambers amp; Partners/a, Martindale's parent, a href="http://www...

Nominations Open for eLawyering Award

Posted on November 11, 2008
I pass along this noteworthy notice:blockquotea href="http://www.abanet.org/lpm/award/jimkeane/index.shtml"The James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering/a is awarded once a year by the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association at the Annual a href="http://www...

Podcast: Wyeth v. Levine and FDA Preemption

Posted on November 10, 2008
On this week's legal-affairs podcast a href="http://www.legaltalknetwork.com/modules.php?name=Newsamp;file=articleamp;sid=324"Lawyer2Lawyer/a, we consider span style="font-style: italic;"Wyeth v. Levine/span, the case argued before the Supreme Court last week that raises the issue of whether FDA prescription drug labeling authority preempts a state law product liability claim...

Round-up of New Legal Web Sites

Posted on November 06, 2008
Law.com has my latest column, a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202425845155"Tour the Legal Web's New Sites/a, which rounds up several new sites of interest to lawyers.

For the Green Lawyer With Green to Spare

Posted on November 03, 2008
The first a href="http://www.dsehybrid.com/"hybrid yacht/a.br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.legaline.com/uploaded_images/DSe_Wind202-738811.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://www...

Martindale's In-Visibility Rankings

Posted on October 31, 2008
Here is something strange about lawyer listings on a href="http://www.martindale.com/"Martindale.com/a. I noticed that a href="http://www.martindale.com/Robert-J-Ambrogi/689814-lawyer.htm"my listing/a included something called a "Visibility Ranking," which is supposedly based on "the total number of weekly profile views...

LOC, Google Digitize Congressional Hearings

Posted on October 31, 2008
The a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/"Law Library of Congress/a and a href="http://www.google.com/"Google/a have teamed up in a collaborative project to digitize 75,000 volumes of printed a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/find/hearings.html"Congressional Hearings/a...

Article on Social Networking Sites for Lawyers

Posted on June 08, 2008
Law.com has my Law Technology News column for this month, Social Networking May Pay Off in the End. This is the first of two parts looking at social networking sites of interest to legal professionals. This month's focuses on sites open to a range of members...

Did I Say That??

Posted on June 08, 2008
Interesting quote attributed to me on this not-so-interesting blog: "Jivatma assume this is trekking in passage to breathe perpetual on those vaginal cases that becomes to a degree a pass inward restricting the brevet above this end."Better yet, I am identified as a "preponderance-based figurehead...

Biz Journal: Lawyers Look to Podcasts for Marketing

Posted on June 06, 2008
The Boston Business Journal today features this piece, Lawyers Looking to Podcasts as Potent Marketing Tool, that highlights our podcast, Lawyer2Lawyer, and the company that produces it, the Legal Talk Network. The reporter who wrote the story, Lisa van der Pool, is interviewed this morning on New England Cable News about lawyer podcasting...

A Unique Plug for our Podcast

Posted on June 02, 2008
This Italian blog, Studenti Inglese Legale, devoted to the teaching of "legal English," recommends that students practice their listening skills through the legal podcasts of the Legal Talk Network. "My favourite," the author writes, "is Lawyer2Lawyer...

West Revamps Its Corporate Site

Posted on June 02, 2008
This just in: West today unveiled a major redesign of its corporate Web site and online store, with the goal of making it easier to find and purchase legal information. The site has been given a new look and also a new organization. Users are invited to search for products and services according to the type of organization in which they work -- solo and small firm, mid-sized and large firm, government and education, corporate and nonprofit, law schools and law students...

CLE this Week: Public Law Conference

Posted on June 02, 2008
I will be a panelist this week at the Massachusetts Bar Association's Second Annual Public Law Conference. The conference is focused on lawyers who represent government bodies and those who appear before government agencies. The day's keynote speaker will be Suzanne M...

'Beautiful Lawyers' Calendar Seeks Candidates

Posted on June 02, 2008
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then behold the Massachusetts lawyer. Coming later this year to a calendar store near you, the first-ever Beautiful Lawyers calendar will feature 12 months of Massachusetts lawyers and judges, "decked out in glamorous attire and stunningly photographed in their 'natural element...

Using Adobe.com to Embed Documents

Posted on June 02, 2008
A nice feature of the new Adobe.com, which I just wrote about in an earlier post today, is the ability to embed documents in Web pages and blog posts. Here is an example, showing the Adobe.com User Guide.

Adobe's Great Leap Forward

Posted on June 02, 2008
Adobe today today a major leap from the desktop to the Web with its introduction of Acrobat.com, a suite of hosted services available for free as a public beta. The suite combines word-processing, Web conferencing, PDF creation, file sharing and file storage in a stylish and functional package built using Adobe Flash technology...

The 100 Best Products of 2008

Posted on May 30, 2008
Whatever you do, stay away from PC World's picks of The 100 Best Products of 2008. If you're not already familiar with all of these, you could easily fritter away the rest of your afternoon exploring the list.[Hat tip to Al Nye The Lawyer Guy.]

Take Control of Your Outlook Inbox

Posted on May 30, 2008
Binge and purge, binge and purge. Until recently, that's been my approach to managing my Outlook inbox. I'd realize the clutter had reached several thousand messages, then spend time over days, even weeks, weeding and filing to get it back down to manageable size...

ABA Journal Adds Blawg Search, Other Features

Posted on May 29, 2008
The ABA Journal has added new features to its Web site and also has moved into the social networking sphere. New features announced this week are:Blawg search. The magazine has partnered with Justia.com to create a search engine covering all of the 1,800-plus blogs listed in its directory...

My Posts Today at Legal Blog Watch

Posted on May 29, 2008
Here is what I wrote about earlier today in my posts at Law.com's Legal Blog Watch:Same Sex Marriage in... New York?The Lawyer Who Was Dropped From a WindowEven More on the Mess in MinnesotaTwo Useful Guides for Summer InternsThat last item includes information on an interesting podcast series put together by Suffolk University Law School.

Two Podcasts: 'Gay Marriage' and 'New Books'

Posted on May 29, 2008
Having never gotten around to blogging last week's episode of our weekly legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, and with this week's now in the can, I have a two-fer to report:The California ruling and the gay marriage debate. On May 15, California's Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in that state, making it only the second state after Massachusetts to recognize gay marriage...

Today at Legal Blog Watch

Posted on May 27, 2008
I am posting today at Legal Blog Watch:List du Jour: Law's Most Creative Moments.Memorial Day Blawg Review.The Most Influential Minority Lawyers.In BC Speech, Mukasey Defends Yoo.Federal Judge an Unlikely Blogger.ABA Announces Silver Gavel Awards.

Legal Writing Winners Announced

Posted on May 27, 2008
Winners were announced today of the 2008 Burton Awards for legal writing, presented by the Association of Legal Administrators in association with the Law Library of Congress. This year's winners are:Best Law Firm Advertisement: Morrison & Foerster for "Conundrum," June 2007...

The David Lat Fitness Quest

Posted on May 27, 2008
By way of Debra Cassens Weiss at the ABA Journal, I learned of David Lat's Project Truman Show. Lat is known among legal bloggers as author of the legal gossip blog Above the Law, where he often delves into other people's private moments. But via his personal blog, he is now promising to expose his own weighty matters and belly up to the privacy bar -- and I mean that literally...

Video History of the Legal Information Institutes

Posted on May 25, 2008
The launch of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School in 1992 was the first giant step towards making legal information available to the public via the Internet. A year later, inspired by Cornell's LII, the Canadian LII was born. Today, there are 14 Legal Information Institutes throughout the world...

A New Design for this Blog

Posted on May 25, 2008
I got very tired of the white text on dark background I'd had for awhile, so I've switched to a new template. It is based on a Web page design by Andreas Viklund, which was turned into a Blogger template by Carl Galloway, and further modified by me into a three column layout with a few other tweaks...

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