Articles Posted in 2010

Litéra, a company that markets a suite of “document lifecycle management” products popular among many larger law firms, today is launching a cloud-based version, Litéra Live. The software-as-a-service allows users to:…

Two major law firms launched blogs this week devoted to tracking developments in labor and employment law.

From McKenna Long & Aldridge comes Labor Relations Today. Led by MLA partners Richard B. Hankins and Seth H. Borden, the blog is devoted to providing analysis, resources and commentary regarding current and emerging…

Paper.li is a site that creates a daily newspaper from the stream of any Twitter user, updated every 24 hours. Below is a screen cap of one created using my Twitter stream. To see the full page, go to my Daily on Twitter. [A nod to Clarinette for tipping me off…

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…

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.

The extension applies to…

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…

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.…

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. Yet many of the lawyers…

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. I will be part of a…

APRIL 1, 2010–A new cloud-based legal site unveiled today, Cloud E-Law, 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.

Among the features offered by Cloud E-Law:

Ed Flitton, the former managing partner of Holland & Hart in Denver, died Saturday. A council member of the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association, he died while attending ABA TechShow in Chicago.

Ed was also the president of the College of Law Practice Management. As such, Ed was…

A Boston Globe article today, FBI Gives a Glimpse of its Most Secret Layer, discusses a special set of files kept in a separate location by the FBI that are its most secret (or most embarrassing). Pursuant to an FOIA request, the FBI released hundreds of pages of memoranda describing these secret files and…