Coming Soon: A Site for Asia Legal Industry News
Scheduled to launch Sept. 15 is Conventus Law, a legal-media site that promises to provide legal professionals and business leaders with a one-stop shop for the latest Asia-Pacific legal business news. Exactly what the site will encompass is still a bit vague, but a recent email from its publisher, Stephen Lai, describes it this…
MyCorporateResource Revamps with Newsier Focus
“Every year, the nation’s largest law firms produce thousands of client alerts, briefing papers and memoranda on a range of corporate, regulatory and industry issues. What if someone pulled together the links to all these materials and organized them in a way to make them more useful and more readily accessible?”
Is This a Good Use of Video for a Law Firm?
How many lawyers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? That’s the joke behind a new marketing video from the Minneapolis law firm Nilan Johnson Lewis. But is the joke on the firm?
Here’s the set-up: In an office-building lobby, a maintenance worker uses a pole to reach…
Can’t Beat the Price of this Practice Management Tool – Free
Toronto-based Credenza Software yesterday announced a new version of its Credenza practice-management software that comes at an unbeatable price — free. Now the company offers two versions of its software — Credenza Basic for free and
Have You Had any Business from LawPivot?
Last March, I wrote a post here about LawPivot, a website where companies can pose legal questions and get answers from lawyers. Lawyers are paid nothing to provide these answers. The incentive for participating is that the free answers the…
Use Wikipedia, Even When You’re Offline
Wikipedia made its name as an online encyclopedia. Of course, not everyone can be online all the time. So I was interested to read that Wikipedia is beta testing an offline version.
The offline version uses Kiwix, open-source software that allows Web content to be read offline. There…
ABA Journal Seeks ‘Blawg 100’ Nominees
The editors of the ABA Journal are gearing up to select their annual list of the 100 best legal blogs, the Blawg 100. And they are seeking suggestions of blogs they should include. “Tell us about a blawg—not your own—that you read regularly and think other lawyers should know about,” they…
Opinion Summaries via Twitter, Facebook, RSS
In a post here last April, I wrote about Justia’s launch of a free service providing daily summaries of federal and state appellate opinions, daily.justia.com. At the time, the summaries were provided only through an email subscription.
Now, Justia has added an array of…
‘Firm Manager’ Adds Client Portal, Enhances Contacts
LexisNexis last week rolled out two significant enhancements to LexisNexis Firm Manager, its Web-based practice management application. (See my earlier posts about Practice Manager here, here and
A Legal Guide for Digital Journalists
Although it was launched in June, it has taken me this long to get around to checking out the Digital Journalist’s Legal Guide created by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Now that I’ve had…
Podcast: The NBA Lockout and the Law
On this week’s Lawyer2Lawyer podcast: The NBA Lockout and the Law. We look at the legal and business issues involved with two great guests:…