Robert Ambrogi

Novelist Elmore Leonard once said about his writing, “I leave out the parts that most people skip.” His statement, at once so simple and so quizzical, could as easily have come from either Buddha or Yogi Berra. Leonard’s point, however, is clear. Lean writing is strong writing.

For many lawyers, lean writing is anathema.…

Bloomberg Law today released what it describes as “the next evolution” of its legal research platform. Changes include a redesigned interface, enhanced search capabilities, new practice centers and enhanced collaboration and workflow features. One thing that is not changing is Bloomberg Law’s flat-fee, all-inclusive pricing — something the company believes…

The folks at Rocket Matter today released the first installment in a planned three-part, free e-book, The Law Firm of Tomorrow. Based on articles originally published at Rocket Matter’s Legal Productivity blog that have been revised and updated, the book’s first installment focuses on social media…

In two recent posts here, I explored which online lawyer directories get the most traffic. (Popular Legal Directories, Ranked by Traffic and Legal Directory Rankings: An Alternate View.) Using two different ranking sources, Alexa.com and Compete.com, I concluded that the top…

On Wednesday, the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 issued its initial report (PDF) on whether ethics rules should be changed to address lawyers’ use of technology for marketing and advertising.

As you may recall, when the commission first announced its plans to…

In this week’s episode of the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at online law schools. For reasons ranging from finances to lifestyle, increasing numbers of lawyers-to-be are opting to get their legal education online. In addition, at least one online law school now also offers an LLM program for lawyers who want to…

No, the legal profession is not about to be taken over by automatons carrying briefcases. But an increasing number of lawyers are forsaking their BlackBerrys and iPhones and moving to mobile devices using Google’s Android operating system. And now there’s a blog to help them along the way.

The Droid Lawyer…

In my recent post, Popular Legal Directories, Ranked by Traffic, I looked at how several online lawyer directories stack up in Alexa.com traffic rankings. One comment said that Compete.com, another site that tracks website statistics, ranked the sites in a different order.

So I checked and, sure enough, the…

[See also this follow-up: Legal Directory Rankings: An Alternate View.]

Which online lawyer directories get the most traffic? To find out, I checked Alexa.com, which tracks statistics for all major websites. Based on those statistics, it assigns each site a global rank as well as…

Sitting at a desk all day can kill you. Sitting for prolonged periods, even if you exercise regularly, increases your risk of death from heart disease and other factors.

So what’s a geek lawyer to do? One answer is the GeekDesk, a motor-operated adjustable-height desk.…

Do corporate counsel still use the Martindale-Hubbell legal directory? Or are they now more likely to turn to LinkedIn or any of a number of other online directories?

A new survey of corporate legal departments concludes that Martindale-Hubbell is still the most prominent legal directory among corporate counsel in…

A new legal wiki, Standardforms.org, has been launched to provide a free depository of sophisticated legal documents. Notably, the site is not intended to serve as a cache of ready-to-use legal forms. Instead, its founder hopes that the wiki feature — which allows anyone to add and edit forms — will provide…