Just a few days ago, I titled a post here, Maybe I Need to Give Up on Adobe Acrobat X Pro. As I explained there and in an earlier post, I was never able to install and run Adobe Acrobat X Pro. Try as I might, it crashed every time I tried to…
Why the ABA Survey Gets it Wrong on Blogs
Let me ask you a question: Where are you more likely to buy a car, at a Superbowl commercial or at your local auto dealer? Given that most people would say auto dealer, it follows that Superbowl commercials must not be effective at selling cars, right?
Of course not. The question, as phrased, makes no…
Maybe I Need to Give Up on Adobe Acrobat X Pro
In a post here two months ago, I wrote about my problems with Adobe Acrobat X Pro. Adobe invited me to download and test a review copy. I was never able to run it. Each time I tried, it crashed immediately.
After writing that post, Adobe said it would send me a boxed version and…
LawPivot Matches Small Companies with Lawyers for Free Legal Advice
If a lawyer provides a company with a helpful answer to a legal question, at no charge, the lawyer gets a foot in the door to be hired by that company for additional business. That, anyway, is the operating principle behind LawPivot, a website where companies can pose legal questions and get answers from…
Looking for Office Space? Site Helps Lawyers Find It
A relatively new website functions as an office-space matchmaker for the legal profession, pairing law firms that have space to sublet with solo and small-firm lawyers who need to obtain an office. The site, LookingForSpace.com, is exclusively devoted to office space for lawyers and aims to develop a national database of listings. So far, it…
ABA Shutters its Social Networking Site
After the American Bar Association launched its social networking site, LegallyMinded, in December 2008, I wrote a review that I summed up with this title: ABA Social Network Fails to Connect. Regrettably, it was a commendable idea but poorly executed. As I wrote then, “It jettisons features that should…
Two Sites of Interest to iPad Loving Lawyers
If you are a lawyer who uses an iPad, here are two blogs — one new and one not-so-new — that can help you make better use of it and keep up with the latest applications:…
Next Week: GP/Solo Symposium on Strategies for Success
On Thursday, March 31, the Massachusetts Bar Association is presenting a special symposium for solo and small firm lawyers, Strategies for Success: 2011. I am among the line-up of presenters for this program.
The symposium will feature a unique format — a series of seven, 20-minute sessions, “Pointers by the Pros,” on various…
News Flash: LinkedIn is for Networking
I am writing this post as a reality check.
On a lawyers’ listserv that I follow, there is a currently a discussion thread about LinkedIn. Simply stated, the topic of this discussion is focused on how to get rid of all those pesky invitations from unfamiliar LinkedIn members.
It started when someone posted this…
Qwest General Counsel Rich Baer Launches a Blog
Rich Baer, general counsel and chief administrative officer at Qwest Communications, has launched Reliance On Counsel, a blog devoted to “tips, tech, theories and tall tales of an accidental general counsel.”
Baer will use the blog, he writes, to discuss such issues as:…
The Supreme Court, Delivered 17 Syllables at a Time
Minimalism may be the latest fad in Supreme Court reporting. Last year, Connecticut blogger Dan Schwartz issued a challenge to tweet a notable Supreme Court case in 140 characters or less. Now comes Supreme Court Haiku, delivering “the law of the land in seventeen syllables.”
At this site, you can…
New Site Offers Free Video ‘Nuggets’ of CLE
At the ACLEA annual meeting last summer, I gave a plenary talk, “10 Ways Technology is Rewiring Lawyers’ Brains … and What it Means for CLE.” Several times during that talk, when I wanted examples of online CLE sites that were engaged in social media, that were transparent about their products…