Robert Ambrogi

I posted here a couple days ago about the new survey of compensation paid to law firm media professionals. It found salaries ranging from $50,000 to $375,000. That prompted a follow-up post from Mike Mintz at the Martindale.com Blog and an invitation from Mike to post about it in the Legal Management forum…

A just-published compensation survey of law firm media professionals offers an inside look not only at what these professionals earn, but also at their firms’ use of social media. The survey was conducted by the organization Law Firm Media Professionals in conjunction with Hellerman Baretz Communications.

Three-quarters of the 116 people…

Shortly after Solo Practice University celebrated its first-year of operation in March, I spent a few days touring its virtual campus and sitting in on some of its classes. I’ve written a full review that will appear in next month’s Law Technology News. Out of fairness to my editors, I won’t…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we take on the legal issues surrounding the lost iPhone 4G prototype that ended up in the hands of an editor at Gizmodo.com. Helping us sort through the legal issues in the case are this week’s guests Sam Bayard, assistant director…

A new blog, suitably called LobbyBlog.com, targets Washington, D.C., lobbyists, providing news and information on ethics, campaign finance, pay to play, and other lobbying issues. The blog is published by Lobbyists.info, a Web site with various resources related to federal lobbying and lobbying compliance. …

Legal Current, a blog published by Thomson Reuters, today added a new feature, the Legal Current podcast. The podcast will feature “information and commentary on the global business and practice of law.”

Today’s first episode covers several topics in the news — the Arizona immigration law, the Supreme Court’s animal…

A new digital-only legal magazine covering Florida lawyers and courts published its first issue yesterday. The magazine, The Florida Law Journal, says it will cover legal trends, cases and issues for legal professionals in the Sunshine State.

Notably, given the magazine’s locale, is that two of its owners are prominent California personal-injury attorneys,…

Winners were announced today of the 2010 Webby Awards, honoring excellence in Web sites in more than 100 categories. In the law category, the Webby Award winner is Bitter Lawyer, the blog that aims to be “an engaging, insightful entertainment destination for lawyers.” Winner of the People’s Voice award — decided by…

Last November in a post at Legal Blog Watch, I wrote about the theatrical release of the film, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe. I was not able to see the film then, but I have seen it now, thanks to its recent release on DVD. I'm no film critic, but I highly recommend it, not only for its fascinating portrayal of the man the New York Times once called, "The most hated and most loved lawyer in America," but also for its intimate look of the toll a high-profile legal career can take on a lawyer's family…

On Tuesday, May 11, from 8 to 9:30 a.m., I will be speaking at the monthly meeting of the Boston chapter of Law Firm Media Professionals. I will be part of a panel discussion of blogging in the legal industry. Also on the panel will be Robert M. Buchanan Jr., partner at Choate…

Back in January, I had the first pre-launch review of WestlawNext, West’s next-generation version of its legal-research service. Via a tweet today from Ron Coleman, I learned of an April 23 review posted at AALL Spectrum by Ryan Harrington, reference librarian at Yale Law School. Harrington’s bottom line:…

E-discovery in cases under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act can raise many hurdles. Documents are likely to be in multiple languages. The quantity of data is likely to be huge. And the data is apt to be housed with multiple custodians in any number of global locations and in any variety of formats.

Along with…