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…
Comprehensive Resource on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
The law firm of Shearman & Sterling has launched a comprehensive Web site designed to serve as a one-stop resource on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The site is a searchable, dynamic version of the firm’s FCPA Digest, a nearly 500-page summary of FCPA cases and review releases.
The Web site includes…
Challenge: Sum Up a SCOTUS Case in 140 Characters
Dan Schwartz has issued a challenge: Tweet your favorite U.S. Supreme Court case. Schwartz, author of the Connecticut Employment Law Blog, is organizing an April 9 educational program at UConn Law School on how technology is changing the practice of law.
To help build buzz for the event, he is issuing this…
A New E-Discovery Blog
Legal-technology company Catalyst Repository Systems has launched a blog devoted to electronic discovery law, technology and best practices. I will be one of the contributors to the blog, along with several of the company’s legal and technology professionals. Others who will contribute posts include:
BC Law ‘eBrief’ Features my Blogs, Podcasts
(For any confused readers, yes, this is a revised version of my earlier post, which complained that the piece listed the wrong links for my blogs and podcast. The school corrected the links within minutes of being informed of the errors.)
My law school, Boston College, today sent out an eBrief blast with an…
My ‘Media Law’ Blog Has Moved
I have moved my Media Law blog from its old address to this new one: http://medialaw.legaline.com. Anyone who subscribes to the feed for that blog will have to update their subscriptions to this new feed address: http://medialaw.legaline.com/feeds/posts/default.
As I’ve posted here and here, I have been pondering what to…
Another Ethics Panel Clears Total Attorneys
The state of Washington is now the 11th to close its ethics investigation of Total Attorneys with no finding of wrongdoing. Washington State Bar Association Senior Disciplinary Counsel Jonathan Burke issued a letter saying the state would not pursue complaints filed against 13 Washington attorneys over their use of Total Attorneys for Internet…
More on Whether to Scrap my Blog
My musings and those of Venkat Balasubramani over whether to shut down our blogs and start afresh with new ones garnered some attention from other legal bloggers, among them Bruce Carton today at Legal Blog Watch, Colin Samuels at Infamy or Praise, Kevin O’Keefe at Real Lawyers Have Blogs, and…
Lawyer-rating Site Avvo Raises $10 Million Financing
Lawyer rating and directory site Avvo has received $10 million in a new round of financing, led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm DAG Ventures. Current Avvo investors, Benchmark Capital and Ignition Partners, also invested in this round. The funds will enable Avvo to further expand and enhance its products and services…
Should I Shut Down LawSites and Start Anew?
Could it be that Venkat Balasubramani can read my mind? In response to something I tweeted today, he quite lucidly set out the debate I’ve been having with myself. Turns out he’s been having the same debate with himself.
The question for both of us is: Does it make sense to make a…
Legal Project Management in the Cloud
Introduced as a beta at LegalTech in February, Onit is a Web-based project management tool described as being for “anyone and everyone who manage projects – big, small, business, legal.” It specifically includes a Legal Edition designed for legal matters and cases. During its beta period, the system is free for anyone to use.…
Join Me This Week at the MBA Annual Conference
Join me tomorrow and Friday at the Massachusetts Bar Association Annual Conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Tomorrow, I am chairing a plenary session at 1 p.m., “Social Media for Lawyers: How to Boost Your Practice and Avoid Pitfalls.” On Friday at 3:15, I will be on a Law Practice Management panel,…