Robert Ambrogi

The popular online advertising site Craigslist found itself in the spotlight recently after a Boston medical student was accused of murdering a Boston masseuse who he met through her advertisement on the site. Even before that incident, law enforcement officials sometimes accused Craigslist of enabling prostitution and other unlawful conduct. Last month, the sheriff…

One of my blogosphere indulgences is You Don’t Say, a blog about language, usage and journalism by John E. McIntyre, veteran copyeditor at The Baltimore Sun. But earlier this week, “the grim economics of the newspaper business” abruptly gave McIntyre “an early parole.” Fortunately for fans of his blog, he is back to blogging,…

Good article from Lawyers USA on producing your own podcast. Includes comments from my Lawyer2Lawyer cohost J. Craig Williams.…

Here is a fun idea for decorating your office wall or sending a gift to another lawyer: Your Name Here Cartoons. The concept is simple: Pick out the cartoon you like and have it customized with your name or your law firm’s name in the caption. One, for example, shows a lawyer in front…

Here are the bar associations I have found with pages on LinkedIn. With the exception of the International Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Associations, I include only U.S. bar associations. Let me know of others that I have missed.

International Bar Associations

National Bar Associations…

I am in the process of researching how bar associations are using social media. Here is a list of state bar associations I have found with Facebook pages. Not included in this list are national and local bars. Please let me know of any state bars missing from this list. (Some of these links…

I have been researching how bar associations are using social media. One aspect of that is identifying bar associations with Twitter feeds. Here is what I have found so far. Please let me know of others. As you will see, some are active, some are not.…

Note the lava in the foreground.

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Originally built in 300 B.C.

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Never again be without a legal dictionary. West today announced the release of an application that puts Black’s Law Dictionary on the iPhone and iPod touch. The app features the most recent 8th edition of the definitive legal dictionary, which is edited by Bryan A. Garner.

The…

This week’s Lawyer2Lawyer podcast looks at the first U.S. piracy prosecution in more than a century:

The first prosecution of a pirate in the U.S. in 100 years! The world watched closely as Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama cargo ship was rescued, after being held hostage by four Somali pirates.

How much time do you spend every day on e-mail? As you read through your inbox and write and respond to messages, how much of that time are you tracking? My guess is that lawyers lose track of significant chunks of time spent on e-mail. A new plug-in for Outlook aims to capture that lost…