Kevin O’Keefe, president of LexBlog, is coming all the way from Washington state to Boston this week, so the least we can do is get some blawgers and blawgees together to buy him a beer. Our meetup will be this Wednesday, April 16. Tentative time is 6-ish and tentative place is Emmet’s Pub.…
Lawyer2Lawyer: Law Firms Go Green
With global warming and environmental issues plaguing the world, the legal community is doing its part by going green. This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility within the legal profession. taking charge and partaking in individual tasks within…
Two New Sites Simplify Life after Death
Savvy estate-planning lawyers help their clients prepare for every contingency that may arise after they leave this life. This week brought announcements of two new Web sites, each aimed at simplifying the process of settling a decedent’s affairs, even when no estate planning was done.
The first, eDivvyup, is an online auction site specifically…
Hillary Would be Happy With These Results
A new search engine, Picollator, purports to search for images on the Web that match images you upload. It uses pattern recognition to look for matching visual objects in other images. In this way, it claims, is helps “find photos of people more easily than any existing text-based search system. You can simply upload…
Google Docs to Enable Offline Use
The problem with using Google Docs as a word processor is that you have to be connected to the Internet. Not a problem anymore. According to this report in The New York Times, Google will start over the next several weeks making its Web-based software available offline. “The offline feature of Google Docs…
More on Avvo’s Arrival in Mass.
As a follow-up to my post Monday, Avvo Expands to Mass., Florida, here is a report from the Boston Herald: Lawyers Caught in Web of Scrutiny.…
Perfect for Lawyers: Gmail Custom Time
Ever wish you’d e-mailed that pleading to the court a few minutes or even a few days earlier? Ever regret having missed the deadline for exercising that option? Ever wish you’d e-mailed a birthday wish to your partner on the actual birthday? Never again miss a deadline — or at least never again
Avvo Expands to Mass., Florida
Lawyer-rating site Avvo expands this week to Massachusetts and Florida, bringing its coverage to 60 percent of licensed U.S. attorneys and spanning 11 states and the District of Columbia. Launched in June 2007, Avvo’s goal is to serve as a consumer resource by rating and profiling every U.S. lawyer. Initially, I was somewhat skeptical…
Even More on ‘Duby-ous’ Firm Video
I mentioned in this March 17 post that I’d been interviewed by Connecticut Law Tribune reporter Tom Scheffey for his article, Duby-ous News?, about the controversy surrounding a law firm’s staged news program. Now Law.com Legal Technology has picked up the story.…
I Have More EverNote Invites
Following up on my post about EverNote beta (EverNote Beta: Never Forget Anything), I have more invitations available. To request one, send me a note at ambrogi-at-gmail.com.…
Award Honors Best Legal Web Site
The Web site of law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice has been named Best Legal Web Site in the Web Marketing Association’s annual WebAward competition. The award judges Web sites using an Internet Standards Assessment Report based on seven criteria: design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copywriting and ease of use. …
Searchme: Search Goes Visual
I have been testing the beta version of a new search site that delivers results visually, showing pages rather than descriptions of pages. Called Searchme, it is by no means the first search engine to include images of matching Web pages within search results, but I have…