Robert Ambrogi

Is a Massachusetts lawyer, writer and media consultant. He also writes the blog Media Law and cohosts the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer

Recover deleted files — maybe

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In August, Tom Mighell wrote on his blog, Inter Alia, about a free utility, called Restoration, that can restore deleted files on your computer. As Tom explained: “It searches your hard drive for sectors containing files marked for deletion and provides a mechanism for recovering the files.”

I recently downloaded the program…

LawSites Poll: Your Top Legal Blog

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This is an experiment that I hope will allow me to tap into the collective wisdom of my readers. My RSS reader is flooded with law blogs. Every day, I discover more great law blogs. They provide me great information as well as plenty of fodder for the three blogs I write: Lawsites,

C2C: The new e-discovery rules

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On Dec. 1, electronic-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will take effect and change forever how civil cases are litigated. In this week’s legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast, we discuss the new rules and their impact on lawyers and litigants. Joining my co-host J.Craig Williams and me to provide their…

Online calendar works offline too

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An online calendar launched in beta this week is unique in that it works offline as well. Called Scrybe, it operates in your browser even when you are offline and synchronizes when you reconnect. This makes it immediately more practical than Web 2.0 calendar applications such as Google Calendar. Other interesting features include…

Tailor your cell message to the caller

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Here is a clever idea: Tailor your cellphone voicemail greeting to the caller, based on caller ID. You can do it with YouMail. The service has other nice features as well, including enabling you to check voice messages via the Web and forward them by e-mail. A “ditchmail” feature hangs up on unwanted callers.…

Lawyer in bin Laden costume arrested

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From Associated Press, via The Boston Globe:

“The lawyer who divulged President Bush’s drunken-driving arrest days before the 2000 election was arrested at gunpoint yesterday after he was seen on a highway construction site carrying a toy gun while dressed in an Osama bin Laden costume.”

Maine Today has this:

“Thomas J.