A new blog, Law Firm Diversity, describes its purpose as promoting a rational discussion about the so-called business case for law firm diversity: that “the creativity and problem-solving ability of a group is a function of diversity.”
The blog is written by Mister Thorne, a freelance writer and editor in San Francisco. Although not…
Along with Jim Calloway and Natalie Kelly, I presented the “60 Sites in 60 Minutes” program at ABA Techshow last month. Now, the complete list of sites is posted. As always, we include some serious sites and some offbeat sites. This year we added a special category for Web 2.0.…
The recent Supreme Court ruling in eBay v. MercExchange, setting the standard for injunctive relief in patent cases, is the topic of this week’s legal affairs podcast Coast to Coast. Joining my co-host J. Craig Williams and me are two prominent patent lawyers, Rachel Krevans, partner at the law firm of…
In a victory for bloggers as journalists, a California appeals court today issued a decision preventing Apple Computer from forcing the disclosure of unnamed individuals who allegedly leaked information about new Apple products to online news sites. In a 69-page opinion in O’Grady v. Superior Court, the California Court of Appeal said that the…
Why would a law firm engage in marketing that starts with spam and closes with threats? That is precisely what an increasing number of firms seem to be doing.
Here is an example taken from an actual series of e-mails I received. I’ve changed the names to protect the innocent.
It starts with an e-mail…
The South Carolina Bar was scheduled to vote today on a proposal to post all attorney disciplinary actions on its Web site, according to The State. The Bar’s House of Delegates was to vote on the resolution as its biannual meeting today in Charleston, the report said.…
I don’t know if this is funny or sad. The U.S. State Department ordered 16,000 Lenovo laptops, only to decide it should quarantine them for fear that their Chinese manufacturers loaded them with spyware. As I sit here typing this on a Lenovo laptop, I wonder who in China might be monitoring my every…
With the launch of this “semi-official” blog, The Senate Site, Utah’s state Senate became the first legislative body to make blogging a tool for lawmaking, Stateline.org reports.
…“Joining the nation’s growing proliferation of political Web logs, or blogs, the Utah site was the first of its kind to strike up a digital
The Globe and Mail reports that venerable Toronto firm Torys LLP has launched a series of video podcasts “of pinstriped partners holding forth on such topics as merger break fees and proxy contests.” Reporter Beppi Crosariol writes:
…“Several industry watchers say Torys’ videocasts appear to be the first foray by a law
Sweeping proposals this week from Congress and the president to change U.S. immigration laws have been met with strong reactions from across the political spectrum. On this week’s Coast to Coast legal-affairs podcast, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I discuss these proposed changes with immigration lawyers Gregory Siskind, founding partner of…
A man who, while still in his 20s, commanded a South African infantry regiment and then managed 425 acres of African game preserve certainly knows something of adventure. And one who started his own consulting firm and oversaw its growth to 67 employees probably knows something of strategy. Rob Millard is both those men, and…
A new Web resource, Congresspedia, is using the wiki model to create a tool for citizens to research and share information about members of Congress. In the same way that Wikipedia is a collaboratively written encyclopedia, Congresspedia is a collaboratively written encyclopedia of Congress. It launched in April with 539 articles, one for…
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