He blogs as Anonymous Lawyer, describing himself as a “fictional hiring partner in a large law firm in a major city.” He works long hours, criticizes his associates, gossips about his partners and relishes his view of the Pacific. But, as The New York Times reports, the anonymous blogger is, in fact, Jeremy…
Bloggers, copyright and caution
I never cease to be surprised at how many lawyers are ignorant about basic copyright law. If the lawyer is a blogger or Web site publisher, ignorance is far from bliss. For anyone uncertain about copyright protections, I recommend Kathy Biehl’s article, Bloggers Beware: Debunking Eight Copyright Myths of the Online World, published on…
A new skin
After two years of looking at my blog, I gave it a new skin today, using one of Blogger’s templates.…
Ohio law is focus of new blog
Ken Kozlowski, director of the Law Library for the Supreme Court of Ohio, has launched a blawg, Ohio Law. Ken promises to post “reviews and announcements of new and not-so-new online sources of Ohio law along with a smattering of Internet news.” While you’re at it, check out Ken’s anti-spyware page.…
Consumers Union launches telecom site
Consumers Union has released a telecommunications and media online resource, HearUsNow.org. The site offers in-depth reading on more than 60 consumer-related telecom issues. Topical sections focus on Internet and broadband; TV, radio and cable; media ownership; phone services; wireless services; and digital content. Related sections tell consumers how to get heard, get involved…
The year’s most useful new sites
With so much attention focused on the explosive growth of blogs in 2004, other law-related Web sites arrived to far less fanfare. Law.com features my round-up of some useful, intriguing law-related sites that launched this year — and that weren’t blogs.…
One stop shopping for government recalls
In an effort to provide better service in alerting people to unsafe, hazardous or defective products, six federal agencies with vastly different jurisdictions have joined together to create Recalls.gov — a one-stop shop for U.S. government recalls. The six government regulatory agencies participating in recalls.gov are: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Food…
Free search-engine optimized Web sites for lawyers
Justia, the Web site and online marketing company led by FindLaw co-founder and former CEO Tim Stanley, last week launched a service to allow law firms to build free search engine optimized Web sites. All Web sites include:
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ABA says, ‘Buyer beware, the gift card’
Nearly 70 percent of consumers plan to give gift cards this holiday season, the American Bar Association says. That is why it has added a page of gift card consumer tips to its consumer legal information site, ABA LawInfo.org. The page explains hidden fees that may reduce the value of a gift…
How to succeed at blogging
I caught this sentence in a posting to Poynter’s online-news discussion list. I like it because it states so simply the formula for blogging success. The posting was by Howard Owens, director of new media at the Ventura County Star.
…“There are two lessons I take away from blogs. First, find your
A webinar on blogs and legal marketing
Tomorrow at noon EST, Kevin O’Keefe, president of LexBlog, is conducting the Professional Marketing Blogs Webinar for Lawyers and Legal Marketing Professionals. He says: “Learn how blogs and RSS technology will be as important, if not more important, than Web sites and email for law firm marketing.” Kevin knows this stuff far better…
To the gates of hell …
… and on my way back. Hell being a flu so bad that for three days I thought my head might explode.…