Law Practice Today, the weekly Webzine recently launched by the ABA Law Practice Management Section, has added an RSS feed. LPT publishes articles related to law practice marketing, management, technology and finance.…
ABA launches Web resource for solo and small firm practitioners
The ABA Standing Committee on Solos and Small Firm Practitioners, sponsors of the Solosez e-mail discussion group, yesterday launched SOLOSEZ.net, a Web portal for solo and small firm practitioners. Its mission is to serve as a guide to the events, issues, resources and services that benefit solo and small firm practitioners across the…
Insurance blawg targets ‘unintended consequences’
Launched last week, Unintended Consequences is a Web log focusing on “law and disruptive technologies affecting insurance and related financial services (especially their unintended consequences).” It is published by Doug Simpson, an attorney in Hartford, Conn., who was with the law department of a Fortune 500 insurance company for more than 25 years and…
Benefits, ERISA blog provides news, commentary
B. Janell Grenier, a lawyer in East Goshen, Penn., launched Benefitsblog, a Web log offering news and commentary on employee benefits and ERISA law. Now a sole practitioner, Grenier formerly worked with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, Penn.; Ray, Quinney & Nebeker, Salt Lake City, Utah; Stinson, Morrison & Hecker, Kansas City, Mo.; and…
New blawg offers creative solutions to practical problems
Here’s a blog that focuses on how not to think like a lawyer. The brainchild of New Orleans lawyer A.J. Levy, Out-of-the-Box Lawyering focuses on creativity — on unusual solutions lawyers have found to problems they face in their practices. It’s what Levy, citing Edward de Bono, calls “lateral thinking.” Read, for example,
A place to stay in Paradise
Just spent a week on St. John staying in this private rental home. I strongly recommend this rental to anyone planning a visit to the V.I.…
Me limin’, not bloggin’
I am here this week, so I am not blogging.…
New blog focuses on securities litigation
Lyle Roberts, a partner in the securities litigation group of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, has launched The 10b-5 Daily, a blog devoted to tracking news and events related to securities class action litigation. In addition to his daily postings, Roberts offers links to key securities law Web sites, cases and commentary. To learn…
Larry Bodine launches LawMarketing Weblog
Larry Bodine has launched LawMarketing Weblog, devoted to thoughts, opinions and news about law firm marketing. Bodine is a marketing consultant who operates The Law Marketing Portal. He is the former director of communications for Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago, and earlier was editor and publisher of the ABA Journal.…
The Supreme Court now and the Supreme Court then
beSpacific posts an announcement from Thomas R. Bruce, co-director of Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, that it is now offering Supreme Court decisions delivered via an RSS feed.
Bruce writes: “As part of some extensive (and ongoing) renovation of our Supreme Court collection, we’ve added RSS feeds that offer summaries of recent…
Lawyers plead insanity?
Headline of the day: Sampson lawyers may plead insanity. (Thanks to Dan Kennedy’s Media Log for the pointer.)…
For trial lawyers, a free monthly newsletter
The trial consulting firm Bowne DecisionQuest publishes a free electronic newsletter, DQ FYI, that you can subscribe to here. Sure, it’s a marketing device, but each newsletter generally includes a useful article or two, along with a Question of the Month, in which lawyers are invited to offer their solutions to sticky situations that…