Robert Ambrogi

Almost 40 years ago, attorney Roland Boyd of McKinney, Texas, wrote a letter to his son offering tips on how to be a successful lawyer. When officials of the State Bar of Texas saw the letter, they prevailed upon him to allow the Texas Bar Journal to print it. Boyd agreed and it appeared in…

Wolters Kluwer announced this week that it will take steps to more closely integrate two of its legal publishing arms, Aspen Publishers and CCH Inc. In a letter posted today to law librarians, Aspen CEO Jane Butler and CCH CEO Gene Landoe said the goal “is to better serve our customers by…

Via Corante Internet news comes a pointer to Blogging Goes Corporate, an article from E-Commerce Times that asks whether companies should post Web logs. Many of the points apply to law firms as much as to corporations.…

Thanks to Jerry Lawson’s net.law.blog for pointing out PC Magazine’s top 100 Web sites. But I found it odd that the only law-related site it included was Legal Affairs, the magazine launched last year in cooperation with Yale Law School. Not that this is not a superb magazine — it is. But…

The American Bar Association has posted to the Web The Daily Journal from its Feb. 10-11 midyear meeting in Seattle. The journal reports all actions taken during the meeting by the ABA’s House of Delegates, its governing body.…

The anacubis site also had this Feb. 26 press release about the release of its browser-based viewer for “visual research and analysis” of online information. According to the release, LexisNexis has incorporated the view into its SmartLinx public records link discovery application as a new way to visualize connections between organizations,…

SearchDay reports today that anacubis, a company specializing in uncovering criminal connections and terrorist networks, has released a free visualization tool that reveals hidden relationships in Google search results.

“The anacubis Viewer,” SearchDay says, “automatically represents ‘entities,’ such as people, organizations and locations, as small graphic icons. It then shows the relationships between…

Every Tuesday, TechnoLawyer.com distributes “Technorelease Tuesday,” a form of advertorial e-mail in which legal vendors pay to include their content, with the proviso that it must be content “that teaches rather than preaches.”

Anthony Vlahos from lexisONE put together an interesting contribution today — three articles about how lawyers can leave the rat…

I wrote earlier about Jonathan Bender’s blog/site, SohoAttorney, which focuses on attorneys practicing from small offices or home offices. When Bender received a request recently from a fellow solo who was looking for a home for some used computer equipment that he add online classifieds, he took him up on it. The result…

From NetHappenings comes the reference to this compilation of federal education laws.…

University of Pittsburgh law professor Bernard Hibbitts, editor of JURIST, has moved his Paper Chase blog to a new URL. The RSS feed can now be found here.…

The Tax Court has ruled that taxpayer is not allowed to deduct business-related travel expenses because his business requires him to travel constantly. Makes sense? No. But so reports Decnavda’s Dialectic, a new blawg devoted to tracking the Tax Court from California lawyer Tim Carter.…