Lawyer Micah U. Buchdahl, operator of the Internet Marketing Attorney Web site, today released his 2003 Internet Marketing Attorney Awards. This is the second year in which Buchdahl has reviewed and scored the Web sites of each of the 250 largest firms in the U.S., much as Erik Heels and Rick…
A nation of Googling voyeurs?
Lawyers turn to Google every day to get information on potential clients, opposing parties and adverse witnesses. But is Google turning us into a nation of voyeurs? Writing in the Boston Globe Magazine, reporter Neil Swidey looks at the good and the bad of how Google has changed what we can find out about…
Lawyers as pundits, by way of the Web
My column last month looked at what I called “practical” blogs — those that focus on law or law practice. Not wanting to overlook the many lawyers who publish blogs that may touch on the law, but are by no means preoccupied with it, I devoted this month’s column to them. Some are…
Lawyer gets a kick out of karate law
Fairfax, Va., solo David Z. Kaufman may have the only Web site devoted to martial arts law, KarateLaw.com. A sixth-degree black belt, Kaufman counsels karate instructors and students on liability, contracts and a host of related issues. He also serves as an expert witness in cases involving the martial arts. I was ready to…
‘Site Manager’ simplifies Web site upkeep
A product introduced to the legal market at the recent LegalTech in New York takes an almost blog-like approach to Web site management, making it easy for lawyers with no knowledge of HTML to create and modify pages on their Web sites, much as blogging tools make it easy to update pages without coding.…
Cashing in on blogging
I was at least partly facetious yesterday when I suggested the possibility of bloggers setting up exhibit booths at tech trade shows. But now comes this Guardian article, New biz on the blog, all about cashing in on blogging, and I wonder, Was I so far off?…
Extra: The Blawgistan News hits the stands
Fail to fire up your aggregator for a few days and you might as well be Rip van Winkle waking after years of sleep. So let me be the last to note the launch of The Blawgistan News.
But who needs an aggregator when you have this site? These folks monitor the RSS feeds…
Blawgers as trade-show exhibitors?
Is it antithetical to blogging for a blogger to exhibit at a commercial trade show? Not sure why, but I fully expected, as I roamed the aisles at LegalTech, to find a familiar name from the blogosphere, grinning from behind a hastily thrown together booth, looking to sell … what? Here’s my prediction: By next…
The two tech trade shows to attend
Having attended way too many legal-technology trade shows over the course of my career, I can state with certainty that there are only two each year you really should attend if you care about keeping current with the field — LegalTech New York in January and ABA TechShow in April. Sure, there are…
Ernie the Attorney pursues paperless practice
Louisiana lawyer Ernest E. Svenson, better known in the blogosphere as Ernie the Attorney, today launched a second blog, PDF for Lawyers, where he will offer tips and share information on using Adobe Acrobat in a litigation practice.…
Regulations.gov launches today
The U.S. today launched Regulations.gov, a Web site intended to make it easier for the public to participate in federal rulemaking. The site allows users to search for, review and comment on proposed rules that have been published in the Federal Register. Users can search for proposed regulations by keyword or by agency name.…
Should lawyers steer clear of wireless keyboards?
Another report of errant transmissions from wireless keyboards raises the question of whether lawyers dealing with confidential information should ever use them. Gleason Sackmann’s Net-Happenings mailing list relays a report from Norway’s Aftenposten that a rampant cordless keyboard has struck again. According to the report, Hewlett-Packard Norway will no longer guarantee the security…