November 2005

Freivogel on Conflicts is not  a Website that will be of interest to many non-lawyers. In fact Mr. Freivogel states in his "Ground Rules for Using This Site," that "[t]his site is not designed for non-lawyers. Indeed, lawyers who have not studied or dealt with conflicts of interest rules for lawyers on a regular basis

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland decided to use a blog as an easy way to post press releases to the Web and do an RSS newsfeed at the same time.

So if you did a lot of federal criminal defense in Maryland, don’t you think you’d be setting up an RSS newsreader to automatically

I’m still primarily using Internet Explorer. and one of the tools I seem to use a lot that others may not is the links toolbar. If you’ve never customized your links toolbar, it is probably hidden and/or you have the default sites of Customize links, Free Hotmail, Windows Media and so forth. Just go to

From the great team at Cornell’s Legal Information Institute comes Wex. They label it "everyone’s resource for law learning." Wex attempts to harness the collaborative power of wiki technology into an authoritative online legal disctionary and encyclopedia. If you are not familiar with wikis, you should check out Wikipedia as an extremely useful example.

If you are not doing any analysis of the visitors to your Website you might want to check out Google Analytics. It is now free. I’ve never used the product. But when you look at Google’s track record, the price and the fact that many have been paying for this service previously, it merits

At our recent OBA Annual Meeting, I did a program called "Cutting-Edge Technology for the Domestic Lawyer." I told the participants I would upload the PowerPoint and am doing so here in PDF format. This wasn’t designed to be free-standing without my commentary, but I’d immodestly suggest that it is still worth a download if

Appearing rude or arrogant is something we lawyers need to guard against. The temptations are many. At how many Christmas parties this year will you walk by a group and hear someone make a patently ridiculous statement about a legal matter? The temptation to stop and correct is strong, but if you do, those people

The recently-launched LooksTooGoodToBeTrue website represents a great new effort to help consumers spot Internet fraud. It includes real-life scam tales, new warnings, and quizzes designed to educate consumers. The Web site is a cooperative effort of the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, the postal inspection service, and several private firms, including Monster.com and Target Corporation.