November 2009

Most of us have a lot of passwords now. I wouldn't even hazard a guess as to how many passwords I have for various websites. There's a great temptation to use the same password for several sites. Experts will tell you that this is wrong, and it is. But most of us have a generic

I never blogged about my Home Sweet Office article due to some technical issues here. But it is clear more and more lawyers are considering an office-based practice. I find it interesting that many of the success stories involve an established lawyers leaving the firm and "moving home," taking his/her existing clients and charging them

In a move with possible profound implications, Google Scholar has added a dedicated search for legal journals and court opinions. Check it out here. Apparently they have the entire Heinonline database included as I located a couple of articles I wrote back in 2005 that I didn't know were available on the free web. My

Lawyers and Alligators is the title of a piece I wrote earlier this year about how we lawyers deal with prioritization in our lives. Most lawyers have already switched to a digital calendaring system and now it is time to focus on digital task lists.

Apparently there is a fairly robust online debate about the state of the free access to the law. As we know the law is generally found in case opinions and statutes, which are, generally speaking, in the public domain by their nature. Scholarly treatises and law reviews provide analysis and commentary. Other research tools provide help in