"Managing Clients’ Funds and Avoiding Ethical Problems" by Jayne B. Tyrrell and Stephen M. Casey is our Website of the Week this week. Admittedly this is a little different type of Website. It’s really just a hypertext-linked CLE paper on trust accounting. But, considering that a number of lawyers get into trouble with trust accounting
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BlawgWorld 2006
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Well, I just got my copy of BlawgWorld 2006, an e-book from those fine folks at Technolawyer. My friend Dennis Kennedy has already said everything that needs to be said about it. So just go read his post. If you want a copy, you need to be a member of Technolawyer and can sign…
Scary Computer Trick with Internet Explorer
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OK, here’s your scary discovery in online technology of the month. Well, at least it was a discovery for me.
Go to http://www.friendlycanadian.com/applications/clipboard.htm
(I’m assuming you will have already used copy and paste or cut and paste today. If not, copy something to your clipboard and then refresh the page.)
Yes, by the default settings…
Site of the Week: Freivogel on Conflicts
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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…
RSS and Government Agencies
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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…
Holiday Gifts for Lawyers
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The shopping season is upon us. Check out Reid Trautz’s 2005 Holiday Gift Guide for Lawyers.
Let me add one more: Billable Hour Timepieces, where the clocks and watches are marked off in one-tenth of an hour increments. Happy Thanksgiving all!
Customizing Internet Explorer Links Toolbar
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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…
Site of the Week: Wex
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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.
Google Analytics (for Websites) is Now Free
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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…
Cutting-Edge Technology for the Domestic Lawyer
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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…