2005

The new issue of LawPro magazine has hit the Internet and our friends from north of the border have hit another home run. The theme of this issue is electronic discovery and every lawyer should go download it now. As I keep telling groups of lawyers, general familarity with electronic discovery will be needed in…

With millions of blogs online and tens of thousands of new ones appearing daily, there is a need for tools to sort through the many new voices posting on the Net. Certainly traditional search engines like Google index the blogosphere, but there are other tools focused primarily on blogs. When I want a search…

I did a CLE program for a group of Edmond, OK attorneys yesterday and they had several questions about weblogs. As you know, law-related weblogs are sometimes referred to as blawgs.

How does one locate blawgs of interest? Well, generally by the same two methods that one uses to locate anything on the Internet, which…

What a terrible and emotional week! Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of Katrina. The American Bar Association Midyear meeting is scheduled for the first week of February, 2006 in New Orleans. But it seems very unlikely that will occur.

My friend Ernie the Attorney has escaped New Orleans. His posts about…

When doing research on a difficult ethical issue, it is sometimes helpful to review the ethics opinions from jurisdictions other than your own. If your state doesn’t have an ethics opinion on a particular issue, it’s always good to read what smart lawyers have written about the application of a rule. Doing such comprehensive research…

I do lots of presentations on law office management and technology. I also do some programs on lawyer’s use of the Internet. Whenever I mention RSS Newsfeeds, I always see some people’s eyes glaze over or attention start to wander. I can appreciate that as I didn’t immediately "get" RSS either. But this technology…