A couple of months ago, I was interviewed by National, the magazine of the Canadian Bar Association on the topic of Software as a Service (SaaS.) The resulting article, "Practicing Law with SaaS," is a good overview of the topic. Lawyers are so protective of client confidentiality that they are rightfully quite concerned
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ABA Journal Names Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips to 2008 Blawg 100
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Being named to the ABA Journal's 2008 Blawg 100 was a most exciting honor. Thanks to the staff of the ABA Journal and congratulations to the other bloggers who were named to the list. It is worth your time to review the list. It turns out that 50 of the honorees this year were not included…
Drinking the Google Kool-Aid
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Today I want to write a little bit about Google. This is inspired by David Carr's article in the New York Times Google Seduces with Utility, where he discusses his ever-growing relationship with Google. Check out his article. I find myself in the same place. Every few months I learn of a new…
Building Your Own Custom Search Engine
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How would you like to build your own custom search engine? (I can hear people thinking now, "I’m a lawyer, not a programmer.")
But think of the possibilities. You could have a search engine geared to search only your 15 favorite research sites, or favorite news or political commentary sites or even sites related to…
Bidding a Sad Farewell to The Virtual Chase
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Sadly Genie Tyburski has announced she is shutting down the legal research website, The Virtual Chase. Can it really be that she has been maintaining this website and giving us all great free information for 12 years? My colleague, Pete Roberts of the Washington Bar, notes that it is a good time to visit …
Logging onto the Internet from (Almost) Anywhere
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Logging onto the Internet from (Almost) Anywhere is my most recent article in the Oklahoma Bar Journal. "I can now log onto the Internet using my laptop from almost anywhere — roadside, lakeside or poolside." It is great. I cover the details of using the highspeed Internet services provided by the mobile phone network carriers.
Digital Edge Podcast on Search Engine Optimization
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Our podcast, The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology recently covered "The ABC’s of SEO." SEO, as you probably know stands for Search Engine Optimization, or in layman’s terms, "How can I get the search engines to notice my Website?"
Sharon Nelson and I tried to have some fun with what admittedly can be a dry…
Yellow Pages Gather Dust
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All law firms, including solos, need a Web page. That’s my opinion, anyway. The Oklahoma City Journal Record interviewed me yesterday about attorney Web sites. I loved the headline for the feature, Yellow Pages gather dust as legal eagles flock to the Web to lure clients. Of course, I fear that it will not endear…
Announcing LegalWikiPro
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Attorney Brad Smith, of the Barkley Law Firm of Tulsa, asked me to let all of you know about his new site LegalWikiPro. He would love for this to become a comprehensive substantive law wiki for lawyers. Since he is just getting started, he has focused on developing a category of Oklahoma law at…
Your Website: Getting the Attention of the Search Engines
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You finally got your law firm Web site online and waited for the new clients to come rolling in. But for some reason it just didn’t happen that way. Well, all of our marketing efforts are long term projects, with the possible exception of TV, radio and newspaper ads. Your marketing efforts will hopefully still…