Allocatur is a site that I encourage all of my readers to visit. Liz Harris is a "cost lawyer" based in Melbourne, Australia. I'll let you visit her site's About page to learn what a cost lawyer in Australia does. She has a very interesting point of view. (Of course, maybe that's just because I
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Site of the Week: All My Favs
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All My Favs is a web page that graphically displays many of the most popular web pages and web services. If you wish, you can add this to your favorites in your browser and then delete about 20 other favorites because you can get to them more quickly from here. A really slick interface! After…
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 …
Site of the Week: The Connected Lawyer
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The Connected Lawyer is published by Bryan Sims. Those of you who follow legal technology trends probably recognize his name. Bryan is a regular contributor to Technolawyer and was named Technolawyer of the year for 2005. He also did product reviews for Law Office Computing until its premature demise.
The Connected Lawyer features a nice…
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…
Site of the Week: Nowthatyouare18.org
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Those fine folks at the Washoe County Bar (Reno, NV) are cutting edge kind of people. (They have hosted a link to this blog on their website for a long time, certainly a positive "cutting edge" thing in my books!) But they have recently unveiled a great website entitled Nowthatyouare18.org, which is a survival…
Site of the Week: Judge Tom Talks
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Judge Tom Leonard is one of ten judges at the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court. In his blog, Judge Tom Talks, he shares his thoughts on a variety of matters, including general information about worker’s compensation and technology shortcuts. Check out the link to the Oklahoma Worker’s Compensation Wiki.
Site of the Week: The Last Word Blog is Launched
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Today I have a pleasant assignment. I get to write about one of my favorite people. That is because Laura Calloway has launched her new blog, The Last Word. Laura Calloway is the Director of the Practice Management Assistance Program for the Alabama State Bar. She is an intelligent and capable lawyer and I have…
Site of the Week: Law 21
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One of the truly thought-provoking blogs in Law 21. It is produced by Canadian Jordon Furlong, who is Editor-in-Chief of National magazine at the Canadian Bar Association. But it is his project, not an official one. As he notes on the blog, "[i]n the 21st century, the practice of law is shaking loose from…
Site of the Week: e-Discovery Team (Featuring Summaries of 31 e-Discovery Cases)
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Attorney Ralph Losey publishes the e-Discovery Team Blog. He has posted over 100 items there in the last 18 months. Of particular note is his most recent post where he mentions how useful the search features of his sites are and then provides summaries of his 31 "favorite" e-Discovery cases complete with links to the…