Law.com has released the EDD Update blog, which will focus on "electronic data discovery news and analysis." Given the number of well-known pundits and experts that have signed on as authors, the endeavor seems destined to be a success. For a good example of the content you will find there, check out Craig Ball’s
Website of the Week
Site of the Week: Law People Blog.com
Law firm consultant Ronda Muir’s Law People Blog has the motto "Better Law Practice Through Better People Management." This blog addresses a critical aspect of law practice management. Larger employers, including law firms, have Human Relations departments to deal with the numerous issues that hiring people brings to the workplace. For the most part, solo…
Extremely Noteworthy Labor Day Blawg Review
Extraordinary effort should be noted. Blawg Review provides a weekly round-up of the previous week in law-related blogging through the efforts of a guest host. The host for this Labor Day edition is George Lenard, who writes George’s Employment Blog.
George’s Labor Day Special Edition Historical Edition of Blawg Review (#124) is noteworthy for…
Site of the Week: Legal Management Archives from ALA
This may be one of my most valuable Website of the Week posts, so don’t stop reading early.
I have been a member of the Association of Legal Administrators for ten years now. We have a great local chapter in Oklahoma City. It is too bad I often have conflicts and have to miss their…
Site of the Week: SOLOFORMANIA
Carolyn Elefant’s My Shingle blog has long been a resource and advocacy site for solo and small firm practitioners. Earlier this summer she added another resource with SOLOFORMANIA. I’ll use Carolyn’s words to explain the simple idea behind this site.
"What is SOLOFORMANIA? It’s a cornucopia of forms for the busy solo –…
Site of the Week: Sunlight Foundation’s Insanely Useful Websites
The Sunlight Foundation describes its Insanely Useful Websites resource as follows:
- "The following sites and resources are “insanely useful Web sites” for government transparency. They provide a broad range of information available to track government and legislative information, campaign contributions and the role of money in politics. Many of these resources apply the Web 2.0
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Top Ten Calls From Atticus Provide Great, Free Information
Atticus is a lawyer coaching firm. Graduates of their program have the opportunity to participate in subsequent telephone-based programs from experts in particular areas. Since they have now had 100 of these calls, they have decided to make their top 10 most popular calls available for all of us to listen to online. There are…
Thoughtful Legal Management Blog Debuts
David J. Bilinsky has entered the blogosphere with his new weblog, Thoughtful Legal Management. This brings up several questions. The most obvious is whether the term "thoughtful legal management" is an oxymoron. The second is why a very well respected gentleman who is already busy as a Practice Management Advisor and staff lawyer…
Site of the Week: Recalls.gov
Six federal government agencies have combined their efforts into one comprehensive "one-stop shop" about all U.S. government product recalls. Recalls.gov seems to be a fine addition to any lawyer’s (or for that matter any consumer’s) list of research or reference websites. Hat tip to Oklahoma City lawyer Joyce Green for bringing this one to my…
How to Tie the Ten Most Useful Knots
OK, this has nothing to do with law practice, but the other day I was trying to tie two cords together and I realized I hadn’t done that in a long time and had just about forgotten how. Then I went to Refdesk.com to look something up tonight and found "How to Tie the Ten…