Practice Technology

Webby Legal Award Nominees Announced

You can vote for your favorite legal website from among five nominees in the 13th annual Webby Awards competition. Nominated for best legal website are Get Legal, Immigration Advocates, JURIST, WomensLaw and Workplace Fairness. JURIST, written by students at the University of Pittsburgh law school, has been nominated two years…

Apr 14, 2009 3:46 PM CDT

Ex-Lawyer Among Bloggers Who Write About Parenthood Foibles

A former lawyer writing online about her foibles as a mother is one of several bloggers chronicling their less-than-perfect child rearing tactics. The blogger is Carole Morrell, and her tongue-in-cheek blog is titled The Drunken Housewife, the Wall Street Journal reports (sub. req.). In a post explaining her background, Morrell…

Apr 13, 2009 6:28 PM CDT

Underneath Their Robes Blog Back on Federal Judiciary’s Case

Above the Law founder David Lat actually entered the legal blogosphere in 2004 as the anonymous “Article III Groupie” via the legal blog Underneath Their Robes. The blog continued after he came out in a November 2005 New Yorker interview, but petered out in the fall of 2007. In September,…

Apr 9, 2009 8:39 PM CDT

Think of Twitter as ‘Megatexting,’ But Proceed With Caution

Whether you’ve registered for a free Twitter account, are actively engaged in the microblogging community or simply at a browsing stage, Oklahoma legal technology guru Jim Calloway advises lawyers of all makes to brush up on the fast-growing social network. “There’s no doubt that Twitter is a phenomena, with millions…

Apr 8, 2009 2:50 PM CDT

Legal Blogger David Lat Sees Reason for Panic

Legal blogger David Lat, founding editor of Above the Law, says there may be good reason for lawyers to panic, but they will ultimately survive. Speaking to law students at the University of California at Berkeley, Lat admitted news of layoffs and other job woes at Above the Law can…

Apr 8, 2009 1:39 PM CDT

Law Blogs Are ‘Cheapest Thing You Can Do’ to Market Practice, Lawyer Says

Consumer law firm Pritzker | Olsen in Minneapolis has one blog at present but is in the process of developing several others because its Food Poisoning Blog has proven itself. “We know we are getting business [from the blogs]. It’s really easy to track,” Pritzker | Olsen attorney Brendan Flaherty…

Apr 7, 2009 4:39 PM CDT

How a Blog Commenter Sweet-Talked Ann Althouse into Engagement

Blogger and Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse provoked something of a firestorm after a whirlwind engagement to a commenter on her blog known simply as “Meade.” The New York Times reveals the mystery suitor and details the courtship. Meade is 55-year-old Laurence Meade, a divorced garden designer and caretaker for…

Apr 6, 2009 1:46 PM CDT

Web-Savvy Law Student Helps Win Release of Battered Woman Jailed 29 Yrs

Updated: The sixth try was the charm for a California woman imprisoned for 29 years for sitting in a car while her husband and his cousin robbed a liquor store and killed the store’s owner. Connie Keel’s successful parole petition is being credited, in part, to the work of second-year…

Apr 2, 2009 1:18 PM CDT