Practice Technology

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New Site Enters Lawyer-Client Matchmaker Field

Updated: The image of a businessman dressed in a dark suit, slipping on a banana peel and about to fall flat on his rear may give Web users an idea of the types of lawyers they might find starting in September on WhoCanISue.com. The new website, founded by Florida lawyer…

Aug 7, 2008 3:08 PM CDT

Paid Well to Do Little, Staffer Relies on Luck, Trial Tech Skills

When Michael Skrzypek began working at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, he knew so little about computers that a supervisor once had to tell him he was trying to put a CD into a floppy drive. He had little to do—he calculates that he one year put in only 10 weeks…

Aug 4, 2008 10:47 PM CDT

Law Librarian’s Beef: High-Tech Law Students Do ‘Wal-Mart’-Style Research

The law library director for Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law says law students today are more impatient and less likely to take the time to find complete answers to legal questions. DeCarlous Spearman talked about her observations in an interview with the Houston Chronicle. “Students now want…

Aug 4, 2008 6:03 PM CDT

Learning 3G-Speak

Primer helps explain all that cellular talk

Aug 1, 2008 1:00 PM CDT

New Tech, Old Problem

Software buy often needs a softer buy-in

Aug 1, 2008 12:40 PM CDT

Free Laws

Delaware is still the go-to jurisdiction for many businesses to incorporate themselves, but lawyers there don’t take that position for granted. That’s why Scott Waxman, a partner at Potter Anderson & Corroon in Wilmington, Del., decided to get his law firm into the business of mobile computing.

Aug 1, 2008 12:35 PM CDT

Acrobat 9 May Not Flip You

Features don’t add lots to program’s attorney appeal

Aug 1, 2008 12:30 PM CDT

Blog Holds ‘American Idol’-Type Contest for New Editor

The law firm gossip blog Above the Law is asking its readers to help choose a new lead editor in a reality blogging competition. The blog chose six finalists who will be eliminated in pairs by weekly reader votes until “the two finalists will go head to head, in a…

Jul 29, 2008 4:08 PM CDT

Flip Flops in the Office? Hiring Partner’s Blog Has an Opinion

Should lawyers wear flip flops at work? Should summer associates decorate their offices? No, and no, answers a new anonymous blogger who claims to be the hiring partner of an AmLaw 200 firm. The blog is called Hiring Partner’s Office. “Sorry, folks, but for law firm salaries, you can put…

Jul 23, 2008 5:54 PM CDT

Ropes & Gray Hires E-discovery Counsel

Ropes & Gray has hired its first e-discovery counsel, making it one of a handful of law firms that have a lawyer on board who focuses exclusively on the issue. Shannon Capone Kirk is jumping to Ropes & Gray from Ungaretti & Harris, where she was a partner who chaired…

Jul 23, 2008 5:03 PM CDT

Lawyer Arranges Mayoral Visit with Jailed Engineer, Gets Computers Working

The defense lawyer for the San Francisco computer engineer accused of shutting down the city’s computer system put together a secret meeting between her jailed client and Mayor Gavin Newsom. At the meeting yesterday afternoon, jailed network administrator Terry Childs passed along the access codes to the computer network that…

Jul 23, 2008 3:25 PM CDT

Spence is Blogging to Complete Life’s Work

A renowned longtime trial lawyer, Gerry Spence probably knows his way around the courtroom as well as anyone. But, until recently, the 80-year-old was only vaguely aware of the blogosphere. Now, however, he has his own blog, seeing it as the best way to complete his life’s work of educating…

Jul 21, 2008 11:33 PM CDT

Above the Law Founder Moving on to More Oversight Responsibilities

David Lat, founder and chief blogger for Above the Law, is moving on to new responsibilities that will require him to get dressed in the morning. Lat will oversee Above the Law and two other blogs produced by Breaking Media: Dealbreaker.com and Fashionista.com, reports The BLT: The Blog of Legal…

Jul 21, 2008 12:47 PM CDT

Martindale Gets Online Makeover

Like any business that is built on print advertising, LexisNexis’ Martindale-Hubbell has seen the Internet take a bite out of its business. The venerable catalog of lawyers has been online for a long time now, but the company says it’s now halfway through a two-year, multimillion-dollar project to transform Martindale.com.…

Jul 14, 2008 8:16 PM CDT

E-Law Rock Stars?

When electronic discovery disputes get heated in his courtroom, Magistrate Judge David J. Waxse of the U.S. District Court in Kansas has a simple strategy: “If someone comes to me and says, ‘So and so is impossible to deal with and we can’t get a deal done,’ I tell them,…

Jul 11, 2008 7:00 PM CDT

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