Practice Technology

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

Website Lists 100 Best Law Blogs

There are lots of law blogs and many lists that try to sort out the best. The latest list has been put together by Criminal Justice Degrees Guide, a website with information on criminal justice degree programs. The editors there have compiled what they believe to be the 100 best…

Jul 2, 2008 2:29 PM CDT

Become a Google Master

Learn to use the power of the search with six simple tips

Jul 1, 2008 1:15 PM CDT

Martindale Morphs

Paper directory gets an online makeover

Jul 1, 2008 1:05 PM CDT

Information Overload

Think lawyers are feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught of junk e-mails, random mailings, and other bits and bobs of time-wasting, brain-clogging, largely irrelevant information? Well, you may be right.

Jul 1, 2008 1:00 PM CDT

UW Law Prof Who Banned Laptops Says He Is Not a Luddite

A University of Wisconsin law professor is defending his decision to ban laptops in his constitutional law class. Professor Anuj Desai tells the Wisconsin State Journal that he is not a “Luddite.” Desai said that when he was in law school, he was the only student in his 1991 class…

Jun 27, 2008 1:28 PM CDT

Content More Robust Than Revenues for New LexMonitor Website

A new website launched Friday called LexMonitor features posts from legal blogs and journals that are aggregated by categories, making it easier to follow discussion about legal issues. Kevin O’Keefe, president of the company that launched LexMonitor, says the venture has a goal of showcasing blogs and making the law…

Jun 24, 2008 6:17 PM CDT