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.
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…
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…
Shinyung Oh, the ousted Paul Hastings associate who sent a scathing mass e-mail denouncing the firm’s layoff tactics, is airing her feelings once again, this time on her own blog, Because You Never Know … . The blog contains posts on Oh’s sadness over her miscarriage and her post-law firm…
Life as a summer associate may include editing footnotes, juggling multiple due dates, writing memos and, at least at one Toronto law firm, recording your experiences on a blog. Summer associates at Cassels Brock & Blackwell express their nervousness and the lessons they are learning on a daily basis on…
The Internet job placement site Lateral Link has some competition from a new venture called Legal Recruiting Authority. Lateral Link pays up to $10,000 to associates who find a job though its website, while Legal Recruiting Authority pays $20,000, the American Lawyer reports. Both recruitment sites allow associates at top…
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, law firm Simmons Perrine, forced to shut its doors in the devastating floods that hit the city, is reopening this week in a middle school in the neighboring town of Mount Vernon. The law firm expects to take over much of the west wing of the middle…
The lawyer rating website Avvo has filed a petition with the Illinois Supreme Court requesting a disk with information about all of the state’s lawyers. The website of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission already contains information about the state’s 85,000 lawyers, but it has two limitations, the petition…
Updated: If you don’t know what online social networking is, let alone LinkedIn and Plaxo, you’re surely not unique among the legal profession. But you need to know, says Robert Ambrogi in Law Technology News. And Facebook, he contends, isn’t just for the nonlawyer teenagers and 20-somethings amongst us. “For…
The Social Science Research Network allows just about anybody to post a paper that can be downloaded by curious readers. The network, created in 1994, posts about 45,000 articles a year in the areas of economic and legal scholarship, its top two subjects, the New York Times reports. The Times…
A federal magistrate in Baltimore has ruled a company sued for infringement has no attorney-client privilege in 165 documents mistakenly turned over to its opponent in e-discovery. The documents included several communications between the company Creative Pipe Inc. and its lawyers. U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Paul Grimm ruled Creative Pipe…
A West Virginia lawyer has been suspended for two years for accessing the e-mail of his wife and eight other lawyers at least 150 times over a two-year period. The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals imposed the sanction against Charleston lawyer Michael Markins in an opinion issued Friday, the…
A plaintiffs law firm didn’t succeed in blacking out large portions of information in briefs filed in a sex discrimination lawsuit against General Electric. The Connecticut Law Tribune revealed that blacked-out information in briefs accessible through the Pacer electronic filing system could be read by copying and pasting the data…
