Articles Posted in January, 2003

I was at least partly facetious yesterday when I suggested the possibility of bloggers setting up exhibit booths at tech trade shows. But now comes this Guardian article, New biz on the blog, all about cashing in on blogging, and I wonder, Was I so far off?…

Fail to fire up your aggregator for a few days and you might as well be Rip van Winkle waking after years of sleep. So let me be the last to note the launch of The Blawgistan News.

But who needs an aggregator when you have this site? These folks monitor the RSS feeds…

Is it antithetical to blogging for a blogger to exhibit at a commercial trade show? Not sure why, but I fully expected, as I roamed the aisles at LegalTech, to find a familiar name from the blogosphere, grinning from behind a hastily thrown together booth, looking to sell … what? Here’s my prediction: By next…

Having attended way too many legal-technology trade shows over the course of my career, I can state with certainty that there are only two each year you really should attend if you care about keeping current with the field — LegalTech New York in January and ABA TechShow in April. Sure, there are…

Louisiana lawyer Ernest E. Svenson, better known in the blogosphere as Ernie the Attorney, today launched a second blog, PDF for Lawyers, where he will offer tips and share information on using Adobe Acrobat in a litigation practice.…

The U.S. today launched Regulations.gov, a Web site intended to make it easier for the public to participate in federal rulemaking. The site allows users to search for, review and comment on proposed rules that have been published in the Federal Register. Users can search for proposed regulations by keyword or by agency name.…

Another report of errant transmissions from wireless keyboards raises the question of whether lawyers dealing with confidential information should ever use them. Gleason Sackmann’s Net-Happenings mailing list relays a report from Norway’s Aftenposten that a rampant cordless keyboard has struck again. According to the report, Hewlett-Packard Norway will no longer guarantee the security…

I note that Homeland Security is now The Department of Homeland Security, with a Web page all its own.…

To serve process upon a company, you first must identify its resident agent — the entity it has designated as its representative in the state. Most states now have Web sites where you can search for resident agents, but finding these sites can be a chore in itself. Resident Agent Information, from Maryland lawyer…

If I had a mantra of Internet legal research, it would be that a good search engine is a lawyer’s most useful Internet tool. While Google reigns supreme, I wrote last May about several upstarts challenging its dominance, most notably Teoma, launched April 2, 2002. Today, Teoma launches its version 2.0,…

The highlight of the Web site of the National Organization of Bar Counsel has long been its semi-annual compilation of new court cases and ethics opinions involving attorney discipline. While NOBC made these summaries available to anyone who visited its site, it recently restricted access only to its members. The only explanation is…

In the course of updating an article I wrote last year about legal-ethics resources on the Web, I came across Ethics and Lawyering Today, a monthly electronic newsletter highlighting important new cases, ethics opinions, and other developments, often with links to full text documents. It is edited by attorneys William Freivogel, a consultant…