Articles Posted in June, 2005

I missed this article when it appeared last month in Lawyers Weekly USA, but just came across this republication of it in the Arizona Capitol Times. The reporter spoke to several blawgers. Best quote in the article comes from J. Craig Williams, who says of blogging: “It’s like being able to extend a…

Micah Buchdahl, a/k/a The Internet Marketing Attorney, sends word that he is beginning to compile his 2006-07 IMA reviews and awards and is accepting nominations through September for exceptional small and midsized firm Web sites.

Since 2002, Buchdahl has periodically reviewed and rated the Web sites of the 250 largest U.S. law firms. In…

Bruce MacEwen has an early look at the complete AmLaw 100 for 2005, the list of last year’s top-grossing firms. Five posted revenue in excess of $1 billion, the largest number ever.

I find it interesting that top-ranked Skadden earned $212 million more than number two Baker & McKenzie even though it has…

The article by Joe Hartley that I mentioned earlier today is now available online via TechnoLawyer . It is also now up at his site.…

Patently Odd is my June Web Watch column for Law Technology News (free registration required). It is a guide to sites that compile offbeat patents. Here is the first graf:

“Necessity, it is said, is the mother of invention. Sometimes, however, invention appears to come first. How else do you explain U.S. patent

My post last week, Blogging’s contrarians, drew several comments and a number of e-mails. I wrote it, in part, in response to a TechnoLawyer feature by California lawyer Joe Hartley. Now TechnoLawyer Publisher Neil Squillante offers his thoughts on the topic. “My quick take on legal blogs as a marketing tool is…

A Web site unveiled today, Open CRS, provides public access to reports of the Congressional Research Service. The CRS, an arm of the Library of Congress devoted to performing research and analysis for members of Congress, does not make its reports available to the public. CRS reports become public only when members of Congress…

For small to midsized companies, the average cost of being public increased 33 percent last year, thanks largely to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, according to a new survey conducted by the law firm Foley & Lardner. Audit fees accounted for the largest out-of-pocket cost increases, the survey said, with audit fees for public companies with…

The Native American Rights Fund recently unveiled a complete redesign of its Web site, undertaken to improve its organization, accessibility, navigation and design. The site is home to the online version of the National Indian Law Library, a public law library devoted to federal Indian and tribal law. Its Tribal Law Gateway…

Final results are out for the 2005 TechnoLawyer @ Awards. Congratulations to all the award winners and finalists.…

As sure as thesis breeds antithesis, blogging’s popularity within the legal profession is drawing some to question its value, mostly with regard to marketing.

Last week, Dale Tincher, president of the Web development company Consultwebs, published a thoughtful piece, Law Firm Blogs – Hip or Hype?, in which he said that the majority…

At yesterday’s seminar, I learned from Kathie J. Sullivan, a law librarian and principal of Sullivan Information Management Services in Burlington, Vt., about two sites that are useful in several ways, but in particular for allowing searching of employer tax identification numbers, or EINs:…