You have to feel sorry for Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp. At 452-feet long, his private yacht is only the world’s second largest — four feet shorter than the yacht of the Saudi Arabian defense minister.
At least he can enjoy docking it in the Virgin Islands for a couple days.…
A month ago, I invited readers to vote for their top legal blog. I should have known better.
Here is what I wrote at the time:
…This is an experiment that I hope will allow me to tap into the collective wisdom of my readers. My RSS reader is flooded with law blogs. Every
Major revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure take effect Dec. 1, governing discovery of electronically stored information. I wrote a quick guide to the new e-discovery rules, which is available at this link from the Web site of IMS ExpertServices.…
A Web site scheduled to launch tomorrow is designed to help lawyers — particularly those in smaller firms — outsource work to legal-support freelancers. The site, LawSourcing, facilitates the process of hiring outside help to perform projects such as legal research and writing, due diligence and document reviews, Web site design, marketing or any…
From The New York Times:
…“H. Donald Wilson, who prepared the original business plan for what became Mead Data Central and its pioneering Lexis-Nexis database, died on Nov. 12 at his home in Mitchellville, Md. He was 82.
“The cause was a heart attack, said his daughter Edith R. Wilson.
“Mr. Wilson, a lawyer
Call me a prude, but I agree with those who say that the suit-as-aphrodisiac ad was inappropriate for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, as reported today in The Boston Globe and noted at the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog. MLW’s editor, Dave Yas, initially called…
Law Technology News has my most recent Web Watch column, School of Podcasting (free registration required). Here’s the beginning:
…Ever considered a career in the lucrative and rewarding field of legal podcasting? Ever wish you could send your colleagues your deepest thoughts in digital format? Ever wear headphones with those pinstripes? If you
A Web site offering mock juries where lawyers can test their cases is now online and preparing for a formal launch in January. Called TrialJuries, the site will allow lawyers to submit their cases and have them “decided” by online jurors similar to those who would serve on an actual jury at trial. From…
The big keep getting bigger. The nation’s largest 250 law firms grew by 4 percent in 2006, according to this year’s NLJ 250, the National Law Journal’s annual ranking of the largest U.S. firms based on number of lawyers. The largest of the lot, Baker & McKenzie, has more than 3,500 lawyers. So is…
Hard to believe, but Sunday will mark the fourth anniversary of this blog. Here was my first post on Nov. 19, 2002.
If nothing else, an anniversary is an apt occasion to thank everyone who has read and linked to this blog over the years. It is also an appropriate moment to say how…
It is an experiment that could be instructive for lawyers everywhere: A law firm goes through a major technology upgrade as a blog follows its progress with posts and videos. This is the premise of RealLawyerNews, a blog written by Texas technology consultant Jamie Parks as he and others work with the Zivley…
If you work at all with demographic data — or even if it simply interests you — check out Social Explorer. Developed at Queens College of the City University of New York, the site’s objective is “to help visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S. through the use of interactive maps and…
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