Articles Posted in October, 2008

Here is something strange about lawyer listings on Martindale.com. I noticed that my listing included something called a “Visibility Ranking,” which is supposedly based on “the total number of weekly profile views.” Mine said that I was #1 out of 17 lawyers in my town of Rockport, Mass., and that I was #204,221…

The Law Library of Congress and Google have teamed up in a collaborative project to digitize 75,000 volumes of printed Congressional Hearings. Eventually, the entire collection will be converted into PDF format. So far, the project has compiled test collections of selected hearings having to do with three topics: the U.S.…

I am once again on the “back bench,” adding my quick impressions to Gerry Oginski’s YouLaw video reviews on the TechnoLawyer Blog This week’s review: Fast Talking Attorney Jodi Ginsberg Wants to Host a Talk Show.…

I’m tempted to say that this week’s episode of our podcast Lawyer2Lawyer is for the birds. We take on Twitter, the social-networking and microblogging phenomenon where everything happens in 140 characters or fewer. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me to discuss Twitter’s place in legal marketing are Brian Carter, director…

The Defense Research Institute, the organization that is to the civil-defense bar what the American Association for Justice is to the plaintiffs’ bar, recently launched a blog, For the Defense, as an adjunct to the organization’s magazine of the same name.

I learned about the blog through a comment added to a…

Another post of mine at Legal Blog Watch today should be of interest to readers of this blog: A preliminary audit conducted by Public.Resource.Org of publicly accessible documents from 32 federal district courts found 1,669 containing Social Security numbers and other personal information.…

I posted about this today at Legal Blog Watch. Short version: Wanting to simplify his life, he burned his Harvard Law diploma — and of course posted the video online. Check out the full post for more.…

Peter Shankman, founder of The Geek Factory, on the future of public relations (as reported by Andrew Ratner at BaltimoreSun.com):

The press release will die. Better yet, kill it. Instead, have your CEO write a blog. Transparency is good. Facebook will become ubiquitous. News tickers will be replaced by personal lifestreams.

Interesting…

From Rockport and Cape Ann

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From Rockport and Cape Ann

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From Rockport and Cape Ann

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Greg Lambert at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog has pulled together a fascinating overview of large law firms on LinkedIn. He explains:

I broke out my “researcher” cap and started delving through the LinkedIn Groups page to see how many of the top 100 law firms had some type of Alumni or

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