Articles Posted in May, 2009

John Kennard, one of the best photographers I know and THE best photographer of lawyer portraits, alerts me to a not-to-be-missed event this weekend for anyone in the Boston area. It is the first-ever Chelsea Art Walk. John, a principal organizer, says it is “a great opportunity…

I have all the steamy details at Legal Blog Watch.…

The document-sharing site JD Supra will formally launch a new feature tomorrow that makes finding and following information on specific topics much easier. The new addition — already available on the site — is a series of Law Centers that organize documents by topics and areas of interest. These topics are arranged…

This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at the impact of the recession on lawyers and the legal profession.

In the first segment of the program, we discuss the recent rash of lawyer suicides and the problem of depression among lawyers. Joining us to discuss this is

Transactional lawyers are the target users of a new Web site, TransactionSpace, that aims to make the deal-making process more efficient, intuitive and transparent. The site’s tagline sums up its purpose: “You do the lawyering. Let TransactionSpace manage the process.”

The site takes the three primary steps of a transaction — negotiation, document drafting…

Law.com this week published my article, Get Your Free Case Law on the Web. No sooner did it appear than I received an e-mail from a reader questioning how several of the sites discussed in the article could claim to have U.S. Supreme Court cases from before there was a Supreme Court. In…

My post earlier today, New Tool Jumps to Right Windows Folder, contained a type in the code for the download key. I’ve corrected the post to reflect the correct key, which is: ll908384573. (It should start with the letters “ll” not the numbers “11”.…

Last year, in a post entitled, Take Control of Your Outlook Inbox, I wrote about a San Francisco company, TechHit, and its three simple Outlook add-ons for cutting down on e-mail clutter: SimplyFile, EZDetach and MessageSave. Today, the company is releasing the public beta…

I wrote last week at Legal Blog Watch about the sad news of the suicide of Francis J. D’Eramo, a Superior Court judge in the U.S. Virgin Islands (where I am an inactive member of the bar). A memorial fund has now been established for the benefit of his children. Anyone wishing to contribute…

Here is the latest in TechnoLawyer’s YouLaw series of lawyer-video reviews: “Aw Shucks” Lawyer Achieves What You Cannot. Gerry Oginski writes the main review and I am one of the lawyers who adds comments as part of the “back bench.” My take was that this guy is the “Mister Rogers of the legal profession.”…

Free is good. But free is not necessarily equal. In my latest Web Watch column for Law Technology News, I review 10 Web sites that provide free access to case law.…

The popular online advertising site Craigslist found itself in the spotlight recently after a Boston medical student was accused of murdering a Boston masseuse who he met through her advertisement on the site. Even before that incident, law enforcement officials sometimes accused Craigslist of enabling prostitution and other unlawful conduct. Last month, the sheriff…