Ed Flitton, the former managing partner of Holland & Hart in Denver, died Saturday. A council member of the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association, he died while attending ABA TechShow in Chicago.
Ed was also the president of the College of Law Practice Management. As such, Ed was…
A Boston Globe article today, FBI Gives a Glimpse of its Most Secret Layer, discusses a special set of files kept in a separate location by the FBI that are its most secret (or most embarrassing). Pursuant to an FOIA request, the FBI released hundreds of pages of memoranda describing these secret files and…
The law firm of Shearman & Sterling has launched a comprehensive Web site designed to serve as a one-stop resource on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The site is a searchable, dynamic version of the firm’s FCPA Digest, a nearly 500-page summary of FCPA cases and review releases.
The Web site includes…
Dan Schwartz has issued a challenge: Tweet your favorite U.S. Supreme Court case. Schwartz, author of the Connecticut Employment Law Blog, is organizing an April 9 educational program at UConn Law School on how technology is changing the practice of law.
To help build buzz for the event, he is issuing this…
Legal-technology company Catalyst Repository Systems has launched a blog devoted to electronic discovery law, technology and best practices. I will be one of the contributors to the blog, along with several of the company’s legal and technology professionals. Others who will contribute posts include:
(For any confused readers, yes, this is a revised version of my earlier post, which complained that the piece listed the wrong links for my blogs and podcast. The school corrected the links within minutes of being informed of the errors.)
My law school, Boston College, today sent out an eBrief blast with an…
I have moved my Media Law blog from its old address to this new one: http://medialaw.legaline.com. Anyone who subscribes to the feed for that blog will have to update their subscriptions to this new feed address: http://medialaw.legaline.com/feeds/posts/default.
As I’ve posted here and here, I have been pondering what to…
The state of Washington is now the 11th to close its ethics investigation of Total Attorneys with no finding of wrongdoing. Washington State Bar Association Senior Disciplinary Counsel Jonathan Burke issued a letter saying the state would not pursue complaints filed against 13 Washington attorneys over their use of Total Attorneys for Internet…
My musings and those of Venkat Balasubramani over whether to shut down our blogs and start afresh with new ones garnered some attention from other legal bloggers, among them Bruce Carton today at Legal Blog Watch, Colin Samuels at Infamy or Praise, Kevin O’Keefe at Real Lawyers Have Blogs, and…
Lawyer rating and directory site Avvo has received $10 million in a new round of financing, led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm DAG Ventures. Current Avvo investors, Benchmark Capital and Ignition Partners, also invested in this round. The funds will enable Avvo to further expand and enhance its products and services…
Could it be that Venkat Balasubramani can read my mind? In response to something I tweeted today, he quite lucidly set out the debate I’ve been having with myself. Turns out he’s been having the same debate with himself.
The question for both of us is: Does it make sense to make a…
Introduced as a beta at LegalTech in February, Onit is a Web-based project management tool described as being for “anyone and everyone who manage projects – big, small, business, legal.” It specifically includes a Legal Edition designed for legal matters and cases. During its beta period, the system is free for anyone to use.…
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