For lawyers and law students looking for useful apps for your mobile device, try Mobile Applications for Law Students and Lawyers. Part of the website of the UCLA School of Law library, the site lists a variety of apps, all selected because “they might be of interest to law students and lawyers.” The…
Law Technology News, Now on Your iPhone and iPad
I have been a columnist for Law Technology News for so long that my debut may have predated the invention of the Internet. Monica Bay brought me on right after she became editor. Over the years, as…
New Blog Tracks Law Firm Mobile Apps
Just last week, I wrote a post about “Benesch Apportunity,” the new iPhone and iPad recruiting app from the law firm Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff. Benesch is but the latest of a growing number of law firms that are creating apps as tools for marketing and client development. Now, a new…
Justia Goes to Cuba – and I Che-ify Myself
Justia announced this week the launch of Justia Cuba, a website that complies most of Cuba’s legal resources. It includes Cuba’s constitution, laws, resolutions and other legal documents.
“This project posed some unique challenges,” Justia’s Gabriel Saldana writes, “in that some of the material was hard to find, Cuban web…
Law Firm App Alerts Job Seekers to Openings
The 165-lawyer law firm Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff has created an iPhone and iPad app that sends out an alert any time a job opens at the firm. The free app, called “Benesch Apportunity,” is a recruiting tool for law students and laterals who may be interested in joining the firm, which…
Finding State Court Dockets Online — or Not
If an online docket service offers access to a docket that isn’t online, is it really an online service?
That is but one of the philosophical questions you may ask yourself after reading The Existential Exercise of Finding State Court Materials Online, a post by Rachael Samberg at Legal Research…
A iPad-for-Lawyers Twofer: New Blog and New App
I’ve been meaning to write a post about iPad 4 Lawyers, the new blog from Tom Mighell, a self-described “technology nut” who is one of the smartest people I know when it comes to the practical uses of technology in law practice. Tom was a litigator for 18 years who used…
The Sony PlayStation Security Breach and the Law
Sony Corporation suffered a huge security breach in its video game online network with names, addresses and credit card numbers of 100 million PlayStation and PC game network users stolen by hackers. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the legal obligations of companies to protect consumer data and the rights…
2011 InnovAction Awards: Time is Running Short to Enter
A global search is underway for ingenuity and innovation in law practice management. It is the seventh-annual InnovAction Awards sponsored by the College of Law Practice Management. With the June 1 entry deadline fast approaching, you don’t have much time to submit your nomination.
Any lawyer or law firm anywhere in the world is…
Looking to Sue for Unpaid Wages? Now There’s an App for That
For workers who wonder whether their employers are paying them what the law requires, the enforcement tool they need may be right in their pockets. The U.S. Department of Labor has created a free timesheet app for the iPhone and iPad that is designed to help employees…
New Legal Networking Site Seeks to Keep it Simple
At the PLI seminar on social media I attended yesterday in New York, one of the speakers, Kelly Hoey, remarked, “I don’t ever again want to have to fill out another social media profile.” Well Kelly, meet Lawford, a new professional networking site for lawyers that fills out your…
PLI Live Seminar: Lawyers’ Guide to Using Social Media for Professional and Client Development
I am participating Wednesday in a PLI live seminar and webcast, Lawyers’ Guide to Using Social Media for Professional and Client Development. There is a full-day line-up of panels as well as a keynote presentation by Steve Rubel, SVP and director of insights for Edelman Digital. The program is chaired by Kevin O’Keefe, founder of…