Articles Posted in June, 2011

In this week’s episode of the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at online law schools. For reasons ranging from finances to lifestyle, increasing numbers of lawyers-to-be are opting to get their legal education online. In addition, at least one online law school now also offers an LLM program for lawyers who want to…

No, the legal profession is not about to be taken over by automatons carrying briefcases. But an increasing number of lawyers are forsaking their BlackBerrys and iPhones and moving to mobile devices using Google’s Android operating system. And now there’s a blog to help them along the way.

The Droid Lawyer…

In my recent post, Popular Legal Directories, Ranked by Traffic, I looked at how several online lawyer directories stack up in Alexa.com traffic rankings. One comment said that Compete.com, another site that tracks website statistics, ranked the sites in a different order.

So I checked and, sure enough, the…

[See also this follow-up: Legal Directory Rankings: An Alternate View.]

Which online lawyer directories get the most traffic? To find out, I checked Alexa.com, which tracks statistics for all major websites. Based on those statistics, it assigns each site a global rank as well as…

Sitting at a desk all day can kill you. Sitting for prolonged periods, even if you exercise regularly, increases your risk of death from heart disease and other factors.

So what’s a geek lawyer to do? One answer is the GeekDesk, a motor-operated adjustable-height desk.…

Do corporate counsel still use the Martindale-Hubbell legal directory? Or are they now more likely to turn to LinkedIn or any of a number of other online directories?

A new survey of corporate legal departments concludes that Martindale-Hubbell is still the most prominent legal directory among corporate counsel in…

A new legal wiki, Standardforms.org, has been launched to provide a free depository of sophisticated legal documents. Notably, the site is not intended to serve as a cache of ready-to-use legal forms. Instead, its founder hopes that the wiki feature — which allows anyone to add and edit forms — will provide…

I was fortunate to have been one of the speakers last week at the Super Marketing Conference put on in Boston by the good people at the Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program (LOMAP). Now, those same good people have put the entire conference online for free, with video of the speakers as well…

Having figured out last night how to rescue files from a corrupt Windows computer, I thought I’d share it in the event anyone else faces a similar situation.

The situation is this: Your Windows computer will not boot and it has files you need desperately.

This happened to my wife’s Acer netbook, running Windows XP.…