Articles Posted in November, 2011

Even though it was launched a year ago, I only recently learned about Stateside Legal, the first website in the U.S. to focus exclusively on the unique legal issues faced by military members, veterans and their families. The site was created by two legal services organizations,

Websites offering coupons and daily deals are all the rage. Why should lawyers be left out? No longer need they be, thanks to a new feature of MyLegal.com that offers special deals on products and services targeted to lawyers, paralegals, legal secretaries and legal administrators.

MyLegal.com already provided a directory of legal vendors and, early…

I have published a post about them at the Catalyst E-Discovery Search Blog: Two New Legal Ethics Opinions Suggest Clear Skies Ahead for Cloud Computing.…

Can a lawyer who helped bring zip to electric cars do the same for online dispute resolution?

Craig Harding, the former general counsel of Tesla Motors, now hopes to bring speed and style to ODR with the launch of an “online courtroom service” called ZipCourt. It will be…

FindLaw and Lawyers.com are among the most highly trafficked lawyer directories and consumer-facing legal sites. Now it appears that both are taking steps to beef up their coverage of legal news — no doubt in order to further…

This week marked the ninth birthday of this blog. Here was my first post, on Nov. 19, 2002: Welcome to My Blog.

I sure wasn’t the first legal blog. After some snooping a few years ago, I concluded that honor belonged to Walter Olson at Overlawyered. But…

Many lawyers love the convenience of Dropbox but worry about its security. If you are looking for an alternative file-syncing application, consider Trend Micro’s SafeSync for Business. A new version released just today offers new features and functionality that make it easier to use and compatible across all devices.

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For lawyers in certain states, the Lawyers Diary and Manual — popularly known as the Red Book — is one of those legacy print volumes you probably still have close to your desk. So what if I told you that you could get it in more convenient electronic formats…

Barack Obama owes a big debt of gratitude to the legal web portal Justia. Without it, he might not be president today. You see, sometime around the time of the 2008 presidential election, Justia founder Tim Stanley “surgically scrubbed” some two dozen Supreme Court cases to remove references to Minor v. Happersett,…

I wrote in September about Anusia Hirsch, the Boston College Law School student who was doing something most legal bloggers know better not to do, blogging about her clients (2L Tests Ethical Limits by Blogging About Client).

Now, the Boston College faculty newspaper,

Horace F. Hunter

No doubt you’ve heard by now about Horace F. Hunter, the Richmond, Va., attorney who was hit with disciplinary charges by the Virginia State Bar over the criminal law blog where he writes about cases he has handled as well as other criminal-law issues. Two weeks…

The Association of Corporate Counsel annual meeting in Denver last week was notable on a number of counts, not least of which was a vibrant exhibition hall teeming with exhibitors and attendees. Many of the exhibitors were law firms hoping to snag some new business from the more than…