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If a lawyer provides a company with a helpful answer to a legal question, at no charge, the lawyer gets a foot in the door to be hired by that company for additional business. That, anyway, is the operating principle behind LawPivot, a website where companies can pose legal questions and get answers from…

A relatively new website functions as an office-space matchmaker for the legal profession, pairing law firms that have space to sublet with solo and small-firm lawyers who need to obtain an office. The site, LookingForSpace.com, is exclusively devoted to office space for lawyers and aims to develop a national database of listings. So far, it…

After the American Bar Association launched its social networking site, LegallyMinded, in December 2008, I wrote a review that I summed up with this title: ABA Social Network Fails to Connect. Regrettably, it was a commendable idea but poorly executed. As I wrote then, “It jettisons features that should…

If you are a lawyer who uses an iPad, here are two blogs — one new and one not-so-new —  that can help you make better use of it and keep up with the latest applications:…

On Thursday, March 31, the Massachusetts Bar Association is presenting a special symposium for solo and small firm lawyers, Strategies for Success: 2011. I am among the line-up of presenters for this program.

The symposium will feature a unique format — a series of seven, 20-minute sessions, “Pointers by the Pros,” on various…

I am writing this post as a reality check.

On a lawyers’ listserv that I follow, there is a currently a discussion thread about LinkedIn. Simply stated, the topic of this discussion is focused on how to get rid of all those pesky invitations from unfamiliar LinkedIn members.

It started when someone posted this…

Rich Baer

Rich Baer, general counsel and chief administrative officer at Qwest Communications, has launched Reliance On Counsel, a blog devoted to “tips, tech, theories and tall tales of an accidental general counsel.”

Baer will use the blog, he writes, to discuss such issues as:…

Minimalism may be the latest fad in Supreme Court reporting. Last year, Connecticut blogger Dan Schwartz issued a challenge to tweet a notable Supreme Court case in 140 characters or less. Now comes Supreme Court Haiku, delivering “the law of the land in seventeen syllables.”

At this site, you can…

At the ACLEA annual meeting last summer, I gave a plenary talk, “10 Ways Technology is Rewiring Lawyers’ Brains … and What it Means for CLE.” Several times during that talk, when I wanted examples of online CLE sites that were engaged in social media, that were transparent about their products…

In recognition of Sunshine Week, here are some websites and blogs that can help in the pursuit of open government:

For the people who work at Catalyst Repository Systems, the disaster in Japan touches them directly. Catalyst has staff and offices in Japan, clients in Japan, and a number of partners with whom it works closely on e-discovery matters.

In the wake of Friday’s tragic earthquake and tsunami and the continuing series of…

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” the philosopher George Santayana once remarked.

With its launch today, will Shpoonkle, the latest reverse-auction site for legal services, find itself suffering the same fate as its forerunners? Or is the time finally right for such a site?

Shpoonkle’s shtick is to provide a…