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A federal judge in Orlando, frustrated by lawyers’ inability to resolve discovery matters, has ordered them to engage in what he called “a new form of alternative dispute resolution,” a game of rock, paper, scissors. The order, issued yesterday by U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell, directs the parties to meet for the game June 30…

Microsoft has scrapped plans to enable Office 2007 documents to be saved in Adobe’s proprietary PDF format, according to a report in eChannelLine. Microsoft likely made the move to avoid delay in the launch of Office 2007 if Adobe took Microsoft to court, the report says.

While this may be good news for Adobe,…

PR Newswire announced yesterday its addition of thousands of blogs to its two monitoring services, eWatch and US1 Media Monitoring, “allowing news release issuers to take the pulse of community-based journalists.” eWatch and US1 are Internet monitoring services that allow customers to watch what’s being said on blogs and online media outlets.…

If you obsess over hyphens and never split an infinitive, you may want to read American Journalism Review’s Style Wars in Cyberspace, about the growing number of copy editors writing blogs about grammar and style.…

Many thanks to Charisse Dengler for her very kind profile of me as a LawCrossing Law Star.…

Diane Levin of Online Guide to Mediation has completed her ambitious undertaking to create a Directory of Alternative Dispute Resolution Blogs. She lists blogs by categories, blogs by country, and even ADR-friendly blogs (of which I’m one).

What’s amazing to me is the growing number of ADR blogs. Last November, Diane,

The recent Bloggership conference drew attention to the role of blogs in legal scholarship. On this week’s legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast, we continue the discussion. Joining us to debate law professor blogs as legal scholarship are three highly regarded law professors and bloggers:…

Public relations dean Richard Edelman has the best statement I’ve ever read on how the PR business must adapt in order to survive and thrive in the new media environment. A key quote:

“[W]e need to amend our work product, to get away from message triangles, hyped up press releases and controlling access to

We all know this intuitively, but we don’t all practice it. Web design guru Jakob Nielsen says 20 words is all most Web page visitors read before moving on, according to Leslie Walker in The Washington Post. Three-quarters of visitors don’t scroll down to see what’s below the first screen. On average, visitors spend…

Thanks to Point of Law for pointing out the relatively new (as of February) Law Weblog from the Times of London.…

I suggest you read Dahlia Lithwick’s essay from the current issue of The American Lawyer, Blawgs on a Roll. But as I suggest today at Legal Blog Watch, I think she sidesteps an important point.…

As Anonymous Lawyer Jeremy Blachman gears up for the July 25 release of his eponymous Anonymous Lawyer book, he offers the companion Web site of Anonymous Law Firm LLP. The site is complete with professional bios, mission statement, news items and a recruiting page, and every bit of it is hysterically funny…