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At the IP blawg Phosita, contributor Douglas Sorocco offers a simple but compelling demonstration of screencasting. The technology combines audio — a la podcasting — with a recording of the broadcaster’s computer screen. Sorocco uses a software program called Camtasia Studio, which is available for a free trial download or to…

Most lawyers who suffer depression or go through midlife crises keep it close to the vest. Chicago lawyer Steve Imparl has taken a different tack.

Having dealt with depression of his own and having seen its impact on his personal and professional lives, Imparl in 2002 launched the Web site MaleDepression.com, with…

Walter Olson at Overlawyered takes issue with my assertion that the family of the electrocuted dog would donate “most of” the money it sought to charity. Olson writes:

“I wonder how you reach the conclusion that the family ‘would donate most of the $750,000’ ($740,000 per the Globe) to animal charities. At the

Overlawyered has the story that has Massachusetts lawyers abuzz. As reported in today’s Boston Globe, a family whose dog was killed by leaking electricity from an old NStar Electric lamppost site has turned down NStar’s offer of $200,000 in “comfort money” and says it will sue unless it receives $740,000 from the utility…

Dennis Kennedy reports availability of the first two in a series of e-discovery webinars he is producing for the Merrill Corporation. The webinars run 10 to 15 minutes and cover specific areas of electronic discovery. Available so far are:…

Imagine if, at the click of a mouse, young lawyers could receive mentoring from some of the legal profession’s most highly regarded practitioners. Now they can, thanks to Ten Minute Mentor, a free series of Web lectures launched March 1 by the Texas Young Lawyers Association, which describes them as “Concise. Practical. Free.”…

Joel H. Seachrist, a partner with Beckman & Seachrist in Westfield, N.Y., has launched a blog he calls Small Town Lawyer. Here is why: “That name has a dual meaning in that, while I practice in a small town, the bulk of my practice is representing several small, mostly rural towns.”

One intended audience…

Barry D. Bayer, a practicing lawyer in Chicago who has been writing prolifically and insightfully about technology for law offices since 1987, has launched a blog, Law Tech Review. His column, Law Office Technology Review, appears in a variety of legal periodicals throughout the United States.

Bayer will use the blog to supplement…

Google today announced the formal launch of Google Desktop Search, a free application that allows users to search for information on their own computers.

First offered last year in a beta version, today’s version 1.0 release adds search over the full text of PDFs and the meta-information stored with music, image…

If you find yourself beset by the urge to return to law school, here is a site for you. LLM Guide is a database of master of laws programs worldwide. As the site explains:

“For lawyers, in some ways the LL.M. is the equivalent of what an MBA is for business people. Many law

What does Google “think” of you? Find out via Googlism, a fun tool that searches Google to arrive at a characterization of a person, place or thing.

Take me for instance. Googlism reports: “robert ambrogi is a prolific writer on internet legal issues who works in alternative dispute resolution in massachussetts.” (OK, so…

For “live, up-to-the minute coverage of the existential absurdity of human life,” there may be no better source than The Harrison Report. It is not about law, per se, although lawyers and the law seem to find their way in, but it is written by someone familiar to the legal profession, Tom Harrison, the…