New Web-based Practice Management Tool- June 26, 2008 One of the products to be introduced this week at Legal Tech West Coast is Clio, a Web-based practice management suite designed for solo and smaller-firm lawyers. It is still in beta and pricing is not yet available, but anyone interested can sign up to participate for free in the beta testing of this software as a service. I have not yet tried it. According to an announcement, its features include:Time tracking: Track time by client, matter, and task.Billing and reporting: Includes integrated.http://www.legaline.com/2008/06/new-web-based-practice-management-tool.html Preserving Mobile Phone Evidence- June 26, 2008 Ever wondered how to do this Jim Calloway has an answer.http://www.legaline.com/2008/06/preserving-mobile-phone-evidence.html 'Stack' and Send Your Search Results- June 25, 2008 I wrote here in March about Searchme, a new search site, still in beta, that delivers results visually, showing pages rather than descriptions of pages. I learned today of two new features added to Searchme, one of which could be of particular use for research, presentations or any number of uses. This new feature is called Stacks. It lets you collect groups of Web pages and then save them to a unique URL or share them via e-mail, blogs, Web pages or social-networking sites such as Facebook....http://www.legaline.com/2008/06/stack-and-send-your-search-results.html A Win in Oregon for Public Access- June 20, 2008 Efforts by Justia and Public.Resource.Org to overturn Oregon's claim of copyright in its statutes paid off today. Oregon's Legislative Counsel Committee met this morning and voted unanimously to put the Oregon Revised Statutes in the public domain. Tim Stanley has the news. Background on the Oregon issue is available from Public.Resource.Org.http://www.legaline.com/2008/06/win-in-oregon-for-public-access.html Legal PR Firm Launches Blog- June 19, 2008 The Texas consulting firm Androvett Legal Media & Marketing has gone live with its new blog, Androvett Blog. Androvett media consultant Robert Tharp, a former law and criminal justice reporter at The Dallas Morning News and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, says the firm operated the blog internally for several months before going live. He hopes to update it at least once a day.http://www.legaline.com/2008/06/legal-pr-firm-launches-blog.html Mass. Law School Plans to Prosecute Bush- June 17, 2008 The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover will convene a conference in September to lay plans for the war-crimes prosecutions of President Bush and other high administration officials. If they are convicted, says the school's dean, Lawrence Velvel, their punishment should mirror that of World War II war criminals: hanging. I have more in a post today at Legal Blog Watch.http://www.legaline.com/2008/06/mass-law-school-plans-to-prosecute-bush.html Help! Blawger Identity Crisis- June 17, 2008 I started this blog in November 2002. My plan was to use it to post news and reviews of Web sites of interest to the legal profession. I had just published the first edition of my book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, and saw blogging as a way to keep myself and my readers up to date. In 2004, I launched a second blog, Media Law, devoted to legal issues involving the news media and freedom of the press.Twin blogs kept me busy enough, but then in 2005, I began.http://www.legaline.com/2008/06/help-blawger-identity-crisis.html Justice Talking to Go Silent- June 17, 2008 One of the best law-related podcasts will record its last program June 30. After nine years on the air, Justice Talking, the NPR radio program about law and American life, which is also available as a weekly podcast, has run out of funding. In a post on the program's companion site, Talking Justice, acting executive producer Ingrid Lakey explained that the show and Web site cost almost $1 million annually to produce. "We tried over a three year period to locate the needed funding but had to...http://www.legaline.com/2008/06/justice-talking-to-go-silent.html Lawdragon's 100 Top Managing Partners- June 16, 2008 Lawdragon has released its list of the 100 managing partners you need to know. The list is alphabetical, not ranked in "need to know" order. Names with a "Q&A" next to them link to the managing partner's answers to Lawdragon's questionnaire, where we learn, for example, that the attorney most admired by Bingham McCutchen chair Jay Zimmerman is Abraham Lincoln, while for WilmerHale's co-managing partner Bill Lee it is James D. St. Clair.http://www.legaline.com/2008/06/lawdragons-100-top-managing-partners.html Lawyer2Lawyer: Too Many Law Schools- June 16, 2008 Does the U.S. need any more law schools That is the topic we discuss this week on our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. The National Law Journal recently reported that as many as 10 new law schools are in the works, most of them on the East Coast. We discuss whether they are needed with guests Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean of the Donald Bren School of Law at UC Irvine, and Thomas F. Guernsey, president and dean of Albany Law School.Download or listen to the show at this page. Keep up to..http://www.legaline.com/2008/06/lawyer2lawyer-too-many-law-schools.html |