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3 Places For Lawyers To Be and Be Seen On the Web

February 1, 2010

How you publish your online content is almost as important as creating it. That is where legal content platforms come into play.
As new legal content platforms continue to spring up, it becomes challenging for busy lawyers to decide where to allocate their online time. However, participating on these legal portals is some of the most [...]

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Join the Twitterverse in 5 Steps

November 4, 2009

There are an endless amount of articles about why you should tweet, and about Twitter’s value to a small business. Instead, this article is about how to tweet and what you might accomplish if you were to invest five minutes per day.
Here is my Twitter methodology:
First, get a tool.
The basic Twitter interface is not as [...]

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Lawyers Should Not Be Wary of SaaS and Cloud Computing

August 26, 2009

Online services for lawyers are becoming increasingly common. For many lawyers, they are an attractive alternative to the traditional law practice management software installed and maintained on a local server within a law office.
The one thing these various platforms have in common is that the data created and managed by these services are stored offsite, [...]

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New contributor: Nicole Black, lawyer, author, legal technology consultant and self-professed geek

July 7, 2009

I am honored to have been asked to join Lawyerist, one of my favorite law blogs, as a regular contributor. I am very much looking forward to learning and sharing with the Lawyerist community.
I am an attorney in Rochester, New York, and am of counsel to Fiandach & Fiandach. I co-author Criminal Law in New [...]

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Why lawyers must join the Twitter news revolution

June 14, 2009

Saturday night I joined millions of Twitterers around the world to follow the news about the post-election protests in Iran in a news medium more exciting, terrifying and awe-inspiring than anything I had experienced before. I was participating in Twitter’s news revolution. It felt like news via lightning-strike.
As a former student of political science and [...]

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Dropbox syncs files across all your computers

September 30, 2008

I have not decided just how I want to use Dropbox yet, but I will tell you what: this is one slick program. Dropbox is a very simple, easy-to-use program you install on all your computers, and it automatically syncs your files with a set of files in the cloud whenever you make changes, on [...]

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Ubiquity will change the way you use the web

August 28, 2008

This is an early prototype—the .1 release—but even in its infacy, Ubiquity, a Firefox plugin, shows it has the potential to change the way we interact with the web. As it is now, you have to go visit a website in order to use a tool. Like an RSS reader, Ubiquity brings everything you want, [...]

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Social networking: how much time should it take?

August 27, 2008

Time seems to be one of the most-common reasons why attorneys who do not use social networks do not start. In the world of hourly billing, all time has a value, and many attorneys seem to believe that (1) networking online will take a lot of time and (2) may not be worthwhile in the [...]

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Rocket Matter online practice management software is promising, but seriously expensive

April 24, 2008

Rocket Matter is a fairly new online practice management solution. From the demo, it looks very smooth. If you are in the market for an alternative to the bloated, crashy practice management software offerings out there, Rocket Matter might be a good option.
A couple of caveats.

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Minnlawpedia, a user-generated repository of Minnesota law and procedure for the non-lawyer

February 20, 2008

The legal system and Web 2.0 still seem largely unaware of one another, although that is starting to change as lawyers and consumers make inreasing use of sites like Avvo, Facebook, Wikipediaand mypractice to find lawyers, to network, and to get information about the law.
With that in mind, I created Minnlawpedia, a wiki where [...]

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