As a law student, if my iPhone were to be stolen or misplaced and then hacked, the individual in possession of my phone would be privy to pictures of my dog sleeping, text messages telling my husband how long I’ll be in the library and a huge collection of studying music as well as the [...]

The legal research game has just taken a light-year shift, thanks to Google. Last night, Google quietly non-announced that Scholar search now includes U.S. federal and state case law and legal journals. Recently, the debate on open access to legal information has been raging, with some folks sticking up for the Westlaw/Lexis walled-garden approach that [...]

As the following legal blogs have reported, a federal judge in Georgia has ruled that a reporter may not use Twitter to send updates about a court proceeding. ABA Journal The Volokh Conspiracy The Legal Blog Watch CBS News CNet Slow news day everyone? In the court order, the judge rules that Tweeting from inside [...]

New website Beforeclass.com offers six videos to help law students and attorneys fine-tune their trial advocacy skills. Currently, the site offers videos about Opening Statements, Closing Statements, Direct Examination (including exhibit procedures), Child Witnesses, Expert Witnesses, and Courtroom Spacing. The videos are a nice primer before taking trial advocacy, or a brush-up for attorneys. However, they [...]

How Cyber-Stalking Can Help You as a Law Clerk, and Possibly Get You the Job Cyber-stalking is creepy, you say? Normally, I would agree, but these days using social networking websites to gather information is vital. Besides, it’s only creepy when it’s being done to you. In my experience, social media is highly underutilized in [...]

What is sexting? Sexting is transmitting a sexually explicit photo via text, computer, and/or another electronic device to another person. For example, your significant other can’t come over tonight, so you send them via text, email, IM, social networking site, etc. a message with indecent photos or videos attached. This is sexting. Sexting and Teens [...]

We are calling law students* to contribute to this blog for the following reasons: 1 – No one knows everything about social media or legal technology. No single person is an “expert”. 2 – The law students of my generation, like those who came before them, are amazing and profound people who have a lot [...]

A Circuit Court judge in Miami-Dade County, Florida, this week dismissed a civil fraud case brought by Sky Development against Vistaview Development. The suit claimed that Vistaview misrepresented the number of units in a condo tower Sky purchased from Vistaview last year. The dismissal comes after a mistrial mid-May, when Judge Scott Silverman deemed text [...]

Interview 1: In the most epic blog post of all time In a very interesting blog post, the Legal Broadcasting Network interviewed Rex Gradeless of Social Media Law Student.  The interview talks a little bit about using social media technologies in the practice of law and also has some snappy pictures of Rex enjoying his [...]

The LegalTech® West Coast 2009 Conference kicks off on June 24-25 in Los Angeles, California.  Legal technology industry leaders will be on hand giving presentations about how new technologies are shaping the legal profession. LegalTech® provides an in-depth look at what the technological world has in store for the legal profession and will offer an [...]