Update 1/28/10: Mike Dahn, Vice President of WestlawNext Product Development, was kind enough to answer some questions about availability and pricing, and we’ve posted some screenshots. Next week at Legal Tech NY, and at a number of preview breakfasts, Thomson Reuters will publicly showcase its new legal research product, WestlawNext. The basis of the new [...]

Promoting your legal blog can be a daunting task. You’re already blogging, Tweeting, friending, and following. Sometimes you feel like no one is really listening. In order to combat these feelings of loneliness (or just wanting to recoup on your investment) people sometimes hire advertising agencies to promote their blog. There are a number of [...]

This post comes courtesy of the folks over at Online Universities Weblog (not to be confused with Online Universities.com or its blog). While their site doesn’t have information for online legal study (and neither does Online Universities), there is some information on paralegal programs, FWIW. In any case, they cared enough to compile a list [...]

Law Firm Websites That Work: These firms use the Internet to get the job done Websites have become the shingles, business cards and phone-book ads of modern lawyering. ms that don’t expect much interest from the Internet crowd are being pressed to put up some sort of site, including one called “the world’s worst” by [...]

Social Media for Attorneys Series ( Part 8 ) (Part 1 Here) (Part 2 Here) (Part 3 Here) (Part 4 Here) (Part 5 Here) (Part 6 Here) (Part 7 Here) Posted: January 29th, 2009 By: Zach Heller Category: Business Development Skills, Marketing Tips, Technology Corner Another week has passed, and another group of people have [...]

Hilton Chicago | April 2-4, 2009 Highlights for ABA TECHSHOW 2009 Next Week! We promise you will thoroughly enjoy this year’s event, which is right around the corner. Below are a few highlights we would like to share with you to help you plan your stay in Chicago and ensure you have the best ABA [...]

Social Media for Attorneys Series (Part 7) (Part 1 Here) (Part 2 Here) (Part 3 Here) (Part 4 Here) (Part 5 Here) (Part 6 Here) Posted: January 22nd, 2009 By: Zach Heller Category: Business Development Skills, Marketing Tips, Technology Corner Another week has passed, and another group of people have started using new internet technology [...]

Lawyer Blogging Tip: Rise Of The Blogging Service Industry http://poprl.com/kVZ The Essential Little Book of Great Lawyering and the Discovery Process http://poprl.com/ioL Lawyer Blogging Tip: 4 Pretty Pictures to Illustrate Impact of Email Newsletters on Traffic .. http://poprl.com/iWD President Obama has released his March Madness bracket today: http://tinyurl.com/cfp95o Bernie Madoff: A Look Inside the Scandal [...]

Social Media for Attorneys Series (Part 6) (Part 1 Here) (Part 2 Here) (Part 3 Here) (Part 4 Here) (Part 5 Here) Posted: January 14th, 2009 By: Zach Heller Category: Business Development Skills, Marketing Tips, Technology Corner Another week has passed, and another group of people have started using new internet technology to connect with [...]

Chris Winfield, along with Kevin O’Keefe & Matthew Homann, did a presentation at LegalTech on a panel called “What is Twitter and How Can I Use It?”.  This session was aimed at informing lawyers (and people in the legal profession) on how they could effectively use Twitter.  Here was thier PowerPoint presentation: Twitter For Lawyers [...]