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 [...]

An excerpt of an quiz question posed by a law professor and a law student’s answer: 1) Judge [name redacted] indicated that emails and other electronic communications are becoming a larger part of the evidence in divorce and paternity cases.  Do you believe that people of your generation understand the implications of their electronic communication, [...]

Social Media for Attorneys Series (Part 4) (Part 1 Here) (Part 2 Here) (Part 3 Here) Posted: December 18th, 2008 By: Zach Heller Category: Business Development Skills, Marketing Tips, Technology Corner Welcome to the 4th installment of our series on social media for lawyers.  Last week we focused on using blogs as a source of [...]

On February 17, 2008 Bruce Carton, Editor of Securities Docket, and Doug Cornelius, Chief Compliance Officer of Beacon Capital Partners, sponsored a webcast that discussed how securities and compliance counsel and professionals can use web 2.0 to promote, market, and network themselves, their practices and their firms as never before. In the presentation, Doug and [...]

This is the second of two posts about “What Career Service Office Advisors Should be Telling Students About Social Media.”  The first post introduced you to the idea that social media is something career service offices should be advising students to participate in.  It also discussed how to use LinkedIn as a law student, and [...]

This was originally posted at Practicing Law in the 21st Century blog by Nicole Black: This week’s Daily Record column is entitled “Can Lawyers Afford to Ignore Social Media?” A pdf of the article can be found here and my past Daily Record articles can be accessed here. ****** Can Lawyers Afford to Ignore Social [...]

Vancouver lawyer, Doug Jasinski, presented a seminar on Social Media and Social Networking for Lawyers at the Vancouver chapter of the Legal Marketing Association.  With the PowerPoint presentation below, Doug explained why social media matters for lawyers and law firms. In the presentation, Doug explores some of the major components of social media (RSS, LinkedIn, [...]

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Two lessons in written advocacy have permeated the lessons I’ve gotten from my first year legal writing teacher, my employer over the summer, several articles in the ABA Journal, a Third Circuit judge, and numerous state judges that I have spoken to about legal writing: keep it succinct and keep it simple.  I have found [...]

Lawyer and social media guru Kevin O’Keefe, of Real Lawyers Have Blogs, has done it again! Kevin has brought lawyers, law students, legal professionals, and other professionals together in a new site called LexTweet. LexTweet allows those using Twitter to submit their Twitter feeds to the LexTweet site providing a central location for the legal [...]