Martindale-Hubbell Connected will be hosting a live webinar on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009. Word on the street says they have over 700 registered participants! They are expecting a record number of people to attend. Who will be there? Lawyers, judges, paralegals, law students, legal professionals, non-legal professionals, people interested in social media, and even people not interested in social media. [...]

Missouri Lawyers Weekly reports that a Kansas City lawyer used Craigslist, a free online network, to barter for legal services. The Craigslist post read: “Would like to barter legal services, such as handling traffic tickets, DUIs, contracts, leases, powers of attorney, small claims, small business, miscellaneous legal forms, simple living wills etc.” Craigslist is an [...]

Welcome to TweetLaw! TweetLaw is a Twitter application designed specifically for legal professionals. Why TweetLaw? We believe that sometimes, labels are necessary. So many careers and specialties fall under the legal profession, and we want to give you the opportunity to stand out in your field. This can be done in 3 easy steps: Sign [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Justia.com launched a new site called “Legal Birds”.  This site tracks “legal professionals on Twitter”.  The new site is very similar to a site launched by Kevin O’Keefe (lextweet.com) yet seems to offer different features. Justia must have been listening to users who were requesting group-sorting functions on Twitter.  Legal professionals have been asking for [...]

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 [...]

Rudy Baylor: “Every lawyer, at least once in every case, feels himself crossing a line that he doesn’t really mean to cross… it just happens… And if you cross it enough times it disappears forever.  And then you’re nothing but another lawyer joke. Just another shark in the dirty water.” I am not an expert [...]

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 [...]

About the Blog One goal of this site is to connect lawyers to new technologies in hopes of making the practice of law easier – both inside and outside the courtroom. This site serves as a resource regarding the latest legal technology within the legal profession. As the blog became increasingly popular, the creators reached [...]