The Pittsburgh Post-Gazettereports that self-described anarchist Elliot Madison and Elena Madison were arrested for “using Twitter to inform protesters in Pittsburgh about the movements of local officers.”

Recently, Facebook launched a new version of their site called “Facebook Lite”. This new version, of the social networking platform Goliath that is Facebook, was released for users in India, United Kingdom, and the United States.
In it’s initial conception, Facebook Lite was created with the purpose of delivering faster service to countries that lacked high-speed [...]

Last week I attended the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)’s annual conference. It was inspiring and educational on many levels (not to mention the great food). Keynote John Palfrey from Harvard’s Berkman Center had great suggestions for law schools to collaborate rather than compete (for instance on library collections). (See liveblog archive of [...]

The latest social network in the legal community seeks to promote diversity in the legal profession.  JD Diversity has blogs, articles, student corner, events calendar, and job corner pages to foster the development of its members in the legal community.

JD Diversity is committed to making the legal profession more inclusive and diverse. JD Diversity [...]

It’s only been a month since I first emailed my career services counselor with a link to my ticked-off post about law schools ignoring the potential value of social media.  We’re now working together to get my law school in line in providing modern, useful social media advice.  In the last few weeks, we’ve surveyed [...]

This is the first in a series of posts about my adventures in pushing my law school to get real about social media.
Like other law students, I was told not to blog about law school and to be careful what I posted on that evil place called Facebook.  About a month into law school I [...]

Social Media for Attorneys Series (Part 2) (Part 1 Here)
Posted: December 3rd, 2008
By: Zach Heller
Category: Business Development Skills, Marketing Tips, Technology Corner

In part one of our series on social media for attorneys last week, we discussed the very basics of social networking.  We introduced the idea of social media and explained the many forms 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 Bruce [...]

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 [...]

Introduction
A friend of mine attends a top 20 law school.  At the beginning of his first year this past fall, his Career Services Office (CSO) told the entire 1L class that if they wanted to be employable, they should remove themselves from social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.  That way, potential employers will not [...]