Thursday postings will be made in the late afternoon. My apologies to those who read the blog on thier lunch hour.

Nancy

In the news: "In her former law practice, consultant Debra Bruce had a habit of waking up in the middle of the night with thoughts of work, which she didn't mind, unless she couldn't get back to sleep for hours. For others with the same habit, she has some tips to help them get back to sleep quickly."

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 2 September 2010. Copyright 2009.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>. 

This post was written by Cordell Parvin: "Many of you are like me in that you went to law school with the idea that as a lawyer you would be able to help people and make a difference in your community. Then you started your law practice with a firm and rarely have the feeling that you are actually helping people and making a difference in your community. So you look for non-billable ways to get involved..."

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Source: Law Consulting Blog, 2 September 2010. © 2010, Cordell Parvin LLC. Reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Julie A. Fleming: "You've put in your dues. You've worked hard to become the accomplished lawyer you are now, and you have all manner of credentials that demonstrate your expertise.  You've worked with a variety of organizations and individuals, you've written articles and book chapters, and you may even have served a turn teaching.

How can you leverage all of that activity to build relationships so you can bring in more business? The answers to that question are as varied as the number of people who might ask.  The four ideas I share here will form the springboard for what you decide to do..."

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Source: Life at the Bar, 24 August 2010. © Life at the Bar LLC Blog, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by David Canton: "Most of us realize that merely deleting a file doesn't really remove it from the hard drive or other storage media it resides on.  (For some background on this issue see a post I wrote a while back.)

Given how we use digital devices today - both for work and personal use - we can't just abandon this issue to our firm IT staff..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 1 September 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

This is a guest post was written by Larry Port: "In April, when the iPad came out, I offered to conduct an experiment for Ben Stevens' The Mac Lawyer blog. The plan: read a traditional book, a second on a Kindle, and a third on an iPad, then write about it. Over the past year I'd been used to reading primarily on my Kindle and the occasional tree-based book, and was interested in figuring out the new publishing terrain once and for all.

Part 3: The iPad Book: The Given Day, by Dennis Lehane

A big thanks is in order to Dennis Lehane, who wrote one of the best and most compelling novels I've read in years, if not ever. The Given Day is a book so gripping and phenomenal, I was able to read it on an iPad without succumbing to sweet Internet temptations lurking just beyond the home button on the gorgeous device..."

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Source: The Mac Lawyer, 27 august 2010. Copyright © 2010, J. Benjamin Stevens, reproduced with permission of the author.

In the news: "Attorney Robert J. Ambrogi heard that blogs are dead in the legal profession. Indeed, he declares legal blogging alive, well and thriving. Since the future is foretold by the new, Ambrogi highlights recently launched blogs, all of which show continuing vitality in the blawgosphere."

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 2 September 2010. Copyright 2009.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.

Podcast description from the website: "The 2010 Civil Litigation Conference at Duke Law School inspired a lot of chatter on the e-discovery wires. On this edition of Digital Detectives, co-hosts Sharon D. Nelson, Esq.,President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. and John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, welcome Magistrate Judge David J. Waxse from Kansas, to reflect on the conference. They look at conference highlights including: the future of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, clarifying the standards regarding governing the preservation of electronically stored information and next steps for the Federal Rules Advisory Committee.

Special thanks to our sponsor, Applied Discovery

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• July 27, 2010 -- Decade of E-Discovery, Compliance Challenges & Privacy
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• June 18, 2010 -- Early Case Assessment, Cost Savings & Privilege Problems
• May 13, 2010 -- Recall and Precision in Legal Search" 

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Source: Legal Talk Network, 30 August 2010. © 2010 · Legal Talk Network. Reproduced with permission of Scott R. Hess.

This post was written by Randall Ryder: "Right after I wrote a post about enhancing Gmail's usefulness, they added more goodness.

Now you can make phone calls from Gmail without a Google Voice number. You can also download a free extension called Rapportive that shows the email sender's digital profile..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 1 September 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

This post was written by Connie Crosby: "Yesterday the Twitter was awash with messages about this revolutionary new Gmail Priority Inbox. The beta version just arrived in my email, and have to say that I am already in love with it. Essentially what it does is bring new, unopened, important messages to the top, then lists those messages that are "starred" (which I have flagged with a star), and then lists everything else. It learns which are important messages over time depending on which are opened and which are responded to. In other words, its accuracy gets better over time..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 31 August 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.