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This post was written by Susan Cartier Liebel: "In October, 2006 I wrote this column for the Connecticut Law Tribune discussing what was then virgin territory for lawyer marketing, a little known phenomenon called YouTube:
Your Internet presence just got more exciting. Imagine, potential clients can click on your web site and be linked to your personal video introducing them to your services, philosophies [...]

 

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Source: Build a Solo Practice, 1 March 2010. @ SPU Copyright 2010 Susan Cartier Liebel, reproduced with permission.

Podcast description from the site: "Attorneys are continuously seeking answers on their quest to start a successful law practice.  In this edition of The Un-Billable Hour, host Attorney Rodney Dowell, Director of the Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program, welcomes Erik Mazzone, Director of the Center for Practice Management at North Carolina Bar Association, to talk about the new rules for starting a law office. Rodney and Erik will look at financing your office, the need for bootstrapping and the importance of technology and marketing.

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Source: Legal Talk Network, 2 March 2010

Podcast description from the site: "In this edition of the ESI Report, host Gina Jytyla, Managing Staff Attorney in the Legal Technologies division at Kroll Ontrack, welcomes Doug Cohen, Senior Director of Business Development for Kroll Ontrack/TrialGraphix and Dr. Dan Wolfe, Director of Jury Consulting for Kroll Ontrack/TrialGraphix, to address the challenges faced by legal teams spurred by the increasing demand to perform more with less. The discussion will also include new and efficient ways to prepare for trial in 2010. In the Bits & Bytes Legal Analysis segment, Kroll Ontrack Legal Correspondent, Kelly Kubacki will take a look at the discovery order issued in Pension Committee of the University of Montreal Pension Plan v. Banc of America Securities, LLC.

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Source: Legal Talk Network, 2 March 2010

From an e-newsletter sent by Sabrina Pacifici:

"Preserving Born-Digital Legal Materials - Where to Start?

http://www.llrx.com/features/borndigital.htm

Sarah Rhodes discusses the monumental challenge of preserving our digital heritage. She argues that law libraries specifically have a critically important role to play in this undertaking as access to legal and law-related information is a core underpinning of our democratic society. Our current digital preservation strategies and systems are imperfect but tremendous strides have been made over the past decade to stave off the dreaded digital dark age, and libraries today have a number of viable tools, services, and best practices at our disposal for the preservation of digital content.

 

Ethics of Legal Outsourcing White Paper

http://www.llrx.com/features/ethicsoutsourcing.htm

The practical reality for US and UK attorneys engaging in or contemplating Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is that the outsourcing of both core legal and support services across the legal profession is nothing new. What is different today with the emergence of the LPO industry is that both core legal and legal support related services are being outsourced to lawyers, law firms and corporations located offshore in countries such as India, South Africa and the Philippines. Mark Ross analyzes how the outsourcing of legal work by a law firm or legal department to a legal outsourcing company or an entity located offshore raises specific issues pertaining to the outsourcing lawyer's ethical obligations to his or her client.

 

Effective Project Management: the Art of Creating Scope Statements

http://www.llrx.com/features/projectscopestatements.htm

Carol A. Watson's discussion of how well-defined scope statements are the key to successful project management continues with this article focused on how all written documentation should be clearly and concisely written, avoiding ambiguities at all costs.

 

Business Intelligence Online Resources

http://www.llrx.com/features/busintellguide.htm

This extensive guide by search expert Marcus P. Zillman includes a wide range of sources designed to serve as a foundation for knowledge discovery specific to business intelligence resources on the Internet.

 

The Government Domain - Congressional Documents on FDsys: Advanced

Techniques

http://www.llrx.com/columns/govdomain44.htm

Following up on a previous column in which she introduced FDsys and explained the site's simple search and navigation, Peggy Garvin provides an update and introduces more advanced search techniques for the congressional information available on FDsys.

 

Wrongful Conviction and Attorney-Client Confidentiality

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Interpreting Rule 1.6(b)(1) of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct in the context of wrongful convictions is complicated by evidentiary and practical considerations surrounding the potential use of such information. This article by Ken Strutin examines resources about several notable cases and the scholarly literature analyzing different approaches to resolving this dilemma."

 

Source: Pacifici, Sabrina. "New on LLRX.com for January/February 2010." Copyright © LLRX TM, Law Library Resource Xchange, LLC. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://www.llrx.com/subscribe.htm>.

From the e-newsletter: "Perhaps very welcome news to legal employees is ButterflyVista's recent release of JobFish 2010; a windows application that facilitates the use of online job boards to seek employment opportunities."

 

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Source: FindLaw's Modern Practice: Law & Technology. 18 February 2010 Copyright © 2010 FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe <http://newsletters.findlaw.com/>.

"Opening Up to Open Source"

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Podcast description form the site: "Budgetary concerns have forced lawyers to take a hard look at software costs. That's brought Open Source software onto their radar screens. The price - free - is obviously attractive, but Open Source is a completely different approach to software than lawyers expect. In this episode, co-hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell introduce the approach and philosophy of Open Source, the programs available, and when and where it might make sense for you. After you listen, be sure to check out Tom & Dennis' co-blog and book by the same name, The Lawyers Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies.

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Source: Legal Talk Network, 17 February 2010. © 2010 · Legal Talk Network. Reproduced with permission of Scott R. Hess.

"Safety in the Cloud"

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From the e-newsletter: "The cloud computing technology currently available is carrying us into the future in terms of the remote off-site handling and storage of our data. But are we safe in the cloud? Is our private data secure? Good questions."

 

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Source: FindLaw's The Practice Paper: For Solo & Small Firm Lawyers. 10 February 2010 Copyright © 2010 FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe  <http://newsletters.findlaw.com/>.

This post was written by Dennis Kennedy: "My latest technology column for the ABA Journal is out. It's called "Going Mobile: Your future work platform is on the phone " and it takes a practical look at what is starting to seem like a smartphone revolution.

 

My goal in this column was to provide a simple introduction and primer to what Tom Mighell and I have been calling the "mobile platform" on our podcast. We are moving to a world where smartphones are commonplace, where smartphones run applications and give us anywhere, anytime Internet access, and, as a result, the everyday world of technology use seems to be moving us to working on our smartphones.

In the column, I offer a gentle introduction to world of iPhone and other mobile apps, the implications of anytime, anywhere access, and how expectations are changing and will continue to change. The idea is that you need to start looking at your smartphone to do more than handle email and make calls.

I highlight three key developments...

 

I end with four simple and gentle suggestions to get started on the mobile platform...

 

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Source: Dennis Kennedy.com, 9 February 2010. © 1995 - 2005 Dennis Kennedy, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Tom Mighell: "I've never been a fan of giving PowerPoint presentations from my phone - I like more control over the program I'm using to give the presentation. However, with MightyMeeting I might just have to give it another try. MightyMeeting has a different take on the whole "presentation by smartphone" thing: instead of loading the presentation on your phone, you upload it to the MightyMeeting server. You can then send your attendees a link to the file when you're ready to present - but it's actually a link to the presentation that you can control remotely from your phone..."

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Source: Inter Alia, 8 February 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Allison Shields: "Last month I posted on stripping down your practice, and I suggested that while procedures and systems can help your productivity, they need to be re-evaluated from time to time to ensure that they are working and that they are necessary.

This same issue arose during a number of my client meetings over the past two weeks. As I work with lawyers on streamlining their practices and improving productivity, we invariably encounter old, outdated, redundant or unnecessary procedures. Many times, the old procedures have become unnecessary because new technology has been put into place which takes the place of several old ways of working, but only some of the old procedures have been eliminated..."

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Source: Legal Ease Blog, 5 February 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

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