2006-08-28 09:14:11
Chris Anderson's The Long Tail (2006) is one of those must-read books, like Tom Friedman's The World is Flat and Malcolm Gladwell's Tipping Point. It doesn't quite live up to the breathless 'advance praise' on the back cover, but it's quickly digested, and full of provocative ideas. More...
2006-08-16 17:01:25
As lawyers rely more and more on e-mail as a client communications tool, they should start thinking more about the differences between mail and e-mail. Although the two names sound alike, they function very differently. One interesting legal, and potentially ethical, issue comes about due to this difference. With US postal mail, the act of sending creates a presumption of receipt (in many cases). More...
2006-08-16 17:01:12
The ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board is hard at work putting together the agenda for the TECHSHOW 2007, and our session tracks are almost in place. This year TECHSHOW will offer fourteen tracks of educational programming. In addition to the tracks that are always popular — E-Discovery, Litigation, Solo/Small Firm -- here are just a few of the exciting new tracks we'll be featuring at next year's conference:
- Show Me — demonstrations of some of the legal technology products you use every day
- Adobe, PDF, and the Paperless Office — an entire track devoted to this popular topic
- Going Mobile — the latest in mobile technology and security while on the road
- The Office — sessions on making the best use of the MS Office suite
Stay tuned for the full list of tracks!
2006-08-11 16:38:39
Ah, the perils of technology. Yet again, attorneys have inadvertently leaked sensitive information about a client, in this case AT&T, which is charged in a lawsuit with facilitating a federal wiretapping program. The 25-page legal brief filed in the case was striped with thick black lines that were intended to obscure portions of three pages and render them unreadable. More...
2006-08-10 16:38:09
A lot of firms are looking to upgrade their phone systems and almost all of them are at least considering Voice over IP (VoIP) as a possible solution. Before you get seduced by the promise of free (or at least cheap) phone calls and the other great features of VoIP bear in mind that there can be considerable expense in deploying VoIP. More...
2006-08-08 09:31:29
Back in May I presented on Law Practice Management to a group of attorneys, mostly from solo/small firm practices. I brought up metadata, just in case some in the group were not yet aware of it and the ethical dangers it presents. More...
2006-08-04 16:57:13
On April 25th, 2006, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania tackled the issue of using computer-generated animation (CGA) in court. In the case of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Serge, the defendant was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, who had been shot three times and killed inside their house. More...
2006-08-02 16:51:34
Now there's no excuse for losing discs with sensitive data that's easily-accessible. Ricoh and Kano Technologies recently announced the availability of Ricoh's EncryptEase recordable CD-ROM discs with built-in encryption capabilities. More...