Link: Tech Tips for Lawyers: Back Up Your Documents At No Cost � Res Ipsa Blog. This is a new blog by a second year law student that focuses on a subject near and dear to the heart of the FutureLawyer. This post about backing up, another of my pet projects, is sure to help any lawyer protect his or her data. Enjoy.
Link: State of the AmLaw 200 blogosphere, March 2008 : Real Lawyers Have Blogs.
Are you blogging yet? Kevin O'Keefe has put out his annual report, in which he chronicles the growth of law blogging. The growth rates are astounding. Of course, Kevin's business helps those totals, as he is the biggest, baddest and best of the companies which specialize in helping lawyers and law firms create blogs.
Link: TypePad Featured Blogs: Future Lawyer.
I have been a happy Typepad customer since I turned this page into a blog in 2005. Typepad hosts millions of blogs, and I am honored to be today's featured blog. If you are a blogger, you can't do better than Typepad.
Link: Legal Blog Watch. 
Fellow Law.Com bloggers, Carolyn Elefant and Robert Ambrogi are presiding over a revamped Legal Blog Watch page. You could do worse than begin your law blog journey here. Legal Tech New York begins today; and, since I can't be there in person, this is the place I will go for my news. Some of the bloggers will be live blogging from the event. It's the next best thing to being there.
Link: Legal Intellects. 
Jonathan Kleiman is a Canadian law student at Queens University in Ontario. His blog is quite interesting; and not just because he links to the FutureLawyer. He links to, and comments on, a lot of high profile current legal issues, and the blog is attractive. Of course, he could be linking to me because it is 75 degrees outside here and he is looking for an invite to sit by the pool.
Link: Police Blotter: Did blogging juror affect DUI trial? | CNET News.com.
Well, I guess it had to happen. Jurors blogging about cases during the trial. Go figure. And, the Judge, in his discretion, denied an appeal based on juror misconduct. Does blogging constitute improper activity by a blogger/juror? The appeals court found that the trial judge was in the best position to answer the question; however, as much as I love live blogging (I have done it myself, but not during a trial), I have to compare it to jurors discussing the case with third parties outside of the courtroom and deliberations. A reporter blogging during trial is just a spectator. This juror had a conflict of interest. The Court here rightly held that post trial blogging could not be prevented, and was proper. It is hard to see how in-trial blogging before an opinion is reached, by a juror whose job it is to assess credibility, can be permitted in a society that wants decisions made in courtrooms, after hearing all the evidence.
Link: Home Office Lawyer: Blawg Review #132 -- Home Office and Solos. 
If you want to get a bird's eye view of what is out there in the world of law blogging, you need to check out BlawgReview; this month's edition is hosted by one of the best, Grant Griffith's - Home Office Lawyer. Some of the blogs I read regularly I have found at the Review. Check it out. Grant is an Apple fan, but we don't hold that against him.
Link: I Heart Tech.
Like its author, IHeartTech is useful AND beautiful. I met Adriana Linares in 2005 at the BlawgThink Unconference in Chicago. I have followed her tech blog ever since, and find something useful in it all the time. The blog has a feminine touch, with an extensive knowledge of computer technology, and is the best out there for step by step solutions to computer tasks. My favorite currently is the creation of digital signatures. Adriana spends her days helping law firms with technology; I remember the pain of showing an attorney how to do it, and receiving an antedeluvian response like: "I would rather use pen and paper". Adriana, you can have the tech consulting life all to yourself. Have fun.
Link: EDD Update. Monica Bay and Sean Doherty of ALM, of which this blog is an affiliate, have a new blog about Electronic Data Discovery issues. If you are unsure where to start in EDD, this is the place. There are many guest authors who are experts in the field, and many cool resources. Check it out.
Link: The Trial Technologist’s View. Here is a nice blog about legal technology. It contains some interesting information about trial technology and the equipment used. Recommended.
Link: Blawg for Profit | Lawyer Marketing with Blogs, Blawgs, Law Blogs, Legal Blogs, Blogging for Lawyers, Professional Blogs, Blogging Basics. 
This is a shameless plug for my friend, Grant Griffiths, who is parlaying his skill in setting up blogs into a business. If you want to join the blogging community, but don't know where to start, this is a good place to go. Grant and I had to learn from scratch, by trial and error. You don't have to.
BlawgWorld 2007 Link
Well, Hell has frozen over. The swallows have abandoned Capistrano. Santa Claus has gone on strike. The FutureLawyer has joined the club of legal bloggers chosen to be featured in the annual TechnoLawyer book of legal bloggers. While I am honored to be among the elite, I am reminded of Groucho Marx, who opined that he wouldn't join a club that would have him as a member. But, here I am, and I have to make the best of it. You can download an interactive PDF version here . I really like most of the highlighted blogs, and you can learn something from all of them. This year, the folks at TechnoLawyer have outdone themselves. They have added a second EBook, called Problems and Solutions, that has tips and tricks to make you a better and more efficient lawyer. Even the FutureLawyer. Somehow, though, I don't think there will be thousands of people standing in line at Midnight waiting to read our blogs. But, what are you going to do? It's always something.
Link: Staring at Strangers.
Take a lawyer and put her in Michoacan, Mexico. Take a lawyer and put him in the middle of New York City. Add a strange penchant for staring at strangers. What do you get? A fascinating new blog by Jennifer Rose, long-time editor of the ABA's SoloLawyer Magazine, and David Leffler, New York business law attorney. The back and forth between the two should provide interesting insights into the conflicts and comparisons between the big city and the country that ignorant Americans consider no more than America's back yard. My take on this is that regular reading of this blog will result in a more human view of the big city, and more appreciation of the sophistication of our southern neighbor.
Link: Sunflower Media Concepts - Lawyer Blogs, Blawgs, Law Blogs, Legal Blogs 
Grant Griffiths has spawned another blog, Sunflower Media Concepts, at which he will be consulting with lawyers about putting up compelling blogs. As a legal blogger myself, I will be checking in for tips on making my blog better. If you blog, or if you don't, check with Grant for help. (How was that, Grant?) You can mail me my commission checks. :-)
Link: LexBlog Blog : General counsel uses blog to comment on pending litigation.
Kevin O'Keefe reports about the General counsel of Cisco commenting on the pending litigation with Apple over the IPhone trademark. I am bowled over by this new use of the blogging tool. It is risky enough to speak to the news media (print and broadcast) when involved in pending litigation. The legal minefield of broadcast journalism is littered with the bodies of litigants who said the wrong thing, or who got gored by a sound bite. The much more powerful new media of blogging can reach so many more people, in a viral, uncontrollable way. I wonder what Cisco's lawyers say about this? On the other hand, much high profile litigation involves the manipulation and control of media, and "getting one's own story out" is an essential part of high stakes litigation nowadays. At least the blog can be edited and controlled by the company involved. Either way, those who said blogging was a passing fad are clearly living on another planet.
Link: Home Office Lawyer. Let me introduce you to Grant Griffiths, a Kansas lawyer who publishes the home office lawyer blog. Grant is a man after my own heart, in that he believes in the power of technology to free the practice of law from the constraints of the traditional office. However, he is one of those weird Mac users. Talking to a Mac user is like talking to "She Who Must Be Obeyed". You never know whether you are communicating. :-)
Anyway, Grant has graciously consented to doing guest posts about the use of Macs in the practice of law, and I look forward to learning from him. Welcome, Grant.
Link: Georgia DUI Blog. My good friend, Rob Leonard, has created a new weblog about DUI defense in Georgia. He swears there is a sign outside Cobb County that says: "Georgia - Arrive on Vacation - Leave on Probation". He is a stellar defense lawyer, and, if you are driving through Georgia, his is a handy number to have. Remember, be careful out there.
Link: The Korea Times : Courts Test Internet Trials.
Okay, I want this in the U.S. Korea is toying with the idea of conducting some trials by blog posting. I would love to file Motions and pleadings and to make oral argument in my blog. Korea, with a 70% Internet penetration, one of the largest in the world, plans to allow parties to submit evidence, legal documents and other data on Weblogs to be operated by the Court. Decisions will also be announced online. Why aren't we using our technology like this in the U.S.? I can't even get the Courts to use Webcams for Motion hearings. Judge Kim Sang-Jun of the Seoul Administration Court believes that Internet based trials will help public understanding of the legal system. We have Court TV over here, why not Internet based trials? Just wondering...
Link: Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground:. Recently, I did a post about Evan Schaeffer's great blog, Legal Underground. Evan has added a PodCast discussing law, tech, appeals, and litigation matters. Very nice, and very informative. I really enjoyed the oral argument meltdown, which recorded one of the strangest oral arguments I ever heard. He even mentions the FutureLawyer. Thanks for that, Evan. Check out this great legal blog.
Link: law.com - Blog's Demise May Chill Other Federal Lawyers' Online Comments. In the "I am sometimes glad I am a solo practitioner, and not a Government lawyer" category, here is a follow-up article in the New Jersey Law Journal about David Lat, the Government lawyer forced to take down his site "Underneath their Robes", which blogged about judges in the Federal Judiciary. The reason given was that Federal employees have to get approval before speaking to the media. I guess the moral is, stay anonymous (apparently, Lat outed himself because he wanted credit for his work) , and blog away. As lawyers, we learn early that we need to choose our words carefully, especially when we put them in writing. As the poet Emily Dickinson said: "A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day". Words can live a long time on the Internet, and, unlike wine, they don't necessarily improve with age.
Link: law.com - Mystery Blogger Discussing 'Super Hottie' Judges Revealed. In the "Don't say anything in your blog that you wouldn't want printed on the front page of your local newspaper" category, never believe that you are, or can remain, anonymous on the web. Be careful what you say in a weblog, unless you REALLY don't care who finds out. I don't like anonymous postings, anyway. If you can't say it with your name attached, you shouldn't be saying it in the first place.
A cautionary tale, on this day that seems to be about security on the net.
Link: Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground:. I am sitting in Evan Schaeffer's presentation on blog writing at BlawgThink in Chicago. This is a live posting, and should let everyone know that the immediacy of blogs is changing the way content gets published on the Web. Evan posts about all things legal at his blog. He encourages comments, as he believes that the fun comes from the interaction created by comments. Great job, Evan.
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