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Probook Loves Law Blogs � Probook Blog

Probook Loves Law Blogs � Probook Blog. My friend, Jonathan Kleiman, a Canadian law student, has sent some link love the FutureLawyer's way, with this post about the Blawg100 competition. (There is still time to vote for the FutureLawyer :-)) Jonathan's new venture, Probook.ca, is a networking blog and site for Canadian lawyers, and really looks great. Hey, Jonathan. We need a Probook.us. In the meantime, I am recommending all my U.S. colleagues check out the site. Tune in, turn on, you know the drill. Oops, was that a Sixties reference? I am dating myself. Jonathan's youth, and my advancing age, got me thinking about the Leary quote: "Is there life after youth?" Yes.

DennisKennedy.blog: Dennis Kennedy;s 2008 Law-related Blogging Awards (The Blawggies)

DennisKennedy.blog: Dennis Kennedy;s 2008 Law-related Blogging Awards (The Blawggies). I am honored to have received the Blawggie 2008 award from Dennis Kennedy for the best Technology blog this year. I am "shocked", "shocked" I tell you, to find that Dennis does not always agree with my conclusions. (Smile) Blogs are about opinion; honors and awards are not the reason bloggers do them. For the FutureLawyer, blogging and writing are like breathing. Thanks again to Dennis for the kind words.

Chuck Newton: Third Wave Has A New Design And Look

Chuck Newton: Third Wave Has A New Design And Look. Chuck Newton is a Third Wave Lawyer. He has eschewed the trappings of the fancy office tower, and large overhead common to BigLaw and has come home to practice. I am a 2 1/2 wave lawyer. I practice solo; but, still go to my office every day where I have a single legal assistant. She and I have been together for almost 30 years, and she takes care of details that would be impossible for me to handle alone. While I work at home a lot, I don't have the internal discipline to avoid the distractions of home base. Additionally, my real estate practice and other work require meetings with parties and clients on a frequent basis. I admire Chuck's ability to do it all from his home office, and the new look of his blog is great. Perhaps the answer lies in each lawyer's response to his own unique situation. One thing is certain in these uncertain economic times. Get your overhead under control, or you will be buried by it.

Ross Ipsa Loquitur Blog � ABA Journal Names Ross Ipsa Loquitur to Blawg 100

Ross Ipsa Loquitur Blog � ABA Journal Names Ross Ipsa Loquitur to Blawg 100. Thanks to Ross Kodner for the kind words about Futurelawyer. In this post, he is kind to point out the tech blogs that made the Blawg100, all of which are fine examples of the quality writing lawyers can do when they put their minds to it. I have been remiss in sticking up for Ross lately, as he has been battered by the same Mac maniacs that pelted me when I wrote the PC side of a PC/Mac article for the ABA Journal. Hell hath no fury like a Mac user who feels you have insulted his computer. Actually, Ben Stevens and I get along fine. We respectfully disagree with each other about the overall benefits of our respective computers. However, Ross has been far kinder to Macs and their benefits in law practice than I have, and he experienced the blowback as well. Can't we all just get along?

Tech Tips for Lawyers: Back Up Your Documents At No Cost � Res Ipsa Blog

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.

State of the AmLaw 200 blogosphere, March 2008 : Real Lawyers Have Blogs

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.

TypePad Featured Blogs: Future Lawyer

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.

Legal Blog Watch

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.

Legal Intellects Blog - Canada Law Student Blog

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.

Police Blotter: Did blogging juror affect DUI trial? | CNET News.com

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.