Nicole Black’s new endeavor Legal Tweets is keeping track of a conversation about whether the billable hour is still feasible for law firms. It’s an interesting discussion, and I think it wouldn’t hurt for you to go check it out and follow the links to the different ideas. Now, I definitely think there are places…
Certainly, the fact that the event is being put on by the Georgetown Law school adds quite a bit of legitimacy to what you’re going to learn, but that $2750 price tag, in this legal industry economy? Wow. As much as I’d love to go to Georgetown and learn, or even get a couple of…
The other day, I spent an hour with Cheryl Harrison, meeting up as part of her Fast Friends experiment. (Which is an interesting experiment in ad of itself.) One of the things we were discussing was the various ways people connect online now. I was regaling my new, young, friend with tales of having to…
Over the years I’ve worked with technology, I’ve listened to many, many complaints about the technological tools that folks are using in their work. Everything from poor interfaces, slow response times, and various limitations of the tools. One of the more interesting ones I’ve seen though, are the folks who get bad data from a…
Douglas Welch started off the New Year by launching a Ning network tied to his Career Opportunities podcast, which is somewhat interesting. Of course, the one big reason I went with Ning, as opposed to an existing social networking platform like Facebook, was to allow folks to participate in a network for child abuse survivors,…
An interesting new tool from the fine folks at Lexblogs, LexTweet is: Lextweet is a new website developed by LexBlog showcasing members of the legal community who are using Twitter as well as what they are tweeting. Lextweet community members include lawyers as well as other professionals serving our legal profession. I have learned equally…