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05/21/2010 4:46 pm

Finding information and conducting research on the Internet can be overwhelming and intimidating.  To help all professionals – not just lawyers – conduct effective research on the Internet, the American Bar Association Law Practice Management Section has published Find Info Like a Pro, Volume 1:  Mining the Internet’s Publicly Available Resources ...

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05/11/2010 6:32 am

Google has made it easier to keep up to date with topics, cases, patents, etc. searched via Google Scholar with the addition of e-mail alerts to the Scholar service. An envelope icon now appears at the top of each Scholar search results list. The Scholar Alerts feature functions similarly to ...

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05/10/2010 10:19 pm

Social networking and ethics: what do these two concepts have in common? Plenty, if you're a lawyer. Using social networking can ensnare attorneys in ethical traps in two different ways — when accessing information in someone else's profile, or when an attorney's own profile information might be used against them. ...

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03/16/2010 11:29 pm

In a March 16, 2010 press release, the Judicial Conference of the United States announced "key steps to improve public access to federal courts by increasing the availability of court opinions and expanding the services and reducing the costs for many users of the Public Access to Electronic Court Records ...

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02/10/2010 8:26 am

At a live press event at its Mountain View, CA headquarters on the morning of February 9, 2010, Google announced its latest foray into Social Media - Google Buzz. Bradley Horowitz, Google's VP of Product Marketing opened the event by describing Google Buzz as "a Google approach to sharing." Google Buzz ...

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11/24/2009 6:42 pm

On November 23, The American Bar Association launched its new TechEZ technology marketplace for members. The online directory features nearly two dozen software packages, ranging from time and billing and legal research applications to collaboration tools. It was developed to serve an educational purpose as well as provide special pricing on ...

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11/17/2009 8:39 am

       On the evening of November 17, Google fired (arguably) the loudest and certainly most recent salvo in the battle for free access to case law...and it apparently came as a tweet. Google has made a database of Federal and State caselaw and legal journal articles available via ...

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09/08/2009 4:02 am

Early in 2009, a team of Google Web developers began work on the "next generation" of Google search infrastructure. The stated goal of the project, code-named Caffeine, was to help Google "push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions" of Web search. The project was announced ...

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08/28/2009 6:41 pm

One of my current favorite "tightwad tech" tools is Adobe's free ConnectNow remote meeting service. It offers a lot of flexibility for a free service. It includes video conferencing, chat, screen sharing, and a multi-user whiteboard.  It even offers the ability for one participant to remotely control the computer of ...

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06/08/2009 6:22 pm

I've been working with the the new iPhone OS 3.0 (beta 7) for about a week-and-a-half. There are a number of completely new features built into the operating system and some that just extend the range of features already included in the current release version. It's a toss-up which of ...

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