ABA Journal - December 2009

DennisKennedy.com This is where St. Louis lawyer Dennis Kennedy blogs his ABA Journal legal tech columns, aggregates tweets from his Twitter microblog, and prefaces new episodes of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, the podcast he co-hosts with Inter Alia’s Tom Mighell at Legal Talk Network on alternate Wednesdays.

denniskennedy.com/blog

@dkennedyblog @denniskennedy

Rex Gradeless says: “Always insightful, honest, and thoroughly written, his posts provide his audience with priceless information at no cost. A must-read.”

NEW e-Lessons Learned is primarily a student-run e-dis-covery and legal technology blog, where items are posted in a practical, easy-to-scan case digest format. Each post contains a summary of the “e-lesson learned” so readers can decide whether to keep on reading. We like that.

ellblog.com

@ellblog_dot_com

The blog has a You Tube channel. But with only one post (about a 2008 case), we’re comfortable saying it’s not ready for prime time.

NEW Eric Goldman: Technology & Marketing Law Blog Goldman, an associate prof at Santa Clara University law school, discusses Internet and intellectual property law with an emphasis on search engines, spam, adware/spyware and marketing topics.

blog.ericgoldman.org

@ericgoldman

Goldman has predicted that Wikipedia will fail, arguing that the ever-expanding e-encyclopedia will have to choose between high quality or being freely editable.

FutureLawyer is a detailed, informative daily diary of St. Petersburg, Fla., solo Rick Georges’ life as a PC user. While Georges isn’t constantly trading up his own technology, he reviews all of the latest laptops, PDAs, scanners and other gadgets, and lets readers know if they’re worth the price.

futurelawyer.typepad.com

@rickgeorges

(His tweets are protected)

As of October, Georges was still using Windows XP. “I actually enjoy the extra couple of minutes it takes to boot my XP computer; I contemplate my navel, work on my putting stroke, get another cup of coffee.”

Inter Alia Dallas lawyer Tom Mighell’s bread and butter are his blawg-of-the-day posts and his newsletter, Internet Legal Research Weekly. He told Lawyers USA in August that he has tracked nearly 2,300 law blogs since 2000, and declared that failed legal blogs last an average of one year and 10 months.

inter-alia.net

@TomMighell

Mighell wrote The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together with fellow blogger and podcaster Dennis Kennedy.

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NEW iPhone JD is the brainchild of New Orleans lawyer Jeff Richardson. He launched the blog to explore lawyerly uses for the iPhone, which he describes in his bio as the “perfect handheld device” he’s been searching for since the late ’80s.

iphonejd.com/iphone_jd

@jeffrichardson

Richardson is an appellate lawyer and class action defender at Adams and Reese, where he serves on his firm’s technology committee.

Real Lawyers Have Blogs Kevin O’Keefe has been posting for years on how lawyers can gain a professional advantage by blogging. The Seattle-based CEO of LexBlog is now also pulling Twitter and Facebook into his embrace, seeking research on ways lawyers can market themselves with social media while avoiding ethical pitfalls.

kevin.lexblog.com

@kevinokeefe

LexBlog has released three annual State of the Am Law 200 Blogosphere reports, tracking the growth of law firm-published blogs.

Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites Rockport, Mass., solo practitioner and editorial, media and marketing consultant Robert Ambrogi posts reviews of Web-based research and practice management tools and directs readers to publications and events that help them bone up on Web 2.0.