A Taxonomy of Legal Blogs: Learn about what a taxonomy is and legal blogs all in one swell foop, here. (Thanks to Howard Bashman’s incomparable How Appealing blog for the lead and the link.)
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More Podcasting for Lawyers: Another excellent article from LLRX on podcasting, here. Here is an excerpt: “Where do you get your legal news and updates from? Law journals? Your state bar association? Online searches and watchlists? LexisNexis or WestLaw? The problem with those resources is that they require reading. You have to sit down and read text on paper or a screen. Enter the podcast …,” from Frederick Faulkner IV, “I’ll take my legal news to go, please … and intro to podcasting,” LLRX, March 16th, 2006.
Podcasting – huh?: If you still don’t “get” podcasting (and there is no shame in that), here’s an article that not only describes it in simple terms but also talks about some of the techie tools you could use to listen to or create a podcast. It’s written for law librarians and lawyers alike (thanks to the incomparable LLRX folks), and I think it is one of the best introductions to podcasting I’ve seen. The future is now – listen up!
Small business and IT Security: The Better Business Bureau has developed a guide to security and privacy specifically for small businesses. You can find it here (thanks to beSpacific for the lead and the link!).
Initiative, Referendum and Referral: Every wonder how this all works here in Oregon? Who doesn’t. One place to begin is with the State Elections Division. Another place is material put out by the League of Women Voters.
My Shingle: One of my favorite solo practitioner blogs, and the one I recommend the most is MyShingle. For some mysterious reason it has twice disappeared from my favorites list (actually, it’s not that mysterious, but still really annoying). Carolyn Elefant, MyShingle’s brain behind the blog, also lists many other solo practitioner blogs and web sites you might want to look at for ideas on what to do, or not, when blogging or building your own firm’s web site.
Paperless Office: And why not? Link directly to the article, here, or through Ernie the Attorney’s March 13th posting, which is where I saw the link. Other stories on paperless law offices pop up now and again. Going paperless is an incremental process 🙂
Virtual Paralegal: Home Office Lawyer has a posting on 3/11/06, about his Virtual Paralegal.
Legal Marketing: Will Hornsby now has a blog, Boundaries of Legal Marketing, here. Thanks to Robert Ambrogi for this lead, and to the prior one on Daubert briefs.
Expert testimony and Daubert: Did you know that Daubert on the Web a website and blog for tracking admissibility of expert testimony cases, also has briefs? (And they are looking for an Oregon contributor.) Daubert on the Web is not to be confused, as I have done on occasion, with Daubert Tracker 🙂