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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 🙂

Centralized Archives, Searching for Public Papers: This is pretty amazing. Not that long ago if you were looking for the papers of say, Arthur Corbin, you’d would have had to contact, probably in writing, each and every institution where he might ever have taught and asked for a paper card catalog search. Then, even less long ago, you could search the individual institution’s electronic catalog, assuming they put the archives collection in the catalog. Now we have the ArchiveGrid, with contributers from major collections around the world. Archivists are amazing.

Criminalizing Product Liability: ATRA testified before Congress on the definition of “defect,” here.

Tricks of the Trade: If you learn one useful trick a month, aren’t you ahead of the game – even if you learn just one a year?

Legal terms and Ordinary People: Lawyers and law librarians could use one of these, Library Terms that Users Understand. Have a non-attorney, preferably one who is willing to be blunt, look at your web page and render an opinion on how client-friendly it is.

Oregon Court of Appeals 2005 Report: This report is now posted at the OJD publications web site, here.