Four companies that offer legal-oriented products and services through the cloud have banded together to form the Legal Cloud Computing Association. LCCA’s purpose, according to its announcement, “is to promote standards for cloud computing that are responsive to the needs of the legal profession and to enable lawyers to become aware of the…

OK, maybe I exaggerated about the “fun” part, but here is a chance to double your charitable impact this holiday season and promote the delivery of legal services to needy individuals and families, all at the same time.

If you donate any amount up to $50 to the Massachusetts Bar Foundation between now and…

Sometime in the first quarter of 2011, LexisNexis will introduce the beta version of a Web-based practice-management application designed for smaller-firm lawyers called LexisNexis Firm Manager. The application has been in development and private beta for a number of months and Lexis is now preparing to open it to an invitation-only public beta.

I’ll provide…

A new website launched today, Attorney at Work, has the mission of delivering “one really good idea every day” for lawyers “who want help and inspiration building successful practices and balanced lives.”

The site is assembling a panel of expert advisors “from the vanguard of practice management” in order to deliver a…

If you are researching social media policies for a company or law firm, here are two sources that each have compiled dozens of links to corporate and law firm policies on blogging, tweeting and more:…

Thanks to Joe Hodnicki at Law Librarian Blog for the pointer to EContent’s latest list of the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry. The list includes a fair number of companies that provide content to the legal community, including Bloomberg, BNA, Reed Elsevier, Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer.

That…

Rocket Matter, the Web-based legal practice management and time-and-billing application, today announced its integration with Dropbox, an Internet document backup and synchronization service that is gaining popularity within the legal community.

The integration enables Rocket Matter users to associate client matters with Dropbox folders, allowing them to view documents associated with a…

I am proud to announce that this blog has been named to the 2010 ABA Journal Blawg 100, a listing of the top 100 best law blogs by lawyers, for lawyers, as selected by the editors of the ABA Journal.

This is the fourth time the ABA Journal has selected the Blawg 100 and the…

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today published a proposed rule that would broaden the use of technology in the state’s courtrooms and that would address the rights of bloggers and citizen journalists — as well as of traditional journalists — to use technology and video in the state’s courtrooms. The court is seeking public comment…

LegalTech New York, one of the top legal technology events of the year, is just around the corner.  Again this year, ALM, the company that presents the conference, is offering complimentary passes to legal bloggers. These are full-show passes, allowing access to all programs and exhibits.

LegalTech takes place Jan. 31 to…

[Update 11/28/10: In a tragic turn of events, the sheriff who was the subject of the story I wrote about below was found dead of an apparent suicide over the weekend. Read more from The Boston Globe.]

For those of you in Massachusetts, you can skip this post, because you probably know the…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we uncover the revealing facts about full-body scans and do a full pat-down of the legal issues surrounding the TSA’s controversial screening practices.

Joining us to discuss this issue are Patrick Smith, the airline pilot and author who writes the Salon.com column, Ask the Pilot and…