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Still Loading: Law Firms Lag Behind the Rest of Corporate America on the Web

September 2nd, 2008

AM Law Daily: - “While Womble and others are accessorizing their sites with podcasts, blogs, videos, and rss feeds, many other firms remain entrenched in the world of Web 1.0″
Maybe these firms should talk to an expert.

LawLibraryThing

January 10th, 2008

Law Libraries (13 of em), meet LibraryThing.

Marketing Ahead of The Curve

October 15th, 2007

Micah Buchdahl - “Many lawyers like to be trendy and fashionable. In law firm marketing circles, you are not exactly Nostradamus when advising people with incredible predictions of “new” marketing ideas—blogs, podcasts, annual reports, CRM systems—among them. They were new and trendy many years ago, and most catch on just about the time advanced marketers [...]

No More Billable Hour

October 12th, 2007

Ann Althouse - “Fast work is a good thing. How hateful to be embedded in a system that rewards inefficiency.”

We <3 PACER

September 14th, 2007

U.S. Courts - “Back in the paper world, we constantly had law firm runners who came to the clerk’s office to make copies of case files. They’d have to drive to the courthouse, find a parking place, feed the meter, and pay 50 cents per copy. Helping them consumed a lot of staff time,” she [...]

State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere

August 20th, 2007

LexBlog - “LexBlog is pleased to provide you findings on who from the AMLaw 200 has entered the blogosphere.”

Law-Lit

August 10th, 2007

NYLJ - “The editor of a soon-to-be-published collection of literary musings on the world of jurisprudence touts his anthology as proof “beyond any reasonable doubt that no sphere of the human experience is as alluring and lurid, lamentable and lust-provoking as the law.”

Re-Ranking the Rankings

August 7th, 2007

Steve Matthews - “The following list re-ranks the 2006 Global 100 Law Firms (originally published by The Lawyer) by the number of web pages indexed within the search engines. The tool chosen for this count was Yahoo Site Explorer, which is generally more comprehensive than the Google site: command.”