Library Stuff

STEM Legal – “Following on my last post, which looked at the uses of Facebook for law firms, I thought I’d review the uses of Twitter in the law firm context. As before, I’m going to focus less on the benefits that Twitter can deliver to individual lawyers (which I’ve covered a couple of times at Law21) than on the best ways that law firms as corporate entities can utilize this social media tool.”

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.

Law Libraries (13 of em), meet LibraryThing.

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 are on to the next great thing.”

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

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 said. “Those days are gone.” (via)

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

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.”

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.”