The 2010 ILTA conference is still underway in Las Vegas. My panel, "Transparency: Beyond the Extranet," was late Tuesday afternoon, August 24. Cheryl Disch (the extraordinary proposal manager at Duane Morris about whom I've blogged in the past) assembled our diverse ILTA panel that included...

It's mid-December and much of the country is buried in a cold snap. It's also the time of year where we all seek frenetic joy in the holiday shopping, eating, drinking, socializing Spirit. And, it's also budget season - still - for many law firms. While we are seeing an uptick in optimism...

August 6, 2011 was the twentieth birthday of the first website being launched. For the hundreds of millions of hourly web users across the world, the day came and went without so much as a piece of cake or a candle. As Mark Giangrande noted in his August 10 Law Librarians Blog post, the anniversary...

Everyone who knows Adam Stock , the Director of Marketing and Business Development at California law firm Allen Matkins , understands that he is an early adopter of most things technology. He's a capable developer, program and website designer and, in his spare time, he is Chair of the upcoming...

There has nary been a brouhaha about a law firm website as there was about the former website of Morrison & Foerster LLP . The Google analytics traffic stats were undoubtedly boosted by the lookie-lous, responding to friendly viral urges, "You just have to see this." Well, MoFo has...

I have facilitated Martindale Counsel to Counsel forums all over the world since 2000. These discussions are "best practice" exchanges by corporate counsel and law firm lawyers about a particular topic. Consistently, they are the best received CLE programs by buyers of legal services and...

There is still a lot of hand-wringing about social media by law firm partners. A surprising number of firms still don't have approved policies - they are in permanent "draft" mode, perhaps because they don't really want to commit to anything they don't fully understand. I...

Ben Zimmer is a self-described all-around word nut. He is the former On Language columnist for The New York Times Magazine, the executive producer of VisualThesaurus.com (an entirely useful tool when you're looking to add color to your prose) and vocabulary.com . In a recent New York Times...