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The Ethics of Social Media for Lawyers
Phil Brown, my fellow Law Society employee and practice management specialist, and I presented a three hour workshop on social media and the ethical issues lawyers might face in using it. The workshop was part of the 18th Annual Advertising and Marketing Law conference put on by The Canadian Institute. We focused on practical advice [...]
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If you’d visited my site recently, you’d see I’d been playing around with the Presswork theme. Unfortunately, when WordPress upgraded to 3.3, Presswork became incompatible; if you haven’t upgraded from WordPress 3.2, stay there. If you have upgraded, you’re okay as long as you don’t change anything. I didn’t have any problems until I [...]
Microsoft Powerpoint presentations are ubiquitous in business. They are also a handy way to provide information on a Web site, a poor man’s multimedia. But you don’t want to just provide a link to a Powerpoint file. Instead, the slide deck should be visible within your Web site so that the visitor can immediately view [...]
Lawyers struggle with technology and managing their clients’s confidential information in a professional manner. Meeting the standards set by ethics bodies in North America – which tend to require both competent representation and reasonable safeguards to protect information – doesn’t stop the regular occurrence of inadvertent disclosure. This presentation was prepared for a one-hour session [...]
Planning is under way for the 2012 Canadian Association of Law Libraries annual meeting. We’ll be meeting in Toronto in May and I’ve been working with some colleagues on the program planning. Our planning has started to take on a decidedly Google flavor over time. We started with a Google Sites wiki as a place [...]
The Ontario Courthouse Librarians’ Association (OCLA) met today in Toronto and asked me to give a presentation following the sites/minutes pattern. We’ll see if they do THAT again! They are peers and friends of mine from across the province, 48 libraries strong ranging from solo part-time librarians to multi-staff libraries with libarians who are also [...]
You are a lawyer and you have a new case where there may be some online evidence. Where do you start? What social media sites – like Facebook, Twitter, etc. – do you focus on? The presentation I gave the Manitoba Bar Association‘s Legal Research section looked at how to unearth information related to employment [...]
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Finding & Managing Legal Information on the Internet has practical tips for using your Web browser for legal and business research on the Web, from basics to advanced search strategies. You'll find out about tools to manage your online information, including e-mail, documents, and research results.
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- Lexis Rebrands Free Case Law f/k/a LexisOne January 6, 2012
- 2011 Clawbies Legal Research Blog Finalist January 5, 2012
- OneNote Comes to the iPad December 20, 2011
- More Realtime Search While Mobile December 16, 2011
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