Don’t you cringe when you hear marketing and lawyers in the same sentence? Didn’t you go to law school instead of an MBA program so you never had to deal with marketing or sales of…
The June issue of Canadian Lawyer magazine mentions this site in connection with an article on how lawyers can use online platforms for client development. Even law students are using the Twitter-blog combination to get…
It’s something many lawyers complain about – being ambushed by friends and family with legal problems and expecting an instant answer. Blogging lawyers also face this dilemma from their general readership. Both are likely to…
LawIsCool has recently begun a partnership with AdviceScene.com. The site is an online forum that provides resources to both lawyers and members of the lay public. Founded earlier this year by Nancy Kinney, an entrepreneur…
Thesis: Command-and-control management styles both derive from and reinforce bureaucracy, power tripping and an overall culture of paranoia. If there is an industry characterized by paranoia, it’s law. We just call it due diligence, and…
Omar Ha-Redeye gave a talk on the use of social media in politics, focusing on the Canadian scene, at the Miles S. Nadal Management Centre in the Ernst & Young Tower of the Toronto Dominion…
The office of Ontario Ombudsman is on Twitter and Facebook. The Ombudsman is a pretty unique independent oversight officer accountable directly to the provincial legislature. He investigates people’s complaints under the authority granted by the…
If you’ve been alive and on the Internet in the past year you would have read the obituaries – print newspapers are dead. Or dying, so they claim. Some are even claiming the recession with…
Next time think twice about breaking up with your partner on Facebook, or having too much fun when you’re in an unhappy marriage. Gerry Oginski of the TechnoLawyer Blog gives Lee Rosen thumbs up for…
A couple weeks ago, Orin Kerr of the Volokh Conspiracy raised the issue of what he perceived as the decline of law student blogs. We know the folks at Volokh focus on American content, so…
Cross-posted from the Financial Post When I was an undergrad, Western law had the reputation for being the “business†law school. Indeed, Western makes an effort to distinguish itself through this brand; in fact, one…
Devin Johnston, a second-year law student at the University of Manitoba, predicts the death of Facebook within three years. A major reason is alternative social media platforms that will compete with it more effectively. I’ve…
