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How Facebook's Lawyers Price Their Services [Video]

March 7 (Bloomberg Law) -- Silicon Valley's Fenwick & West -- which incorporated Apple and took Facebook public -- recently hired a new kind of staff position: a product manager charged with helping clients understand the...more

Weekly Brief: Patent Jury Awards, Law Firm Hiring, Scalia's Hat [Video]

Jan. 24 (Bloomberg Law) -- Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia runs through the legal news for the week. Last year we saw large jury awards in patent cases, but also a steep drop off in securities class action lawsuits. Also, law...more

Social Media Policy: You're Probably Doing It Wrong

Social Media Policies: You're Probably Doing It Wrong. Test these 9 steps. Special thanks to Palm Beach Bar Bulletin for publishing in their Feb 2013 issue....more

iBooks Author and the iBook Guide to Patent Litigation Graphics

I was curious to see if I could transform our online, Flash-interactive Intellectual Property Litigation Graphics Guide into an iPad version through iBook. (The problem with the Flash version of the guide is it won’t play on...more

Favorite Law Blogs and Most Useful Posts for Lawyers from 2012

I’d like to share with you some personal recommendations of blogs that made the ABA Journal’s 2012 list of top 100 law blogs, or “blawgs.” I’m also including some blogs recommended by my colleague, patent attorney Michael...more

No Daubert Hearing Equals $10 Million Error in 9th Circuit

No Daubert Hearing Equals $10 Million Error in 9th Circuit The U.S. Supreme Court isn’t the only judicial panel to wrestle with difficult Daubert questions lately. While the Supreme Court ponders the potential fate of...more

Partner Lisa Buckley’s Article “Making It As A Band May Be Tough, But Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”

The Wrap November 15, 2012 Press Release and Publication In the on-line magazine The Wrap, Partner Lisa Buckley, a member of Pryor Cashman's Entertainment, Litigation and Intellectual Property Groups, discusses the legal...more

In Defense of Technology - Embracing Social Media In Legal Cases : San Diego Lawyer Magazine

Beneficial to San Diego Business Attorneys. This article interviews local San Diego attorneys and asks how they use social media in their practice to complete attorney work. "We use these [social media sites] a lot as a tool...more

Extreme Magical Thinking: TEchnology Won't Take You Off the Hook

I have been encountering a lot of magical thinking recently when talking with law firm partners about Legal Project Management. One partner, hoping that the IT and KM folks can simply buy a tech solution so that he could...more

Legal Alert: Damon Key's quarterly update - Social Media for Lawyers, IP issues, and Bankruptcy update

Here's our firm's latest Legal Alert, a quarterly publication covering issues such as social media for lawyers, Intellectual Property and trademarks, bankruptcy, and eminent domain. ...more

Civility? Really?

Civility, across the broad arch of a career, is a successful and lucrative business model. I believe it will enhance your professional career, better serve your clients, make you more profitable, and keep you sane. ...more

Are LinkedIn Contacts Trade Secrets?

A judge “across the pond” ruled that an employee’s LinkedIn contacts were, in essence, trade secrets of his former employer where those contacts were created during the term of employment and mimicked the employer’s...more

Facebook Security Settings for Lawyers (and their families)

A step by step guide for lawyers who market on Facebook to ensure that all of their personal and business privacy settings are up to date. Published in the Oct 2011 edition of the Palm Beach Bar Association Bar Bulletin....more

Deadlines approaching on a Whole New World (Wide Web): Institutional TLDs and .xxx

Deadlines approaching on a Whole New World (Wide Web): Institutional TLDs and .xxx...more

Will Your Law Firm Accept Bitcoin?

This article explores the new alternative internet-based currency, Bitcoin, and whether -- as an alternative fee arrangement or even as a marketing effort -- your firm might consider accepting bitcoin. Published in the Sept...more

Independent Contractor Partner Agreement

A unique and commonly demanded template used as an agreement for two conjoining parties....more

What's 50/50 Legal Advice Worth to You?

Earlier this month, Seth Godin wrote an interesting blog post called "The overwhelming fear of being wrong." In it he writes: "Almost every marketer I know underestimates how widespread this fear is. It is the lone...more

Lawyers and their Clients, and Vice Versa

Lawyers and their Clients, and Vice Versa...more

Company Use of Social Media Best Practices: Checklist

Companies recognize that the internet provides unique opportunities to participate in interactive discussions and share information on particular topics using a wide variety of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs...more

Digital Photos Have Metadata Too

Does your company or law firm email photos/JPEGs? Do you upload family photos to social media sites. Digital photo metadata is overlooked by companies -- and most common "scrubbing" software. Find out what metadata lurks...more

Legal Project Management Tools: Let Rube Goldberg Rest in Peace

Trying to figure out what tools your firm should select to support Legal Project Management? This article, from a pioneer in LPM for law firms, Pam Woldow, provides a 5-step practical approach for evaluating a firm's needs. ...more

INGENUITY 13 LLC v. John Doe

ORDER ISSUING SANCTIONS (against Porn-Trolling legal collectives)

“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” —Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). The legal behavior in the porno-trolling collective was controlled by several attorneys, under whom other individuals...more

Use of Visuals and Digital Presentations At Trial – Pricing Out Small Firm/Solo Litigators?

Juries in this media age expect to see visuals and digital presentations at trial. Is this expectation giving big firms with significant litigation budgets an advantage at trial? Is it pricing small firms and solo litigators...more

The Most-Offensive Advertisement in Law Marketing History

This is arguably the most-offensive print advertisement in the history of marketing the legal profession. It is apparently part of a branding and differentiation campaign by a firm seeking to sell services to law firms and...more

Westlaw & Kindle - An Easy Way To Keep Current.

Westlaw & Kindle - An Easy Way To Keep Current....more