Archive for January, 2008

Lexis is willing to drop its arbitration clause

January 31st, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Lexis has an atrocious mandatory binding arbitration clause in its contracts. Consumer Law & Policy Blog's Paul Bland described Lexis's arbitration clause this way: Lexis’s arbitration clause includes a gag order ... Read more..

Browser and OS share of readers

January 31st, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I was looking at the numbers for browsers and operating systems for viewers, and thought you might want to take a peek yourselves. Windows XP is, as expected the favorite operating ... Read more..

New look for the blog

January 30th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I decided the blog could use an updated look. I prefer simple themes, so I adapted "Limau Orange" by Bob Jiwakacau, former owner of blogohblog.com. It still looks fairly clean, ... Read more..

Minnesota U.S. District Court upgrades CM/ECF to v3.1

January 28th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Go Paperless | No Comments »

The CM/ECF electronic case filing system used by the Minnesota U.S. District Court is a clumsy bit of software, but it serves its purpose and is slowly improving. The court ... Read more..

Don’t use Helvetica for absolutely everything

January 28th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

This. For the love of God. So says Robin Wicker, a graduate of University College Falmouth, in a flickr pool for graduates to pass on their wisdom to incoming students. ... Read more..

RSS feed readers: web-based or desktop-based?

January 17th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Lifehacker just posted a great pro-and-con review of online RSS feed reader Google Reader versus desktop feed readers like NewsGator's FeedDemon (PC) and NetNewsWire (Mac). I have been using Google Reader ... Read more..

Xobni may be the most useful Outlook plug-in yet

January 10th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Be More Productive | No Comments »

Lifehacker posted yesterday about Xobni, a new Outlook productivity plug-in. Xobni runs as a sort of sidebar, and displays information about the people who e-mail you. Among other things, it ... Read more..

TimeBridge simplifies scheduling meetings

January 9th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Be More Productive | 1 Comment »

One of the biggest pains about managing a law practice is scheduling meeting, conferences, and other get-togethers with clients, opposing parties and attorneys, etc., all of whom have crowded calendars. ... Read more..

Nigerian lawyers on LinkedIn: new spin on the old scam?

January 8th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »

Update: ILS Attorneys responds below; Mr. Akinwole is apparently real, and his friends are unhappy that I posted this without first visiting Nigeria and looking him up to make sure ... Read more..

Publish Google Docs presentations on your website

January 6th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Online Marketing, Presentations | No Comments »

Like it says here: Read more..