I spent the last few days at the ABA TechShow in Chicago. It’s one of the largest law conferences and exhibit shows each year. I’ve been going to the conference for 17 years, and it’s getting nothing but better. This year there was more of a vibe than ever. In a passing exchange with one… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Cool Stuff
Subscribe to Cool Stuff RSS FeedHappy Birthday to The Internet
This week marks the 30th birthday of the modern day Internet. On January 1, 1983, all computers on ARPANET, the Internet’s predecessor switched over to Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP for short). These two new and innovative technologies revolutionized the way computers could be linked together. Vint Cerf , Google Vice President and… Continue Reading
ABA Journal Blawg 100 : Vote LXBN members today!
Friday, December 21 is your last day to vote for your favorites in the annual ABA Journal Blawg 100. Each year the ABA Journal selects what it believes to be the best 100 law blogs based on the information, insight, and commentary regularly shared by the blog’s publishers. The Journal then asks the public to… Continue Reading
How many email Christmas cards get read?
I am receiving a large number of ‘email Christmas cards’ – would not be surprise me if it ran 30 to 50 a day. Most of the time, I have no idea who the company or law firm is who is sent the card. For that reason I don’t open many of the ‘email cards.’… Continue Reading
I will be in Toronto and New York next week : Welcome getting together
I’ll be traveling to Toronto and New York City next week to meet with clients and a few other folks. I will be in Toronto on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 4th and 5th and in New York Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I’d welcome getting together with you for coffee, a drink, a meal, or to… Continue Reading
ALA Conference in Hawaii : Welcome getting together this week
The word has gotten around that I am in Honolulu this week. I guess a couple days tweets from Waikiki will gave that away. I am here for a working vacation to present at the ALA (Association of Legal Administrators) Annual Conference as well as to meet a few existing clients and prospective clients of… Continue Reading
LXBN Partners with Avvo to Provide Extensive Coverage of Avvocating Conference 2012
I am happy to announce that, like we did with LegalTech New York, LXBN will provide media coverage of Avvocating 2012 here in Seattle on May 3rd and May 4th. Avvocating, billed as “Legal Development in the Era of Social Media,” brings together a wealth of thought-leaders in the online marketing and legal client development communities…. Continue Reading
ABA TechShow : Kudos to guys who make it go
We’re two days in to the 3 day ABA TechShow in Chicago. It’s one of my favorite conferences of the year – feels like old home week having come for 16 years. A big thanks to all those who make it possible: Tom Mighell and Reid Trautz, the program chairs this year. They’ll deny they… Continue Reading
Want to be Generation Why Bother?
Author, Todd Buchholz, and his daughter, Cambridge University student, Victoria Buchholz, make the case in a New York Times op-ed that the Go-Nowhere Generation is upon us. I got kicked in the teeth by law grads everywhere a few weeks ago when I penned it was never a better time for law grads to get a job. I… Continue Reading
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day from the O’Keefe’s
An Irish Blessing from the O’Keefe home to yours on this St. Paddy’s Day. May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the… Continue Reading
GeekWire Summit in Seattle on March 7
John Cook (@johnhcook) and Todd Bishop (@toddbishop), the founders of Geekwire (@geekwire), a Seattle based independent technology news site and online community, are throwing a summit and a party. Wednesday, March 7 is GeekWire’s One Year Anniversary, and we can think of no better way to celebrate than to bring together thought leaders from our region and beyond… Continue Reading
Seattle University Law School social media program and reception Wednesday evening
I’ll be presenting at Seattle University Law School Wednesday evening, February 8, during a workshop and panel discussion focusing on ways social media can benefit today’s law student and lawyer. The program is being co-sponsored by the King County Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division and Seattle University School of Law’s Center for Professional Development. The… Continue Reading
Reed Elsevier to sell LexisNexis?
I heard that Reed Elsevier was feeling pressure from investors to divest some of its publishing divisions, but I did not think it would be something as big as the LexisNexis division. Turns out LexisNexis may be for sale. Nick Fletcher (@nickfletchergdn) of the Guardian reports this morning on a possible LexisNexis sale. Reed Elsevier… Continue Reading
You have more than an opportunity as a lawyer in the new year : You have an obligation to be great
In his post this morning, The chance of a lifetime, Seth Godin challenges us to make the decision to be great. Opportunities have never been greater. Godin shared what he wrote 9 years ago that applies equally today. Here’s a question that you should clip out and tape to your bathroom mirror. It might save… Continue Reading
Popehat unmasked : For a good cause
I’ve gone back and forth with ‘Ken’ on the Popehat blog more than once over the last few years regarding his remaining an anonymous blogger. Perhaps I don’t like anonymous bloggers. Perhaps I was envious of what is a dam good title for a law blog. Perhaps I am too defensive. But no question I… Continue Reading